It’s been a year since I created this site and then promptly abandoned it after starting two new work-from-home jobs, but it’s time to get back to writing and art on a more regular basis.

With Easter coming up this weekend, I thought I would share a few pictures of what we did last year for Easter.

We’ve made graham cracker houses in the past with icing to hold them together, and let’s face it, kids don’t have the patience to wait for icing to dry. So this time, we decided to go for the instant gratification method of using the hot glue gun! These houses never end up getting eaten anyway, so we figured this was the best way to go.

*Use caution when using a hot glue gun. Adults should handle this task, or if your children are old enough, adult supervision should be maintained throughout the project.

We did, however, use icing to stick the candy on, because we thought they may want to pick the candy off the house to eat it (they didn’t). For our decorations, we used a variety of candy, along with coconut shavings that we dyed green with a bit of food coloring.

Aren’t they cute? Sorry about the poor lighting, these peeps can’t afford electricity so their houses are a little dark.

The bunny’s house has a tree, lake, walkway, and bush. The chick has a tree and a colorful flower garden.

We got this EggMazing Egg Decorator several years ago as a gift. The girls love using this every year to draw patterns on their eggs. We usually end up with lots of rainbow eggs and a few with random scribble lines all over.

This *amazing* bundt cake is a Chocolate Bundt Cake, recipe courtesy of Dawn at The Minimal Mom. Dawn has a similarly decorated cake on her site, but she filled the center hole of her cake with tin foil and put the decorations on top of the tin foil. We really like candy, so I went all out and filled the hole with extra Easter candy for a fun surprise when we cut the cake.

We bought a natural egg dye kit from Mighty Nest that came with a few different colors of dye, a small paper egg carton, and some seeds to grow your own grass in that egg carton to make your eggs look even cuter! Neither one of my kids was interested in growing the grass, though, so we skipped that step and just used the natural egg dye. As you can see, we especially liked this pretty purple!

Stay tuned for a post sharing what we’ve done this year for Easter – coming soon!