So if creativity isn't one of your skill sets, you are in good company. This Easter I've put together a few of my favorite craft ideas that are as much fun to make as they are to eat! These activities that I either found on Pinterest or have been making for years will give you and your kids something fun to do while you spend time together and best of all, when you are done, you can gobble them up for snack time.
And did I mention they are super easy? So easy in fact my son made his own YouTube video on how to make one of them? (Kids these days...)
All of these crafts were featured on Good Day Dallas on April 5, 2014. Hope you caught the segment, but if you didn't, here's the highlight reel (or at least the recipes for you to make at home!)
Jackson's Easter Day BarkFrom MamaChallenge.com
Package of White Almond Bark
Package of Easter M&Ms
Sprinkles
Easter Egg Malted Eggs
Place the almond bark in a microwave safe dish and microwave for 90 seconds to melt (adding more every 10 seconds until it's melted.) Line a baking sheet with wax paper and spread the almond bark. Drop the M&Ms and other candy over the melted bark. Allow to cool by placing in the freezer. When it solidifies, break into pieces. Makes for a cheap, easy and cute gift to friends, neighbors and teachers!
Easter Basket Cupcakes
(I've been doing these since I was a kid!)Cupcake with vanilla icing
Favorite Easter candyLicorice rope
Jelly Beans
Peeps or Chocolate Easter Bunny candy
Shredded Coconut
Green food coloring
Place coconut in a plastic baggie or a plastic bowl with a lid. Drop 3-5 drops of food color and then cover. Shake container until completely saturated green. There's your Easter grass!
Now just line up all your candies in a few bowls so the kids can easily get to them to make their Easter baskets.
Taking the cupcake, sprinkle or swirl cupcake until the top is covered in coconut. Now place your Peep or Chocolate bunny in cupcake. Place jelly beans around it to look like eggs. Last place both ends of your licorice stick into the cupcake to resemble a basket. Now eat it!
Carrot Snacks
This is a great for small kids that doesn't involve sugar!
1 quart size plastic baggies or clear pastry bags
Favorite orange snacks (I prefer Amy's Organic Bunnies, buy you can use Cheetos or Goldfish)Green ribbon
After removing the zip closure on the bags with a diagonal cut, please snacks in one corner of the bag and twist up to resemble a carrot. To close, tie a green ribbon around the top to look like a stem and you are done!
Strawberry Carrots
White Chocolate Chips or Orange Melts
1-2 Tablespooons of shorteningOrange powdered icing coloring
Strawberries
Crushed Oreos
Melt chocolate with shortening until smooth in the microwave or over a double boiler. Now turn chocolate orange if needed with the icing coloring. Next after drying your strawberries (if you don't the water will cause chocolate to seize and turn gritty), dip the strawberry into chocolate until covered. Place on wax paper to dry for 15-20 minutes. Serve "carrots" over a bed of crushed Oreo to resemble a garden.
Carrot Patch Cups
As seen on Kidzui.com
Ingredients:
2 Packets of instant chocolate pudding2 Cups of milk
1 Thawed package of Cool Whip
2 Cups Oreo cookies
Orange Icing (or white with orange food coloring)
Edible candy grass (or Coconut dyed with green food coloring)
Directions:
Mix the pudding and milk together.Gently stir in the Cool Whip.
Crush your Oreos and add half of them to the pudding.
Divide the pudding mixture into cups or dishes and top with the remaining Oreos.
Pipe the orange frosting onto the top to look like a carrot growing out of the ground.
Top with a few blades of fake grass.
I'll add photos after today's segment! In the meantime, take a look at all the fun Easter crafts I've found on my Pinterest page!
Follow Autumn Reo {mamachallenge.com}'s board HOLIDAY: Easter on Pinterest.
