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Bunny Crafts!

5 Apr

Y’all are going to think I am crazy to be posting today, but if I don’t keep myself busy in this hospital, I will be busy worrying about the Happy Baby! :-)

So, I have been hopping around Pinterest like a little bunny and found some fun Easter Bunny Crafts for you to do in these final days before our celebration on Sunday.

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Mom, if you are reading this post, will you please do this awesome Marshmallow Painted Easter Bunny Craft from No Time for Flashcards with the Happy Buddy?? :-)

Thanks for taking such good care of him while we are hanging with the Happy Baby!

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Simply Modern Mom made these adorable Easter Bunny Candy Pouches made out of paper!

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This Bunny Treat Shaker from Toddler Approved is a musical instrument AND a snack!

Two of the Happy Buddy’s favorite things! :-)

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With a little felt and some small jingly bells, your Happy Buddy can hop to the Egg Hunt in style with these Rabbit Feet Shoe Decorations from Family Fun.

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Go on an Easter picnic and pack everything in these great Bunny Bags found at Good Housekeeping made from a white paper lunch bag and some construction paper.

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The Happy Buddy and I crafted this Handprint Bunny Wreath together last year!

What a precious keepsake!  Check it out HERE.

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Experimenting Mom made these fun Hopping Easter Bunnies using some felt and pipe cleaners.

Her Happy Buddy had so much fun with it he didn’t want to go to bed!

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Secrets of a Supermommy dressed her Happy Buddies up in these simple paper Bunny Ears and then used a little black eyeliner to give them whiskers.

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I think that knowing How to Draw a Bunny is a super important skill for you to know this Easter season.

You never know when your Happy Buddy might ask you how – we must be prepared!

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The Larson Lingo had a special visit from the Easter Bunny after they got home from church on Easter Sunday.

Plus, if you need Proof that the Easter Bunny Exists, go HERE.

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I am loving these NoBunny Loves You Like Jesus Tags from Detail-Oriented Diva!

They would make wonderful additions to your Happy Buddy’s Easter basket.

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Wouldn’t this be a hilarious treat for your Happy Buddies to enjoy this weekend?

Find the instructions for Bunny Butt Sundaes at D.I.Y. Louisville.

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Or make a Bunny Butt Sundae for your Happy Hubby and leave it for him to find beside this clever Easter Love Note from Craftaholics Anonymous.

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Speaking of the Happy Hubby… A few years ago I made him Easter Bunny Pancakes that were easy and he loved them!

Check it out HERE.

P.S. Most of you know by now that my heart is to keep Christ the center of our Happy Home, but I fully believe in the abundant life Jesus died for us to have.  Making fun bunny crafts this time of year is okay with me – as long as my Happy Buddies are well aware of what’s Beyond the Bunny.

Besides, God made those fluffy little animals to be super pro-creators, a symbol of what our great God is in the business of doing!

Happy Bunny Craft-ing! :-)

An Easy Easter Craft – Bunny Love

3 Apr

The Happy Buddy and I made a fun little Paper Plate Bunny Craft the other day.

What you will need:

  • A picture of your Happy Buddy
  • Paper plate
  • White and pink construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Cotton balls (lots of them!)

Directions:Glue your Happy Buddy’s face to the center of the paper plate.

Glue cotton balls around the outer edge of the paper plate.Cut bunny ears from the white construction paper.Cut the inner part of the ear from the pink construction paper.

Glue the pink ears to the white ears.Glue cotton balls to the ears and attach to the paper plate.

I added a little pink pom-pom nose because I thought it looked cute. :-) Include a little note and then take it to some-BUNNY special in your Happy Buddy’s world.

Happy Bunny Love-ing! :-)

The Jellybean Date

2 Apr

Last night the Happy Hubby and I had a chance to have one last date night before we become a Happy Home of 4!

I had a game planned for us to play while we waited for our food.

I found these adorable little bags of Jelly Belly Jelly Beans in the Dollar Bins at Target.

The idea of the game is to feed mystery flavors to your partner and vice versa.  If you guess the flavor correctly – you win a point!

I (you’re going to think I am crazy) am not a big fan of jellybeans, so the Happy Hubby was a trooper and just let me feed him random flavors while I took pictures of his reactions.

He wasn’t very good at guessing the flavors, but his facial expressions were pretty awesome. :-) First, I popped a Lemon Lime jelly bean in his mouth.

