Easter Essentials

Easter has snuck up on me without me knowing! (besides, driving tractor on the farm for my brothers all day kind of fills my day) We have been pretty busy lately, so all the good intentions of fun activities had to lay by the wayside. I only managed to get one new Easter idea done this year.

This darling Easter Egg countdown, of course, from the cute gals at Eighteen25. The kids have been having fun opening an egg daily and doing the activity. The great thing is that you can fill some with candy and then make up your own activities to put in the others. That way, this countdown is personalized to your family Easter traditions. How cool is this?!!!

*Extra Perk* If you haven't made this countdown, wait until after Easter and score some plastic eggs and grass super cheap and make a bunch for next year. What a great gift to give family, friends, neighbors, etc.

There is one more activity on my MUST do list for Easter this weekend: Resurrection Rolls. Feathers from my Nest has a great tutorial on these. What a great lesson for the kids and yummy at the same time.

Happy Easter Friends!

Don't forget to use some of your good not-left-out-in-the-sun-too-long-during-the-hunt-colored-easter-eggs for the super de-lish Egg Salad BLT's recipe Julie posted (next post).

SPRING letters

Julie already gave you the tutorial on how to make these Spring letters.

I just wanted to show you my finished product.

Oh, instead of buying an easter or spring sign to go in the middle of the shelf, I went the frugal route and used plastic easter eggs. Hint: used tape to get them to stay in the desired position and not roll off.

Easter version of these masonite signs. I think I might make some for every holiday since they are so easy. Click here for the instructions.

Felt/Fleece Easter Wreath

Remember when the Idea Room showed you how to make the heart wreath made out of felt? Well, we took the same idea and made a pastel easter wreath.

Supplies needed: felt circles (three inch) from desired colors, (hint! pastel yellow and green are nearly impossible to find, believe me, I hunted down each store in town, plus the internet. So we opted to use fleece too. It worked out great! The yellow and green are fleece, the others felt. Save yourself LOTS of time by reading this, trust me.) Styrofoam wreath (I can find these at the dollar store now!), straight pins and ribbon to hang it once you are done.

Same instructions as before, fold the circles into quarters and pin them onto the wreath. A bunch of us got together and the kids played while we made the wreaths. Thanks to Jenn for having this super awesome lazer cutter that cut the circles for us, seriously, saved tons of time. If you don't have a super cool friend like Jenn, then the good old fashioned way of tracing and cutting them out by hand will do.

**Note** We tried to be frugal. Each person that did the wreath, supplied one of the colors. We each bought a yard of one color (used our 40% off at Joann's). turned out, after equally dividing the circles into five groups, we had enough to complete our wreaths and oodles left over. I might be able to make another wreath or some of the ball ideas from The Idea Room or even her topiary. So if you don't want that much left over, I bet 1/2 yard is ample.

Super easy, even the kids helped. Lyla liked to put the pins in the Styrofoam wreath.

Tara, Hillary, Julie, and Jenn. We missed you Martha.

Frame a Face

Having fun, being silly, getting together, kids playing well........

the best kinds of crafting days.

LOVED the colors and how it turned out. So bright and spring-y. Mine will stay up a little after Easter because it makes me so happy.

Happy Easter Everyone!