Celebrating Easter with Food and Fun

I buy the little plastic eggs you can find everywhere, AC Moore, Dollar Tree or any craft store and fill them with coins and little messages. i.e. "Good for one Ice cream" "Good for a face painting ". You can get gift certificates to Mc Donald's and put one in each egg. I hide these all over the yard. To present clues to finding the egg treasure I have a rabbit paw print stencil filled with baking soda and glitter.

Rabbit Paw Print Stencil:

1 small box (with lid)

Old nylons

Baking soda or talcum

Glitter

Glue gun

Cut the outlines of a rabbit paw print with scissors or an Exacto knife. That would be one oval and three little circles at the top of the oval Make it to fit the inside of the lid of the box. Glue in a rectangle of nylon or anything very sheer. It has to let the Baking powder or Talc through.

You walk around and smack/tap the box wherever you want rabbit paw prints. I run these prints from egg to egg and the children follow the prints. This is good for several reasons. One, it's cute and charming. Two it helps you keep track of the egg treasures so the children can find them.This works best on driveways and walkways. It's not so great on grass. It's also a good idea to do a count of the eggs so you can make sure they've all been found.

I've been doing this for years and the kids still get a bang out of it. They are 6 and 9 now.

You can create an Easter Egg hunt chart so the children can write down what they've found. They can add up the candies, gift certificates and coins and write all this down.This gives them a little mathematical practice and it's fun.

I also create "awards" I make rabbit heads with a v shaped ribbon glued to the bottom. One will say most eggs found or another will see Official Treasure Finder. I glue a little paper clip on the back so the can clip this to their clothing or put it on their cork boards at home.

This is all very easy to make and very easy to clean up from.

Easter Cupcakes.

Cupcake Mix

Licorice Whips

Jelly Beans

Make your cupcakes from any mix. I do this with the children, they can beat up the batter, help pour the mix into the paper liners and then comes the fun of decorating them.

You can buy store bought icing.

If you want to make rabbit faces use the licorice whips as whiskers by cutting them to size . Pink jelly beans become a nose. Black jelly beans are the eyes. We make paper ears and glue them to the cupcake liner. This is nice and simple and you can do it even with very young children.

These get served after the big Egg Treasure Hunt.