Our Best Easter Egg Tips

Easter Eggs aren't just plain pastel eggs anymore. If you shop early you can find almost any kind of egg you want. Sports balls, superheroes, glitter, chicks, carrots, cars, all one color, you get the idea. So get out there a little bit early and eggs will be yours for the choosing.

Salad Spinner Eggs

We have yet to Dye eggs this year. But, we did buy some fake paper eggs that are quite sturdy and had some fun with those. You can get them at Walmart for $1.98/per dozen or Target for $3/dozen and most likely any craft store in your area. They are quite sturdy and will hold up to being handled by the littles better than actual eggs. We put a few in the salad spinner with paint and let them spin them. The eggs came out looking marbled and pretty colorful. 

Paint Themed Eggs

The same paper eggs from above we painted into ninja turtles and lions and put a baby footprint on one for babies first Easter. The kids looooooved them because it is what they are loving at the moment. 

Easter Egg Tree

It takes a bit of time to string up the eggs but the end result is pretty cool and the kids really liked decorating a spring tree full of blossoms for Easter. 

Make Egg "People"

By hollowing out an egg and planting a few grass seeds in it you can draw a face on the egg and then wait for the grass/hair to grow in leaving you with small egg people with a dozen different expressions. Click here to see our how to.

Shower Squeegee Eggs

Poster Board Eggs, finger paint, and a shower squeegee kept our little ones entertained and giggling on a rainy afternoon. Once the eggs dried they got to color them again with markers over the paint. Click here to see our how to.

Easter Egg Nest Bundt Cake

Chocolate bundt cake with chocolate frosting and chocolate cadbury eggs dumped in the center to make an egg nest. Whats not to love? The green around the eggs is sprinkles found on the cake aisle in any grocery store.

Easter Bunny Egg Dippers

Anything that makes your life easier with littles is a plus. These do that. .98 cents at Walmart. They are for egg dying to get the eggs in and out of the color cups. But our kids have been carrying them around for a week using them for a little bit of everything.

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How to Make Your Own Easter Egg "People"

Random fact about Megan and I, we worked at a Dinosaur Museum for years and had to blow out the insides of eggs frequently (hundreds of eggs each no joke) for kids to make their own dinosaur eggs. We never thought that skill would come in handy but boy were we wrong. Enter having our own kids and Easter.

So, to get a blown out egg you simply use a push pin to poke a hole in the top and bottom of an egg. Then you put your mouth on one end and blow all the egg out. Rinse, and your egg is ready. 

With this project you could probably get away with using regular eggs that you crack and use and then rinse out but we blew ours out and then took off the tops in order to make little containers to plant seeds in.

Anyhow. Get your eggshells however you like and make sure the openings are big enough to put dirt inside.

Put a few spoonfuls of dirt into each egg. 

Place a few grass seeds in each egg.

Cover the seeds with a spoonful or two more of dirt.

Place in a sunlit area and keep moist. We have been using a spray bottle to water ours.

We are waiting for ours to grow grass before we draw faces on the eggs with marker but in hindsight that might have been a better idea before we planted anything inside of them. 

Wait for your grass to grow and make "hair" on your little egg friends.  

We'll add more photos once we get something to grow. :) Fingers crossed as the kiddos are pretty excited about seeing something come out of those eggs.

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Friday Favorites

Im on the hunt for the prefect easter dress for yours truly and am loving the pretty soft floral prints out there.

Feminine gold small necklaces, inexpensive is the key word here H&M always has a great selection.

My 2 year old has hit the "I have to live in a tule dress" stage we are loving and living in these beauties.

We are spending our free afternoons prepping easter goodies for our loved ones and are using 'homemade' cards by using some of these adorable Easter printables here and here.

It's spring break in our neck of the woods and the only plans we have is to sit on the couch with our chocolate ice cream and scroll through our last year vacation to D-land. Here we are with Beauty and the Beast lego statue in downtown Disney; we LOVED the live action Beauty and the Beast, go see it if you haven't!!


Happy Friday ya'll
XO, Megyn

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Unique Easter Egg Decorating

When we saw this idea on KSL Studio 5, (I believe they got it from @hello_wonderful on Instagram) we knew we had to try it because our kids are obsessed with showers mainly to use the shower squeegee while in there. 

All you need is paint (we used washable finger paint), a shower squeegee, poster board or pieces of cardstock paper, and a place to make a mess. We used a $1 dollar table cloth that we could fold up and throw out as soon as we were done.

On large pieces of poster board we made several egg shapes and cut them out.

Then we set up our work area with paints, squeegee and table cloth.

Let the kids choose what colors of paint they want on their egg and put little dots on the egg. Have someone hold the top of the egg and then let the kids drag the squeegee across the paint until all of the white paper is covered.

You can experiment with mixing colors to make other colors (blue and yellow dots make a blue egg etc.) or just play with different colors. 

Once the eggs have dried you can make a banner or let the kids color them with markers or whatever else your heart desires. 

Happy painting. 

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Our Best Easter Bunny Finds

Our best Bunny finds from around town this year and our favorite Bunny books in case you are looking for some goodies. Get out there if you haven't. Easter stuff is going quick. 

Best Bunny Books

Peter Cotton Tails Busy Day by Joseph R Ritchie

Big Bad Bunny by Melanie Joyce

Are You Ready for Bed by Jane Johnson

One More Rabbit by Margaret Wise Brown 

The Tale Of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

The Night Before Easter by Natasha Wing

The Biggest Easter Basket Ever by Steven Kroll

Its Not Easy Being a Bunny by Marilyn Sadler

Stuffed Bunny Rabbits

Smiths has the cutest little stuffed bunnies that are the perfect size for an Easter basket for $1. They also have lambs, frogs, and pigs.

Some Bunny Loves You Treat Bag

Turn a brown lunch sack into a bunny perfect for Easter. See tutorial here. 

Easter Bunny Fruit Tray

Blueberries, pineapple, strawberries and kiwi shaped just so make the cutest edible bunny. Whiskers are pieces of string cheese. 

Rabbit Egg Grabbers

.98 cents at Walmart will score you a pair of these bunny egg grabbers that make egg dying a little more fun and hopefully a little cleaner for mom. 

Chocolate Bunnies

My kids informed me that one of the Easter Bunny's "Must Brings" is a chocolate rabbit so I snatched these up at Walmart for a dollar before they disappear.

Bunny Banner

This is from Target last year but you could easily cut these shapes or other bunny shapes and make a banner with small clothes pins and twine. 

Bunny Bags

Target for the win on these. Bunnies are $3, carrots are $1 each.

Ears

An Easter must have for little ones and pictures on the big day. Bunny beanie from Target. Ears from the dollar store.

Paper Plates

These are a Walmart find but I have seen plates at Target, the Dollar Store, Smiths and nearly every grocery store around town. Act quick and they are $1.

Target Finds

Best place for Holiday decor is Targets Dollar Spot hands down because you can get something new for the season without breaking the bank. The bunny on the left is there this year. The bunny on the right was from years past. $3 bucks each.

More goodies at the target dollar spot, both the stickers and the spring garland!! 

Golden Bunny Flats 30% off right now!! Momma and daughter LOVE them! 

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