Easter Prep

It's not Easter in our house until we have dyed Easter eggs and made Easter cookies!  (Plus, I would rather do food crafts instead of art projects.  And we did prepare our minds and hearts for Easter by going through our set of Resurrection Eggs - awesome way for the kids to learn events leading up to the real meaning of Easter!)

Easter eggs were actually dyed in two waves - the first being the very beginning of April!  We quickly ate through the first two dozen and luckily I had saved the dye so we could do another couple dozen later on.  Megan was so proud of her creations as you can see.  She even had a strategic place for them in the refrigerator so she could grab a healthy snack whenever she needed!

 

I've been making spiced sugar cookie cut-outs for Easter for a few years now.  They seem to be a big hit with a cinnamon flavor, awesome Easter shapes and then I do neon frosting on each one too!  Megan helped stir the cookies up nicely but rolling them out with the kids was a small challenge.  We had many tears since the dough kept getting too soft for little ones to work with.  Megan had her own ideas of how things should be done - does that surprise anyone at all?  The kids both enjoyed helping me mix up the frosting in neon yellow, pink, purple and blue but Megan did just enough sprinkles for her to earn a cookie treat.... so she sprinkled only about five.