[Easter] The recap.

Despite not being used to being home for Easter (we are usually camping) a beautiful day was had.

The day started the normal time with the discovery of eggs on bedside tables and through out the house leading to the treasure trove. 

I had used the tree at our Mothers Group Family Breakfast that we have twice a year (Easter & Christmas) and after realising that I wont have the esky out for the Easter Bunny to leave the gifts on it seemed like a logical place.

The pretty shiny wrappers were explored, books were read, chocolate was consumed and the excitement was escaping out of a certain four year old I know... and to be honest I don't think it stopped until well after bed time.

We had Roast for lunch AND dinner... I KNOW! 

Insane!

Family time is truly the best, isn't it... Cousins playing... exploring... eggs laid strategically for treasure hunting. 

And after all of the excitement with half an hour in between guests it started ALL again when Zia arrived with MORE little presents for the boys!

It was an amazing day. 

Just the way it should be.

What did you get up to for Easter?

Do you decorate for Easter too?

Ever done a tree???

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[Easter] Colouring activities.

With the weather being a bit dismal last week, we spent most of our first week of the holidays inside. 

A few weeks ago we changed Ronan's room around this allowing him to have a desk where he could draw/colour and create freely. This is something he hasn't had the space to do freely since Finnley has been here, due to the table he is usually able to draw/colour and create freely on has been taken over by capsules and other baby paraphernalia.

With his 'new found space' he has been requesting things to colour... as apposed to draw his own creations because he has been wanting to practice colouring in the lines (bless).

So here are some of the Easter themed pages he has been doing that I thought you might like as well. 

I have found most of these via Pinterest or Google and have linked you to the appropriate web page just click the pictures that take your fancy and they will take you straight there, where available.

These are the ones that I found best for Ronan at this time... but with just a quick look around I found simpler ones for the younger children and some that are bit more complex for the older kiddos.

This one has been done several times with some of them being quite hilarious.

See what else we have been up to... here and here

What have you been up to these holidays?

Been up to any Easter crafts? DO share!

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Easter Edition Part 2

Hahahahaha part 2... I can crack myself up sometimes...

After an impromptu blogy break I am back to write about some of the things we have done for the last week.

Easter egg biscuits...

I used:
Arrowroot biscuits
2 cups of Soft icing sugar
3 tbs water.
Red, blue & yellow colouring

I then divided it up into three and added just a drop of colouring per bowl to try and keep the colours light and pastely.

It was a hit here, albeit a bit messy... but still good fun.

Even the adults had a go.

See what other Easter activities we have done... here.

What Easter crafts have you been up to?

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[Easter] Kinder Gifts

Gifting to friends is something we have done with Ronan since the time he began participating in group activities, so when Easter or Christmas came around we just gave the people in his group (whether it be mothers group, swimming or music) something little... a small choccy/bubbles/reindeer food etc. 

Gifting to Ronan's Kinder friends is no different, just on a MUCH BIGGER scale.

Earlier in the year, Valentines day to be exact Ronan chose to make and give all of his little kinder friends a plain biscuit cut and cooked in the shape of a heart.

Valentines day isn't one we normally 'give' to people outside our home for but he wanted to so we went with it.

A simple gesture, but it really REALLY made him smile when he was given the opportunity to stand there and offer these treats to his friends after session. 

When leaving he shouted "Mumma, LETS DO THAT AGAIN!"

It really was a beautiful thing to watch.

So because of the PURE joy he felt when he was handing out his treats to his mates he came to me a couple of weeks ago and said, "Mumma I'd like to do that again but for Easter... AND not biscuits... CHOCOLATE... WOULDN'T THAT BE COOL?????" 

Jumping up and down as he does when he is excited.

I love that he was one step ahead of me.

With loads of input from Ronan (I love how is SO involved in these little things) I got creating... and after a couple of tweaks we came up with this.

I made these using Photo shop, I purchased some of the elements and made some of the others myself.

This is what went into each bag.
Three chocolates went into each bag because that is how it divided up evenly... and honestly... how much chocolate do they REALLY need?

Do you kinder gift?

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[Lets craft] Easter Edition Part 1

Look at me being all "Part 1"...

I'm not even sure there will be a part two... but lets just go with that title anyway.

Looking for something craft-tastic to do this morning, I remembered something I had pinned overnight in one of my feed/settle/go back to bed myself states.

So this being the inspiration... 

From here

We got to work... after some discussion we changed it a bit to make it our own and came up with this...

What you will need:

• A pen
• Glue
• Paper plate/round piece of paper
• Extra paper for foot prints
• Paint (we did foot prints rather then tracing)
• Googly eyes/paper cut to size/pencils to draw them 
• Pom Poms/Cotton Balls
• Pipe Cleaners

Have you started Easter crafting?

Yes, we write notes on the back of our front door in chalk... you don't?

Have you seen anything cuter then 8 month old foot prints in yellow paint today?

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