Hoppy Easter Everyone!

Did everyone have a good Easter?  We had lots of fun here in our household.  Last night we planted our magical jellybean and left carrots for the Easter Bunny.

Overnight the magical jellybean grew into a pinwheel and the Easter Bunny ate his carrots and left some goodies.  My daughter was was amazed that a pinwheel grew from the jellybean she planted!

It was beautiful and warm outside, so after breakfast we hunted for eggs.

P had a hard time opening her eggs with her hands, so she improvised by sitting on them to crack them open.  It was hysterical!  Here is what she found inside her eggs.  Of course we took some time to practice naming her letters and producing their corresponding sounds!

Well that was only part of our morning.  I could go on and on, but I don't want to bore you any further  I just wanted to wish you all a Hippity Hoppity Easter!!  It was a wonderful day to sum up my break!

Also, I found the magical jellybean idea on a fabulous blog that you can find here.  This will definitely become Easter tradition in our household!  Do you have a fun Easter tradition that you do with your family?

~ Mrs. Mc

Candy Saturday

I wanted to do a Saturday food post this week, and since today is the day before Easter - What choice to I have but to post pictures of Candy? What's your favorite Easter Candy? What's your favorite candy of all time?




Happy Easter!

What's up...

Even though the weather has been less than desirable with the cold and rain, I am enjoying my week off!  I have been trying to soak up every ounce of my princess as possible!!

Because we have been stuck inside more than I would like, we have had the opportunity to do some crafts in preparation of Easter.

These crafts are from some of my favoirte blogs that you should check out if you haven't already.  You can find the links here:

Paper Easter Egg Hunt

Cardboard Bunnies and Lamb

Handprint Chick

She has also been practicing identifying her lower case letters in different ways, including the Barrel of Monkeys activity I posted about here.

Although I am trying to not think about school, it is pretty much impossible!  I have found some great activities on your blogs that I have printed and cannot wait to put to use.  I have also been busy creating a game to play with my 3rd graders to help prepare them for certain areas of the NYS ELA Assessment, which they will be taking one week after we return from break.

Off to go color some eggs!!

~ Mrs. Mc

"E" is for Easter!

Hi Everyone~ I hope you'll join my Alice's Tea Party April 18-22 for a giveaway a day! If you would like to grab a button for your blog, feel free to do so.

Jenny of Alphabet Thursday allowed us to choose any letter of the alphabet this week to post~so mine is E for Easter and I wanted to show you some pieces that are in my Etsy shop.

If you'd like to see a close-up, just click on any picture.

Have a wonderful day!!!

XO

Cindy

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SomeBUNNY Loves You Craft

My lil’ one came down with a cold over the weekend, so I tried to lift her spirits by keeping her busy with a little Easter bunny craft. We bought this kit at Target for $5 (it came with about 8 foam eggs, lots of pre-cut foam stickers, sequins, glitter glue, etc…).

We used her hand to make the bunny with paint.  I then added the face, words, and some ribbon to the ears.  She finished it up by adding the stickers and sequins around the egg. (Don’t mind the snowman shirt and the tutu, she insists on dressing herself nowadays and this was only her fourth outfit for the day.)

Now we just need to get them all in the mail to brighten the days of some of our family!

~ Mrs. Mc

A Shabby Chic Easter!

Shabby Chic Easter Pails (with burlap) and tag

Graphics from Dezinaworld.

As most of you know, I design for Shabby Cottage Studio and Dezinaworld--two fabulous online stores where you can find all kinds of amazing graphics at awesome prices.

Shabby Chic Tags and Easter Egg--

Graphics from Shabby Cottage Studio

I just created special Easter goodies and I wanted to share them with you as they are now in my Etsy shop!

And if you want to get started making your own decorations, please give these 2 shops a visit--I know you'll be glad you did!

I hope you have a beautiful weekend. Sending (((hugs))) your way,

Cindy

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