I just love, love piano music. I love playing it, I love hearing it, I love singing along to it! Then if it’s Easter music, I love it all even more!
I recently made my own, beautiful, customized Easter Songbook for almost free, as shown above. I’m sharing today how you can make your own too. At the same time I’m presenting to you all the best collection of free Christ-centered Easter music all in one place!
- First, get an empty binder with a clear-view pocket on the front. I got mine from a thrift store for $1.50. Hooray for thrifting! (I love thrifting. If you want to see my fabulous finds from many years of thrifting trips, go here.)
2. Next, find a beautiful picture that represents Easter to you. It’s hard to choose, as so many abound! I chose the one above, the left page of the two-page spread, for my songbook cover. I got it from the inside front cover of the March 2026 Friend of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The picture is here if you want to print it, using a high-quality printer. I just love the way Jesus is portrayed, with people feeling drawn to him, rejoicing in His resurrection, with the glowing hills and sky in the background. (It doesn’t show the nail prints in his hands, though, maybe, it’s supposed to be The Sermon on the Mount? I’m using it as a resurrection picture. I’ll just add some nail prints with a little dot of a pen.) Slip your picture inside the front pocket of the binder.
You can find many more pictures here. That it is the main page for the magazines of the Church. Liahona is for adults, For the Strength of Youth is for youth ages 11-18, and the Friend is for ages 3-10. Beautiful pictures are in each one, especially on the inside front cover page. You can click around on thumbnails and dates until you find the one you want. Another beautiful one is here. Then print with your home printer or use a public computer and printer at the public library.
You could print more pages of art of Jesus to intersperse between the pages of music, like I did, as shown throughout this post.
3. Print out all the Easter sheet music your heart desires that is available on the Internet, as linked below. Also be on the lookout for music at thrift stores. The book on the right of the picture above shows “The Good Shepherd” piano sheet music book by Kristen Randle. I found it thrifting for only 75 cents. The cover is worn and stained, but this is a gem. It is full of music about Jesus I had never heard before, including songs about the apostles, the Good Samaritan, Gethsemane, Good Friday, and the Resurrection, and more, all about Jesus. What a treasure! I have looked high and low to find out where this can be bought on the Internet so others can get it, but so far, no results. If anyone knows, please comment below.
Moving on, here are some links for Easter-themed piano music that can be easily found. It is all free!
Hymns from the hymn book of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christ the Lord is Risen Today #200
Music from the Ensign (forerunner to the Liahona)
The Risen Jesus in America 4/74
O Lord Who Gave Thy Life For Me 10/02
Behold the Wounds in Jesus’ Hands 4/09
What is This Thing Man Calls Death 2/10
Rise Up Ye Saints Rejoice 4/12
My Shepherd Will Supply My Need 9/15
Bread of Life, Living Water 7/15
Music from the New Era (forerunner to For the Strength of Youth)
For Bread and Breath and Life 8/80
He Is Not Here, for He is Risen 8/85
O Savior Thou Who Healed the Sick 8/92
O Master Let Me Walk with Thee 8/93
Plant a Seed in Your Heart 9/95
The Gift of the Holy Ghost 8/05
Gentle Jesus, Pure and Fair 4/15
I Feel My Savior’s Love (new arrangement) 4/18
Children’s Songs
On a Golden Springtime p. 88 CS
Did Jesus Really Live Again? p. 64
He Died That We Might Live Again p. 65 CS
Other Sheep I Have, Friend 1/77
Spring of the Year, Friend 4/81
Jesus Is My Friend, Friend 10/92
The Miracle, Friend 6/18 The music video is above. I just love, love, love this song!
My Testimony is Growing, Friend 3/94
If Christ Should Speak to Me, Friend 7/95
The Bread Reminds Me, Friend 7/00
I’ll Follow Him in Faith, Friend 1/03
If the Savior Stood Beside Me, Friend 3/13
Many Names of Jesus, Friend 4/17
Jesus Is My Shepherd, Friend 9/13
Our Savior’s Atonement, Friend 4/97 One of my absolute favorite songs, I love the lilting melody.
If I Listen With My Heart, Friend 2/16
Gethsemane, Friend 3/18 (simplified, the full arrangement is found here)
The Day That Changed Everything Friend 2/26 This one is fairly new! So delightful!
-more songs from the new collection of Hymns for Home and Church are here, the more Easter-y ones start at #1007 with “The Bread is Broken.”
-Sally Deford has lots of free sheet music on her website. Her song, “In the Silent Garden” is just so beautiful. I remember singing this with my church choir years ago in AZ. I just love the gorgeous, swelling melody. It is here. Then her song “He is Risen From the Dead” is here.
-the old-school, “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” is here.
4. Put the sheet music you just printed in page protectors. Reinforce the pages with cardstock inside the page protectors, in between the papers that have the sheet music printed on them, if desired. It definitely makes the pages easier to turn.
Play the music, sing along, and enjoy! May your Easter be Christ-centered, full of the joy of His endless love and His victory over sin and death, as you hear and sing this music! Let’s praise Jesus with words, music, song, and dance! Truly He is Risen and He is King and Savior! Gather your family and friends around and sing! Maybe for an Easter sunrise service or an evening singalong. Use your phones with his page and go to the link. If you use the music in the LDS hymns section you can play the music.
This is one of my many steps to fulfill the invitation from the First Presidency of the Church to elevate my Easter celebration. As Elder Stevenson has said, quoting N.T. Wright:
“We should be taking steps to celebrate Easter in creative new ways: in art, literature, children’s games, poetry, music, dance, festivals, bells, special concerts. … This is our greatest festival. Take Christmas away, and in biblical terms you lose two chapters at the front of Matthew and Luke, nothing else. Take Easter away, and you don’t have a New Testament; you don’t have a Christianity.” Elder Gary E. Stevenson, Liahona, May 2023
Want some Christ-centered Easter tradition ideas? Go here, here, and here.
Want more Easter ideas? Here are a lot more! Happy Easter! He is Risen! May we all move from acknowledgement of Him, to admiration, to adulation, to emulation. That’s a paraphrase from Elder Neal A. Maxwell, a modern-day apostle of Jesus Christ, from this talk. Then we will be fit to receive Him for His Second Coming!
Tree of Life Mothering 
