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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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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Some Bunny Loves You Treat Bag

We made chocolate chip cookies for a neighbors birthday and wanted to dress it up a bit. So, instead of the plain old paper plate with plastic wrap on top we made this little bunny bag from a brown lunch sack and it was so easy. Just the way we like projects to be. Enjoy.

• Lay it flat and draw this pattern on it. 
• Cut it out 
• Draw a nose and whiskers.
• Open it up and place your treats inside.
• Tie a bow around the ears. (Attach a note if you like.)
• Deliver

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VALENTINES DAY FAVORITES

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! 

We hope you had a treat filled day of love with whomever you chose to spend it with. We thought we'd give you a peek at our day and some of our favorite Valentines tips that we tried and loved this year. Some we will definitely be using next year and others we will be using for birthdays or other holidays before Valentines even rolls around again.

Enjoy!

White Chocolate Cupcake Toppers

All you need are sucker sticks, melted white chocolate, and wax paper. Once the chocolate is melted place the stick on wax paper and write (we put the chocolate in a plastic bag and cut the tip off) your design or word on or across the stick. Let it dry, or refrigerate until hard and place in your cupcakes. Genius! 

Sidewalk Chalk "Heart Attack" 

We used a cardboard cut out of a heart to trace hearts of all different colors on the neighbors walk. Then left a message. The kids loved helping and it was sweet and cute.

(Mostly) DIY Valentine Making

Targets Dollar Spot and the Dollar Store are great places for Holiday finds IF you get there early before all the good stuff is gone. 

Felt hearts stuffed with chocolate treats can do double duty for decor.

Whoopee Cushions because "Love Stinks"

More Target finds.

 Valentine Balloons

4 words. Dollar Store Must Haves!

The Perfect Man Gift

A six pack of soda with the tag "6 reasons I love You", include a treat if you want because we all know men love food.

Valentine Decor

Twine, Red XO's and lips, and clothes pins made an easy and non destructible Valentine banner.

Pin the Lips on Yourself Game

We got this idea from the Small Fry Blog and while we did a few things different it was such a cute game and the kids loved it. We used photos of our children that had closeups of their heads and then printed 8x8 photos at Costco. We laminated them. Cut out foam lips from craft foam, blindfolded them and they were set. The Small Fry Blog has a template for lips, mustache, and glasses that is great for the game but our local copy store was having issues so we made our own.

Valentines for Grandparents

We took balloons and flowers to the grandparents and had fun making cards to send in the mail a day or two before Valentines day. We also used some of our favorite Valentine pictures and sent photos in the cards. Grandparents love mail right?

Babies first Valentines Day

With no planning on our part we each bought the babes the same shirts for Valentines at different stores but on the same day. Great minds. Aren't they darling?

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Love You SNOW Much :DIY Kids Snowman Valentine

Being housebound with sick littles will make you get creative real quick. After two weeks of being stuck inside we decided to make Valentines yesterday out of the pads I use to remove my makeup. Everyone has seen the snowmen out of cotton balls so when I noticed these on the bathroom counter I thought why not. 

So, we made a few for Grandma and Grandpa. I used a dot of hot glue on each of the circles and the eyes, and then drew the rest with crayon. When one of my little guys wanted to help I said, "sure" and handed him one of the circles with a dab of glue on it. Wouldn't you know he grabbed right where the glue was, got it stuck on his finger, started crying because of the heat, and as I removed it saw a tiny burn blister from the glue (of my low temp glue gun). Major mom fail! I thought being right next to him I could help him do it. Not so. Word to the wise, just let the kids stick to the coloring and taping on of suckers. Not worth a burn on a little one.

These don't have to be Valentines. They could just be snowmen, a and a fun art project to do with the kids anytime in the winter. I thought about going out for a walk to find small sticks for the arms and some type of buttons for the front of them but we had too much snow but that would have been fun too. Anyway, just thought we would share some of the product from our days of cabin fever.

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