I am still having issues with my hard drive and was only able to upload about half of the photos from the Easter weekend fun and X's birthday so here is round one from Easter weekend- More will follow if I can get B to figure out what's going on.
Several years ago I felt guilty about all the eggs we colored and then threw away (since I am way to paranoid to let them eat them after they have been sitting for hours for an egg hunt- also, when the dye leaks through the shell- yuck) So I decided we would make permanent eggs. Each year the kids get 2 wooden eggs to paint with acrylic paint. Then I mark their initial and year on the bottom of the egg and add polyurethane for durability and we are ready to hunt eggs. They don't break and when you find one that got missed 3 weeks after Easter you dust it off and put it away- no need to worry about toxic fumes if it breaks (and they are flat on one end so you can hide them in some more interesting places since they will not roll if you stand them upright)
Decorating our Easter eggs.
Our community holds an egg hunt for all the kids, although truthfully it is more of an egg "gather" than hunt since the park is pretty much just an open field with some playground equipment. But the kids enjoy themselves and usually a bunny hops in to say "Hello"
"Seriously, you want me to bend over and pick it up?"
The kids hunt by age group and at the end there is a free for all to get any eggs that are left after each group is done gathering. The girls are plotting their strategy to get more eggs.
Little Miss I love the bunny now Mommy (unlike K who wouldn't go near the bunny)
Hopefully, more pictures will be coming soon....
1 comment:
I love the wooden egg idea!! I plan on copying that someday. :) Looks like you guys had a great Easter!
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