Easter Bunny Candy Bouquet

Who is ready for an easy peasy gift idea for Easter? Here is our favorite candy bouquet which we use mugs for the base. The mugs were picked up at garage sales and the Dollar Store. We also selected candy that our friends and family love which allowed us to personalize each mug bouquet. This is a super easy and inexpensive Easter project.

Materials Needed:

• Mug
• Easter Candy
• Mug filler- we used a scarf
• Tape or double sided dots
• Paper Straw or Craft Stick
• Ribbon of various sizes and colors
• Mini Bowdabra/Ruler
• Bowdabra Bow Wire

Instructions:

1. Gather all of your supplies.

2. Add mug filler and Easter Candy. Tape a straw or craft stick to the back of one of the pieces of candy. We used the large Easter bunny in the center. Stick this into the center of the mug and candy. Use more tape depending on the size of your candy.

3. Make a Bowdabra bow to top off the project. We tied ours to the mug handle.

4. Place the Hair Bow Tool & Ruler onto the Mini Bowdabra.  Cut 12in of Bowdabra Bow Wire fold the wire in half and place it into the Mini Bowdabra.

5. Begin by placing the widest ribbon at the 2.0in mark. Fold it back in forth for equal loops on both sides.

6. Add a colorful smaller width ribbon into the Mini Bowdabra and fold that back and forth for 2 equal loops. Trim off extra ribbon.

7. Take another color or patterned ribbon and fold it over 3 times in 1 inch segments.

8. Trim off the end and scrunch the tiny ribbon into the Mini Bowdabra to be the center of the bow.

9. Scrunch down the ribbon with the Mini Bowdabra Wand.

10. Thread the Bowdabra Bow Wire tails through the loop. Pull the wire tightly. Remove the bow from the Mini Bowdabra and knot the back.

11. Tie the bow to the bouquet. Add it to the handle, to the center candy or wrap bouquet with clear gift wrap and tie off with the bow. Trim off extra Bowdabra Wire.

I made the project for the Bowdabra Blog as one of their designers. 

More Easter ideas

Skinny FunFetti Cupcakes

Scrambled Egg Margarita Pizza

Super Yummy Cinnamon Rolls

Aunt Salad
Ham & Swiss Cheese Sliders

Leftover Easter Ham and Bean Soup

Top Hoppin' Easter Bunny Crafts and Projects {Holiday Fun}

I'm such a seasonal nut. I love all the fun colors, foods, decorations that are associated with all of our American and Christian Holidays. This weekend is all about Easter.  How about you? Do you celebrate all the fun holidays? You can go through my National Food HoliDays post for more fun ideas. Here are some of my favorite Easter Bunny ideas. Enjoy!

I'd love for you to share your ideas in the comments below!! Thanks and Hoppy Easter! 

Easter Candy Project

Easter Bunny Candy Bouquet (my project featured on the Bowdabra Blog)

Easter Bunny Egg Pops

Easter Bunny in a Jar Food Craft & Gift Idea

Easter Bunny Bow Ears Craft for Kids

Easter Bunny Egg Cups - Cute and easy project!

-Cut out white and pink ears and pink nose with felt.

-Cut a pipe cleaner in half or in thirds.

-Hot glue or tacky glue ears together and glue to back of small plastic dixie cup. Then do eyes. Fold pipe cleaners in half and glue on cup. Finally glue on nose.

Use this to add in an Easter egg for the kids. You can have their name on the egg. This would be cute for party favors or instead of place cards at the dinner table. You could even add candy into the cup. Use any size cup. I got this fun idea from the daycare where I work!

Rainbow Bread - Last but not least... let the kids brighten up bread with a little bit of fun colors! I got this project from my friend's daycare. 

To Do:

1-With paint brushes, let the kids paint on a mixture of whole milk and food coloring. The mixture is 1/3 cup whole milk and desired amount of food coloring. 

Don't let them go too crazy with the mixture or the bread will turn to mush.

2-Bake the bread on parchment paper in a preheated 375 degree oven for 5 minutes. You can use the paper to write their names on.

3-  Then let them eat the rainbow!

So fun and perfect for so many occasions! Thanks for sharing, Jane! 

More fun Easter ideas

• National FoodHolidays Board
• Recipes for the Holidays
• Easter Treats & Crafts

Easter Treats on a Stick and Easter Game for Kids

Easter is just around the corner! What fun family traditions do you have? We celebrate this day at Church with our Church family which is kicked off with a massive Easter breakfast. From there the kids hide Easter eggs and then hop on over to family and friends to eat a mouthwatering lunch or dinner. Prior to the actual Easter Sunday there are many Easter egg hunts and Easter parties. Here are a few ideas to kick off April to get you ready for Easter. This is a sponsored post by Global Influence and candy provided by Hershey's but my own ideas and opinions are expressed here. 

Instead of giving the package of candy as always, open up the Easter Bunny foiled wrapped HERSHEY’S Milk Chocolate and Egg shaped REESE’S Peanut Butter Cups and give them a new spin! 

