I hope everyone had a great Easter this year! I know we did! As usual, I volunteered to host Easter - again, it is the BEST holiday to host for sooooo many reasons! Most important of the reasons - it is usually a brunch, so the food is pretty easy to make! Another reason, it is not a long, all day & night party. It is at most, a few hours long, so prep & entertainment is a lot easier! This year, I had to work right up to the holiday - not getting home until 11 pm the night before, so I knew it was not going to be extravagant. I still looked to Pinterest for ideas, and I have to say, they were ALL winners (unlike the chocolate covered strawberry "carrots" of last year)! I saw this idea on Pinterest and actually combined 2 posts to make this awesome bouquet...
I printed off the "Get Your Peeps On" sign from ModPodge's website. I then stuck the Peeps with plastic silverware and assembled them into a cure bouquet! I would have used skewers, but I didn't have any, and the utensils worked fine! I even put sugar-fee Peeps in for the diabetics in our family.The picture on Pinterest showed the rabbit Peeps, but sugar-free Peeps only came in the chick design, so they all became chicks!
Along with the Peep bouquet, I also put the flowers that we get for the moms on the table. It offers a great decoration, and the moms get a great gift at the end of the meal!
One of my favorite ideas from Easters past was sticking parsley in the end of baby carrots and standing them up in "pots" of veggie dip. They are sooo cute, and sooo easy! I always make a "pilot" hole in the barrits with a fork or a skewer!
I also thought it would be cute to make edible robins' nests for each person. SUPER simple. I did what I always so - I combined a number of different pins to make the end result! I melted a bag of chocolate chips with about 3/4 cup of peanut butter in the microwave (about 30 seconds each time, stirring between intervals & stopping when it was all melted). I then stirred in some Craisins (some fruit is always good) and the then Chow Mein crisps. I added enough to cover all the noodles with chocolate. Then I sprayed my hands with Pan and assembled the nests! I molded them on a foil-lined cookie sheet. I then let them chool in the fridge over night. The next day, I picked out all of the baby blue Cadbury chocolate eggs and splattered them with a watered down chocolate mix. I placed them in the middle and then each person got their own nest! So cute and so easy! Another Easter tradition?
I also saw these on Pinterest. I used low-fat cinnamon rolls and unrolled them and made them into bunny shapes. SUPER easy! When they came out, I placed the icing on them and two Craisins for eyes and 2 almond slices for teeth!
You might have noticed in the picture above the giant paper flowers on the table. I used paint swatches in robins egg colors and cut them to resemble flower petals. I glued them to look like a flower and then sorted jelly beans by color, placing each different color in its own color coordinated cupcake liner. I then set them out! Even something as simple as this made a huge impression! My guests loved having the jelly beans sorted and were always moving their favorite closest to them!
I always wanted to include this cool idea my hubby had... The Easter bunny always leaves a scavenger hunt for the kids. THis year I used Pinterest to make a more religious based hunt and it was awesome. My 19 year old daughter doesn't live at home any more so I had made the comment that I wouldn't have to do clues for her. She made a sad face and I knew I would have to. My hubby had the aewsome idea of "making her work for it, then" and we did all of her clues, then TRANSLATED them using Google translator into Spanish! It was funny and awesome! Latin next year?
We had sooo many different foods, that I used a picture frame painted with Chalkboard paint to list off the menu. It was awesome for our guests and helped to keep me organized and not to forget to put anything out!
Another great Easter on the books! I hope I inspired you to hold one of your own!
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