Easter Egg Craft Roundup

Easter Eggs, an iconic symbol. Did you dip dye them as a child? I remember so looking forward to dying our eggs every year; mixing and matching the colors, putting on stickers afreward.

Easter egg crafts have really come a long way over the past few years, and I wanted to share my top 4 picks, found on Pinterest.

I've tried my hand, unsuccessfully, at balloon eggs. I learned my lesson and am ready to try again! These yarn balloon eggs are filled with a special treat, which takes them up to a whole new level of awesome. Magic Balloon Treats

Ombre easter eggs are a new take on the old favorite of dip dying. Once you have your hard boiled eggs ready to go, dip them in the dye cup. Let sit for a bit, then slowly add water, allowing them to sit between layers. For full instructions, go here.

These marbled eggs from Leg Flower Tatto are awesome. I have never seen ones like this before, and think it is such a great sensory learning technique for toddlers.

Gold dipped eggs. I have a slight obsession with the pink and gold colors used here, which is probably why these eggs caught my eye, but I think it would be such a lovely project if you used wooden eggs. The kiddos could certainly help, and they are fresh and trendy for your Easter home decor. Found at Fabulous K.

Have an Easter Egg craft on your blog? Leave me a comment and I'll check it out!

FREE Easter #Printable

Easter is right around the corner, do you have your printables downloaded and printed??

Simple and sweet and I just love the ears at the bottom.

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Easter Fashion for Her

As promised, an Easter outfit for mom. This may not be your typical outfit, but you deserve to feel radiant and special!

Easter Fashion for Mom 2014 by sweetstellas featuring nickel free earrings

There is so much that I love about this outfit. Since our toddler boy outfit featured khaki's, I went with a neutral toned sleeveless dress with lots of texture and detail to compliment. Certainly, Dad could wear navy pants so there isn't too much of this tone in the photos or at Easter brunch, but for Mom, I love it.

The accessories need to be bold with this outfit, so I went with structured knock-em-dead cobalt blue pumps. Seriously...I don't have words for them. They're just pretty.

Charcoal clutch to compliment the grey newsboy cap, and gold tone jewelry since the buckle on the clutch is gold as well. Coordinated and polished!

Holidays are just like any other special event. Wear the pieces that you absolutely love, and don't get to wear often as a mom! Put the yoga pants and leggings away, and get a little glam!

Delicious Easter Brunch Recipes

Hosting Easter brunch? Then you need to check out these delicious recipes!

As if the sheer sight of them wasn't enough to put them on your list, here they are in detail.

I made the two bite breakfast cups from the recipe at The Noshery for Easter a couple of years ago, and everyone loved them. The recipe looks a little daunting, but I assure you, it is actually quite easy! I baked my bacon in advance so it really was just assemble, bake and enjoy!

This recipe has been on my list for a while now. Flaky layers of crescent dough, cream cheese, cinnamon sugar. Sounds like heaven right? It's called Sopapilla Cheesecake and My Yellow Umbrella has a sinful recipe for it!

What is Easter without chocolate? This make ahead fudge recipe from Lemon & Chocolate produces a super smooth fudge that everyone will enjoy. Skip the store bought, foil wrapped eggs and let them indulge in this!

Baked brie is a staple when we host our family for a brunch or dinner. It's such an easy and versatile appetizer, and everyone loves it. Here's my recipe for Apple Brown Sugar Baked Brie.

And last but not least, muffins. Again, another versatile thing to have on your Easter buffet table, and also one that you can make in advance, and pop in the freezer until the day of your event. These ones are my Cheddar Rosemary Muffins. Just serve with some softened butter and enjoy!

Easter Outfits for Toddlers

With Easter celebrations right around the corner, I'm sure all of you moms are thinking about family photos, how to coordinate the kids outfits and hoping against hope that they will behave during Easter dinner at the inlaws {I know I am!!}

If you talk to any photographer, they will tell you to coordinate but not match. Pick some great complimentary colors to accent but ultimately let the personality of the individuals in the pictures shine through.

Toddler Easter Fashion 2014 by sweetstellas featuring ASOS

The looks that we typically default to for Owen are plaid shirts, charcoal pants and sneakers. I wanted to pull together a cute boy look that had zero plaid, but lots of texture.

I love the little desert boots, with khaki's and a bright orange polo shirt. Boys rarely get to accessorize their outfits, so if you can find a great newsboy cap, scoop it up!!

For a little girl, I like the leggings under a dress look. It's cute and girly, and these leggings have a gold polka dot, which makes them pretty perfect. Taking inspiration from the orange polo, to coordinate the two looks I pulled in a large pom headband accessory. Shoes...ballet flats.