We gently and carefully stuck skewers or straws (cut at an angle) into the candy, brushed with honey and added sprinkles and eyes. The thin brushing of the honey was just enough "edible glue" to get the candy eyes and sprinkles to stick. They were so fun to eat this way!

The kids can actually do these at an Easter party or you can make them up ahead of time for their Easter Basket. It is super quick and easy. 

Another thing you can do is have a JOLLY RANCHER Hard Candy flavored Jelly Bean contest for your Easter celebrations. Have you tried these jelly beans? Oh my they taste just like JOLLY RANCHERS! To make the game, just fill any jar with Jelly Beans and have them all guess on a piece of paper. Make sure to have them add their names to the paper and drop it in an Easter Basket. Pull out the correct guess and reward that person with the jar of candy! 

We decorated the lid of our jar with a cupcake liner and hot glued a ribbon around the ring to give it some festive color! 

Top 12 Hoppin' Easter Bunny Favorites

Easter is just a few days away. Here are my top 12 Easter recipes and Easter Crafts. If you need more ideas, check the Easter Hop for never ending goodies from my blog friends!

1- Easter Bunny Ears- Adorable tutorial.

2. Easy Easter Egg Wreath- under 30 minutes to make.

3- Leftover Easter Ham & Swiss Cheese Sliders

4-Leftover Easter Ham & Potato Cheese Soup

5-Sweet & Savory Easter Breakfast Bread

6-Family Favorite Cinnamon Rolls

7-Irish Soda Bread

8-Paid on the Cross Easter Craft

9- Easter Bunny Cupcakes

10-Easter Egg Pops

11- Easter Goodies in a Jar

12-Skinny Easter Cupcakes

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Paid on the Cross Lent and Easter Craft

Here is a Lent Craft to do with the kids. Since we use money to pay for things, the coins glued onto the cross remind us that God loves us so much that He paid for all of the bad things we do (our sins) on the cross. This also makes the perfect lesson and Easter Craft to do at home or Sunday school.

Paid on the Cross Lent and Easter Craft

Craft Supplies:

Small wooden or paper mache cross*
Pennies (clean & dry)**
Tacky glue

*We found fun and inexpensive paper mache boxes at a local craft store. Kids love “treasure boxes”!
**You can use lots of pennies or only a few like we did; a mixture of coin denominations would also be pretty!

Instructions:

• Attach coins to the cross with tacky glue. Allow glue to dry.
• As we started putting dots of glue on their crosses, I reminded my boys that Easter was coming up and asked them if they remembered what Easter is about. My 5-year-old said, “Yeah, that's when God dies.” We then had a short conversation to refresh their memories on Easter, Jesus' death on the cross, and Him coming back to life. Since we use money to pay for things, the coins glued onto the cross remind us that God loves us so much that He paid for all of the bad things we do (our sins) on the cross.
• Inspired by Mom On Time Out. 

Science Experiment #1 Shiny Pennies
We wanted shiny pennies for our craft, so we started with science experiments to see if we could make our dull pennies prettier!

Supplies:

Dirty pennies
¼ cup vinegar
3 tsp salt
Small glass/plastic cup or bowl
Small stick or spoon for stirring

Instructions:

• With your child's help, measure vinegar and pour into the container. How does it smell?
• Place the pennies in the cup. Can your child describe how they look?
• Count the teaspoons of salt with your child as you add it to the bowl. Stir. Leave the pennies in the cup for 10-15 minutes.
• Pour out the vinegar. Rinse and dry off the pennies. 

Results: How do they look now? We were happy to see that our experiment made our pennies less dull, but we wanted to try another method to see if we could get them really sparkling.

Science Experiment #2 Shiny Pennies 

Supplies:

¼ cup citrus juice (lemon juice is best but lime or grapefruit will work)

Instructions:

• Soak pennies in juice for 10 minutes. Rinse and dry.
• For older children who want to know the “why” behind these experiments, check out http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/copper_caper.html and http://cleaning.lovetoknow.com/Lemon_Juice_Pennies_Cleaning

Results:

Our pennies were pretty sparkly after our second experiment, so we were ready for craft time!

Craft lesson and kids activities made by Donna & Co. More Crafts for Kids
Handprints Heart Card Kids Crafts
I Love You Sign Language Kids Craft
DIY Color Your Own Shoes Craft
DIY Lollipops Kids Activities

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Easter PEEPS Cupcake Recipe & Craft

Are you a fan of PEEPS? Easter sweets always include PEEPS bunnies and PEEPS chicks. What is your favorite Easter sweet treat?

This is the simplest Easter Recipe and Easter Craft that can be made quickly.

1. First  you make some cupcakes. Use any cupcake recipe - we use our easy Best Ever Cupcake recipe. The recipe is for Chocolate which can be made Vanilla by just omitting the cocoa powder or purchase cupcakes from your favorite bakery. 
2. Bake the cupcakes, cool and frost with your favorite frosting. We do use the Best Buttercream Frosting.
3. Add your favorite PEEPS to the top of the cupcake. 

If you want to make the cupcake even fancier, buy cupcake wraps (mine are green Easter eggs)  and wrap around the cupcake liner. Add ribbon around the cupcake and make a bow. Very easy!

