HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
Get crafty and create a colorful Easter holiday for the kids. Along with the Easter egg masterpieces you have planned using some of the ideas in our article about 20 ways to decorate an Easter egg, craft your own panoramic sugar eggs, chocolate Easter lollipops, feathered Easter baskets, and more to celebrate the holiday.
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Make your own gorgeous sugar eggs or buy one of these confectionary eggs as a special Easter gift for your child.
Preparation
Materials for 2 to 4 eggs:
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 4 teaspoons water
- Red and yellow food coloring (to make pink and yellow eggs)
- Plastic eggs that are split in half lengthwise to use as molds
- Assorted colors cake decorator icing; buy tubes that come with decorator tips
- Little hard-sugar flowers and Easter shapes
Steps
- Divide sugar into 2 large mixing bowls (1 1/2 cups of sugar in each bowl).
- Dilute red food coloring in 2 teaspoons of water and mix into sugar in one bowl. Dilute yellow food coloring in remaining 2 teaspoons of water and mix into sugar in the other bowl. Mix sugar in each bowl until thoroughly moistened and color is throughout sugar.
- Fill the plastic eggshell halves with the colored sugar. Make a top half and bottom half using the same sugar color for each egg. Pack the sugar firmly into the eggshells. Use a teaspoon to lightly scoop out the sugar in the center so the sugar layer is about a centimeter thick inside the entire eggshell mold.
- Use the tip of your finger to scrape out a dime sized amount of sugar from the narrower end of the sugar egg in the mold to create a little peephole.
- Place a sheet of wax paper on a flat surface. Gently invert the sugar-filled mold on to the wax paper, open side down. Tap the mold and carefully pull the mold away from the sugar egg half to unmold the egg. Repeat the process with remaining sugar eggs. If the sugar doesn't hold its egg shape after you pull off the mold, repeat the process from the beginning and add a tiny bit more water to the entire mixture.
- Allow sugar eggs to harden overnight or until sugar is completely dry. Keep the drying sugar eggs in a cool dark place until you are ready to use them and do not touch eggs until they are hard.
- Decorate the bottom half of the eggs first. Pipe decorator icing inside the egg to hold hard sugar flowers or Easter shapes in place. Use green icing to make grass blades or whatever color you like for a colorful scene.
- To assemble the eggs: Pipe a thick strip of decorator icing on the rim of the bottom sugar egg half and place the matching top sugar egg on top to make a whole egg. The decorator icing will hold the eggs together. Use a fancy decorator tip to finish off the outside of the egg by piping around the seam and the peephole. Add hard sugar flowers on top of the egg for a pretty touch. Allow icing to dry before handling the eggs.
Give Easter baskets the look of a colorful chick by decorating them with feathers.
Preparation
Materials for each basket:
- 1 medium-size basket with a handle
- 2 (.50 oz.) bags colored feathers
- Aleene's Super Tacky White Glue
Steps
- Apply glue to basket and adhere feathers to the inside and outside of the basket until it is completely covered with feathers.
Easter Basket Novelties
- Hippy Chicky Walking Candy Dispenser
- Milk Chocolate Candy Tuilps Bouquet
- Edible Easter Grass
- Pre-made Easter Baskets
Make Easter lollipops as gifts for schoolmates or as party favors for a holiday gathering.
Preparation
Materials:
- Assorted pastel or Easter color chocolate Candy Melts
- Plastic Easter lollipop molds
- Lollipop sticks
Steps
- Put each color of chocolate Candy Melts into its own small microwave safe bowl. Melt chocolate according to package directions until smooth. Usually, the chocolate melts in 10-second increments with occasional stirring.
- Add melted chocolate into Easter lollipop molds using a teaspoon, small plastic food-safe bottle with a nozzle tip, or even a toothpick. Use various chocolate colors to bring out the design in the mold such as yellow chocolate for a chick or pink for a bunny. White chocolate is perfect for eyes with a dot of brown chocolate for a pupil. Use your imagination!
- Place the lollipop sticks in the mold indentations and allow the chocolate to harden. When set, unmold and enjoy, or slip the lollipops into little cellophane bags and tie ribbon around the stick to create party favors or gifts.
These simple Spring Nests are a great afternoon craft for kids.
Preparation
Materials:
- Faux bird nest from a craft store
- Small decorative items like wooden or plastic eggs, artificial flowers, and Easter figurines
- White glue
Steps
- Glue decorative items inside the nest to create a beautiful spring decoration or centerpiece.
Make cute, crafty little stands that look like bunnies to display Easter eggs.
Preparation
Materials:
- Cardboard paper towel tubes
- Scissors
- @12-inch craft felt squares in Easter colors
- White glue
Steps
- Cut cardboard tubes into 2-inch wide pieces or rings.
- Cut a 4 x 8-inch felt strip for each cardboard ring.
- Apply glue to the inside and outside of each cardboard ring. Roll up the cardboard ring in a strip of felt, similar to how paper towels are rolled on to a cardboard tube. Fold the excess felt over the top and bottom rim of the ring, pressing and smoothing the felt to secure it. The cardboard ring should be covered with felt.
- Cut out bunny feature shapes from the felt such as ears, a nose, eyes, and whiskers. Glue the shapes to the felt-covered ring as shown in the photo. Allow glue to dry before using.
- Place the ring on a table and set a decorated Easter egg in the ring to use as a display stand.
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