He was pretty pleased with the taste, but he guessed the flavor to be Cotton Candy.Next I gave him a Toasted Marshmallow jelly bean.

He was not quite as thrilled with that one.That’s my hand popping a Chocolate Pudding jelly bean in his mouth.

He was rather horrified by that one’s flavor.

He felt the need to ‘cleanse his palate’ with a loaf of bread.

I laughed so hard I think I almost went into labor!! :-)

Maybe you and your Happy Hubby will enjoy The Jellybean Date, as well.

Simply grab a small bag of beans and have fun!When it’s all over, don’t forget to turn to your man and say, “Thanks for BEAN my date, babe!”

Happy Jellybean Date-ing! :-)

Resurrection Eggs for Toddlers

1 Apr

I love the idea of doing Resurrection Eggs, but with the 12 eggs and sometimes a little complex parts of the story, I have always imagined us doing them when the Happy Buddy is a bit older.

When I saw these Resurrection Eggs for Toddlers, however, in the March/April edition of Thriving Family, I knew I had to try them out in our Happy Home.

With just 6 eggs, a simple story-telling sentence for each, and easy peasy items to go inside, these Resurrection Eggs for Toddlers are so doable!

And so much fun!Gather 6 different-colored plastic Easter eggs.In the first egg, place a bread crumb.

Jesus ate dinner with his friends.  Luke 22:14-15

In the 2nd egg, place a cross (we just used a sticker we had in our stash).

The next day Jesus died on the cross.  John 19:17-18

In the 3rd egg, place a strip of cloth (we used a piece of tissue).

He was wrapped in cloth and placed in a tomb.  John 19:40

For the fourth egg, go outside and pick out the coolest rock you can find.

A stone was placed in front of the tomb.  Matthew 27:59-60

Leave the fifth egg empty.

Jesus’ friends came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been moved.  The tomb was empty!  Luke 24:1-3

Fill the 6th and final egg with a sweet treat.

We did M&Ms in our case because that’s the Happy Buddy’s idea of a major food group.

Jesus is alive!  That’s the sweet surprise of Easter.  Matthew 28:5-6

Here is a helpful guide to use when sharing these Resurrection Eggs with your toddler…

And I thought I’d share a few images of the Happy Buddy as we walked through the Gospel together. :-) One of my favorite moments was when the Happy Buddy did something that communicated his full understanding of the Easter message he had just received.

He dug through his ‘treat’ egg, picked out all of the yellow M&M’s, and gave them to me – because yellow is my favorite color.

Talk about a sacrifice!

“This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” 1 John 4:10

Happy Resurrection Eggs for Toddlers-ing! :-)

Easter Lunchbox Love Notes – FREE Printable!

31 Mar

I love sneaking little reminders of our Happy Home into the Happy Buddy’s lunchbox.

A special treat, a plastic egg filled with an Easter Bunny mini eraser, a love note…

Here is a set of 8 Easter Lunchbox Love Notes that I made using some cute holiday-themed stickers I had on hand.

You could totally slip one of these notes into 8 different plastic Easter eggs and hide them for a super encouraging Egg Hunt. :-)

For personal use only, please!  I pray they bless your Happy little Buddies!Click HERE for your FREE Printable Easter Lunchbox Love Notes!

Happy Easter Lunchbox Love Note-ing! :-)

Egg-citing Egg Hunt Ideas

30 Mar

Some of my favorite Easter memories included driving to my Mom-Mom’s house (about an hour away) after Sunday services in order to celebrate the holiday with our extended family.

My Mom-Mom and Aunts would organize a little Easter Egg Hunt for my cousins and me.

I loved the sweet thrill of finding one of those cheery bright eggs in her front yard – and then sitting on the front steps after my basket was full to open my eggs and go through the loot! :-)

Now the Happy Hubby’s Grandmommy hosts an egg hunt each year for all of her great-grands (the Happy Buddy included), so that’s where we are headed next week.  I can’t wait for the Happy Buddy to experience that same thrill!

She puts money (nickels, dimes, quarters, dollar bills) in the eggs along with candy.  She also hides a golden egg and whoever finds that wins a giant stuffed toy.  So fun!

While we wait for that day to arrive, I thought about trying out one of these other super cool and innovative Egg Hunt Ideas…

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Family Fun featured this neat tradition from a family who wakes up on Easter morning to a Maze of Yarn all over their Happy Home!

The Happy Buddies have to follow their designated piece of yarn as it winds to and fro, eventually ending up at their Easter basket full of eggs.

