Free Printables for Epiphany

In many nations, especially southern and eastern Europe and South America Christian religions celebrate January 6, or Epiphany as the main gift-giving holiday. In the Catholic faith, Epiphany, or the Feast of the Three Kings, is a feast day of the Church. It is not a holy day of obligation, but it an important feast in the Octave of Christmas or Christmastide. It is the celebration of the visit of the Magi to the Christ child in Bethlehem.

If you celebrate this day or would like to begin observing it, here are some websites to explore with free printables to get you started on your journey. This sites include lesson plans, crafts, activities, games and puzzles.

ABC teach is a huge teachers' clearinghouse of resources for public, private, parochial and home-schools, as well as Sunday school, catechism and religious education. Look for the Epiphany printables under 'Seasonal holidays' and Christmas. There are coloring pages, picture reading or Rebus stories, math, fill-in-the -blank, connect the dots, literature units, nativity scene crafts, ornaments, photo frames, and a whole lot more. There must be at over 100 links to pdfs that you may save or print.

Fun Social Studies at Learning Haven offers activities based around the religious observances of countries and religions around the world. This site provides safe, well-researched material for children to use for studies. It is the most complete site I have found for children, parents and teachers on the religious observances of all religions. The material is well-written, user-friendly for children of all ages but does not patronize or talk down to anyone.

First School has a large assortment of free printable lessons and activity plus links to other resources in literature, crafts, songs, information, recipes. This site follows the holidays in an interactive calendar format.

Catholic Mom offers a nice array of activities based upon the Liturgical year of the church, with the daily readings, feast observances, intentions, saints feast days and links to keep the family focused on the church year. Because this is a Catholic website, there are many activities to involve children of all ages in the daily devotion experience. you'll find activities geared to all ages and pages based on the Missal. This would be a great link for any home-schooler, teacher or religious education instructor to access daily.

These links should provide you with enough information, ideas, craft projects and lessons to provide students or children with a nice celebration of Epiphany. Epiphany, in a secular way provides a nice ending to the Christmas holiday. Celebrating Epiphany is a good way to ease back into the school year also.