Holy Week Box for Kids

Your three children know Easter as the morning of the basket, and you'd like the week before it to mean something too. You have an empty box and a few quiet minutes after dinner each night.

For one week in spring, a family puts one small object into a box and reads a short passage from the gospels aloud. This 17-page printable sets out that week for children, from Palm Sunday on March 21, 2027 to Easter on March 28, 2027: ten objects and eleven short readings over seven evenings and Easter morning: a palm branch, a fig, two small coins, a jar of ointment, a basin and towel, a cup, a crown of twigs, a nail, a stone and a folded cloth.

Inside: page 2, how to use the kit and the eight days on one table; pages 3 to 12, one page for each day (two for Thursday and two for Friday), each with the reading, the object, who places it, a note where the gospels differ on that day, and one question; pages 13 and 14, ten object cards to cut out if you do not have the real thing; page 15, a box label and check list; page 12 is done on Easter morning before the box is opened, and page 16 says what to do with the open box; page 17, sources.

Every reading is quoted word for word from a public-domain modern-English translation of the gospels, named in the kit, and each is under 300 words. Where the gospels tell a day differently, the page says so and gives the verses. A grown-up reads aloud and cuts out the cards; a child places each object. The dates are for churches that keep Western Easter. No reader from the Christian tradition has checked this kit before sale. Prints on US Letter, with margins that also suit A4.

This printable was created with the help of AI tools, then checked fact by fact.

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