We've got a long weekend and I'm in the mood to get crafty. Preparing for holidays is always a fun time in our house when we can slow down and do some craft activities together. My kids love this and the crafts don't have to be complicated.
Making Easter Eggs is a great craft to do with kids because it can be tailored to be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be for different ages, abilities and crafty proclivities ??” meaning I can really get into it with my own creations.
Below I've rounded up a bunch of links to great Easter egg craft ideas, but this first link is to a delicious looking recipe for some Purim
Hamantaschen. If you don't know about the Jewish holiday Purim, you can read about it on the 92nd St. Y site which
tells the story.
Purim is one of the few Jewish holidays that's really a kids' holiday.
Easter Egg Making Tips and Craft Ideas:
Parent Hacks has tips on
dying Easter eggs with toddlers.
Whip Up blog has a beautiful round-up of
Easter egg making craft ideas on other blogs including felted eggs.
Gowanus Lounge reports on a new local television show called "
A Little Bit of Brooklyn" which focuses on the ethnic enclaves of Brooklyn. This Saturday's episode will focus on Greenpoint and a Polish Easter with a demonstration on how to make the beautiful Polish Easter Eggs. Set your Tivos for Saturday channel 21 at 7:30 pm
Ohdeedoh has this recipe for making your own
Easter Egg chalk.
Fill your Easter baskets with easy
microwave peanut butter cups recipe from the Daily News.
Slash Food has the recipes to
Make Your own Natural Egg Dyes. I did this one year and although it was a lot more work than popping in a Paas tab, it's a cool science lesson for kids and the eggs turn out beautifully. Another thing I love doing is using brown eggs because even if you just use regular store bought dye, the eggs get more muted tones and look very Martha.
For more Easter craft ideas, check out Family Fun's
huge list of articles.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Anna Fader
Founder & CEO of Mommy Poppins
Anna was born in Park Slope, spent her early years in the West Village. By the time she graduated high school, she had lived in 4 of the 5 boroughs. Growing up in NYC in the '70s meant the streets were her playgrounds. Museums and avant garde music venues were the kid-friendly activities. And living downtown taught her the importance of creating community for families in NYC.
Now, raising her own two children in the city, she tries to create the same sense of magic and community she felt growing up, despite today's more commercialized version of kid-friendly New York.
She started Mommy Poppins in 2007 to share a more artsy, educational, uncommercial, community-oriented vision of raising kids in New York City. Today Mommy Poppins is relied on by millions of families as the authority on the best things to do with kids beyond New York City: from Boston to Philly, Los Angeles, Houston and travel guides for dozens more cities and destinations.
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