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Easter and spring crafts for kids- beautiful bunny garland

Posted on March 25, 2014 | 1 comment

Two weeks ago we kicked off Easter spirit because we wanted this year decoration to be done by us. Usually this festive season coincides with the spring. Hello to the colorful crafting season!

Crafting should be fun, entertaining and instructive at the same time. My son loves everything hanging and dangling, so we decided to do a colorful bunny garland to decorate his play area.

To start with, you need to cut out bunny shape in different colors. Click on bunny to download a high resolution file of the cut out.

To make the activity more fun, adding pompom tail and eyes to the bunnies was a great idea. This way it is not just learning the colors.

Nothing worth the look on your baby’s face when they are excited about something. It’s priceless!

How soft a bunny tail is!

Now we need to stick eyes for the bunny to be able to see the carrots. Bunnies love carrots.

Papa is participating as well. I love when we do things as a family.

When the bunnies are ready, stick them on a thread next to each other to have a beautiful colorful garland.

Isn’t it?

There are plenty of choices for the garland. You can do it with eggs, flowers or chicks….

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How to decorate easter eggs with paper napkins – Dye free technique

Posted on March 24, 2014 | 5 comments

Very easy technique to decorate eggs, and it’s safe to eat them later. You don’t need colorings nor any other unsafe products. All you need is:

hard boiled eggs
paper napkin of your choice
1 cup of water + 1 tsp cornstarch

Technique:

Brush the napkin, gently with the mixture water corn starch, until it’s spread on all the egg. Cut the excess of paper and keep it aside to dry.

If little wrinkles show, no worries, this is the beauty of handmade things, but try to spread the napkin as much as you can.

Napkins come in so many colors and designs, the choices are endless. What a smart technique for dye-free Easter eggs!!

Happy Easter 🙂

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how to make elegant easter eggs- step by step

Posted on March 19, 2014 | 1 comment

For elegant yet simple Easter eggs, it’s a must to use gold or silver color and it’s the material that will make it look fancy.

I chose to dye the eggs with acrylic gold paint using my hand to make it look like patina effect.

Give it some time to dry before applying the paillette line. Fix it with glue for safe results, I used super glue.

The richness, neatness and somptuous elegance will mark you Easter!

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NO bake oreo choco pop

Posted on March 13, 2014 | 4 comments

You can’t beat chocolate! Especially these choco pops.

It’s a pleasure for the palate, simply the best!

No bake
3 ingredients
super easy

Roughly crush 6 packs (24 pieces) of oreo, add 3 tbsp of cream cheese (i use philadelphia cheese), 3 tbsp of nutella and mix until u get a consistent batter.

Let it rest for half an hour in the fridge, take it out and shape it into balls and dip it in melted dark chocolate.

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creative easter eggs – bunnies, carrots and chicks

Posted on March 12, 2014 | 5 comments

Coloring eggs should be fun when you have kids. Just normal dyeing is not enough to impress my boy. we need creative ideas? and that’s how it started…

Bunnies, carrots and chicks and let the fun begin!

Dye the eggs with orange to make the carrots.

Then cut papers from different shades of green (to look realistic) as medium thin strips to make the carrots stems. I used wax gun to stick them.

And the carrots are ready.

Now we want bunnies to eat those carrots. No need to color the eggs, white is perfect. Cut out two big and two small ovals for the ears.

Click bunny ears to download a high resolution file.

The nose is a small pompom bought ready made (for people in qatar you can buy it from daiso). Draw eyes and moustache with a black marker.

And the family bunnies found the carrots!

Adding chicks made the whole thing so cool. 3 easy steps to follow:

color blue eggs
stick yellow triangle for the nose
2 black dots for the eyes

Then i realized there should be a male chick! Small rectangular cuts on a red paper and the comb is done!

I like the egg carton color, so why not use it for the decoration?!

Final outcome! Brilliant! Am sure adults as kids will love this.Can you feel the spring? Am sure now you’re all excited for easter 🙂

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