Easy Easter Crafts and Food Fun

Saw these easy fun, creative Easter crafts you can do to make this Easter more creative.

Source: Kitchen Fun With My Three Boys on Facebook 

How easy is this. I will be making these this weekend for the kids. So easy yet creative. 

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Easter Fun: Celebrating Traditions

I LOVE Easter. It's my fav Holiday. I love the season of Lent (even though I don't give anything up). I love Palm Sunday and going to church and handing out palms. We always put a Palm cross at our grandparents burial sites. Which are so pretty and you can buy at any grocery store  I always have a family member make me a small Palm cross and put them around the house. 

Easter and Palm Sunday really brings me back to some happy times from my childhood. We would stop by my great aunt and uncles house and then go to my Nonna's to celebrate. Ironically my great aunt passed away this week. It's so symbolic since we would visit her always around this time. 

 

When I first had my oldest daughter I said I wanted to do a huge egg hunt at our house. I skipped it a couple times due to my Thyroid surgery and bad weather but other than that I look forward to it every year. Every year the list grows and I love it. It's really the only time I get together with all of my family and friends who have children.  This year we have close to 40 kids attending. I serve snacks and desserts and juice and water. Everyone normally  brings a snack or dessert to contribute. It's really fun. The kids play on our playground after and parents just hang out. It's really stress free for me verse other parties I throw because the kids are entertained and parents just hang out. 

I normally have every child get 10 eggs. Meet me on my deck and the find the rest. I want the little ones to be able to get a good amount too so to be fair I do it this way. I stuffed 460 eggs and must say Party City had some great prices. 44 bags of gummies for $3.99. If you're smart about it you don't have to spend a lot of money. 

I also love going all out and making creative stuff for the Easter season. I made my Easter bread and  handed out to our parents and sisters. I usually make plain and cinnamon and sugar bread.  

For the EggHunt I make my bunny cake and decorate it with my kids. 

I make 12 baskets to hand out to kids in our family. I know sounds crazy but it's fun to make them. I always try to buy things ahead of time so I am not spending a ton of money last minute. 

I usually give the teachers and adults a big chocolate egg which you can really find great prices for them at Shop Rite or Stew Leonard's. I used to always get one as a kid. There was always a little prize inside so it's like you get two treats in one. 

I love the little things that make Easter special to me. What traditions do you carry out for Easter?