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Easter Baskets 2007

Trula — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:47:00 +0000

It snowed heavily here the Saturday before Easter and neither me nor Mercury Man wanted to go to the store to get Easter goodies…we kept putting it off. I usually make their baskets but kept putting that off as well. Long story short I went to bed intending to lay down for a little bit then get up and go to the store, make the baskets, etc. (we have a 24-hour grocery store here) only to sleep straight through till morning. We woke up to the boys knocking on our door plaintively saying Happy Easter. T-bop said to me, Mom I know I’m too big to believe in the Easter Bunny but why didn’t he come this year? Oh my word, I felt so bad. I told him that the Easter Bunny wasn’t used to traveling in bad weather; he must have gotten held up because of the storm.

Mercury Man went to the store while I stalled for time. I didn’t have time to make the regular boxes that I do so I made some goody bags with handles out of store plastic bags. I taped a banner with their name on it and a photo, and filled the bottom of each bag with balled up newspaper for support, then covered that with shredded paper for ‘grass’. I used 2 plastic bags for each bag base and 4 bags twisted together for the handles. It took me about 15 minutes to make all 3 bags. Then filled with candy, fruit, and play stuff like bubbles.

I set them on the couch on the porch and Mercury man made a big deal of thumping about, then we called the kids downstairs and told them we heard something on the porch. They go look and find their baskets. They were too happy! Then after going through their bags told us how obvious and corny we were, ha ha. S-bop was like, Mom, you gott learn to be subtle. Ha!

Then later went over my in-laws. Overall it was a nice relaxing day, an enjoyable Easter. It snowed Easter, too, all day long, which sucked, but oh well.

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Cheap & Crafty Easter Baskets

Trula — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:31:00 +0000

Here are the easter baskets I made for my kids last year, out of cardboard boxes, pics of the kids, crayons, newspaper, and blue duct tape. I started making these about 5 years ago because we were broke one easter and could not afford baskets, and they were such a hit I made them every year since (click to see big):

Basically you get a cardboard box like a shoebox or a box some food came in, something like that, or make a box out of cardboard and duct tape. Then for the handle cut some newspaper pages into strips. I can get 3 strips to one page. Then tape 3-5 strips together at the top. Next, take 3 bundles of strips together and braid them. Then duct tape both ends so they stay together.

Next, poke holes in the ends of your baskets. Stick a duct-taped end of yoru newspaper braid in each hole. Apply more tape so the ends are secure in the hole.

Now decorate your box. I put a photo of the child on both sides of the box, and their name in big letters. I either print up the name or draw it, depends on if I have ink in my printer that Easter, ha. You can also use stickers, draw pictures, glue on pics from magazines of stuff they like, whatever. Be creative.

Then fill the box with fake grass, real grass, newspaper grass, whatever you have available. Some years we had leftover fake grass so I used that, some years I used real grass. Since it’s snowing outside this year I think I’ll make fake grass out of newspaper. I just color a big sheet of newspaper with green crayon, then cut it up into strips. Ooooooh, I just remembered Mercury Man’s shredder!! So I will just run the newspaper through that, I won’t color it with crayon though.

Next add some hard-boiled decorated eggs, candy, homemade cookies, sticker sheets, whatever you do for your kids. I usually do mostly candy but also stocking stuffer kind of stuff.

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