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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.

Easter 2013

While I'm behind the scenes a little this week working on a few big projects and entertaining the kids who are on spring break, I thought I'd share a few Easter photos with you.

It was a fairly quiet day around here, we don't have any family close by, and even our teen took off to spend the day with his girlfriend, so it was just us and the twins ... and our gardener who was installing our new sprinklers.

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.

A Spring Treat Table for Kids

 

Surprise your kids with a special after school or spring break treat.

No baking required and no preparing fancy dishes. 

Although I do love preparing fancy tables with baked goods, sometimes it's nice to just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of indulgence surrounded by happy little ice cream cake covered faces.

Peeps Easter Treats

 

What you need:

• Meringue Nests
• Instant Vanilla Pudding (and milk)
• Peeps Vanilla Crème
• Malted Milk Eggs
• Chocolate block

Place the meringue nests onto a tray.

Prepare the vanilla pudding according to the package directions - which is simply to whisk 2 cups of cold milk with the pudding mix for 2 minutes. Pour the pudding mix into the meringue nests.

Shave chocolate over the top of the pudding making little curls.

Alternate between placing Peeps and malted milk eggs onto the nests.

Place in the refrigerator until chilled (approximately 10 minutes) and serve immediately - pudding doesn't sit well if left inside meringue shells for an extended period of time, so it's important to make these right before you are ready to serve.