Easter Table Favours for Children to Make

This years Easter table favours were created from items purchased at the dollar store and permanent markers from our craft room.

Easter Mugs

Items required:

• 1 white mug for each person attending your Easter dinner
• permanent markers

Directions:

1. Have the children draw what they want to draw on the mug on a piece of white paper
2. Next they draw the same picture on the mug. 
3. The mugs can be personalized or a general picture placed on each mug.

Note:  The mugs need to cure for 24 hours and should be hand washed.

Seed Pot Table Favours

Items required:

• enough small starter pots for every guest at your Easter meal
• A seed packet for each guest
• a cloths peg for each person
• Easter coloured ribbon
• Easter coloured plastic grass
• Candy Easter eggs

Directions:

1. Using paint or permanent markers colour each cloths peg and write the name of each guest on each peg.
2. Cut the ribbon to wrap around the pot with a 1/2 inch over lap.
3. Run a bead of white glue around the edge of the ribbon
4. Using the cloths peg with the guest name facing forward hold the ribbon closed
5. Stuff the starting pot with the grass
6. Place some of the Easter candy in each pot
7. Now you can either balance the seed package in the middle of the cloth peg or you can place a bead of white glue on one inside of the cloth peg and hold the seed package on the glue until it is held firm

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2016 twosnydergirls

An Old Easter Tradition

“When your Grandma was a little girl she followed clues to her Easter gift.  I (Great Grandma) would hide little notes all around the house and outside.   One note would take your Grandma to the next note until she found her gift”  and with this short exchange of family history from one generation to another I was flooded with forgotten Easter memories of running from one note to the next looking in closets, inside favourite books and on the scary basement steps.

 

Great Grandma with Rylee

“Did you hide chocolate Easter bunnies for Grandma?” one of my granddaughters asked “No chocolate was too expensive everyone received a new Sunday outfit for Easter” and again memories came rushing back of new white hats and if we were lucking white gloves and small little purses.  I remember vividly not the clothing but a child’s pride walking into church on Easter Sunday with hat, gloves and purse and feeling very grown-up.

Our youngest daughter enters the conversation and speaking to me asks if we can add this tradition to our normal Easter egg hunt – yes.

 

Our Easter Egg Hunt

I will be the first to admit that Saturday night with each note I wrote I remembered more and more long ago Easters, of finding the notes that would lead me one step closer to my new Sunday outfit.  

So after our 2014 Family Easter Feast Grandpa and I gave each girl her first card.  Emily's read - Behind your School Picture and Ruth's - In Grandpa ice cream decorating draw and with this the girls were off finding one clue after another until in their bedroom closets they found their Easter gifts.

Easter Morning Church Potluck Breakfast

For the past nine years whenever possible we have taken our granddaughters to Easter Sunday breakfast.  We all gather at our Mennonite Church at 8:00 am and enjoy a breakfast of fruit, hard boiled eggs, Paska and Easter cheese.  This year Emily made a fruit pizza (will appear in a future post) and our Easter Bunny Fruit Basket.  As I had beamed feeling very adult in my hat, purse and gloves so did Emily and Ruth as people complemented them on their Easter breakfast offerings.

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 And before we left church we decorated the Cross with new flowers to represent our new lives in Christ.

What are your Easter Family Traditions?

Grandma Snyder

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Decorations for the Easter Table

Face cloth Easter Bunnies

This craft is very simple and requires only a face cloth, piece of ribbon and an elastic.  We started by taking our granddaughters to the store where they picked out bright coloured face cloths choosing one for each person who will be attending our Easter Sunday family dinner - they will take their face cloth home with them following the meal.

Step one:  Place the face cloth in front of you with a point towards you and roll tightly until you reach the middle.  Turn the cloth making sure to keep the rolled edge tight 180 degrees.  Now roll this point towards the middle

Step two:  Now you fold the rolled face cloth in half matching up the to pointed ends.  Note the rolled edge should be on the inside of the fold.

Step three:  Depending on the age of the child this is the step will require adult assistance.   You are going bend the two pointed ends in on themselves - and place an elastic over the bend.  This forms the face and ears.

Now you can decorate your bunny tie a piece of ribbon around only the ears and adjust the ears so that they separate.  Place an Easter egg in the circle formed by the face cloth and place on your plate.

There have been a number of Google+ post of late showing brightly coloured crocheted face cloths next year I would like to redo this same decoration only give each person a hand made face cloth.  Please note this is not an original craft you will find this project on Pinterest, Girl Guides and many other places.

Happy Easter Everyone

Grandma Snyder 

©2013-2016 twosnydergirls

Easter Crafts for Children

Sock Bunnies 

to colour and make your own!

 This is a quick and easy craft for children and can be completed in less than 30 minutes with adult supervision.

Supplies Needed:

1.  white glue or a glue gun (we used a glue gun as we found it held the eyes and tail securely in place)
2. scissors  
3. pom poms, eyes and ribbon 
4. fabric markers to colour the bunny with
5. white ankle socks for the body of the bunny
6. elastic bands
7. rice
8. quilt batting 

 Step #1

Using their skills of cooperation one child holds the sock open while the other places a little more than a 1/4 cup of rice in the toe of the sock.  The rice acts as weight and hold the bunny in an upright position.

Step #2

A small amount of quilt batting is added on top of the rice to form the larger bottom portion of the bunny and an elastic band is loosely applied at this point over top of the sock forming the neck.

Step #3

Quilt batting is stuff above the neck to form the head.  It is important to remember to leave enough room to cut off the sock ribbing and still have room to make ears.  Once the head is the size wanted another elastic band is applied tightly on top forming the head.

Cutting the ears

The first cut is from the bottom corner of the ribbing to the middle seam of the toe.  The second cut is to divide the fabric above the second elastic in half.  You now have two poorly shaped ears.  With adult supervision given the age and sharp scissors you now shape the ears cutting away excess fabric.

Before colouring the sock bunny an adult will need to hot glue the eyes and tail on.  With the fabric markers the face is drawn on and ribbon placed at the neck.  The final stage is colouring your sock bunny.  

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2016 twosnydergirls