Poor Chocolate Easter Bunny!

The kids each received a special Easter bunny from their Great Grandma. One of the kids commented that “this is my very first chocolate Easter bunny EVER!” Yes you read right. My kids are all school age and they have never had their own chocolate Easter bunny. This is not really because I have anything against chocolate Easter bunnies, but more because I am a disorganized mom that does not remember to purchase them ahead of time. The kids have Easter baskets each year, but the tradition of adding a chocolate bunny seems to have missed our house.

Apparently this little guy should have come with bold instructions reading…”Hi my name is Fluffy and I will melt if placed by a sunny window!” Bummer! Thankfully my sweet little girl had a good attitude and was OK with the bunnies new look. I am so thankful to be blessed with flexible kiddos.

Oil Pastel Easter Egg

Annika is into drawing Easter eggs at the moment. She seems to go in cycles of what she creates. Right now since we are gearing up for Easter, her creative energy leans to Easter eggs. She chose oil pastels for this simple project. They are perfect since they are easy to use and come in a variety of bright colors.

I love this bright rainbow Easter egg.

I found this simple picture frame and added a few hooks to it. It is now the perfect spot to hang our keys. We change the picture out with seasonal kid artwork. It makes me smile each time I reach for a set of keys.

Building with Egg Cartons

My sweet Brother-in-law brought me a HUGE armload of egg cartons a while ago. Love it! We will be using them to house our fresh eggs when we give them away. However at the rate our chickens are laying we will never run out of cartons:) We decided to try building with egg cartons, and the kids designed a fun fort.

Bree counted 83 egg cartons! Time for a project.

There are so many fun things to do with egg cartons. We often use them as our painting pallets and they are perfect for creating fun crafts. However since this was the first time that we had such a large quantity of them we decided to build a big fort.

They even built a cute little window.

I love how much they love playing together. There was lots of fun giggles as we were creating. They had to cut a few of the cartons in half in order to keep everything stable. I love watching them problem solve.

Our inspiration came from this amazing house and tank made out of egg cartons! You should go check them out they are amazing!

I would love to hear how you like to up-cycle your egg cartons.

Funny Bunny Faces Game

Easter is right around the corner, so I decided to create a fun bunny drawing game. I was inspired by this game. My kiddos love drawing, although I often hear “I don’t know how to draw a…”. This silly game is designed to be fun and help kids realize that there is not just one way to draw bunnies. All you need is the Funny Bunny Faces PDF, a dice, paper and a pencil.

Each player takes turns rolling the dice. Start by rolling to decide which style of bunnies cheeks you will be drawing. Once everyone has drawn their cheeks, roll again to decide which face, then nose etc until you have a complete silly bunny face.

The kids struggled a bit to visualize where all the bunnies noses, cheeks etc should be placed, but quickly got the hang of it.

Each bunny is a bit silly, but the kids giggled as their drawing came together.

Hope you enjoy this simple, silly bunny game.

Funny Bunny Game – PDF

Disclaimer: I am super excited to have the Funny Bunny Faces Game printable available for your use. If you would like to share, please share a link to my blog. Please do not link directly to just the PDF files. Please feel free to print the PDF file for your own personal use, but do not sell or host these files anywhere else. Thanks and have fun playing Funny Bunny Faces!

How to Draw a Dog

How to Draw a Dog in 6 Easy Steps

I love when my kids learn something new, they can’t wait to share it with us and everyone that stops by:) They have a crazy amount of enthusiasm, and it is SO contagious. There are so many days I am in giggles because of something that they did or said.

My kids love drawing and telling stories. So when a friend taught them this little trick, they were super excited and had to share it with all you!

Steps 1 and 2

Steps 4 and 5

Steps 5 and 6

How to Draw a Dog Story:

Once there was a little boy and he had no face and no arms.

He went for a walk and got chased by 6 bees.

So he jumped into a lake.

Where there were 2 caves, and each cave had one bear in it.

The boy walked around the forest.

While walking he came across 2 lakes.

What a cute story and I love how the dog turns out. Bree also wanted to make a little video as well. Too fun!

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