Coloring Easter Eggs

 Children and adults love to decorate Easter eggs for the big

hunt or to use for decorations around the home. My children
and I have experimented with a few ideas and wanted to pass
them along to you. As always use precautions when working on
any kind of project.

You will need to have your eggs boiled for these projects.

Color Your Eggs with Food Coloring

Have a small bowl for each food coloring color you want to
use and any mixed colors you want to make. Add 1 cup of hot
water along with 1 tablespoon of white vinegar to each bowl
and then measure ¼ teaspoon of food coloring into each bowl
and mix. Then add your eggs to the mixture and allow them to
soak until you get the desired color you want about 5
minutes or longer.

Refer to this chart as a guideline to make other colors with
basic food coloring. For deeper colors add more until you
get the color you prefer.

Purple – About 5 drops of red coloring and 15 drops of blue
Teal – 5 drops of blue coloring and 15 drops of green
Raspberry – 14 drops of red coloring and 6 drops of blue

Making Designs on The Eggs

To make various designs on the eggs you can use some of the
ideas below.

Marbleized Look

Simply place several eggs in a strainer type bowl and pour
vinegar over them, after this is done drip, a few drops of
your food coloring choice and roll them around in the
strainer and then proceed to add your other color choices
until you get the effect you are looking for. Let each color
set on the eggs about 30 seconds before adding the next
color. Then rinse them and let dry.

Rubber Band Technique

For this you will need a large rubber band to wrap around
the egg several times but still leaving some of the egg
shell exposed. Then you put the egg in the food color of
your choice and allow it to sit until you get the desired
effect you want. Rinse with cool water and then let dry.

White Crayon Messages

Use a white crayon to draw designs or write things on the
eggshell. The next step is to put the egg in the food color
of your choice and allow it to sit until you get the desired
effect you want. Rinse with cool water and then let dry.

I hope you find these ideas and tips helpful and fun as an
Easter activity for the family. Just remember that candy
eggs are fun to eat, and plastic eggs are fun to find with
treats inside but coloring your own Easter eggs is an
activity in which you can make some fun memories.

The Hat by Jan Brett Activities

 The Hat by Jan Brett Activities

This is an easy activity to put together for the kids. You can put up a line with clothes pins inside the house and let the kids hang up clothes on the line and then get out all their stuffed animals and let them each get a hat off the line. You can also put the clothes in a basket if you have no way of putting a makeshift clothesline in the house.

You can also put a sock on a stuffed animals head and hide it and have the children look for it and even let them hide it from each other.

These are simple activities, but fun doesn't have to be complicated

Rock Ladybugs and Frogs

 

I found this great blog called Unplug your Kids and each week she gives something for the kids to work with and this week the project is Stone, so we painted rocks. We just went outside and gathered some stones and then washed them and let them dry and my daughter painted lady bugs and frogs.

Snowflake Tortillas

Flour Tortillas
Scissors
Powdered Sugar

Gently fold the tortillas into quarters, be careful not to break them. Cut pieces out to make a snowflake design. (Like the paper snowflakes)

Then you (the adult) fry tortilla until it is crispy. Then sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.

Tips for Easier Christmas Season

 1.Use gift bags instead of wrapping gifts. So much easier and you can still use cute little package tie-ons for the bag handles such as candy canes, ornaments or anything you can think of.

2.If you are stressed about what to give someone for Christmas simply give them a gift card in a mini stocking. Most people get too stressed over gifts for co-workers and friends that it takes the fun out of the holiday. I get gifts for those that are not closest to me first so I can concentrate on getting gifts for my children and husband. (Which are more fun to shop for because I know what they want or would like.)

3.Wrap gifts or put in bags as you get them, so you don't have a huge pile to wrap on Christmas eve.

4.Indulge in something for yourself. I love to splurge and drink the whole quart of eggnog (It is just an added bonus that no one else in my family likes it and a good thing it is only around for the holiday season.)

5.If you have to contribute to the family dinner, get what you're supposed to bring ahead of time on your next grocery trip. Then you have it on hand and ready. If you cook the meal, ask your guests to bring their favorite dish Saving you lots of time and stress.

Countdown to Christmas Craft

 This is a simple craft activity for the whole family.

It lets them keep Christ in Christmas!

You simply get some green poster board or wrapping paper and cut out a Christmas Tree shape.

 

Tape this to the wall.

Then you cut out Christmas Ornaments (balls) from construction paper or wrapping paper.

 

Then you number the balls 1-25 and on the other side you write a Bible verse about the Christmas story, etc.

Tape these to the tree.

 

Then on the first day you turn over the ornament with #25 written on it and someone reads the Bible verse and you tape it back up with the verse side up.

Do this each day and end on Christmas Morning.

 

The remaining balls tell the family how many days are left until Christmas.

 

Great for kids wanting to know how many days left until Christmas-all they have to do is look at the tree.

Snowman Biscuit Snack

 Snowman Snack

You will need three refrigerated biscuits per person and
place them vertically on a piece of foil to resemble a
snowman. You can use pretzel sticks and raisins for the
snowman's arms, eyes, nose, mouth, and buttons. Place the
foil on a baking sheet and bake as directed on the biscuit
package.