Make Your Own DIY Resurrection Eggs for Easter- Free Printables for Kids

I love using Resurrection Eggs to help tell the story of Easter to children. It’s such a great way to reinforce the Bible scriptures with an actual object that they can look at and touch.

You’ll want to get prepared about two weeks before Easter because using Resurrection Eggs will take you 12 days, with your twelfth day being on Easter. (You can also shorten this if you get started late or just double up a few days as well.)

Each day, you’ll open the egg together and read that portion of the Bible. If you have a children’s Bible, that will work too. Below I included what I put in each of my eggs to make it simple and easy.

Here are two free printables that I made to go along with your DIY eggs. They include the images of what’s in each egg as well as the passage of Scripture that tells that part of the Easter story for the day.

Just click on the images below and it will take you to a printable PDF version.

Starting Out– You’ll need to have a dozen plastic Easter eggs to start off with if you want to DIY your own Resurrection Eggs. The cheapest place to get these is probably your nearest dollar store. Or you can get these cute polka dot ones from Amazon.

1. Palm Branch– I just took a little leaf from one of my house plants and cut a bit off to put inside of this egg. Easy peasy.

2. Silver Coins– You can use whatever silver coins that you have around the house. Nickels, dimes, or quarters if you’re in the US. Drop a couple in egg number 2.

3. Broken Bread– Just take a pinch off a slice of bread for the third egg. If you want it to last longer, try a cracker!

4. Praying Hands– This one is trickier. You can just print out the image below or use some other creative idea to represent the Garden of Gethsemane.

5. Whip– If you have a bit of leather from a bracelet or fringe from an old purse, that would be perfect for this egg. Otherwise, you can just use a bit of string to get the point across for little ones.

6. Rooster– We actually happened to have a little plastic rooster from a farm animal set, so we used that. If you want to pick one up from the dollar store, then you could also substitute the palm branch in the first egg with a little donkey as well. That makes it more fun! Or you can just print out this image below as well!

7. Thorn– Anything you have that could represent a thorn. I used an actual thorn from one of our outside bushes. You could use a rose thorn, a sticky burr, anything that will get your point across and you can find in your backyard.

8. Nails– Pretty self explanatory. Any extra nails that you have in your toolbox. I let the kids touch the end of it so they can see how sharp and painful it would be.

9. Spear– For the spear, I used a toothpick. If you have a lot of Legos in your home, they often have spears or some similar weapon.

10. Cloth– You can cut off part of an old rag or some other cloth to put in this egg to get the feel of what Jesus was wrapped in.

11. Stone– I just found a roundish stone from our outdoor landscaping.

12. Nothing!– This egg is empty because the tomb was too!

So there you have it! Super easy and simple Resurrection Eggs that you can do yourself with whatever is around your home. And more important than what’s inside of your eggs is the story that I pray will lodge inside of your children’s hearts.

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