Chocolate Bunny Inspired Easter Egg Hunt Fun!

We held our 1st Annual Collar Easter Egg Hunt today.  What a great day!  The snow and ice pellets of a week ago turned into thunderstorms and sunny skies and 70's one week later. In fact, the candy in the eggs actually melted!  Who knew!  As I mentioned in an earlier post, I used printables from Green Beansie Cards for the sweets table.  I also used the adorable printables from Heather at Chickabug for the Easter Egg Hunt.  There are just so many adorable Easter printables out there, it's hard to just use one!

This post is a picture overload, but I had a hard time narrowing it down. 

Ethan and Grace's adorable preppy bunny shirts - This Pretty on Etsy.

Sweets Table

Chocolate Bunny Cookies from Happy Cookies.

 

 Carrot Chair Backs

For a "How To" click here.

The Easter Egg Hunt!

(We had more kids - moms and dads just prefer them not to be on the blog.)

For a "How To" on the $1 Easter Buckets, click here.

It was a GREAT day and we are really looking forward to next year!

Buckets of Easter Buckets

This weekend we are hosting some family and friends for a small Egg Hunt and brunch at our house.  The snow has melted (yay!) and the grass is slowly starting to turn green.  We may have to rain our rain boots and jackets, but there shouldn't be any ice pellets raining down on us while we hunt for eggs!  One Easter we literally hunted for eggs in the snow.  When I see all the cute pictures of girls in their pretty Easter dresses and boys in their cute seersucker shorts hunting for eggs, I realize that will never happen here - even if Easter is at the end of April.

When I saw this adorable printable set featured on Pizzazerie by Green Beansie Cards, I knew that was the perfect inspiration for the Egg Hunt and brunch.  I absolutely love the color combinations.

The color combination perfectly matches my dining room.  In preparation for Sunday, I put together the banner and hung it between my barn windows and Easter egg wreaths.

 

Instead of filling the eggs with lots of candy, I decided that each child will find one of each color (prevents my daughter from hoarding because I know she'd be "that kid.")  When they have found one egg of each color, they can turn them in for a prize.  Each mom agreed to bring one "prize" for each child - chalk from the dollar aisle, bubbles, etc.  I was racking my brain of what we could put those cute prizes in when I came across these perfectly colored pastel sand buckets at Michael's for $1! 

Using my Silhouette, I cut out a bunny and each of the kids' names and added them to the bucket.  Add a little polka dot ribbon to the buckets and voila! an adorable Easter bucket!

Here's hoping for a Sunny Sunday!

Carrot-esq Treat Cones

When I think Easter, I think bunnies.  And what bunny doesn't love a carrot treat!  In honor of all those Wascally Wabbits out there, tonight's Easter craft project are these carrot-esq treat cones. 

To make 8 of these treat cones, here are the supplies you will need:

• 8-10 sheets of scrapbook paper (I found mine at Hobby Lobby.  I think orange gingham would be adorable, but they did not have any.)
• 1 roll of 25' green tissue festooning.  (I purchased mine from Shindigz.com.)
• 10 yards of coordinating ribbon (I purchased mine from Hobby Lobby.)
• Paper punch
• Hot glue gun
• Paper cone template (I used the Silhouette cone template.)

Step 1:  Cut the paper into cone shapes.

Step 2:  Form the cones.

Step 3:  Hot glue the tissue festooning to the top of the cone. 

I doubled the festooning, going around the cone two times.

Here is what the cones will look like after you've added a double layer of the tissue festooning.

Step 4:  Punch a hole on each side of the cone.

Step 5:  Cut ribbon to desired length (I made my ribbon about 2 feet each.

I can't wait to fill the cones with treats for my nieces and nephews and Grace and Ethan for Easter day.  I think they'd look cute hanging from an Easter basket handle as well.

Happy Easter Crafting!

Buckets of Pottery Barn Easter Inspiration

Despite the 18 inches of snow sitting outside my window, we have Spring Fever here!  And with Spring Fever comes getting ready for Easter.  This Spring's Pottery Barn magazine has so many inspirational ideas!  I want them all!

 

Here are some of my favorites:

 

The "Egg-a-labra!"  (Who knew!)

 

The $149 price tag is a little too much for this girl.  If anyone can figure out how to make these, I'd love to hear!

 

I love this entire setting!!!

 

 

Absent winning the lottery, I narrowed down Pottery Barn's ideas to what I could reproduce - these eggs:

 

 

 

I found eggs at Hobby Lobby for 40% off.  I knew I wanted to have the eggs on my dining room table and wanted them to match my new table runner so I decided to paint them a chocolate brown.  I then used my Silhouette to cut out the letters in a light blue vinyl.  You could use scrapbook sticker as well.  Here's what I came up with:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As Ethan says, "It's Bunny Time."  Happy Easter deorating!