Category Easter

Apr 5 2021

Classroom Easter Favors

Hopping into the joy of Easter!

Waking up and finding that the Easter Bunny had left me an easter basket was one of my favorite memories as a child and a tradition I have really enjoyed passing on to my children. This year, as the Classroom Coordinator for my daughter’s Kindergarten class I had a lot of fun letting my imagination loose.

Traditionally the students receive a sweet fun little treat bag for Easter, but this year I really wanted to give the students in my daughter’s Kindergarten class something unique – especially after what we’ve all been through and having missed out on this lovely holiday the year before due to the COVID lock-down, so in addition to the fun little toys and treats, I partnered with their teacher to get photos of each of the students acting as if they were pushing or breaking out of an egg! The results came out cuter than I expected!

The execution of said effort was easy and fun and provided a wonderful creative outlet for me. What more the smiles and joy on the faces of the students made it totally worth it!

Easter egg surprise

Supplies:

  • Plastic easter buckets. Party City sold sets of 12 which came in three colors.
  • Photo print outs. Once you know the size of bucket you are working with, you can scale the photos to fit and print them off. I printed the student’s photos off at home on our printer, but you can also upload and have them printed at a nearby photo center like Walgreens or Wal-Mart which are very affordable.
  • Easter grass. I prefer the crinkle paper to the plastic – as it displayed nicer
  • Poster board. I picked up some plain white poster board at the Dollar Tree and used a sample cut out of an egg that traced over and then cut out and glued to the bucket that I then placed the student’s photo in to make it appear as if they were breaking out of the egg.
  • Dye-cut paper eggs. I put a dye-cut easter egg on either side of the egg with the student’s photo to add contrast and a pop of fun color.
  • Fluffy chicks. Oriental Trader had sets of these multi-colored chicks which I added a fun and cute touch.
  • Glue dots. These are the best! This was the best product I could find for adhering everything to the plastic buckets!
  • Plastic Gift Bags. Oriental Trader sells these in sets of 12 which was perfect, as all I had to do drop the finished bucket in the bag and tie it!
  • Ribbon. Again Oriental Trader for the win here! They sell a set of fun multi-color satin ribbon which added a pop of color.

Fillings:

It is always fun finding neat treats and toys to fill easter baskets! We did our best to be mindful of avoiding too much sugar, so we filled the baskets with:

  • Annie’s Bunny Crackers
  • Welch’s bunny gummies
  • Cotton Tail cheese poofs
  • Bubbles
  • Pull back and let go bunny
  • Stickers
  • Puzzle
  • Coloring book w/ crayons
  • The cutest and softest stuffed bunny from Oriental Trader! After all, how can you possibly have an easter basket without a bunny?!
Apr 20 2019

Easter Footprint Plate

Annual Easter Plate

This year we decided to combine our son and daughter’s footprints together to create a fun bunny footprint creation! Making these plates are always fun and both our kids have been great at doing these with us every year.

This year we chose a bunny theme which was very easy to do. I added some fun flowers and easter eggs in the background to give the bunny-foots a place to hop around in. A simple rim design gave the plate a pop of color and framed the scene nicely.

This can be done at any area ‘Paint Your Own Pottery’ shop. They have all the supplies you need. They usually have a huge selection of plates, platters, etc. They will fire your work when you’re done and call you when it’s ready for pick up.

This larger plate (as our kiddo’s feet keep growing) ran us about $30.

Feb 1 2017

Heirloom Child Footprint Easter Bunny Plate

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Inspired by the canvas print I saw on Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/351912451841921/ – I thought I would TRY and see if my little 21 month old would let me do this on a plate … it took a few attempts, but eventually it worked.  It helped to have family and friends with me to take her afterwards.

I walked my daughter through the process … she was VERY good at letting me paint her foot and press it against the plate, but then she wanted to curl her toes … that was the challenge.  Touching it up was the trick.  It turned into a rush job – as she started to melt down … note to parents who try this, don’t do this around nap time.  Thanks to family / friends was able to knock this out quickly.

Materials:

$25.00 pottery plate

$0.00  pottery place provided all paint/brush supplies and cost for firing plate.

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$25.00

 

Feb 1 2017

Heirloom Child footprint Easter Plate

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Inspired by the Easter footprint example on Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/44613852531120415/, my family and I visited a paint your own pottery place and tried to replicate the concept.

With the help of my son, I was able to walk him through what we were going to do – and what we were going to make.  He’s 3.5 yrs old now – and has a better understanding what’s involved in the process now.  There for awhile we had to take a break from taking prints – as he didn’t really understand what was going on – now he’s into it!

So it was helpful to have baby wipes on hand and family/friends to help.  I explained that the paint would feel cold and damp, but we are going to make a carrot and bunny out of his footprints and he was very excited.  It took 5 minutes to do both foot prints – and he was very good to be very still when we did them.  A week later when we picked up the plate – we were really happy with the results!

Materials:

$35.00 pottery plate

$0         pottery place provided all paint/brush supplies and cost for firing plate.

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$35.00

Mar 13 2016

Baby Easter Photo

1st-easter-2016

I love to capture photos of our little guys on every holiday as they change so fast when they are so little as they are right now.  For our daughter’s 1st Easter, I wanted to capture a photo of our son and daughter in matching Easter outfits which I was able to find on Etsy.

For their photos, my husband used equipment he had from a work project to do a quick photo shoot.

You never know what is going to happen when you work with children and animals they say, well ours didn’t disappoint … neither wanted to sit still and they both wanted to play with the eggs and props in the photo. Out of dozen of shots my husband captured with a really nice camera and lens only about a handful came out.

All in all the few we got out of the shoot create a wonderful memory of our daughter’s 1st Easter and were worth the effort to prep for.

Pinterest inspiration: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/241575967482310985/

Materials:

$ 0.00  Studio

$50.00  Matching Sibling Outfits (Etsy)

$25.00  Easter Props (lamb blanket, basket, eggs)

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$75.00

 

Apr 21 2014
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Baby Easter Heirloom Photos

Baby Easter Heirloom Photos

First Easter

Inspired by many of the Easter photos on Pinterest, such as this one: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/428053139555473906/, with a little help from my husband we were able to create a number of wonderful heirloom quality photos of our son to celebrate his 1st Easter.

Originally the plan was take my son’s picture on our bed (as we always do) using a white bed sheet as the back drop and put him in some Easter outfits we bought on Etsy.com using some props (that were part of his Easter basket), but we got lucky and were able to use a more professional setting at my husband’s office which was set up for taking employee’s photos. But a white bed sheet near a window with good daylight lighting works just as well too.

We were very pleased with the result of the photos as were grandparents, aunts, uncles and other family members.

Supplies included:
$ 10.00 Stuffed teddy-bear Bunny (Marshall’s)
$ 5.00 Stuffed Teddy-bear Lamb (Kroger)
$ 10.00 Basket (Hobby Lobby)
$ 5.00 Plastic eggs (Kroger)
$ 30.00 Blue gingham embroidered bunny outfit (Etsy.com)
$ 30.00 Blue baby boy sailor outfit (Etsy.com)
$ 0.00 Blue sweater outfit w/ white collar (borrowed from family member)
$ 0.00 White sheet for back drop
$ 0.00 camera
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$ 90.00