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A Subtle Revelry used streamers instead of yarn for her Happy Home’s egg hunt!

Each hidden egg is attached to a streamer that stretches throughout the house.

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How about a Trail of Jellybeans leading your Happy Buddy to his hidden eggs on Easter Sunday?

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The creative mama over at Gluesticks filled some eggs with her Happy Buddy’s Lunch Items and then hid the eggs!

Once all the eggs were found, they sat down and dined!

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This idea is SO COOL.

Growing a Jeweled Rose created an Easter Egg Hunt for her Happy Buddy in the BATHTUB.

You HAVE to check it out HERE.

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I love the idea of putting Puzzle Pieces in your Happy Buddy’s Easter eggs.

Once he hunts down all of the eggs, he can put a fun puzzle together!

These Personalized Easter Puzzles can be found HERE.

You could even purchase a new Lego set and put the Lego pieces in the eggs as well.

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This is the ULTIMATE Egg Hunt Idea, my friends.

Mommy Savers bought some glowstick bracelets, folded them up, stuck them in eggs and let her Happy Buddies hunt for the glowing eggs in the dark – outside!!

I could totally see kids of all ages having a blast with this!

In fact, a friend of mine told me that she is probably going to do this for her college-aged son and his buddies. :-)   Love that!

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And don’t forget about Happy Home Fairy’s fabulous FREE Printable Easter Morning Scavenger Hunt Cards that have a magical surprise ending!

Go HERE to print your own set!

*Check out my other Egg Hunt Ideas post HERE for even more creative hunting fun!*

Happy Egg-citing Egg Hunt Idea-ing! :-)

The Jellybean Prayer – FREE Printable!

27 Mar

When I was teaching 2nd grade, I had to lead a chapel service at our little school.

It was Easter time, so we decided to do a jellybean theme.

We shared the Gospel Message using a neat Jellybean Prayer.

The kids learned what the different colored jellybeans stood for SO FAST.

I thought I would share the poem we used with you, Happy Home Friends!

I have seen a different version flying around blog world (like THIS ONE or THIS ONE), but I like the simplicity and rhyme of this one.

What a powerful way to teach your Happy Buddies about Jesus!

The Happy Buddy and I layered the jellybean colors according to the poem in an old glass mushroom jar (unfortunately our bag of jellybeans did not have white ones :-( ) and attached the FREE Printable tag you can find at the bottom of this post.

These Jellybean Prayer Jars would make a fun gift to pass out to neighbors, friends and teachers!Or it would make a great Christ-centered addition to your Happy Buddy’s Easter basket.

However you choose to use this FREE Printable Jellybean Prayer, I pray it is a blessing!

Click HERE For your FREE Printable Jellybean Prayer Tag!

Happy Jellybean Prayer-ing! :-)

Egg-cellent Egg Crafts

26 Mar

Looking for a quick and easy project that your Happy Buddies will be egg-static about??

Here is a round-up of Egg-cellent Egg Crafts that are egg-actly what your Happy Home needs. :-)

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First up, Kiboomu shares this super simple (and yummy-looking) Jellybean Easter Egg.

Think thick paper, glue, scissors and lots of jellybeans!  How pretty!

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Or if your Happy Buddies prefer marshmallows, No Time for Flashcards put together this delicious project.

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How much fun are these Bubble Wrap Printed Eggs (also) from No Time for Flashcards?!

Check out the creative and magical tutorial HERE.

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Another great egg painting project can be found at Little Wonders’ Days where they made Shaving Cream Painted Easter Eggs.

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These Confetti Eggs are so happy!

Ceres Childcare put some colorful construction paper through a paper shredder and had her Happy Buddies glue the pieces to an egg-shape.

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The Happy Buddy asks me about 3,405,702,458,602 times a day to play with Play-doh.

How egg-cited is he going to be when I pull out this fabulous Play-doh Easter Egg Craft from Putti Prapancha?

I love the way Putti decorated the eggs with all kinds of neat supplies!

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Just for Fun cut up a bunch of tissue paper squares for her Happy Buddies to glue to an egg-shape.

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Imagine having a beautiful display of these easy-peasy Tie-Dyed Coffee Filter Easter Eggs from The Chocolate Muffin Tree on your front window?

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After viewing this Salad Spinner Easter Egg Craft from Kiboomu I am thoroughly regretting my decision to pitch the salad spinner we got for our wedding!

After 8 years of never using it (because I am all about pre-packaged/pre-washed salad bags), I thought it was just a cabinet space hog.

