I think Easter is my favorite holiday. I love what we are celebrating – the resurrection of Jesus. I love the decorations and spring colors. I love the visions of new life – flowers, eggs, baby animals.  I love the warm sunny days.

And I love Easter crafts.

The other day I actually prepared the night before and had two crafts ready for the kids when they woke up. They could make little carrots from pipe cleaners which was fast and easy and pretty successful. I also had paper plates out that they could cut and glue and make into bunny masks. Pear decided to watercolor her bunny mask.

We also made bunny bookmarks I found from Martha Stewart. The night before Basha’s class’ Easter party I decided we should make one for each of his classmates. Luckily there are only 10 kids in his class because they took me a good deal longer than I was counting on. But they are cute and he was excited about them.

Of course we also dyed eggs. In the process, we managed to dye our fingers and arms too. One of these days we’ll do a natural version of egg dying. I think Basha would be intrigued by the science of it. But this year we stuck with the kits.

I have a long list of other crafts. Perhaps those will keep us busy over spring break, which just started. The craft I’m most looking forward to is yarn eggs we could hang from our little tree out front. I would be tempted to leave those up forever. Perhaps they’ll find a home hanging somewhere in our house. The kids new room does need some more color.