We’re so excited to finally be able to share this with you. A few weeks ago we put together a little Easter Egg Party for Real Simple online. We show tips on marbleizing an egg and dyeing eggs with homemade dyes. There are also invitations and Easter basket tags you can download and print. Let us know what you think!
Photo by Nicole Hill Gerulat.
Having an Easter Egg Hunt this year? Hide some money in golden eggs and a few lucky children will get an unexpected surprise.
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Personalize your place settings at Easter Dinner this year.
Monogrammed Eggs. So easy to do–start with a white or lightly dyed egg. Pat the egg dry and apply a sticker letter, pressing down with your nail to prevent color leaking under the sticker. Then dip the egg in a darker dye color. The trick to a crisp initial is to let the sticker dry completely before peeling it off.
Baby Chicks. Prep your plate with a fuzzy little friend. Fill a plastic egg with some paper grass, a few chocolate candy eggs and a newly hatched chick. Your youngest guests will love the sweet surprise.
Baby chicks from World Market Cost Plus. Images ©One Charming Party.
You don’t have to fill an Easter basket with just candy. Other options could include: books, art supplies, hair accessories, socks, small toys or even a new toothbrush. And for extra fun, hide your child’s Easter basket somewhere around the house to find Sunday morning.
Image ©One Charming Party.
Start a fun new tradition this year–let the kids at your Easter celebration decorate a unique and edible egg, Easter egg cake balls!
You will need: a yummy cake ball recipe, white chocolate candy melts, mini fluted flower cupcake liners, gourmet writer – food decorating pens
First, start with your favorite cake ball or cake pop recipe. Instead of shaping your cake into a ball, mold it into an egg shape. Place the eggs in the freezer to chill for several hours. When you are ready to dip your eggs, melt some white chocolate candy melts per directions on the package.
Take the cake eggs out of the freezer and, using a spoon or fork, dip the cake egg into the white chocolate and place into a small green tulip cupcake liner. Let the white chocolate set.
Now you’re ready for the fun part. Let the kids be creative and draw on their own eggs with the Gourmet Writer food decorating pens! They can draw their favorite animal, spring flowers, or geometric Easter egg shapes.
Photography and styling by Sara Schmutz.
Take your egg dyeing skills up a notch this year (or at least enough to impress the kiddos) with these easy Easter egg designs.
You will need: Easter egg dye, craft paper punches, clear contact paper, boiled eggs
Using clear contact paper, punch out the designs for your eggs. Peel off the backing of the contact paper and stick the contact paper onto your egg. Be sure to get a good seal around the edges of your design.
Place your egg in the dye bath for the desired amount of time.
Take your egg out and let the dye dry before removing the contact paper. These easy Easter egg designs are a quick and fun way to add more detail to your Easter eggs!
Photography and styling by Sara Schmutz.
Here’s a little Easter basket DIY that the kids will love. Help them make their own basket before the big egg hunt.
You will need (for each basket):
9 pieces of 24″ x 1″ felt strips – have a variety of colors for more creative fun; hot glue gun
1. Drape three strips of felt over a jar or large can. Weave another three strips of felt through the first set of strips. This will be the bottom of your basket.
2. Take a piece of felt and weave it along the side of the jar/can – going over a piece of felt, and then under the next. Repeat until you have gone around the entire can. Trim your felt to fit and secure with some hot glue.
3. Repeat with the remaining two pieces of felt.
4. Once you have weaved every piece of felt together, take your basket off of the jar/can and turn it right side up. Take two pieces of felt that are directly opposite of each other, and tie them together to form a handle. Trim the other pieces of felt so that they have 2″ of extra felt at the top.
5. Secure your weave by gluing the extra felt. The pieces that are sticking out in front get folded over into the basket and glued down. The pieces that are coming out from inside the basket, bend them over the front, tuck them underneath the first weave of felt and secure with glue.
Ta da! Now you have an adorable basket, all ready to go for your Easter egg hunt.
Photography and styling by Sara Schmutz.
Every month I put together a round up of children’s holiday ideas for Houzz.com. I enjoy it a lot, but I never talk about it here on the blog. So I thought I’d mention it today because I really like the ideabook that I created for April: Easter Baskets (and Bunnies). There are some fun Easter baskets out there right now. I’m so tempted to buy some of the handmade ones for my kids this year and swap out their ancient ones. If you get a sec, take a look on Houzz.
Photo by Nicole Hill Gerulat for Real Simple.
We have a few unique and easy ways to dress up your Easter Dinner with the kids! And we think you’ll swoon over the details of this first craft.
You’ll need: 7″ embroidery hoop, mini cupcake liners, 2.5″ ribbon, hot glue gun
Take one of the mini cupcake liners. Pinch it in the center and glue it on to the embroidery hoop. Repeat until you have gone all around your embroidery hoop.
Tie the ribbon at the top with enough length to tie around the top of your chair.
Photography and styling by Sara Schmutz.
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