I really love Easter so much, possibly the chocolate helps (hehe) but I just adore the spring like colours - sadly just confined to Easter products this year, but really beautifully uplifting all the same.
Hallmark contacted me with some really cute ideas on how to celebrate this time of year....with a few added snaps of our Easter family fun! See above our Easter garland I bought from Paperchase today, I love it, but was thinking it would be so easy to make one with some of my own designs....expect a DIY post soon! The design right at the top is an Easter card idea I created a couple of years ago.
How to Throw a
Hopping Easter-Themed Party
Unfortunately, we won’t be having the
sunny Easter that we hoped for here in the UK, but why should we let that spoil
our fun? A colourful Easter party is a perfect way to lift our spirits by
getting family and friends together, eating lots of tasty treats and playing
some fun games too. All it takes is a little imagination!
The first part of planning a great Easter
party is deciding on the décor, so think pretty pastels, gorgeous gingham
patterns and lots of seasonal shapes like eggs, bunnies and chicks. Large
sheets of tissue paper make cheap, disposable tablecloths, and you can also cut
the paper into strips and arrange them in bowls to create ‘baskets’ for
chocolate eggs. If you’re feeling especially artistic, cut out circles of
tissue paper and form them into flower shapes for eye-catching table
decorations that don’t need water!
You can also use stiff cardboard to make
templates of your favourite Easter shapes, then draw around them on colourful
paper, and get your little ones to decorate the shapes with paint and glitter.
Once they’re dry, cut out the shapes and thread them with ribbon to make some
hanging decorations, or even staple them to long pieces of ribbon to create
some unique Easter bunting.
Eggs-tra Tasty Treats
Next, you need the treats, and it
wouldn’t be Easter without chocolate cereal buns decorated with miniature chocolate
eggs. They’re so simple to make as grown-ups can take care of melting the
chocolate, and kids can stir in the cereal and be in charge of decorating,
making them almost as fun to make as they are to eat!
The snow doesn’t have to put a stop to
the obligatory Easter egg hunt as you can hide the eggs around the house, or for
an outdoor egg hunt simply conceal sweets such as jelly beans inside plastic
eggs to keep them safe from the weather. Once all the eggs have been found,
gather everyone together for a game of ‘Pin the Tail On the Easter Bunny’, or
even set up a craft station so that everyone can make a pair of paper bunny
ears, or decorate their very own hard-boiled eggs.
