Magic jelly beans

I thought we could use a new Easter tradition.

I think we will be discovering lots of new traditions this year.

But for tonight, we have magic jelly beans.

They only have magic the night before Easter.

First, you get the beans.

Then you go outside in your pajamas, muddin' boots and coat because you almost forgot about them and plant them in your yard.

You get this look because you use a cat scooper to dig the hole because you are in no mood to dig through the garage or shed to try and find a small shovel.

(and he's had LOTS of pictures taken today)

 Just deep enough to cover them is fine.

In the morning go outside and see what grew!

I love magic jelly beans.
Anyone know how I can make some dollar bills grow overnight?
Now that would be fun!

(PS - I found these at Walgreens for $1.00)

Kool-Eggs

I must start off by saying both of these methods were discovered on Pinterest.

Amazing stuff.

It's Easter week and it wouldn't be right to not color some eggs now, would it?

I certainly had the experience every year growing up.

But when is there time to stand in the kitchen to hard boil eggs? I don't have many minutes to myself. I'm either at work, running errands or playing with Gavin. He's not a fan of me cooking, getting on the computer, or even using my phone. So when I saw that you can bake hard boiled eggs, I was intrigued.

It's simple. Three hundred fifty degrees for thirty minutes. 

I balanced them on a mini muffin tin. I'm a genius.

I then walked away and got the laundry started, cat litter changed, and living room vacuumed before the timer went off.

Can't beat that.

Take them out and toss then in ice water for ten minutes.

Afterwards they sat in my fridge for two days before having time to color them.

Which is the second kool idea.

Using kool-aid to dye eggs!

You can get 5 packets for a dollar. No need for vinegar since the kool-aid already has citric acid in it AND it makes your kitchen smell fruity :)

We had 8 eggs, so I let him pick 4 colors.

Each mug held a kool-aid packet and 2/3 cup water.

 Fun!
But very carefully. If one of them spilled....Ay-yi-yi!

The color takes fast to the eggs. We only left them in a couple minutes.

Eight colorful Easter eggs!
(minus the streaks from laying on paper towels)
Next year I'll remember to save some toilet paper tubes or something to cut up and balance them upright.

Hoppin' down the bunny trail

It's window time!!

And we did the shaving cream painting again to decorate some eggs.

Then we added some gems.

Stop here, Easter Bunny!!

A windy Wednesday

Enabled a little kite flying!

The letter O

O is for Octopus

The letter N

N is for nest!

Spring is here and the birds are chirping!

I've got plans for a fun bird feeder project coming soon!

ABC eggs

We are cruising right along with our letter recognition and since Easter is approaching, I knew instantly that I wanted to create this project/game when I stumbled across it.

It is a hit!
We have only been working on capital letters with our ABC book, but he does recognize several lower case letters as well. I'm pretty impressed!

I picked up a bag of plastic eggs at Rite-Aid for two bucks and put the capital letter on the top half and lowercase on the bottom.

The eggs are pretty flimsy, but what did I expect for two dollars.

(came in a 36 pack)

This flimsiness is helping us with our patience. We have to align the parts perfectly before we can push the egg together. Otherwise they slide into each other and make us mad.

Then we toss them in his basket.

And of course have some silly fun while we are at it :)