Are you looking for meaningful Lent activities for kids, without spending hours planning? As a parent, it can feel overwhelming to help children understand this special season in a way that’s both fun and faith-focused.
That’s why I created a hands-on Lent Activity Bundle designed to keep kids engaged, teach them about Jesus’ journey to the cross, and make family devotional time simple and stress-free.
To get you started right away, I’m also offering a free downloadable Lent countdown coloring page—a sneak peek of the full bundle that your kids will love!
Why Hands-On Lent Activities Help Kids
Interactive activities help children connect with faith in a tangible way. When kids can color, solve puzzles, and do hands-on projects, they learn more deeply than through words alone.
Here’s why hands-on Lent activities are so helpful:
- Builds anticipation for Easter
- Helps kids understand the story of Jesus’ sacrifice
- Encourages family faith conversations
- Provides a daily reminder of God’s love
“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” – Proverbs 22:6
What’s Included in the Lent Activity Bundle?
The full bundle is designed to make faith-filled activities simple for parents and fun for kids:
- The full bundle is designed to make faith-filled activities simple for parents and fun for kids:
- Countdown to Lent Journal – Track each day with reflection, and coloring
- Pretzel Prayer Worksheet – Learn about the meaning behind pretzels and create prayers
- Lent Activity Placemat – Word searches, mazes, puzzles, and fun learning
Your free coloring countdown page is included as a preview! Kids can start right away while you plan the rest of the activities.
How Parents Can Use the Bundle
This bundle is perfect for busy parents, homeschool families, or Sunday school teachers who want meaningful, hands-on Lent activities for kids without the stress. They’re easy to use, low-prep, and flexible. Not only that, but I designed them to be completely cross-denominational. You can safely add them to your Catholic Lent family activities, or your non-denom kids devotional collection, confident that at heart, they’re completely rooted in God’s Word.
Homeschool Morning Baskets
As a mother who will (God-willing!) be homeschooling my daughter, the idea of homeschool morning baskets is something I draw inspiration from while designing my Christian printables. I love the idea of meeting in a cozy spot like the couch, the kitchen table during breakfast, or even a picnic blanket outside, and spending a short time reading, discussing and doing light activities before diving into the heavy stuff, like math or grammar.
In a time where family togetherness can sometimes be scarce in the daily and weekly rhythms of life, it’s important we hold onto and nurture these moments.
My Path to Easter Lent Journal is a great addition to your morning basket collection. Kids can color one stepping stone on the countown chart each day (which I’m offering here as a free preview!), and complete a short journaling prompt. It’s great for visual learners, and fits in well with homeschoolers of siblings. Older children can independently complete the reflections, whilst younger ones will love engaging with the coloring countdown. Each prompt is easily adaptable, and can be simplified for younger children, and explored more in depth by older ones.
Church Quiet Bags
While my daughter is still too young to engage with a “quiet bag” (also called “busy bags” or “praise packs”), they’re truly a great way of curating silent, and engaging, activities to help children sit through a church service. They’re great for families for whom kids ministries aren’t an option.
My activity placemats are great for this purpose. Puzzles, games, coloring, scripture, mazes, I spy… and more, all rooted in what the Bible says. They’re appropriate for a wide age range, and I’ve even had feedback that some adults love to do them too!
The Lent activity placemat makes a great addition to your praise pack, keeping them quietly engaged. Help them foster a love for the Bible through what feels like play.
They’re not only for Lent. Grab, for example, my Fruits of the Spirit activity placemat here, and keep an eye out for more seasonal and non-seasonal activity placemats to add to your collection.
Kids Ministry and Sunday Schools
This really is the ultimate low-prep bundle for teaching Lent in Sunday Schools. The Pretzel Prayer activity makes a great worksheet that gently introduces the concepts of thanksgiving and supplication in prayer, simply print and go.
Likewise, the activity placemat would make a great welcome activity, and it’s brilliant for early-finishers.
Another fun idea is incorporating the Path to Easter journal into your Lent program. Print a week of prompts off each Sunday to send home with the children for the week, and encourage families to be involved in the short, daily devotionals. Discuss with the children each Sunday how their week of journaling went.
- Which was your favorite reflection?
- Were there any you found confusing or difficult?
- Does anybody want to share what was on their heart this week?
It’s a great tool for figuring out which topics, theology and concepts you may want to explore further with the children in future, based on their feedback!
Download Your Free Lent Coloring Page
Start your Lent journey today with this free countdown coloring page! It’s included in the full bundle and is a great way for kids to begin marking the days of Lent while learning about Jesus’ love.
Download Your Free Coloring Page Here
Grab the Full Lent Activity Bundle
If your kids enjoy the free coloring page, the full Lent Activity Bundle is the perfect way to extend the learning and fun:
- More daily activities, prayers, and scripture connections
- Keeps kids engaged each day of Lent
- Ready-made and stress-free for busy parents
Make this Lent a season your kids will remember and treasure. With easy-to-use, faith-filled activities and a free coloring page to get started, your family can enjoy meaningful moments together while learning about Jesus’ journey to the cross.
Start today with your free Lent coloring countdown, and make faith fun for your little ones!