Easter Time with Family

We drove up to visit my brother and his family for the Easter weekend. It was his birthday also, so it was celebration all around! The weekend was busy and filled with crafts. I had to saw a tree out of wood and cover it with cork for our preschool, Sean and his son, Gabriel, were making a Derby car for Cub Scouts, we all created hand-made birthday cards, there were Easter hunts galore, and of course the dyeing of eggs.

This idea for dyeing eggs was from Family Fun. You choose leaves and place them on the egg with a hose around it. The panty hose holds the leaf in place. Since we had the "natural" theme going we used natural things to dye the eggs. Tumeric was used for the orange, fruit tea for red, coffee for brown, juiced up carrots with the pulp and broccoli for green. Secretly we added green to the broccoli and orange to the carrots. . .the kids did not know.



This is the grouping in a basket the kids and I made.


The artist in me came out as I roamed around the house with my favorite eggs choosing the BEST background for their close up. A white background was the winner, too bad it took me about 45 minutes to figure that out.
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Easter morning, inspired by my son's teacher, we made Easter egg pancakes. Keep the griddle a little hotter than normal so they hold the egg shape and sprinkle with your favorite sugar sprinkles. We also food colored the pancakes purple and yellow. The kids loved them!!! The big hit was the crunch that the sugar sprinkles added, my son didn't even use syrup. I liked the crunch but even more I loved the fact that even though they did not taste like lots of sugar was added, it tricked the kids into thinking there was.


The lighting was beautiful that morning. Stripes of light fell over the table as we ate our breakfast. I tried to get a photo with us all, but I was getting brotherly nagging about how much I use my camera.