Hippity Hoppity......

.....Easter's on it's way! I actually made a few activities for the girls to do in the week approaching Easter (I know, I shocked myself too after this long spell of no themed activities!). I haven't been best friends with my camera lately so I only caught a picture of them doing one....Egg basket color matching. This was their favorite one anyway and we played several versions of it on different days (each day playing for almost an hour!!!).

The favorite version of the game was when I hid the eggs all around the living room while the girls waited in the bedroom. They came out and found them all and Little Bear placed them on the appropriate color basket. Tiny's favorite "job" was to snatch the eggs off each basket as her sister placed them there and see how many she could carry around in her hands without dropping them ;) We had a blast with this one!

I promise I DO brush Little Bear's hair almost every day ;)

On a beautiful day last week, we got together with some great friends for a little craft time and egg hunting. I searched for a simple and fun craft online for hours and finally just came up with this one on my own. We made "furry" bunny ears using plain white cardstock, cotton balls, and colored construction paper. Since we were dealing with little ones, I precut all the pieces and the kids just "painted on" the glue with q-tips and pulled the cotton balls apart to make the fur. Then we added the colored construction paper pieces on top of the cotton on the ears to brighten them up a bit. Everyone had a lot of fun and the kids looked adorable in their ears :)

LB working hard and Tiny (both in a zone!)

My great Mama friends helping their little ones

The finished product:

After craft time, we went outside for the Easter egg hunt. None of us are crazy about taking our kids to the big "commercial" egg hunts put on by our community so this private hunt was perfect for our little group. We had a blast!

Trying to get a group picture of this bunch was quite the challenge....but this one turned out pretty good (Tiny is sportin her "bulldog" face as we call it...and the "boyfriend" of the group is just sick and tired of all these WOMEN!)

Daddy took some time this morning to dye eggs with the girls, while I sat back and watched (and supervised the little egg thief). We even tried dying a few of our brown eggs to see the difference in color...what fun!

Little Bear admiring her dyed eggs and making sure they were drying properly :)

Our little egg thief....yes, they were hard boiled!

As we celebrate the Easter season, we have also been reading the story of Jesus dying on the cross and the Resurrection in our Jesus Storybook Bible (wonderful Bible, by the way!) every night. We are so blessed to know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the pain he endured JUST FOR US! Have a wonderful Easter and Happy Spring!