Are you looking for FREE Christ-centered Easter activities in Spanish that you can easily implement in your home today with your kids? I have some ready to use resources I’m excited to share with you that are all in Spanish! These weren’t easy to find amigos.
Here’s what I’m sharing with you today to help you have a Spanish Christ-Centered Easter:
- Easter story coloring book
- Storytelling characters for Easter
- Bilingual vocabulary word cards: Easter Story
- Bible verse eggs
As my daughter is growing up, it’s so important to me to make sure we are maximizing how much Spanish exposure she is getting every day, including holidays. If you missed it, check out my post about maximizing language exposure with a plan here. So, with each holiday establishing traditions is becoming more and more important. I want to pass down to my daughter the purest message of what Easter is about and keep it truly Christ centered. I’ve found it to be a challenge to find quality resources and activities that are in Spanish and Christ-centered. So I’ve spent hours searching for you and am sharing my favorite resources I’ve found so far. You’ll find something for your family whether you have a toddler or an elementary aged child.
He's Alive!
Spanish Easter Story Activities
First off, I stumbled upon a wonderful resource called My Wonder Studio that I just have to share. I love that they provide Christian resources in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese and are organized by reading level. These resources below come from their post called He’s Alive! Head over to that page if you want copies of each of these in English as well. Having the copy in English could assist with the Spanish comprehension or just provide a side by side comparison and practice of the text in each language.
Coloring Book of Easter Story in Spanish
This extensive coloring book is a wonderful compilation of the 4 gospel tellings of Jesus’ resurrection in Spanish. This book is perfect to use for a preschooler through elementary age child.
It’s as easy as just printing it off and having your child color it, cut it, and staple it together as a book. Reading the story aloud together and reflecting on Jesus’ sacrifice for us makes this activity especially meaningful. If your child can read independently, hopefully he/she will continue to re-read the book for at least the next few weeks. Finally, try adding this to your bedtime reading rotation or reading it as a family before getting up from the table after a meal.
*Tips*:
If you don’t have a printer, open the pdf on a computer or tablet, and you can still enjoy the story.
See Easter Story Vocabulary Words below as well which will serve bilingual families well who are unfamiliar with these words.
Easter Storytelling Characters and Figures
I remember being in Sunday school as a child and the teacher would move around characters and figures on a green flannel board to share the stories of the Bible. Are these flannelgraphs totally a thing of the past? This resource doesn’t have to be used for a flannelgraph though!
There’s no better way to celebrate Easter than keeping it Christ centered and focusing on the story of the resurrection.
By using this resource, you and your child will interact and practice reading, listening and speaking in Spanish. That’s a lot of language practice, and that’s why I’m a huge fan of open ended activities and resources to play with like this one.
How to Use:
There are multiple ways to use these. You could use the pieces to move and play with like a traditional flannelgraph as you read through the story with your child retelling it after. Another option is to have your child, if old enough, put on his own show with a flannel sheet or without.
What you see below is just a sneak peak page. There are 7 pages of figures and 2 more of the story/script ready for you or your child to enjoy reading. While both pdfs contain the same content, use the black and white one if you want to save some ink or have your child color them instead! Just print them off and get ready to use.
In first cutting out the characters it might not be clear who they are. Using the coloring book story above helps as well, but they are Jesus/Jesús, Peter/Pedro, John/Juan, Mary of Magdalene/María Magdalena, soldiers/los soldados, the angel/el ángel, and the rest are his disciples/los discípulos.
*Tips*:
- Consider printing these on thicker paper like cardstock or print them and laminate them if you want to have them around for holidays to come.
- If using for a flannelgraph you’ll want to put a little bit of sandpaper on the back of each figure in order for them to stick.
- Another alternative is to use sticky tack if your child is old enough. Your child can put them up on a wall and take them down repeatedly without leaving residue.
- You could also glue them to craft sticks (popsicle sticks) if you want to go with a puppet feel.
See Easter Story Vocabulary Words below as well which will serve bilingual families well who are unfamiliar with these words.
[Click on the images to download the pdfs.]
Easter Story Spanish and English Vocabulary Words
If anyone in your family needs assistance with the other language, I have made two pages of vocabulary cards in Spanish and English to go along with the above activities. I chose these words as they are a crucial part of comprehending and talking about the Easter story and are repeated throughout the story.
How to use:
Use this as a tool to introduce these important vocabulary words prior to doing the above activities. First, take a small amount of time to teach your child what each word is in each language by saying them out loud together while you show your child the picture and word. Then hang these words on the wall where the child will play with the storytelling pieces above so they can refer to them when trying to retell the Easter story.
These can also be used in a Sunday school classroom, cut apart and hung in a word chart.
[Click on either image for the FREE pdf file.]
Easter Egg Bible Verse Cards for Kids in Spanish
Reading is such a powerful way to obtain new vocabulary. The goal is for that vocabulary to be retained to memory. This resource is for Bible verse memory practice.
How to use:
You could use them in a number of ways: repeated reading until memorized, hide them and they could be the eggs to find on Easter morning, or you could add them into an Easter basket–if your family does that.
Now, go grab these Spanish Egg Verse Cards here. Scroll down their website until you see the Spanish version. Look for this below.
I hope your family is able to enjoy these ready to use Spanish resources this Easter while keeping Christ at the center.
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Bendiciones y animo amigos.
