Easter Goods

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I know we still have a few weeks away, but I thought I would share a little early on goods in the Easter world.

 Remember last year when I made my 12 Eggs for the "Easter Story", and stored them in this

 Lovely old oatmeal container? Well this year, I finally decorated it,

 Somewhat, I think it still needs something, but what I did here was add pictures of Christ from old church magazines. Maybe I will still add more to it, we'll see, but at least for now it no longer looks edible!

 Then this year I also ventured into making a new wreath. It is finally getting warm here and it felt right to change my old winter wreath for something that said "happy spring" is here!

 This was a very simple wreath, and I was able to scrounge items from around the house and didn't need to buy anything, which is always a great feeling!

 The "J" for Jacob, is just card stock paper, I just free-handed and cut, but if you are worried about making it not straight or uneven, I am sure you could type and print a more accurate letter, and if you wanted it still to be white, then reverse the letter on your computer, print, and cut out, using the backside of the paper (so it is white not black). Then from my earlier egg project, I had a bunch of leftover eggs, that I simple hot glued, along with little beads, and excess flowers.

 To give you an idea of what it is all supported on (again, sorry for not taking better before and process of pictures, I really should just glue my camera to one hand so that it is always by me and I won't forget to take more pics!!) The circular shape is half of a large poster board, and also free handed the shape that I wanted, if you wanted a more definite round shape you could probably use a large mixing bowel, or a bucket as a guide to trace with.

 Then the leaves are a strand of fun leafy garland (I bought it at a dollar store many years ago, but I am sure you could find one similar there as well) that I staggered and tapped onto the paper, and you can kind of see the tape on the back. I also wrapped the leaves and everything with a little tightening touch of ribbon to help hold it all together.

 The little beads are these fun foam ball things. I am not entirely sure what they are called, even where you can buy them since I was given them a while back by someone who didn't know what to do with them. But not to leave you hanging, I am ALMOST positive you could find them at an sort of craft store, like Porters, or Michael's, and maybe even Joann's. They add a nice touch of fun color and feeling of "spring"!

So I spread their "fun" a little more, but adding them to my white stick vases. and maybe if I feel a little more ambitious I might glue some of them on the sticks to make it look like little buds. We'll see.

Then in my own searches of fun Easter sort of activities, I found these various websites that have great ideas of things you can do with old plastic eggs, or just Easter things in general. It is such a special time of year, I want to make it fun and special for my little family.

So here is some idea sites:
From Craft Interrupted, ideas on what to do with leftover eggs
From Playing House, fun games with Easter eggs
From Fanciful Spaces, Easter egg lights
From Creative Connections for Kids, "Not just for hunting!" Easter egg activities
From Happy Home Fairy, a fun printable about the Real meaning of the Easter bunny

And last but not least, a touch of a great video, about what our Savior did, which I think it is a great thing to remember this time of year, this Easter season.

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