Easter Hand Lilies

  We will be doing this again this year.  I just love how these cute Easter hand lilies preserve your child's little hand prints.  This hand print craft makes the sweetest keepsake for birthdays and holidays.

Step 1:  Trace and cut hand print, find a pipe cleaner for a stem, and a different color cut short for flower center, twist together.

Step 2:  Curl hand print fingers and fold around stem, secure with tape.

Step 3:  Add your lovely hand print lilies to a vase, no water required, just love!

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Easter Challah Bread

This is a lovely bread that I made in Fall that will be perfect for Easter.  I plan on braiding the bread to have with dinner and using the leftovers to make perfect french toast.

Simply Healthy Challah Bread
There isn't any bread maker required for this lovely loaf of traditional Jewish egg bread. It's perfect for sandwiches or french toast for breakfast. I usually do not make bread from scratch, but this recipe from All Recipes-here,  is so simple and healthy that I may just bake some every week. The recipe made two big loaves and my family loved it.

Easter Egg Wreath

As Jem says...."easy-peasy,"  that's how I would describe this cute and simple Easter egg wreath.

Find some old plastic Easter eggs and a foam ring, and start hot glueing away....by the way is it "glueing or gluing." hmmmm? 

In our homeschooling news:  Olive just finished the Frog and Toad series and Jem has started, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lesson.

Egg Math

Save an egg carton and some plastic eggs to make this fun math game for you child.

With a sharpie write the math problem on the front of your egg and add a slip of paper with the answer on the inside.
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Our Egg Tree

My family has always decorated a branch of a tree with real hand-blown painted eggs for Easter.   I have about a dozen left that my great-grandmother made.

Here are some cute Easter decorations that we have around the house.

 Happy "early" Easter!

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Easter Pillowcase Dresses

Here is my first attempt at making a pillowcase dresses.  Olive was happy to model my new creation.

I added a little bunny on Jem's dress and it turned out cute.

Here is a great tutorial from Prudent Baby.  I think my nesting starts with more crafting because my sewing machine has been working over time. What have you been creating?

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Easy Easter Wreath

The girls and I had blast making this colorful Easter wreath.  I was in charge of the hot-glue gun and they helped by sticking the plastic eggs to the foam wreath.  This is a nice way to recycle all those left over plastic eggs.  We even added a little Easter grass to make it look more festive.

My girls know that I usually plan a fun craft to do after their school-work is complete.  Happy Easter Crafting!
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Our "Real" Egg Tree

Every year when I was a kid my family would hand-blow eggs, paint them, and place them on a branch of the sassafras tree. This is a tradition I plan to continue with our little family. The eggs on this branch were painted by my great-grandmother many years ago. So from our family to yours Happy Easter and may you carry on a little tradition year after year.

Draw a Bunny Dice Game

Olive and her Daisy Troop enjoyed earning a petal by learning how to be honest and fair. They played a variety of games to help teach these concepts, but this fun rabbit dice game took the "carrot!"

Check out Homeschool Creations here for a download.  I laminated the game so they can play over and over.  Each girl took a turn rolling the die, but number 6 was their favorite as they got to do the bunny hop!

Bunny Ears and bunny hop

It's the easiest craft for Easter and the girls love it....bunny ears look cute on any kid!
Bunny Hop:
Put your right foot forward
Put your left foot out,
Do the bunny hop, hop, hop, hop
All across the nation,
It's a new sensation.
Do the bunny hop, hop, hop, hop.

Easter bunny's with Draw, Write, Now

We have enjoyed using Draw, Write, Now as part of our curriculum this year. Olive has always enjoyed making letters and drawing so this program is perfect for her. Each book (1-7) is set up like a unit study, for example- farm animals, arctic, pioneers.

The rabbit is from book 1, which we have been working on this year.
My Montessori Journey here  also has a chicken drawing tutorial.

 Here is some copy work that goes along with the book that Olive did.