Spring cannot get here soon enough! And Spring brings one of my favorite holidays: Easter! Dyeing eggs in soft pastel colors, unwrapping sweet chocolate bunnies, smelling the fragrant Easter lilies – what’s not to love! Here are a few bunny approved favorites.
Easter decorations, menus and craft ideas:
- Easter Greeting Cards
- Sunday Brunch menu ideas
- Bunny Cakes
- Colorful Easter Eggs – Natural dyes found in your kitchen!
- Easter basket and craft ideas for young ones
- FREE Easter themed printable posters and decorative papers
Easter Greeting Cards – from modern to vintage
Easter ideas for Sunday brunch or dinner
Bunny cakes
Below is a fresh and fun “naked cake” with bunny ears made out of herbs. The herbs also decorate the base of the cake while fresh spring flowers decorate the top.
Here’s a sweet white bunny cake from Wilton Cakes. The ears are made from white candy melts and white cake sparkles. I love the skill level they assigned to this bunny cake: “None”
Colorful Easter Eggs
Have fun with Easter egg dyes you can find at home!
As an alternative to the traditional coloring tablets, you can use natural colored dyes from fruits, veggies and spices. Your kitchen pantry is a great place to start. Shown at the left are colored eggs using onions, turmeric, blueberries, red cabbage, even coffee and red wine! If using natural dyes, keep the eggs soaking in the refrigerator overnight to develop the color. You can also use plant based natural dye colors made in the US.
Party eggs – minions, turtles, feathers, and glitter!
When decorating with kids, the possibilities are endless! Add party hats made with gold sparkly paper, google minion eyes, ninja headbands and colorful feathers. You might even be brave enough to try glitter eggs – diy instructions from a Little Touch of Perfect.
Would wooden eggs work? Yes!
Wooden Easter Eggs are a great way to eliminate some plastic and add a bit of old fashioned charm to the egg hunt. If you dye these with natural dyes, not only will they be safe for the young ones, they may last years longer than the plastic variety.
Easter Baskets & Craft Ideas
Another fun Easter Craft with the kids. Decorate an old metal bucket (or get an inexpensive one), and fill with goodies and environmentally friendly paper grass strips. Check out the detailed instructions from hgtv.com.
Peep-mobiles
From Living Locurto, here are some Easter peeps driving their own twinkee cars with pretzel steering wheels. The kiddos will love to make these edible treats! They can even drive around the Easter village for a bit.
Sweet Sewing Crafts
Quite possibly the cutest felt Easter animals on earth – patterns from nuvolinahandmade on Etsy. On the left is the pattern for a bunny, hen and song bird and on the right is the adorable hopping bunny. For the fabric, try soft felt in pastel colors.
From the same designer, you can find this pattern for new hatching baby chicks – too sweet!
Free Bunny Pattern!
How about a FREE Easter bunny pattern from twig and tale. On the left is a finished bunny using her sweet bunny patterns for both momma bunny and baby. The free download comes with complete instructions and inspirational photos from others. On the right, sweet bunny faces with felt fabric, pink stitches and fabric paint. For the diyers, it’s an easy way to use some of your leftover fabric scraps.
Easter Egg Welcome Wreaths
Below is a lovely egg filled wreath idea for your front door from the house that Lars built. She uses paper mache eggs covered with colored crepe paper and a wire frame. If you don’t want to DIY, you can purchase a lovely spring filled wreath (right) with greenery and pastel colored Easter eggs from country prim on Esty.
Easter Cookies for the baskets!
Adorable Easter cookies featuring bunnies, chicks, and eggs are delightful to make and add cute additions to your daughter or son’s Easter baskets.
You can find many wonderful sugar cookie recipes (here’s a thick sugar cookie recipe from Taste of Home) , Easter cookie cutters, cookie decorating kits and a fun apron for the kiddos and get started.
5 cute book ideas to tuck into the younger ones Easter baskets.
- The Good Egg – Trying to be good is hard when everyone else is plain ol’ rotten!
- Peter Cottontail – the story of the bunny who saved the day!
- It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny – one of my favorites growing up – the story of PJ Funnybunny
- Pete The Cat -Big Easter Adventure
- The tale of Peter Rabbit – the classic Beatrice Potter book
Stuffed plushies – squishy soft Easter basket additions
A standout favorite for Easter baskets – cute Easter-y stuffed animals. Your daughter or son will love the Easter bunny with floppy ears. She’s interactive so she can sing and play when you squeeze her foot. The soft yellow baby chick and fluffy little lamb are simply adorable.
Four Free Easter Poster Printables
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Great post, this is getting me excited for Easter. Thanks for including our post
Hi there! So glad you like the Easter post 🙂 When I was younger, eggs benedict were always part of my family tradition. Your recipe looks amazing – I’ll have to give it a try!