Preparing for Easter Brunch – Part 2

Well PHEW! I’m finally done preparing for tomorrow’s brunch. It has been a busy few days of cleaning, egg hunts, decorating, and cooking!

Easter Bunny Butt garland is hung - CHECK

Tissue Paper Poms are hung – CHECK

Eggs were dyed – CHECK

Then turned into Deviled Eggs – CHECK (Recipe HERE!)

Cracker Dip was made – CHECK (Recipe COMING SOON!)

Lemonade was made – CHECK (Recipe from Country Farmgirl)

Chairs were finished – CHECK (Check out the FULL post HERE)

Carrot silverware was rolled – CHECK

Cinnamon Bun Chex Mix is made – CHECK (recipe HERE from Crazy Daisy)

One Easter Egg Hunt down – CHECK (and one mega Hunt to go!)

Floors were mopped, walls were wiped free of fingerprints, toilets were cleaned, carpets were vacuumed, and only one egg was broken during during the creation of this post :)

Now I’m off to prepare the PW Sleepin’ in Omelette before I hit the hay. All I have to do in the morning is put the Sleepin’ in Omelette in the oven and make the Monkey Bread!

Enjoy!

Bunny Butt Garland Printable

So I saw the cutest garland (pictured below) on pinterest and I knew I had to make it!

My version…

I created my own bunny behind template which you can get HERE. (You are more than welcome to use my printable but you may not copy it as your own or sell it for a profit. For personal use only!)

To create the entire garland you will need:

• My PDF printable file
• White cardstock (8.5x11)
• Scissors
• Scrapbook paper scraps
• Black Chalk Ink (optional)
• Hole punch
• 6-8 feet of ribbon, string, or yarn
• Scotch tape

To begin, print out the template onto your white cardstock.

Then cut out around the bunnies about 1/4 to 1/2 an inch OUTSIDE of the black outline. They will look like this when done…

Then take some scrapbook paper scraps and cut out two inch circles which will be used for the tail. I used my cricut to cut out the circles, but you can always trace a cup and cut it out with scissors.

I wanted to give the tails a little dimension like the ones in the inspiration photo, so I added black chalk ink around the edges of the circles. This step is optional.

Then take your scotch tape and make it into a loop. Turn over your circles and place a piece of tape in the center of each tail.

Then center the tail on the middle of the bunnies booty.

I used my fingers to gently bend the circles to give even more dimension. What bunny doesn’t have a fluffy tail?

After all of the tails were taped on, I used my whole punch to make a hole in each ear.

I then used a 6-8 foot piece of unbleached butchers string to string through my bunny ears.

Then I found a place to hang my garland for all of our Easter brunch guests to see! I think they will get a kick out of it – what about you?

Enjoy,

Preparing for Easter Brunch – Part 1

Easter brunch will be at our house this year. There will be fourteen of us and everyone is bringing a dish.

I will be making-

• Sleepin’ in Omelette Casserole (I have made this before and it was WONDERFUL!)
• Monkey Bread (This is also delicious!)
• Cinnamon Chex Mix
• Deviled Eggs (OF COURSE!)
• Crackers and Cheese platter
• Homemade Lemonade
• Sugar Cookies

The rest of the family will be bringing-

• Ham
• Cheesy Hashbrowns
• Fruit Platter
• Vegetable Platter
• Donuts/Bagels
• Desserts

Yesterday I bought our fine China… NOT! I got paper plates and plastic silverware at Target. If the plate designs look familiar it is because they were designed by ETSY seller, Katie, of The Wheatfield. I went to high school with Katie and took a couple of art classes with her. She was always creating amazing things!

My house has been decorated for nearly a month now.

Today the boys and I decorated our cookies. I knew they were something I could make ahead of time and store in an air-tight container until Sunday.

Such concentration!

Now I need to make a grocery list and a ‘list of things to do.’ We are going to make some decorations tomorrow, and dye Easter eggs tomorrow night. See you on Wednesday for part 2!

Enjoy!

Egg Shaking Listening and Matching Activity

I keep seeing different versions of this game around on the blogs so I figured I’d try making one of my own. I started with a dozen plastic eggs and made six matching pairs. I made sure that each pair wasn’t the same color so they had to depend on the sound to match them. I used pennies, round stones, googley eyes, rice, popcorn kernels and pompoms. I started by putting them all in the basket. That way they can use the egg carton to help them keep track of their matches.







Another way to do the activity is if there are enough kids, give each one an egg and see who else has the egg that makes the same sound. That might be a good circle time activity.

Finally, a third way to do this activity is to make a key like I did below. I taped each object to the piece of paper. You can start with the six eggs that correspond to the object. See if the child can match the object with the sound. You can add the other six eggs to make it a little harder or do 12 objects instead of six. You can do any number of eggs you want. I chose twelve because I had an egg carton to put them in.

Easter Treats in Blog Land

I have been visiting some of my favorite blogs and have come across some amazing Easter Treats! I wish I had time to try all of these, but I will be attempting some of them throughout the week, because I am having Easter brunch at my house this year! (More on that to come!)

Cinnamon Bun Chex Mix – by Crazy Daisy. Sounds perfect for a brunch if you ask me!

Carrot Patch Cookies by Making Memories with your Kids

Jelly Bean Bark by Lee La La

Coconut Cupcakes by Gluesticks

Sugar Cookies by the Domestic Sugar Bake Shop. *Swoon* I wish I had the time and skill to decorate cookies like this!

Speckled Marshmallow Eggs by WhipperBerry.

Funny Bunny Cookies by Munchkin Munchies. Now this is a MUST try!

Don’t forget the Edible Spring Nest by your truly!

Enjoy!