Do you have any favorite Easter Recipes or Easter Crafts? If so, add them to my Recipes for the Holidays Pinterest Board or my Easter Treats & Recipes Board.

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Easter Recipes Easter Crafts and Easter Treats Link Party

Time for a new holiday party! Share any of your Easter Recipes, Easter Crafts and Easter Treats to the below Link Party.

Share anything related to Easter! I can't wait to see your treats, crafts and other ideas. I will randomly add them pins to my Easter Treats & Crafts Pinterest Board. As a special treat, If you add anything that involves PEEPS I will pin that to my special board, PEEPS Easter FUN.


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Easter Goodies in a Jar

We love Easter and Springtime at my home! Spring brings brighter colors, lighter recipes and more healthier family outdoor activities like hiking.

Hop to it and create this very tasty project with your kids! This is a fun gift in a jar idea which can be made and shared. I love the fact that PEEPS are around for most major holidays so this recipe can be used if you substitue the sweet bunnies for hearts, ghost,etc. You can also grab seasonal M&Ms for this project, too! If you make these jars to giveaway, make sure to create one for your Easter meal!


Holiday in a Jar (click to go to printable)

Ingredients

1 package graham crackers, crushed
8 PEEPS
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 cups M & Ms
1 Mason Jar with lid

Directions

Mix together graham crackers and brown sugar. Pour into jar.
Take PEEPS and put them all around the inside of the jar.
Pour in M&Ms and seal jar.

Copy the below instructions and tie to jar with a pretty matching ribbon!

Jar Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F
Empty jar contents into a bowl.
Cut PEEPS into small pieces
Add 1/2 cup of melted butter
Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla
Mix well.
Pat into a greased 8 X 8 baking dish
Bake for 15-20 minutes.
Let cool completely and then cut into bars.

My 12 year old did these all on her own. She made the jar at Girl Scouts and then came home and baked the treats. They were tasty!  We decided that once baked, this recipe would be tasty broken up over ice cream!!  Enjoy and have fun doing these for other holidays! HOP to it!

Here is our Easter Smore with PEEPS idea, too!

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Tasty Easter and Cinco de Mayo Menu

Welcome back to Menu Planning Monday! Thanks to all who stopped in and even linked up! Remember you can link up any menu or recipe. If you have a menu plan link up, feel free to leave that in the links too! Have a great week!


DUH! It isn't MAY! It is April. Oh well we are going to have Cinco de April and then again in Mayo! hahaha My hubby set me straight! 


Monday- Thai Peanut Noodles & fresh fruit kabobs
Tuesday-Cajun Chicken Pasta (recipe & picture posted later today) & a huge salad
Wednesday-DON'S MEXICAN SALAD (getting ready for tomorrow!)
Thursday-HAPPY CINCO de MAYO! Chicken Tostada Salad with Salsa Verde and Happy Margarita drink
Friday-Texas Straw Hat (still celebrating!)
Saturday-Speedy Sausage Muffins
Dessert- (making these for Easter breakfast at Church)
Cinnamon Rolls 
Coffee Cake
Focaccia (Easter Dinner with friends)


Easter Recipes


I've linked up at OrgJunkie's Menu Plan Monday link up.

I will pin some of the below post on Pinterest as I have time during the week! If you do pin my post, please leave a comment and I will be sure to get yours pinned. Thanks! Have a super week.

Before you go shopping, check out my new, Monday printable coupons & deals.

Pinterest Easter Egg Hop

How often do you check out Pinterest? There are so many ideas that I could spend hours just looking at them each day! Here are a few of my favorite Easter Egg ideas as well as more on my Easter Pinterest Board. What are some of your favorite Pinterest Easter ideas? 

• Easter Egg Pops-quick and easy, kid-friendly Easter treat by me, Susie QT pies
• Are your eggs good or bad? Please check before dyeing your eggs by Crystal & Co
• Layered Easter Jar of Goodies- This is easy to make for a gift and the baked product is so tasty! My daughter made these herself.  

• Please follow my boards on Pinterest- SusieQTpies Cafe and see what all I have shared for Easter.

Spring and Easter Crafty Recipe Blog Hop

(Click, EASTER EGG POPS to get the easy-to-do recipe)

Happy Friday!

What a busy week! I love ending the week with my Happy Friday Blog Link! Today the theme is Spring and Easter! Link up anything related to spring and Easter. It can be crafts, recipes, spring cleaning tips, other blog link ups related to this theme, etc. The only rule is for you to have FUN! Feel free to spread the news to the usually places like Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook! Don't keep this party a secret!

Have a great day! As time permits I will visit and follow, Tweet, Facebook, Google+, and Pin your post on Pinterest, too! This linky will run through May so stop back over anytime to add new links and feel free to take the code and add it to your blog. It is a blog hop so all are welcome to play along.


 FYI LINKY TOOLS had a MAJOR hard drive crash on Friday. If you stop in, just please leave your links in the comments and then I will add them in once it is working, hopefully soon! Thank you!