Easter Tumblers

I decorated these tumblers for my kids for Easter. 

Easter Hunt- The True Meaning of Easter

One of my awesome friends gave me this idea for teaching my young kids about Christ at Easter time. I love that it has fun visuals to go with the scripture, something that gets my kids attention. They really enjoyed this for scripture reading this week. We will be doing it again next year!! (Thanks, Julia!)

Easter Hunt - The True Meaning Of Easter

1. An egg carton or Easter basket containing 12 plastic colored eggs. Each plastic egg is filled with an object that symbolizes a scriptural reference for the resurrection.

Scriptural Reference Egg Containing

1. Matthew 26:39 Sacrament cup (Let this cup pass...)

2. Matthew 26:14-15 3 Dimes (30 pieces of silver)

3. Matthew 27:1-2 Pieces of knotted twine (bound Jesus)

4. Matthew 27:24-26 Sliver of soap (Pilate: "I am innocent")

5. Matthew 27:28-30 Square of red felt (Jesus' robe)

6. Matthew 27:31-32 A nail and toothpick cross

7. Matthew 27:35-36 Dice (cast lots for Jesus' robe)

8. Matthew 27:50-51,54 Bag of dirt and rocks (earthquake)

9. Matthew 27:58-60 Piece of white cloth (Jesus wrapped)

10. Matthew 27:60,65-66 Stone (rolled in front of the tomb)

11. Matthew 28:25 Bay Leaf (Herbs on Jesus)

12. Matthew 28:6 Empty (He was resurrected)

Procedure:

Ask children (one at a time) to choose an egg out of the basket. The eggs will be numbered so scriptures can be read like the list above. The egg will contain both a small object and the scriptural reference it relates to. Read the scripture and discuss what the object symbolizes. Also, the eggs can be hidden around a room and once all twelve are found they can be opened in numerical order.

The children should gain a deeper understanding of the true meaning of Easter.

Easter Grass

This is my new Easter decoration:
I used wheat for the grass seed. I let the kids help with the planting and they've had fun watching the grass grow.

I found this group of pots at a yard sale...
it was orange, so I used some spray paint to change the color...gotta love spray paint!

Easter Buckets

This year I made the kids Easter buckets. They had fun picking out Easter paper from the store. I used buckets from Walmart (only 50 cents each!!) With a little modge podge and ribbon, these were easy and fun to make...and the kids were super excited!

Carrot Goodie Bags

As soon as I saw these on Sisters' Stuff, I knew I wanted to make them for the kids' Easter baskets...

The first one is mini goldfish (my kids totally love those!) and the second one has Cheetos (a rare snack around here)
These will be great to fill up the Easter baskets with less sugar :)

Easter Morning Table Setting

My mom painted these cute cups for us years ago and my kids have enjoyed using them. I found the idea for the carrots years ago, but thought it'd be fun to do again this year. Pair these up with some paper bunny plates I got:

I'm pretty sure my kids will be excited!

P.S. Mom...I don't think 3 cups is enough anymore :) hint, hint :)

Easter Pillowcase

I found this cute fabric at Hancock Fabrics and hurried to make this year's new Easter pillowcase.... At least they can enjoy it for a few days...I can't believe how fast Easter snuck up on me! I've got to get my other Easter projects done!!!

Easter Egg Dye

I made my own dye this year for the eggs. We used the coupon to save $1 and bought some neon colors for this year.



Not to worry, the dye came off with a nice soak in the tub.




Recipe for egg dye:
(For each color cup)

1 tsp of vinegar
10 drops of food coloring
1/2 cup boiling water

Let cool and then dye eggs.

Saturday Easter Egg Hunt

If you click on this picture to enlarge it you will see eggs piled in bushes and on the back strips of grass, too! It is so neat they do this!

Last year Stephanie told us about the nursing home in town doing this egg hunt. This is just the lawn for the 3 years and younger group. Each kid walked away with a grocery bag full of eggs and toys. This year was not as crowded, probably due to the rainy weather we've been having. Kyla had so much fun picking up the eggs and a couple of toys. Nathan quickly discovered that the eggs had candy in them--he started picking up eggs or stepping on them to get the candy out and would throw the plastic egg back on the ground. Funny kid!

Sun Catcher Eggs

These turned out cuter than I expected!




I used contact paper and put a hollowed out egg shape on it and let the kids put squares of tissue paper in the middle on the sticky contact paper. When they were done I trimmed the outside edges of the eggs and hung in a sunny window. The sunlight makes them look cool.

I saw several people doing these on their blogs, I just can't remember which ones, but I am grateful for the idea.

Grandma Inspired Easter

We made some chocolate marshmallow eggs using Grandma's recipe...they aren't as pretty as hers always were, but the memories are still fantastic.



See my recipe blog or Recipe at www.grandmaegan.blogspot.com

My new Easter Decor

Inspired by http://crafterswanted.blogspot.com/

Easter Wreath

This morning the kids helped me make this for our front door:

They picked the eggs out of a basket and I glued them on. It was a good chance to go over colors with Nathan. I loved how fast it worked up and I had all of the supplies laying around the house, so it was cheap!


This craft inspired by cindis.blogspot.com