Easter baskets, spring nature table

[Think of Winter]

Whatcha making? I need ideas quick! Easy projects a plus

[Tummy]

We made Easter 'Buckets' last night.

We were going to an egg hunt today and I just found out about it on Thursday night. Very busy few days, did not have time to get baskets. So, last night we went to the 'Dollar Tree'. We were going to just get quick already made baskets, THEN, my girls had the brilliant idea to get beach buckets and decorate them. I was THRILLED!

We left with 4 buckets (each with a shovel), 5 different flower bunches, stickers and such... spent only $15!

The girls had a BLAST decorating their buckets, I hot glued their flowers on wherever they wanted. In fact, they took a few of the flowers apart and re-constructed them with different colored petals. It was beautiful! I will have to upload the photos and share them.

The most exciting thing for them (and me) is that they got to use their buckets for the egg hunt today (and were able to hold MANY eggs, as well as receiving many compliments on their 'baskets'), but they also have beach buckets with beautiful flowers on them. They are uber excited to go beaching now!

[FillingMyQuiver]

I'm wet felting eggs to hold some treats, like some spring Ostheimer wooden animals.

I'm making each kiddo a root child from "The Nature Corner" and *maybe* a flower child if I have the time. These will go in the felted eggs, too.

I'm making bonnets for my 2 girls from this adorable bunny toile remnant I found at JoAnns a while back, and my 2 boys will get some flannel lounge pants.

I *may* knit them each a lamb marionette in the current Living Crafts mag, depends on how ambitious I get.

Their baskets will be rounded out by a new toothbrush for each and maybe some child's "gardening" tools I saw at WalMart last week (a plastic set of a rake, shovel, hoe.)

[mamababamba]

We made beautiful tie dyed paper flowers tonight using the leftover egg dye. We had made up dye with food coloring. After coloring the eggs we took basket size paper coffee filters, folded them and crunched some in balls. Then we dipped them in different colors, let them sit on a paper bag and about five minutes later opened them and let them dry on the dish racks for only another 15 minutes or so. Then we layered about four of them and twisted them at the base until they looked like pretty flowers. We had some green pipe cleaners on hand but sticks or straws might work fine too for stems. Wish we had done some tissue paper too perhaps.....

[mamababamba]

We didn't make these....but I found a beautiful precut geode that was tied together with a rubberband at a crystal shop. It was the size of a russet potato and incredibly beautiful inside compared to our past geode experiments. They also happened to have wooden eggs that are hollow and work as musical shakers. Somewhere else I saw felted wool egg shakers....ds and dh are allergic to wool though....I would love to make these.