Messianic Kids Resources
The Ancient Way has partnered with Revayah Paper Co to bring you Charlotte Mason-inspired Messianic Jewish curriculum and activities for kids that are thoughtfully designed to help your family celebrate God's appointed times with wonder, conversation, and connection.
Messianic Jewish Children’s Activities
A four-year-old doesn't need a lecture on Leviticus 23. She needs to smell the challah, color the Exodus redemption story, hear the shofar, and ask why.
Messianic kids resources are activities, printables, and guides that help children experience the Sabbath and the biblical feasts (Jewish Holidays)—Passover, Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Purim, and Hanukkah (coming soon!)—in a way that engages them on their level. They're made for Messianic Jewish families, Messianic believers, and Christian parents who want their kids to connect with the Jewishness of Jesus and the appointed times He kept.
The Ancient Way has partnered with Revayah Paper Co to bring you Charlotte Mason-inspired, Montessori-influenced curriculum and activity bundles for each festival. Coloring pages, hands-on crafts, story readings, and conversation prompts—designed so your family celebrates God's moedim (appointed times) with awe and wonder.
Start with the free Sabbath guide. Then work through the calendar one feast at a time.
Messianic Sabbath Family Starter Guide
Teach your kids about the beauty of resting on the seventh day.
Rosh Hashanah (The Feast of Trumpets)
Let go of your sins, blow a shofar, and eat apples and honey as you enter the new Hebrew year.
Teach your children to remember God’s amazing redemption of the Jewish people from Egypt.
Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement) for Kids
Read the story of Jonah, color the book of life, and let go of your sins that God has covered.
Place yourself at Yeshua’s Last Supper where he kept Passover with His disciples.
Printable Sukkot Activities for Kids
Build a sukkah, go on a nature scavenger hunt, and tell stories of God’s faithfulness to take care of us.
Messianic Shavuot Activities for Kids
Discover how the Ruach Hakodesh (Holy Spirit) was given during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.
Purim: The Story of Queen Esther
Color your way through the story of Queen Esther as she stood up to evil Haman and saved the Jewish people.
How to teach kids about Messianic Jewish Holidays
Leviticus 23 calls the feasts mikra'ei kodesh—holy convocations, rehearsals. God built them to be taught through the senses and through story. "When your children ask you, 'What does this mean?'" (Exodus 12:26) assumes they will ask. Your job is to give them something worth asking about.
Here's what has worked in our home:
Lead with the table, not the textbook. Food, candles, and a set table teach before a word is spoken.
One story per feast. Passover is the Exodus. Purim is Esther. Sukkot is God's care in the wilderness. Yom Kippur is Jonah & Yeshua. Tell it well, every single year.
Make something with your hands. A sukkah, a shofar craft, a coloring page of the Book of Life. Little hands remember what ears forget.
Connect it to Yeshua. Many of the feasts point us to Messiah—the Passover Lamb, the Firstfruits, the giving of the Ruach at Shavuot, the King who tabernacles with us.
Keep it small. Don’t pressure yourself to get everything right all at once. Take it one feast at a time. Before you know it, you’ll have passed on Jewish tradition to the next generation.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Messianic kids resources are teaching materials—printable PDFs, crafts, storybooks, guides, and curriculum—that introduce children to the Sabbath, the biblical feasts, Torah, and Jewish tradition while pointing to Yeshua as the Messiah of Israel. They honor the tradition of mainstream Jewish children's materials while incorporating belief in Yeshua through the lens of Jewish theology.
They differ from Christian Sunday school materials in that the Hebrew calendar and Jewish context are kept because they are essential to a complete understanding of the Bible.
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The activity bundles on this page cover the Sabbath (Shabbat), Rosh Hashanah (Feast of Trumpets), Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles), Passover (including a Messianic Passover set focused on Yeshua's Last Supper), Shavuot (Pentecost), and Purim. New activities for kids are added as they're created.
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Yes. The Messianic Sabbath Family Starter Guide is free, and The Ancient Way also offers a free How to Sabbath guide for the whole family. The feast activity bundles are paid printables from Revayah Paper Co.
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Most activity bundles are designed for ages 2-12, with coloring pages for younger kids and discussion prompts older kids can participate in (or lead!).
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Charlotte Mason taught that children learn best through living books, real experiences, and narration—retelling in their own words. Applied to the Jewish feasts, that means reading the story from Scripture, doing something with your hands, and letting your child tell it back to you, rather than filling in worksheets.
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Yes. Many families using these resources are Gentile believers who want their children to understand the Jewish roots of their faith and the traditions that Jesus kept. Nothing here requires a Jewish background—only curiosity, a table, and a willingness to learn.
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Tell the Exodus story first—the lamb, the blood on the doorposts, the night God passed over the firstborn. Then show them that Yeshua kept this same meal with His disciples, took the bread and the cup, and called Himself the Lamb of God. The Messianic Passover printable walks kids through the Last Supper this way.
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They're digital downloads you print at home. You buy once and print as many copies as your family, school, synagogue, or congregation needs.
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See our Recommended Messianic Resources page for books, music, and other materials we use in our own home.