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Creative easter eggs – the Farm – DIY

Posted on April 19, 2014 | 6 comments

Today is the saturday of light! the day we prepare the eggs for Easter sunday.

As promised before, this is a step by step to this year eggs.

Nady loves the song “old macdonald had a farm”, this where the idea came from, Cows farm.

With a black marker, draw the cow’s pattern on white hard boiled eggs.

After all is done, stick the cow’s face.

Click here to download a high resolution file of the cow’s head.

To decorate the farm with couple of flowers, you need to dye with some colors. I always recommend wilton gel color.

Wrap the egg with a green ribbon and stick a flower, very quick and easy.

Nady is extremely happy and excited about the farm, yes it’s Nady’s farm with cows! The cows give us milk, les vaches nous donnent du lait…. Singing 🙂

La ferme de Nady 🙂

Happy Easter to all of you!

المسيح قام، حقاً قام

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buttons made Easter bunny – DIY door hanger

Posted on April 17, 2014 | 2 comments

Easter fun is still on! Crafting with jeddo (grandfather) Maurice! A bunny made with colorful buttons to decorate the front door. We are enjoying every minute with my parents.

Very easy DIY door hanger for easter. All you need is a bunny cut out and buttons. Click here to download a high resolution file.

All you need to do is to fill the bunny tummy with buttons of different sizes and colors. Stick two eyes and a ribbon behind the ears for hanging.

Isn’t it attractive? Nady was fascinated with the colors. I love Easter, a happy and colorful holiday always coinciding with the spring season.

If your baby is still discovering with his mouth, avoid small buttons. Nady tasted all of them 🙂

It’s a fun way to teach the colors to your kid.

Guess who was more happy?!

The door hanger is ready! Easter decoration is almost done, we still have to decorate the eggs on saturday. Don’t miss this year’s special eggs. Wait for the post 🙂

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spring/easter crafting – wooden spoon puppet – DIY – step by step

Posted on April 14, 2014 | Leave a comment

Wooden spoons are not just for mommy to use in the kitchen, kids can create cute characters such as Easter rabbit or chick and spring lady bug to go with the flowers we crafted before.

A very easy bricolage and a lot of fun. If your kid is under 3 years, paint the spoons yourself and let it dry before starting to play together. I recommend acrylic paint but don’t mix it with water for more vibrant colors.

Small details to stick with your kids such as pompom, wiggling eyes, feather…. are more instructional then you think. Learning the shapes, names, colors and you can extend the fun by telling stories about Easter and spring.

Lady bug:

Nady was so much interested and fascinated with the lady bug antennas.

Chick:

Adjusting the comb

… and the beak

Eh voila chick (le poussin)!

Rabbit:

Fixing the ears and nose

The three all together! they look so cute

After playing with the spoons puppet, it’s time to add them to our precious flower vase.

It was such a joy for him. He kept playing and contemplating their fascinating colors for an hour

We love the spring season and can’t wait for Easter!

DIY classic Palm Sunday candle – olive branch

Posted on April 11, 2014 | 4 comments

Today we celebrate palm friday (instead of palm sunday) in Doha. Strange no?!

Anyways, nothing will affect our happiness, teta and jeddo (grandmother and grandfather in arabic) are here to celebrate the holiday season with Nady.

They got olive branches from Lebanon, so i wanted this year to make the classic candle like old days.

Very easy and fast, could be the last minute candle. But in my opinion the most beautiful one with the olive branch symbol of peace.

All you need is washi paper and white ribbon. Make four parallel strips:

Baby blue washi tape to go with the green of the olive branch.

Then tie a thin white ribbon as a bow in the middle between the lines.

And a thicker satin one.

Insert the olive branch between the ribbon and stick the stem under the last washi tape line.

Et Voila! a beautiful classic candle that holds lot of meanings.

We are ready to go to the church!

Happy Palm Friday/Sunday to everyone 🙂

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DIY Palm Sunday candle – flowers

Posted on April 10, 2014 | 2 comments

There are many ways to decorate the palm sunday candle at home. If your precious is a girl and you want to make something simple and girly, you will like this one.

Colors are very subjective depending on your girl cloths, her favourite colors or even yours!

In a previous post i showed you how to make these beautiful flowers. Check spring flowers for tutorials, but this time you will need ribbons and buttons for the carpel.

Start by wrapping two intertwined ribbons on the 1/3 third of the candle to keep space for the little hand to hold it.

If you noticed they are 3 sizes flowers. Glue the big and medium one on the wrapped ribbons and the small on one of the hanging ribbons as shown.

And it’s ready 🙂 Simple, easy and beautiful.

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