Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts

Easter Gifts

Well Easter is always a fun time away for our family. We go to Katoomba Easter Convention with family and friends. It's a great time to spend together, celebrating Jesus death and resurrection which gives us such a great hope. I'm hoping to blog about the excellent talks we heard this year but I'll never do them justice - so just go and download them

This year I thought I'd be a bit creative and make my Easter gifts.

My inspiration came from this lovely website. My don't look quite as good but never mind. The jars were so easy, found them at a $2 shop and filled them with my favourite kind of eggs. The ribbons just made them look like I put some effort in! 
I thought the bunny tails I found here were hilarious.  I found the clear cellophane bags at a $2 shop and just printed the header onto card and coloured it in. The tails are marshmallows. I even included a little note that no bunnies were harmed in the creation of them, just to reassure my sister-in-law who has a very cute pet rabbit who is a well loved member of the family. 
Added a few other goodies and put them all in a nicely styled brown paper bag and job done. Easter gifts for 2012 I declare to be a success.



Stained Glass Windows

Another craft day at the Velladrome.

I had an extra child so I was keen on "no-mess" craft. This was perfect. I really like that there is no glue involved. Apart from when one of the kids decided it'd be fun to throw the whole tub of little bits of square tissue paper all over the floor we were completely mess-free!

I used tissue paper instead of cellophane, worked just as well.

The most frustrating part is trying to keep the kids entertained whilst separating the contact from the protective covering but apart from that it was really fun and I was surprised how well the kids managed it (16 -18 months).

Check it out at: http://www.craftscope.com/stained-glass-window/