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Rice Krispies are an all time favorite among kids. These are an adorable way to make them for Easter. I will show you three great Easter ideas to choose from. Your family will love them all.




This first idea is the one pictured above. All you need is some pull apart plastic Easter eggs. Make sure you spray the insides really well with cooking spray. Use the eggs as molds and when they cool decorate them. You can use frosting, chocolate, or even just colored sugar.

Another idea would be to use an egg shaped mold like a cookie cutter. This would create a flat surface to decorate. Place your cookie cutter on a baking sheet and press the rice krispy mix into the shape. When they are all cooled you can decorate them.


The last ones are rice krispy bird nests. Simply form little basket shapes with your hands when the mixture is cool enough to handle. Make sure to oil your hands well first. You can make them brown with chocolate cereal if you would like. After they have cooled make grass out of green colored coconut or green frosting. Then add some egg shaped candy. You could even place a Peep on top.

Now that the girls are getting older plain old colored eggs just will not do. We will be trying some new techniques this year. The girls are really excited and can't wait to get started.



DOTS

You can create very cute dot patterns using those hole punch reinforcement stickers. You dye your eggs in a light color and let dry. Then apply the stickers to the eggs and dye again in a darker color. When the eggs are dry remove the stickers for pretty spotted eggs.


MARKERS

Remember all those great Crayola nontoxic products? They can be used to decorate eggs and you will still be able to eat them. You have many options with these. Dye the eggs like normal and then when they are dry let the kids go nuts with markers. They can be as creative as they want.


Paint

Crayola Kid's Paints are also nontoxic. Your kids can paint designs and patterns or anything they would like. Another very pretty painting idea is to do sponge painting on your Easter eggs. You can come up with many color combinations .

These adorable bunny wash clothes have a convenient hole in the middle. They can be used to hold an egg for Easter. Wouldn't they be a cute surprise during an egg hunt? Plus after Easter they can be converted into a boo boo bunny. Just place an ice cube in the hole.



These cute bunnies are simple to make and require very little items.

YOU WILL NEED

• washcloth - a large baby washcloth is ideal
• rubber band
• two small black pompoms or plastic, movable eyes
• one small pink pompom
• one medium white pompom
• small amount of thin ribbon or yarn

DIRECTIONS

1. Lay a washcloth on a table. Roll one corner, diagonally, into the middle. Roll the opposite corner in the same way, so that both rolls meet in the middle. Fold the rolled washcloth in half.
2. Hold the two sides together and fold the two ends backwards, over the top. Fasten a rubber band around the front area to form the head. Fluff out the two ends to make bunny ears. This photo shows a side view of the bunny so far.
3. Glue the white pompom to the back, to make the bunny's tail. Glue two small black pompoms in place as eyes. Glue a small pink pompom below the eyes as the nose.
   Fasten thin ribbon around the bunny's neck and tie it in a small bow.
   

Check out these adorable Easter Lilies! They are a simple and cheap craft for Easter made out of construction paper cut to the shape of a hand.



YOU WILL NEED

• construction paper (green for leaves and any colors for flowers)
• drinking straw
• scissors
• pencil
• scotch tape
• OPTIONAL: pipe cleaner and floral tape

DIRECTIONS

1. Have child trace their hand onto a piece of construction paper, rounding out the palm.
   
2. Cut out the hand print.
3. Roll the palm into a cone and tape. Don't worry about the hole being too small, you can snip it open a bit if needed.
4. Cut pipe cleaner into 1/4s and fold into a V shape.
   
5. Push V into end of straw and put a piece of tape around. Curl the ends a little.
6. Put end of straw into flower and push through so the pipe cleaner is inside the flower.
   
7. Wrap each finger around a pencil to curl.
8. Cut a long leaf shape out of green construction paper and tape onto the straw. Two leaves looks best. Curl the leaf like you did the fingers.
9. Place flowers in a vase. An odd number of flowers always seem to look nicer.

Look at this hot dress! Sears is having a huge clearance on Fall & Winter Apparel so this dress is only $17.99...and we thought there were good deals after Christmas!


I was looking at all the clothes that are on clearance at Sears and I was really drawn to the dresses. When we lived in Arizona I wore more dresses. Of course I was thinner then. The more I looked at the dresses the more I missed the thin me. I used to wear such cute little outfits.

Summer is coming and I think I need to actively work on getting back into shape. There are so many great deals on clothes right now and I want a whole new cute wardrobe. I am thinking that I will get Noelle to join me on a health kick. At times it is nice to have a teenage daughter she is a great partner in things.

I am thinking that buying an outfit or two might help get me motivated. Seeing a hot new dress in the closet might make me work to fit into it. I guess I will have to get Noelle something too since I want her to workout with me.

The Sears huge clearance is 75-80% OFF ORIGINAL PRICES ON FALL & WINTER APPAREL from now till April 18th. That gives us a little bit of time to pick things out. There are a lot of things to choose from. Knowing Noelle she will take forever to decide on things.

There are so many options with this craft. Not only are they fun to make but they can have many uses. You can use them as a decoration or even fill them with some treats or cheap toys. How fun would an Easter egg hunt be with these extra large eggs that have surprise inside.



We have done a lot of paper mache in our house lately. It just seems like a great way to create less waste and save money on craft supplies.

To make these large Easter eggs simply paper mache some balloons. Mix flour with twice as much water to create the paste. Dip strips of newspaper in the paste and carefully wipe off the excess. Cover the balloon with the strips until you have around 4 or 5 layers. It helps to have the balloon resting in a bowl while you make it and it dries.

After the paper mache Easter egg has dried you can start painting it. If you want to use the large eggs to hold special surprises just make a small X cut on the bottom and carefully place the surprise inside. Then you can tape the cut closed.

I have so many funny memories of past April Fools Days. I have known many pranksters and I may have done a few pranks myself.Here are a few cute pranks.


Many years ago I was 18 and worked at a deli with man named Jeff. He was always full of pranks. He worked on the opposite side of the store but he had a perfect view of my phone from his. Most often he would call me with fake voices and ask me if we had something in stock. When I had finished looking for whatever he asked he would pop up from under his counter and laugh away.

Another one that he did often was put peanut butter on the earpiece of my phone. He would call my phone and yep, you guessed it, I would get an ear full of peanut butter. I must warn you that it could ruin your phone. He stopped doing that prank after he almost broke the phone. The peanut butter got into the holes and he had to take it apart and clean it really well.

There are many cute pranks that you can do with your family this April Fools Day. A popular favorite is putting a rubber band around the button of the sprayer on the kitchen sink. When people turn on the sink they get a wet surprise.

A childhood friend of mine had a coin superglued to the ground at their house. Every time someone went by they tried to pry it up. If you have a busy sidewalk or parking area this would be a fun prank. You could just sit back and watch the action.

There are even some cute computer pranks. You could tape paper over the bottom of the victims mouse. Just make sure to write April Fools on it for when they check their mouse. You could also change the screen saver to Marquee and type a funny message. You could also go into the control panel and change the mouse settings to left handed. They will go nuts trying to figure out things are not clicking right.

Have you done some funny pranks or had pranks done on you? Feel free to share them with us.