Homeschool Lent activities

Last year we all enjoyed some great activities leading up to Easter in celebration of Lent. It was a highlight of our homeschool year for sure and I plan on doing some of the same activities as we did last year plus some new ones. There is an abundance of information on the Internet that has given me all these ideas so I can't claim them for my own. So here we go, our plans for Lent:

We will do this again, it's called "praying hands". I've just got to find a dairy free recipe for this year.

We will also make crosses to hang on the mantel, you can see the ones from last year here. 

These were a hit and we will make them again for sure, just dairy free. See them here. 

Something new I plan on doing is having the kids make a banner. They will use these printable letters. Thank you Martha Stewart! And they will make a banner that looks like this. However, I will have the kids chose a name of God to print out like we did last year, similar to this but using the format from above.

I'm going to have Camden and whoever else wants to make this:

 And this:

You can read about these activities and their meanings here.

And I thought Anna may enjoy this, so I printed one for her.

I can't wait to do this and talk about the last supper. This is the one I'm most looking forward to! I've got it all printed and ready to go.

We have done this for the past couple years and will continue it as long as the kids show interest, we have at a least a few more years with Anna. :)

And last but not least we will check out library books about Easter and I'm hoping to find this book there because it looks really neat and comes recommended by a friend.

I think that will keep us busy in addition to all the other homeschool work we have to keep up on. I sure love this time of year!