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The Centsible Life: Play Kitchen Food using Plastic Eggs

Come on over to The Centsible Life where I'm showing you how to turn some of those plastic eggs from Easter into fun play kitchen food your kids will love.

Simple Candy Gift Wrapping Idea

 

I didn't have a lot of time this Easter to make fancy gifts for the kids at school (I know, very unlike me), so the little man and I popped down to Target one afternoon and picked out some cute bunny treats together. 

I decided to pretty them up a little instead of handing them out as is, so after digging around in my craft supplies I found some really cute mini paper bags that I had purchased at Michael's recently, they are the Recollections brand and there were 25 in the pack, so the perfect amount. 

Rusty and Rosy: A Spring Book, Craft and Snack for Kids

I'm over at Rusty and Rosy today with a fun Spring book, craft project and snack idea for kids.  This is perfect for Easter, or for while the kids are on spring break.

Mira Mesa Living: Spring Craft

My latest craft project is in the March/April issue of Mira Mesa Living magazine. 

I decided a fun flower project to welcome Spring was in order for this issue.

These flower pegs make a great Spring Break craft project for kids.  They also make a fun activity for a garden party, or Easter party with kids.

 

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Multiples and More: Countdown Calendar

Make a year-round calendar using an old wood crate for birthday's, holiday's, back-to-school, vacations, and more. 

Want to know how?  I've got the tutorial today over at Multiples and More.

Bunny Ear Headbands

We had a pot-luck style Easter party today that was organized by one of our friends.  My contribution to the party was not cake (because my fabulous cake decorating girlfriend was supposed to be there and my cake decorating skills are shameful compared to her), but instead it was a craft project for the kids. 

I saw these fun bunny ear headbands at (a fellow military wife) Candace Lindemann's blog Naturally Educational and thought these would be fabulous for the party, especially with the various age ranges that would be attending.

I left a tape dispenser out and found that the older kids were more than happy to tape their bunny ears to the headband themselves, but for the little ones I quickly stapled them on as I noticed any new crafters sitting down at the table.  I also set out two different types of glue, the Elmer's School Glue for attaching pom poms and the Elmer's Glue Sticks for attaching the colored section of the ear to the white background.  The kids had alphabet foam stickers, assorted Easter themed foam stickers, glitter glue, pom poms and crayons to decorate their headbands.