Religious Easter Coloring Pages

The whole story, in order

Most religious Easter collections decorate the holiday without narrating it. This one follows the week: a donkey walking over palm branches, the gate of the city, a long table set with cups and a broken loaf, a jug and a basin, an olive garden under a crescent moon, three empty crosses on a hill, the stone rolled away with the linen folded on the ledge, and the sun coming up over the lilies. The story page puts all eight in one grid, which works as a Sunday school handout as well as a coloring page.

No eggs and no rabbits

Not one page in this set has an Easter egg or a bunny on it. That is deliberate — a lot of people search for religious Easter pages precisely because they do not want them. If you want the eggs as well, they have their own sets.

No pictures of Jesus

There are no human figures anywhere in this set. Christian traditions differ on images of Christ, and a set without them can be used by all of them. Each scene is told instead through what is in it — the donkey, the palm branches, the table, the empty crosses, the open tomb.

Pages you write on as well as colour

The open Bible has two completely blank pages, so the verse is chosen and lettered by whoever colours it. The crown of thorns has an empty ribbon banner threaded through it for the same reason, and the lamb carries a blank banner on its staff.

Nothing is printed dark for you

The two things always spoiled on pages like these are the tomb and the crosses — the tomb printed as a black hole and the crosses as solid silhouettes, which removes the largest shapes on the page. Here the tomb mouth is white and open, and every cross is a hollow outline with the grain of the timber drawn inside it. So is every stained glass pane, every thorn, every grape and every window of the church.

Easy through to detailed

The easy pages have extra-thick outlines and very large open areas for a crayon — the plain cross with lilies has about ten areas on the whole sheet. The middle pages will hold a school-age child for half an hour. The detailed pages — the stained glass window, the mandala, twelve patterned crosses and the doodle sheet of thirty symbols — will take an adult most of an evening.

Print the whole set at once

The button at the top bundles all twenty into a single download. Every page is a vector PDF at 300 DPI in both US Letter and A4, so it stays sharp however far you zoom in.