Our Easter

We are trying to recover from illness here, but I wanted to share at least one Eastery image. I didn't have a chance to make any special treats, as I feel pressure to do after looking at other crafty mom blogs, but we did celebrate.
We did dye eggs, eat eggs, stuff plastic eggs with treasure (my kids weren't expecting candy, thank goodness, but were happy to pop in a few raisins and chocolate chips-we'll see how long that lasts!), hid and hunted eggs in the cold Chicago air, ate the ears off a chocolate bunny, and remembered the resurrection of Jesus.
It was a nice Easter.

P.S. Thank you for the book recommendations you've been leaving. I have a couple of your suggestions on hold at the library and am looking forward to reading them.

Easter sweets

This year's surprise Easter treat. I saw these at Angry Chicken and thought they'd be great for us since they're so easy and we just happened to have a bunch of Shredded Wheat cereal and chocolate chips around. I made ours in baking cups, to keep the size relatively small and to help form the nest, and topped them with Cadbury Mini Eggs. They firmed up quickly in the fridge. If you eat as much shredded wheat as we did this week, you don't even have to crush it up, just use the huge amount of crumbs at the bottom of the bags.
Below are last year's nests. Rather, coconut-grass-topped cupcakes. Carrot cake, of course.
My daughter's birthday is so close to Easter, these were actually her birthday treats. We dyed eggs at her little party, too. This year, a pinata is on the menu. More to come on that in a couple weeks!

Happy Easter!

This morning's efforts. With 2 and 3 year-olds I've decided it's most fun to skip the fancy egg-decorating techniques and just enjoy the dipping, crowding, swirling, and smashing that comes with the old PAAS dye kit.
I've also decided that the perfect adult-to-child ratio for preschoolers is 2:1.
Today, after we dyed our eggs, we painted with the dye. Paintbrushes, spoons, straws, some good pucker-up-and-blow, and just pouring the bowls of dye onto the watercolor paper produced good and messy results.
Happy Easter!