Next week I'll cover Easter fashion for mom!

FREE Easter Printables

Here comes Petter Cottontail
hopping down the bunny trail....

Whether you're having a family brunch, easter egg hunt for the kiddos or doing a full out dessert buffet to celebrate Easter, you're likely in need of  pretty printable to decorate your home. Here are three FREE downloads to bring some of Mr. Peter Rabbit's style in your decor for Easter.

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Happy Hippity Hop!

Easy Easter Crafts for Toddlers

A HUGE thank you to Melissa from Never a Dull Moment for guest posting for me today! She's a crafty mama with a knack for children's activities, especially around the holidays! Enjoy some Easter toddler crafts!!

For the past month or so I've perused Pinterest and searched Google for some options Easter craft options for Lexie {2 1/2 years old}. There are many out there as I'm sure most of you know, but some of them are a little complex, some a little tacky to me; and some well I couldn't do them on my own no less with my toddler "helping"! Then I found a few I could do, and a few I knew we'd enjoy. 

We did the turkey hands at Thanksgiving, the Santa hat's at Christmas, and the loVe at Valentines day; so it was no surprise that I found a hand-print/footprint craft I loved. 

1. The foot-chick 

Lexie is so used to having her hands and feet painted she actually request's it now. This one was nice and easy though I will admit we called Dada in to assist when she tried to run around with a painted foot. We used a yellow finger paint, let it set over night then I added the eye, beak, and feet the next day. Makes a great gift for the Grandparents, or the front of an Easter card to family. 

2. Striped Easter Egg

This one was a lot of fun, with only a little prep work I cut pieces of colored paper we had on hand, and placed double sided tape on one side of the strips. Then took a white piece of paper and had Lexie lay them out covering the entire paper. Next, I took a second piece of white paper (we used card-stock)  and cut an egg shape out of the middle {this was honestly the hardest part for me, I won't mention the numerous time I had to re-cut it}. Then you adhere the top to the bottom, I simply taped them together. 

 3. Chalkboard Eggs
At first thought you may not think Chalkboard eggs are a good toddler craft but if you give me a moment I'll explain. First the prep.

I'll be honest, I've never used Chalkboard paint and was wondering if I would ruin the thought of it by starting with this project. However, that wasn't the case at all; I honestly looked around the room after I did the eggs thinking of what else I could paint! The directions call for two coats, painted an hour apart, one vertically, one horizontally. For the eggs I only did one coat but I did apply it thick and allowed it 12 hours to sit. Then I showed Lexie...

The paint is very forgiving (and yes, I painted the paper plate too- told you I was looking for "things"!)  Lexie really enjoyed drawing on them, and she cracked quite a few and you wouldn't know it unless you felt it! 

Can't see the BIG crack can you? 

oh yeah, I did one too! 

Happy Easter! 

Hi, I'm Mel from Never a Dull Moment.I'm a Coffee Drinking, Social Media Lover, "Woober", "Mom-mom" and 30 something trying to get healthy! "Never a Dull Moment" sums up my world, as the saying goes "if it’s not one thing it's another!" Join me and my family through that day to day life with a crazy toddler (who's very photogenic) and an extended family who thinks one more should already be on the way {which we are NOT ready for yet}. Oh and then there's me, the matriarch of our little family who is double the size she should be and is trying to figure out how to get healthy without losing my mind in the process!

How-To Tuesday: Monster Easter Basket

Well...it's that time of year when Easter is upon us! Last week, I went scouting for an Easter basket for me son.

I found alot of purple, green, yellow and pink...a few blue, but even the blue ones were sort of girly. So, I decided to make it a little DIY project!

Supplies:
Brown (or white, depending on your preference) basket with handles
Ribbon of your choice
3" Circle punch
White cardstock
Acid Free Ink in a colour that coordinates with the ribbon
Letter stamp with your child's initial
Goodies to put in the basket

Step 1:










Punch circle out of cardstock, and stamp child's initial on circle

Step 2:









Weave ribbon through the top edge of the basket, wrapping twice around the bases of the handle

Step 3:










Tie ends together. Punch hole through 3" circle and tie onto centre of basket ribbon.

Step 4:









Tie basket ribbon into a bow

Step 5:









Fill with Monster sized goodies! For us, A super cute monster, bubble wand for the summer, corn puffs, and a great little wagon with letter blocks in it (a $5 steal at Wal-Mart!) We also found a huge (3') stuffed elephant, and he went wild over it in the store...so it made its way home with us as well!

Happy Easter!