Looking for resurrection crafts this Easter? This Sunset Cross Easter Paper Craft is so easy for kids and focuses on the true meaning of Easter. {Be sure to check out our collection of other Easter activities for kids, too!}

Be sure to check out all of our cross-themed crafts!

Can you believe Easter is almost here? This year has just flown by already! We LOVE this time of year at our house — especially Easter!

Easter is such an important holiday in our home, if not THE most important. It’s so important to us that our children know and understand why we celebrate this occasion. Though we don’t do the Easter bunny, we do love celebrating the Resurrection in all kinds of different ways.

We have fun with dyeing eggs, having story time, and even trying some unique activities like this LEGO Easter Tomb. It’s also nice to just pull out a few easy crafts for the kids on Easter weekend. And this one is SO simple.

You probably already have everything you need for this Easter Paper Craft. Once you gather your supplies, you can easily get started on this really simple, meaningful way to celebrate the Resurrection with your kids!

Sunset Cross Easter Paper Craft

Supplies Needed:

Colored card stock or construction paper (green, yellow, orange, red, brown, dark brown, and black)
Template
Scissors
Glue stick

Directions:

First, take the green paper and tear off a thin strip along the bottom.

Next, take the yellow paper and tear off about a third.

Repeat with the orange paper, tearing off about a third.

Then glue the orange paper to the red paper like the photo above.

Finally, glue the yellow paper on top and the green paper on top of the yellow. You’ve completed the sunset background!

Take the brown paper and tear a large chunk out of the corner to make a tomb. Tear a small circle from the dark brown paper to make a big stone.

Glue the stone to the tomb. Then glue the tomb to the corner of the sunset background.

Use the template to trace and cut a cross from the black paper.

Finish the craft by gluing the black cross to the colored paper above the tomb.

And that’s it! Your Sunset Cross Easter Paper Craft is complete! You can now hang it up to decorate for Easter, combine this craft with Easter story time, or add on a few other Easter Crafts to make a day of it.

If you’re looking for some other really simple Resurrection Paper Crafts, you’d probably love this Easter Cross Marble Painting, Easter Cross Fork Painting, or this Paper Plate Resurrection Craft.

If you don’t mind something just a little bit more involved, these Easter Story Stones and Easter Sun Catcher Craft are both great! Or these Crystal Crosses are a lot of fun!

You can find all of our Easter Activities here. And be sure to check out this round-up of Resurrection Crafts!

Sunset Cross Paper Craft

Materials

Colored cardstock or construction paper: green, yellow, orange, red, brown, dark brown and black.
Template
Scissors
Glue stick

Instructions

First take the green paper and tear off a thin strip along the bottom.
Now take the yellow paper and tear off about a third of it.
Repeat with the orange paper, tearing about a third of it.
Then glue the orange paper to the red paper.
Now glue the yellow paper on top and the green paper on top of the yellow. You’ve completed the sunset background.
Take the brown paper and tear a large chunk out of the corner to make a tomb.
Tear a small circle from the dark brown paper to make a big stone.
Glue the stone to the tomb. Then glue the tomb to the corner of the sunset background.
Now grab the template. Trace and cut it from black paper.
Finish the craft by gluing the black cross to the colored paper above the tomb.
You are finished!

Sunset Cross Resurrection Paper Craft