Easter Treats and Crafts

Sweet Treats & Easter Funtivities

Can't wait to overdose on chocolate eggs this weekend!

Here are a few adorable Easter crafts and delicious Easter treats...

DIY Nail Polish Marbled Eggs

These are straight-up awesome (from the Henry Happened blog)

All you need are eggs, some fun nail polish colors, a plastic cup of room temperature water (note: the polish won't work if the water is too cold or too hot), toothpicks, and nail polish remover (to clean up your hands when you're done)...

1. Drop lots of nail polish into the water (if the nail polish sinks, the temperature isn't right). Spread and swirl the polish out over the top of the water using a toothpick:

2. Hold the egg between your fingers, dunk the egg straight into the water, hold it for a second, then bring it up. The polish will cover about half of the egg. Set the egg down and let it dry:

How cool are these?!

Hydrangea Cupcakes

These may or may not be the prettiest cupcakes of all time (from the Glorious Treats blog)

First things first, make your cupcakes and frosting (whatever you like - but make sure your frosting is white, and therefore dye-able). Color your frosting half purple and half blue (try to match to a real hydrangea).

NOTE: Make sure your frosting is thick - it must be stiff to hold the flower shape.

Fill the piping bag with both colors, side by side. Use a Wilton 2D tip (a large closed star tip) and pipe large loose stars around the edges and in the center. To stiffen frosting, if necessary, put it in the fridge for 20 minutes.

Adorable for Easter or a spring party

Easter Jelly Bean Flower Arrangement

Doubles as an Easter centerpiece and a candy jar!

Three easy steps to make this cute flower vase:

1. Buy two vases (one small enough to fit in the larger one with space around it):

2. Place the small one inside the large one and fill the space in between with jelly beans:

3. Fill the smaller vase with water and add your flowers!

Rice Krispies Treats Easter Eggs

Cute? Yes. Easy? Yes. Delicious? Yes.

From the Three Kids and Us blog

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup of butter
• 4 cups mini marshmallows
• 7 cups of Rice Krispies cereal
• Plastic Easter eggs

Recipe:

1. Melt 4 tablespoons of butter and 4 cups of mini marshmallows over a low heat and add 7 cups of Rice Krispies. Mix well.
2. Coat the inside of your plastic Easter eggs with non-stick cooking spray. Stuff the plastic eggs with warm Rice Krispies Treat mix. Let them cool and sit for 10 minutes - for a special touch, fill the center of the Rice Krispies Treat eggs with candy!
3. Remove the treats from the plastic eggs. You can dip the treats in Wilton candy melts (they have really cute Easter colors) and roll them in sprinkles.