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DIY Easter Novelites

Lifestyle Mar 23, 2015

by Hillary Di Menna

Use Easter As An Excuse To Get Crafty And Celebrate Without Hurting Your Wallet

When I was growing up, Easter meant my four siblings and I had our jellybeans confiscated for chucking them at each other. Now, it means friends and family will spoil my only child. Whatever happens in your family, according to the National Retail Association, Americans spend $16.8 billion on Easter. That’s a lot of eggs. If a hefty holiday bill isn’t what you’re looking forward to, we’ve found some DIY ideas that are pocket-friendly and can double as family activities.

Colour-Coordinated Easter Egg Hunt

Photo: 101 Uses for Empty Food Storage Cans

Paint food cans, use coloured card stock, or weave baskets out of paper. Have the kids pick their colours and they can help paint, cut or weave, depending on how much time you want to spend. When it comes time for the Easter egg hunt, hide the same number of corresponding coloured eggs. This way, there won’t be any arguments about who found more, and this approach evens the playing field for younger children. You can find all the items you need for this project at the dollar store, or they may already be lying around at home.

Easter In A Jar

Photo: Flower Power Vase

For a tidier Easter hunt or as a gift to friends and family at Easter dinner, fill mason jars full of goodies. Pick a theme, like pastels, and layer different kinds of pastel candies in the jar. Or provide the ingredients to something yummy like Easter S'mores. Tie a pastel-coloured bow around the top and it’s ready to go!

Bunny Ears

Photo: Fun Family Crafts

Here’s something for the younger kids to work on before having fun dressing up as bunnies.

What you’ll need:

colourful paper: this can be construction paper, card stock, wrapping paper, scrapbooking paper, or even magazine pages
thicker paper, like a manila folder
scissors
tape
glue

Cut a large strip of construction paper and create a band around your kiddo’s head, then tape it. Draw two separate bunny ears on the thicker paper and cut them out. Use these as stencils on decorative paper and cut out matching ears. Glue or tape the decorative paper ears on both sides of the manila. Cut smaller ears out of a different colour of paper, like pink or white, and stick them to the inside of the ears. Have the kids personalize their ears with markers, stickers, or even googly eyes and cotton balls.

Henna-Inspired Easter Eggs

Photo: Our Eyes Eat First

This is like dying boiled eggs, but with a twist. Inspired by Our Eyes Eat First, the end result is beautiful. Instead of colouring already boiled eggs, boil eggs in water with a few teaspoons of turmeric. Leave the eggs boiling for ten minutes, then let them dry on a paper towel. Once they've cooled down, add designs using non-toxic (for when you eat the eggs) henna-coloured markers. Real mehndi will not work. As the blog says, “[It will] not leave the same deep orange hue on an egg's surface as it does on a bride's hands.”

Have any favourite DIY Easter ideas? Share them with us in the comments below!

_{Feature image courtesy of Our Eyes Eat First}

Hillary Di Menna

Author

Hillary Di Menna is a freelance journalist who manages to publish her scribblings while raising a six-year-old skateboarding ballerina and sharing her home with two snuggly black cats. Her parenting blog, Misfit Matriarch, follow her adventures in parenting. You can find all her work at

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