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The Sounds of Easter

13 Mar

I have found that worship music helps me keep focused on truth when my lil’ wayward brain wants to dwell and fret on other things.

It’s also especially helpful in bringing some peace to our Happy Home when played softly in the background (for example when things are getting a wee bit hairy during the witching hours that period of time between naps and bedtime).

Or when you’re in the mood for a little impromptu family dance party?  Works like a charm!  (I am not even kidding about this – check out THIS worship song video and y’all will literally dance your shoes off!)

Plus, it is a great way to expose our Happy Buddies to truth, as well.

The other day we were driving in the car to school and we were listening to a song that said “Forgiveness for my sins…”  The Happy Buddy (who had chosen to disobey his daddy before leaving) piped up from his seat in the back, “Mommy, I had a little bit of sin before we left the house today.”

:-)

Easter is the time of reflection on all that Christ did for us – His life, death, and resurrection.

I have picked out a few of my favorite songs that focus especially on these aspects of the Easter season and put them here in a post for your listening pleasure if you choose to download some from iTunes.

I hope you like ‘em!the sounds of easter at happyhomefairy.com

Happy Sounds of Easter-ing! :-)

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Christ-Centered Easter Basket Ideas

12 Mar

christ-centered easter basket ideas at happyhomefairy.com

This year I want the Happy Buddy’s basket to be filled with things that point to Jesus – the true reason we celebrate Easter!

It’s kind of hard, though, to find items like this amidst all the bunnies and chicks and jellybeans at the stores.

(Although I think that hopping chick that poops out gum balls is pretty awesome.)

So I did some digging and found a few ideas that I wanted to share with you in case you want to make a Christ-Centered Easter Basket, too.christian easter basket ideas8

First up, I found this Really Wooly Inspirational Activity Book at Wal-Mart for just a few bucks!

And don’t forget a fun, Easter-themed pencil.  This one says, “Jesus Lives!”  I got it at our local Christian bookstore.

Wondering about the cute Happy Easter Banner that the pencil is poked through?  FREE Printable coming your way very soon {KAPOW!}! :-) christian easter basket ideas5

I found this sweet little Wooden Cross Coloring Craft and book of Inspirational Easter Stickers in the dollar bins at JoAnn’s Arts and Crafts Store.christian easter basket ideas7

The Happy Buddy loooooves worship music and playing his drums.

We got him the latest Hillsong Kids Worship CD to rock out to (which you can get HERE).christian easter basket ideas4

How about a Chocolate Cross instead of a chocolate bunny?

I found this one at Wal-Mart, but I also saw chocolate crosses at the Dollar Tree and Target.christian easter basket ideas2

I picked up this cute picture book at our local Christian bookstore, but you can purchase it HERE.

It tells the Easter Story with adorable illustrations and in an easy-to-read way.christian easter basket ideas3

It wouldn’t be Easter without the Veggie Tales Easter Collection. :-)

If your Happy Home has these DVDs already, I hear that they just came out with a new movie – The Little House That Stood.  You can find it on Amazon HERE.christian easter basket ideas1

Okay so I was searching and searching for a sweet little lamb (to represent Jesus, the lamb who takes away the sins of the world – John 1:29!) to put in the Easter basket, but then I found this lil’ guy.

He is a part of a line of plush toys made by DaySpring called U-NEEKS.  The message behind each funny-looking character is that of Psalm 139 – that they are fearfully and wonderfully made.

This is SPLAT, the bunny. :-)

You can find out more about U-NEEKS HERE, but if you’re looking to buy, check your local Christian bookstore first.  Otherwise, I found a Christian bookstore that sells them on their website HERE.
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We love having several different versions of God’s Word to use during our nightly readings.

I fell in LOVE with the new Jesus Calling Bible Storybook and couldn’t wait to add it to our collection!

The illustrations are STUNNING and I love that this Bible has a wide selection of stories.

You can pick one up HERE for just $11.55!

christian easter basket ideas9And, finally, I threw in a few items from the Christian bookstore that were just silly and fun – a Cross-Shaped Bubble Necklace, a God Loves You Eraser, and some sort of happy musical thing that you blow into.

If it makes noise, the Happy Buddy will like it. :-)

There you have it!

christ-centered easter basket ideasAn Easter Basket that celebrates Jesus.

Happy Christ-Centered Easter Basket-ing! :-)

*Want MORE Christ-Centered Easter Basket Ideas and a whole lotta FREE Printables?  Check out the amazing Christ-Centered Easter Basket series going on right now over at Detail-Oriented Diva.*

*I also liked A Dollop of My Life’s Christ-Centered Easter Basket ideas.*

*And I am REALLY digging this 3-item Christ-Centered Easter Basket from Footy Pajamas.  Go read WHY there are only 3 things!  Love it!*

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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! :-)

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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! :-)

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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! :-)

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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! :-)

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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! :-)

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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! :-)

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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! :-)

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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! :-)

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