Easter Projects

With Easter being a little earlier this year (two weeks after St. Patrick's Day), we are in full-swing preparing for the holiday.  While we have had our Easter decorations out for a little while now, I decided that we needed to do a little project to decorate our bare pantry door; after all, it just seemed so plain after the shamrocks were taken down.

So, the girls and I set to work constructing some Spring chicks (complete with feathers) and some carrots with various, unique tops.  The girls loved all of the extra gluing that this double project involved.

The carrots, just waiting to have their tops added to them:

We used three different colors of green tissue paper so that the girls could get as creative as they wanted with the designs and color.

The chicks, in all of their feathered glory:

(It's amazing just how much craft stuff I can find in my craft section in the basement!)

The finished decorations:

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Today, the girls helped to make "birds' nests" to celebrate the upcoming holiday ... and hopefully, the arrival of Spring sometime soon.

All ready to go:

About 1.5 seconds into this project, it became apparent that the actual construction of the nests was NOT going to be a good job for Sophia.  She has never been one that liked anything dirty on her hands (always asking for a cloth during dinner to keep her hands and mouth clean), and the gooey butterscotch mixture coating her fingers was just too much for her to handle.

It was then that I made the decision to have Samantha design the nests and I put Sophia in charge of the placement of eggs in them.

This was a great compromise and everyone was happy with their own little job.

 

   

After a while, the girls even broke out into song.  They had such a great time!  

   

The final creations not only look wonderful, but they taste wonderful too!