Easter Crafts, Food, Basket Ideas & Tips
Traditionally Easter is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus the 3rd day after his crucifixion according to the Christian faith. Early in the church, there was some controversy surrounding the Easter celebration. However today, Easter is a prominent celebration in the Christian community.
Like many Christian celebrations, Easter has become a day of celebration and feasting for Christians and non-Christians alike. It has been greatly commercialized with the introduction of Easter baskets, chocolates, jelly beans and greeting cards. All of the Easter stuff available can be a bit overwhelming. So as you celebrate Easter this year, I hope that some of the ideas in this lens will make it a little less stressful and much more fun!
My Favorite Easter Websites
- Family Fun Easter Site
- Creative Easter craft, egg decorating, recipe, and party ideas!
- Easter Baskets & Gifts
- Offers a huge selection of eggs-traordinary Easter Baskets & Gifts!
- Baby First Easter Gifts
- Adorable and personalized gifts for baby's first Easter!
- Easter Crafts at Kaboose
- Creative Easter craft ideas for kids of all ages.
Easter Basket Ideas
For children, my friends and I have found that the most well-received baskets are gifts that incorporate both candy as well as little toys, clothes, movies or books. Below I've outlined my top picks for books and movies from Amazon.com. Both of these items make great basket 'stuffers'. Depending on the child's age, adding some lip gloss and hair bands are terrific in baskets for little girls. While Matchbox type cars and trucks are a fun addition to boys baskets. Coloring books, crayons, sidewalk chalk, high bounce rubber balls, play doh mixed with chocolate bunnies, peeps and other traditional candies are well received no matter what the child's gender.
If your adult children are away at college or your grandchildren live across the country, your best bet is to buy Easter baskets and gifts online. Web sites make it easy and quick to buy the gifts and get them shipped directly to your kids or grand kids.
Great Easter Books on Amazon
Where Are Baby's Easter Eggs?: A Lift-the-Flap Book
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 11/11/2009) 
Max's Easter Surprise (Max and Ruby)
Amazon Price: $3.89 (as of 11/11/2009)
The Night Before Easter
Amazon Price: $3.99 (as of 11/11/2009)
My First Easter
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 11/11/2009)
Easter Bugs : A Springtime Pop-up by David A Carter
Amazon Price: $10.40 (as of 11/11/2009)
Easter Movies on Amazon
It's The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown
Amazon Price: (as of 11/11/2009)
The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town
Amazon Price: $8.49 (as of 11/11/2009)
Easter Parade (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Amazon Price: (as of 11/11/2009)
The Great Easter Egg Hunt
Amazon Price: $5.98 (as of 11/11/2009)
Max & Ruby - Easter With Max & Ruby
Amazon Price: $11.99 (as of 11/11/2009)
Other Fun Easter Lenses
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Easter Egg Decorating Ideas
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With just a few products you may already have sitting around, you can create fabulous looking photo-worthy Easter eggs! With a simple dye recipe and some fun kid-friendly techniques, your eggs will go from bland to beautiful!
Creative Easter Dessert Photos
Cookies - Cupcakes - Cakes
Brighten up your Easter table with a fun and festive dessert that ties in perfectly with the celebration. Whether you choose to make a classic carrot cake or a creative bunny cake, your guests are sure to be impressed. Some ideas are shown in the photos below.
For the bunny cakes, you could use an 8" loaf cake to create an oblong bunny with paper ears, candy eyes and mouth, and then just use one of those snowball cupcakes that you can buy in the store for the tail.
To create the other bunny cake, you would use 2 - 8" or 9" round cake pans (one for the face and the other one with 2 curved cuts to create the bow and ears). Decorate it with colored coconut and candy to obtain a festive look.
For a really easy dessert, use cake mix to make a batch of cupcakes. Then, frost each one and sprinkle them with colored coconut. Add a peeps bunny or chick to finish them off.
Create the Easter cookies by using refrigerated store bought cookie dough or make your own dough and then use festive Easter cutter to create fun shapes like bunnies and chicks. Frost or decorate with colored sugars.
Filled with chocolate fudge cake topped with ganache.
(Easter is April 4, 2010)
Reader Comments About My Easter Lens
I'd love to know what you think of my All About Easter lens!
kimmer14 wrote...
I have taken over mom's tradition of making a bunny cake every Easter, but they don't turn out nearly as well as your photos! I'll be using your ideas for our Easter celebration this year :-)
Posted March 20, 2009
Treasures-By-Brenda wrote...
Nicely done lens. Welcome to Easter Time Headquarters!
Brenda
Posted March 15, 2009
NaturalMindset wrote...
Thanks for visiting my Baby Quotes page. I enjoyed your Easter lens! Five stars and lensrolled at Easter and Spring Sentiments .
Posted March 02, 2009
Pastiche wrote...
This is a Great ***** Easter lens! Adding it as a featured Easter lens on Easy Easter Crafts and Gifts.
Posted March 21, 2008
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