Free Lent Activities for Kids, Tweens, and Teens!
Invite children, tweens and teens to deepen their Lenten journey. Lent is a time for renewal and reflection through fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. We offer free Lent activities to guide young people to live their faith more meaningfully.
Such activities can meet young people where they are and expand their understanding of this key time of the year. Whether you’re a Catechist, DRE or an educator, these free Lent activities are ready-to-use with accessible, relatable content for today’s young people.
Free Lent Lesson Plans for Parishes
Use these free Lenten lessons for faith formation classes, youth groups or Sunday school gatherings. Meant for parishes, these activities are for children through teenagers.
Lent Activity for Kids
Our elementary lesson plans for grades K–5, taken from our faith formation program, Discover! Finding Faith in Life, will introduce young children to the Easter Triduum, the Lenten journey, Palm Sunday, and forgiveness.
Lent Worksheet for Tweens
The grade 6–8 activity utilizes a complete lesson plan from Connect! Bringing Faith to Life, and have a chance to consider: What does God ask of me? How am I called to service and sacrifice? How am I to be Christ for others?
Lent Activity for Teens
In our activity for grades 9–12, students use The Catholic Youth Bible® to dive into Joel 2:12–18 and understand how Lent fits into everyday life.
Free Lent Lesson Plans for Schools
Use these free Lent lessons in your classroom to foster discussion and understanding for this key liturgical season. Meant for schools, these activities are for K-12 students.
Lent Activity for Elementary Students
Our elementary activity is from our faith formation program, Discover! Finding Faith in Life. It introduces young children to the Easter Triduum, the Lenten journey, Palm Sunday, and forgiveness.
Lent Activity for Middle Schoolers
Utilizing a complete lesson plan from Connect! Bringing Faith to Life, our activity for middle schoolers considers: What does God ask of me? How am I called to service and sacrifice? How am I to be Christ for others?
Lent Lessons for High Schoolers
Our high school activity uses The Catholic Youth Bible® to dive into Joel 2:12–18 and understand how Lent fits into everyday life.
Another high school lesson uses Understanding Catholic Christianity where students in grade 9 will learn the roots of the Old Testament in the Passover, and then Jesus in the Resurrection, fulfilling the promises of the prophets.
Additional Lenten Activities
To complement the above activities and lessons, we also offer these other free Lent and Easter resources for teachers and catechists. They range from elementary to high school and include ideas, downloadable content and games.
Free Easter and Lent Activities for Kids
- Learn ways to invite children into the telling of the Easter story on our blog. Read Enacting Easter.
- Download a free Easter Unscramble from Discover! Finding Faith in Life.
- Play a game that incorporates how kids can live and grow in their faith during Lent. Download Flipping for Lent.
- Get effective ideas for how to bring Lent to life for kids.
Lent Resources for Tweens
- Download prayers for Lent from Breakthrough! The Bible for Young Catholics.
- Get prayers for the Easter Season from Breakthrough! The Bible for Young Catholics.
Lent Activities for Teens
- Download Lenten Nails: A Reflection Exercise for Lent, a two-part reflection exercise that allows teens to evaluate their behaviors and attitudes, throughout Lent.
- Read Ashes to Reconciliation, a reconciliation prayer for Lent that you can pray with teens and high schoolers.
- How do we help our teenagers deepen their understanding of Lent? Download Take the Challenge: Make Lent Matter.
