Glow in the Dark Easter Egg Hunt

The girls had so much fun having a nighttime glow in the dark Easter egg hunt! To make the eggs glow, I ordered a set of led finger lights for amazon and put one in each egg. Thanks to Amber for this super fun idea!

Unfortunately, we've only had one glow egg hunt so far because both of the girls have been very sick with viruses. We're missing most of the Easter festivities, and we've canceled lots of fun plans. Luckily, the girls felt well enough for their egg hunt to find their prizes from the Easter bunny this morning!

Rice Crispy Treats Fun!

Since Elliott and I were away for his brain surgery during the week before Easter, we didn't get to do many Easter activities with the girls.  Luckily, we were able to get home right in time for Easter (they told us this was unlikely, so we were very thankful that it happened), and we had some Easter fun with our loves.





After seeing the Rice Crispie's commercial where the mom makes egg shaped rice crispy treats with her kids, I thought we should try it.  It was a little harder to make the eggs than we thought, but the girls had a wonderful and messy time!





O(5) was proud of her rice crispy nest.



E(2) stuffed as many treats in her mouth as she could!  Making rice crispy treat sculptures may be a new tradition for us because this was just SO much fun, and the clean-up was relatively easy, too :)

Easter Egg Hunt Lunch

I was excited to see this simple and fun Easter egg lunch hunt on Pinterest, and I knew my girls would love it! First, I filled 18 eggs with healthy lunch goodies...walnuts, dried cherries and cranberries, baby carrots, freeze dried strawberries, pretzels, orange segments, cheese crackers, and pb & j roll-ups. Then, I hid the eggs in the den and kitchen while the girls closed their eyes (they peeked!). There's an egg...hidden in the flower arranging sensory bin! The girls had a great time finding the eggs! There's one! They put them in the containers as they found them, and we counted to make sure we had them all. I helped them find the last one...I had no idea where it was, but we eventually found it :) We took all of the eggs out to our table on our screened porch and divided them between the girls. They enjoyed opening them to find their yummy lunch! O(5) said she wants an Easter egg hunt lunch EVERY day until Easter!

Little Chick Deviled Eggs

We LOVE deviled eggs, and our girls love to help make them. So, my mom was excited to find the idea for these super cute chick deviled eggs via Pinterest. She and E(2) had fun making them, and we all enjoyed eating them!

Dyed Paper Towel Art

We had a lot of fun dyeing eggs last Friday...

but we had even more fun folding and dyeing paper towels!

The girls had SO much fun (and I did too!), and we were proud of our finished paper towels! After the paper towels dried, the girls folded them and handed them out for people to use as napkins on Easter Sunday. They were very proud and excited about this!!!

Decoupaged Easter Eggs

My mom decoupaged these Easter eggs using Leggs pantyhose eggs, fabric, ric rac, and mod podge more than 35 years ago, and I love them! We've talked about making updated versions for the past few years, but it still hasn't happened...maybe next year.

This is my favorite one.

My mom bought each of the girls a set of huge, plastic Easter eggs from Hobby Lobby last year, and we're hoping to eventually decoupage them using either paper or fabric.

We used the HUGE eggs to change our Easter morning tradition a little bit this year...we usually have a treasure hunt that eventually leads to an Easter basket full of goodies. This year I hid a bunch of small eggs around the room, and 2 large eggs (for each girl) on the futon. The Easter bunny filled the largest egg with goodies for the whole family (chocolate and card games). I'm really, really, really trying to cut back on all of the "stuff" that I give the girls, but it's SO hard because I love toys and children's books even more than they do. This year both girls got swim shirts and shorts (I prefer for them to wear swim shirts and shorts rather than traditional style bathing suits unless they are swimming in an indoor pool...I like them to be covered as much as possible!). O(4) was estatic to open her egg to find a Kit Mini Doll (American Girl),and E(1) was very happy to find a "peebo" classic wooden hippo in her egg. They also got several Schleich animals that I bought at deep discounts from Target. I love the schelich animals since they can play with them on the beach and in the bathtub. Fun times!

Wet Felted Easter Eggs

The girls, my mom, and I wet felted Easter eggs about a month ago. I still haven't taken a picture of the finished eggs, which is why I haven't posted about this yet. I just realized that I needed to write this post before Easter, so I apologize that I don't have pics of the finished products!

To wet felt Easter eggs you need the following items: plastic, wooden, or styrofoam eggs, wool roving (I bought our wool roving from Hobby Lobby), warm water, and liquid dish soap.

First, we wrapped our eggs in wool roving. Then we dipped our eggs in a bowl of warm, soapy water. We squished the eggs and shaped them with our hands while they were in the water.






After the eggs were well covered with the wool and it seemed somewhat felted, we rolled the eggs on a cooling rack. After they were well felted, we left them to dry. This was a fun and simple activity!




Both girls LOVED this activity!