I had no idea it could create such egg-stravagant art!

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Beautiful colors and interesting textures will make your Happy Buddies senses go wild when they make these Textured Easter Eggs from Gummy Lump.

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Finally, this Contact Paper Egg Craft transformed into a garland from Four Flights of Fancy is so lovely.

And egg-stremely simple to make – your Happy Buddies will have a blast!

Basically, if you have a piece of paper cut into an egg shape, as well as some glue and a bunch of cool art supplies, you can create an Easter Egg Craft that is egg-stra fun.

After all that inspiration, I hope you find a craft that you can egg-strapolate from this post (I had to crack open a dictionary for that one). :-)

Happy Egg-cellent Egg Craft-ing! :-)

Toilet Paper Roll Bunnies

24 Mar

I’m stock-piling the tp rolls around here!

Look at all of the adorable bunnies you can create with them!

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I am loving the cheery look of this Cardboard Tube Bunny Family from Crafts by Amanda.

We all know that bunnies like to multiply, so you really can’t make just one anyway! :-)

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Aren’t these Toilet Paper Roll Bunnies from Sweet and Lovely Crafts adorable?

I’ll bet if you closed the bottom up, you could fill them with Easter treats!  What a clever way to bless someone this month.

I’ll bet your pastor would love to find one of these as a surprise on his desk (with a note that says, “We’re so HOPPY you are our pastor!”)!

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Ziggity Zoom smartly used toilet paper rolls to make Bunny Egg Holders.

What a great display!

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This little TP Bunny from TPcraft.com makes my heart melt – adorable!

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Dress up your Easter Brunch table with this fun Bunny Napkin Ring from Ramblings of a Crazy Woman.

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Or you could make these Bunny Napkin Holders from Busy Bee Crafts.

The ears are the napkins – brilliant!

*For even MORE creative ways to set out napkins this Easter, hop over HERE.*

Happy Toilet Paper Roll Bunny-ing! :-)

Snack Ideas to Celebrate the Easter Story

23 Mar

Breaking bread together is a great way to connect with your Happy Home.

And when that ‘bread’ is presented in a fun and interesting way – who knows what kind of learning and fellowship can occur?!

So here are a few creative snacks to assist you in teaching your Happy Buddies about the events that occurred during Jesus’ final days.

SNACK IDEA FOR MAUNDY THURSDAY

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Did you know that the pretzel is a symbol of prayer?

Many years ago, Christians would cross their arms and touch each shoulder with their opposite hands when they prayed.  A pretzel (when turned upside down) is designed to look like arms crossed in prayer.

Jesus spent a great deal of time praying in the Garden of Gethsemane on the night before he was crucified.

You could make a batch of these simple pretzels (recipe uses refrigerated crescent dough) to talk about that evening.

You can read about Jesus’ prayer in the garden in Luke 22:39-46.

SNACK IDEAS FOR GOOD FRIDAY

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On the Friday of his death, the Roman soldiers made Jesus a Crown of Thorns to wear.

One more example of the suffering He endured on our behalf.

This recipe uses just 3 ingredients to help your Happy Buddies consider the sacrifice Jesus made for us.

Read about the crown in John 19:2.  And then read about the better crown we all will receive because of what Jesus did in James 1:12.

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Another easy snack to inspire thoughtful discussion on Jesus’ death would be to make Hot Cross Buns.

This recipe uses refrigerated dough as the base and a sweet, simple homemade icing to make a shape of a cross.

Find more about Jesus’ work on the cross in Philippians 2:5-11.

SNACK IDEA FOR SATURDAY

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This recipe for Resurrection Cookies is a wonderful tool for teaching your Happy Buddies the Easter message.

What’s so neat about these cookies is that you must make them on the evening before Easter Sunday.  They sit in the oven overnight only to reveal a glorious and exciting (and yummy) result in the morning!

This post has the recipe, plus lots of Scripture references and a devotion (and ADORABLE pictures) to help share the truth about Easter – cookie style.

SNACK IDEAS FOR EASTER SUNDAY

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I love this easy-peasy Empty Tomb Cake found HERE.

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Or these super decadent Empty Tomb Treats from HERE.

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And, of course, there are always these wonderful Resurrection Rolls here at Happy Home Fairy.

“He is not here; he has risen, just as he said!” Matthew 28:6

Who needs Easter candy when there are so many more meaningful ways to indulge this season?

Happy Easter Snack-ing! :-)

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