Easter and Lent Coloring Pages

Sample Easter coloring pages found in the following collection.

       Under the following categories are coloring pages for the Lenten Season/Passion Week. Topics that follow the church calendar and bible stories are linked under the descriptions of the last week of Lent. Many of these originate from Color The Bible, my file dedicated to Christian coloring pages. Visitors may also find Fat Tuesday coloring pages under my Mardi Gras listing here.

Coloring Pages for Palm Sunday: Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels.
      In many Christian denominations, worship services on Palm Sunday include a procession of the faithful carrying palms, representing the palm branches the crowd scattered in front of Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem. The difficulty of procuring palms in unfavorable climates led to their substitution with branches of native trees, including box, olive, willow, and yew. The Sunday was often named after these substitute trees, as in Yew Sunday, or by the general term Branch Sunday.

1. "R is for the ride meant for him alone" alphabet coloring page
2. Here is a palm leaf to color for Easter
3. A burro ready for the Messiah to ride...
4. Color this donkey for Easter
5. Color the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem 
6. Palms and Flowers to color for Easter...

Coloring Pages for Holy Wednesday: In Christianity, Holy Wednesday, also called Spy Wednesday, or Good Wednesday (in Western Christianity), and Holy and Great Wednesday (in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches), is the Wednesday of Holy Week, the week before Easter. It is followed by Maundy Thursday.
      In the New Testament, just after Palm Sunday, the Sanhedrin gathered together and plotted to kill Jesus, even before the feast of Pesach. On the Wednesday before his death Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper. As they sat at the supper table, a woman named Mary anointed Jesus' head and feet with costly oil of spikenard. The disciples were indignant, asking why the oil was not instead sold and the money given to the poor. But Judas Iscariot wanted to keep the money for himself. Then Judas went to the Sanhedrin and offered to deliver Jesus to them in exchange for money. From this moment on, Judas sought an opportunity to betray Jesus.
      In reference to Judas Iscariot's intent to betray Jesus, formed on Holy Wednesday, the day is sometimes called "Spy Wednesday". (The word spy, as used in the term, means "ambush, ambuscade, snare".)

1. The Anointing of Jesus

Coloring Pages for Maundy Thursday: Maundy Thursday (also known as Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, Great and Holy Thursday, Sheer Thursday, and Thursday of Mysteries) is the Christian holy day falling on the Thursday before Easter. It commemorates the Maundy and Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles as described in the Canonical gospels. It is the fifth day of Holy Week, and is preceded by Holy Wednesday and followed by Good Friday.

1. The Last Supper Window at Chartres Cathedral
2. Color Jesus washing his disciples feet...
3. Preparation for The Last Supper
4. Arresting Jesus at Gethsemane: Window at Chartres Cathedral
5. Christ Before Pilate 
6. Jesus washes the feet of his disciples 
7. The Last Supper Carved into Wood

Coloring Pages for Good Friday: Good Friday is a Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Black Friday, or Easter Friday, though the last term properly refers to the Friday in Easter week.

1. On the Road to Calvary... 
2. A Radial Cross Design with Angels 
3. "Christ Crowned with Thorns" by Anton van Dyck 
4. The True King's Crown
5. Early Pectoral Crucifix
6. Crucifixion from St. Gall Gospels
7. Crown of Thorns Coloring Page
8. Spanish Woodcut of The Crucifixion
9. Crucifixion Symbols
10. Jesus, died for our transgressions
11. Crucifixion window from Chartes Cathedral
12. Crucified For Us coloring page
13. The Royal Crown of Thorns 
14. "Woman, Behold Your Son." 
15. Stained glass coloring page of Jesus...

Coloring Pages for Holy Saturday: Holy Saturday (Latin: Sabbatum Sanctum), the Saturday of Holy Week, also known as the Great Sabbath, Black Saturday, or Easter Eve, and called "Joyous Saturday" or "the Saturday of Light" among Coptic Christians, is the day after Good Friday. It is the day before Easter and the last day of Holy Week in which Christians prepare for Easter. It commemorates the day that Jesus Christ's body lay in the tomb and the Harrowing of Hell.

1. Color The Pieta 
2. Color "Descent From The Cross" by Volterra
3. Burial of Jesus by Fra Angelico  

Coloring Pages for Easter Morning: Easter, also called Pascha (Greek/Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD. It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus, preceded by Lent (or Great Lent), a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance.

1. Color my dove of peace... 
2. Mary Magdalene discovers the empty tomb
3. The Empty Tomb
4. Color "Hot Cross Buns" by Walter Crane 
5. Color The Triumphant Christ for Easter
6. "He is Risen Indeed!" Butterfly Coloring Page 
7. Color These Lilies for Easter 
8. The Lord Is Risen! 
9. Color This Christian Cross by kathy grimm

Coloring Pages of Easter Texts & Scriptures: (adults and children)

1.  "He is Risen!" Coloring Page
2. "Suffer Little Children"

Coloring Pages of Sunday Toys:

1. Color a Toy Ark and Animals

      I have many coloring pages of bunnies, chicks and traditional Easter images for young ones at this site, for those of you who find themselves in need of simple entertainments during Easter festivities, dinner parties and during children's holiday events. I will also include links to coloring pages similar to these from my Easter Egg Crafts Blog.

Coloring Pages of Bunnies, Rabbits & Hares:

1. Mamma bunny gives a hug
2. Bunnies stroll through the park coloring page
3. Breakfast with Bunny coloring page
4. Funny furniture friends to color
5. Color your neighbors talking...
6. Little bunny sees her shadow coloring page
7. Color this child chasing rabbits!
8. The ears of the hare coloring page
9. "H is for horse and hare" alphabet coloring page
10. Talking with Alice...
11. A bunny picking strawberries
12. Licking his paw
13. Color the bunnies spring play...
14. Color a dancing rabbit
15. Color a Vintage Easter Parade page...
16. Color this plush bunny for Easter
    
17. "R is for rabbit" coloring page

Coloring Pages of Easter Baskets, Eggs and Candy:

1. Color giant, old-fashioned Easter eggs for fun!
2. Color this Easter basket full of eggs...
3. An Easter Chic and Decorated Eggs to Color
4. Color this Easter basket and chocolate rabbit
5. "Happy Easter" Easter basket of alphabet eggs

Coloring Pages of Chicks, Chickens, Hens, Roosters and Ducks:

1. Color the Rooster, Hens and Chicks 
2. Here are some chickens for you to color... 
3. Feeding Her Feathered Friend 
4. The Gentleman Duck
5. Color this dressed up duck!
6. "Q is for quack!" alphabet coloring page
7. Color the hens at the gate
8. Color Easter Hens and Chicks
   

Coloring Pages of Lambs, Crosses, Jesus and the Children:

1. Here are some grazing sheep for you to color
2. Caring for a lost lamb
3. Cross Inside of A Radial Design
4. A Greek Agnus Dei
5. "B is for the blessings he gives" alphabet coloring page
6. Watching The Sheep
7. Shepherd Boy
8. Color these little lambs 
9. Color this little girl hunting for Easter eggs... 
10. Color this child building an Easter Diorama...
    

More Easter Coloring Page Collections for Children From...

• Free-N-Fun Easter Coloring from The Oriental Trading Company
• Original Easter Coloring from Activity Village