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The Unbreakable Egg

March 25, 2013 By Erica Deuel Leave a Comment

The Unbreakable egg craft

Last week, we did a little craft that I want to share with you all today.  It is so quick and easy.  I think it’s also the perfect way to get rid of some of those plastic Easter eggs you pick up from Easter egg hunts.  I called it the unbreakable egg because my plastic eggs now feel like hard rocks.  Here’s how you can make some eggs your toddler can toss and wont break.

Materials:

  • Plastic Eggs
  • Tissue Paper
  • Glue
  • Mod podge

easter craft supplies

The first thing you do is to cut your tissue paper up into small squares.  I tried to only do soft spring colors, but I have boys and they insisted on the dark blue tissue paper as well.  🙂

bowl of tissue paper

The next step is to put a dab of glue on a plastic egg and stick a small piece of tissue paper on top of it.  I told my boys to try to cover up as much of the egg as they could.  They weren’t perfectly covered, but the eggs were all pretty colors.  Having some of the eggs show through was ok.

plastic easter egg craft

After the eggs are all glued up with tissue paper, let them dry.  This can be a messy process as tissue paper and glue are sticky together.  My boys loved the mess, and it was fun to give them a project where it was allowed to get messy.

mod podge easter egg craft

Once the tissue paper on the eggs is dry, cover them with a good coat of mod podge.  Note:  You will probably have to paint one side, let it dry, and then paint the other side.  The mod podge step is very important because it binds all the unglued edges of the tissues paper tight around the egg while also giving the egg a nice shine.

mod podge easter eggs

Once the eggs have dried, you are done!  Display them wherever you want!  I stuck my eggs in a flower-pot with a little straw.

plastic easter eggs

This was such an easy project for my boys and even my little toddler had fun while we were crafting.  She sorted and played with the eggs all afternoon!

learning with plastic easter eggs

Easter Egg Craft

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I hope you all had an amazing weekend!  We are slowly getting over our crazy virus around here!  I hope to have an update post on our moving/house situation this week!  Thank you for all the encouraging words and follow-up questions I have had from so many of you!  You are the best readers!

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Easter Basket Giveaway

March 18, 2013 By Erica Deuel 74 Comments

basket of goodies for you

I can’t believe Spring is almost here and Easter is right around the corner.  If you are like me, you are ready for some warmer weather and sunshine!  To kick off this excitement of spring “springing”, I have joined up with 24 other bloggers to create an Easter basket themed giveaway blog hop!  My basket is only one of 25 baskets available today as giveaways.  I have had so much fun creating some special things for one of you!

As parents, we spend so much time preparing those around us for the change of seasons.  We buy our kids new spring clothes.  We declutter our houses…or maybe try to sell a house, ahem ahem…oh that might only be me :).  Either way this gift is to pamper you or if you are one of my male readers, your girl.

Check out all the items in my giveaway basket, enter my rafflecopter giveaway, and then check out the other baskets available today on some awesome blogs and enter those too!

vintage love wood sign

target dollar section

necklace

handmade earrings

gorgeous hair bows

do what you love cards

If you win you will receive:

  • One handmade vintage wood “love” sign
  • A few goodies from Target
  • One handmade necklace
  • Two pairs of earrings that I have made
  • Two of my favorite hair clips
  • A set of my “Do What You Love” stationary cards and envelopes (one of my newest creations)

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I have had so much fun creating this giveaway. I hope you love every item as much as I do!  To enter to win these goodies, simply let the rafflecopter widget load, and enter in as many ways as you want!  The winner will be announced Friday 3/22/13.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

This gift basket is one of 25 available from some amazing bloggers today.  Please go check out all the amazing baskets.  Enter all of them! You are bound to win one of them, right!?

Gift-Baskets-Collage

(1) Mad Scientist Basket from Milk and Cookies
(2) “See the Light” Easter Art Basket from Classic Housewife
(3) Tea Time Basket from See Jamie Blog
(4) Butterfly Basket from Spell Outloud
(5) Family Movie Night Basket from Jennifer A. Janes

(6) Pamper the Homeschool Mom Basket from Granola Mom 4 God
(7) Freezer Cooking Basket from Motherhood on a Dime
(8) Hodgepodge Basket from Hodgepodge
(9) Healthy Living and Fitness Basket from Forever, For Always, No Matter What
(10) Making Writing Fun Basket from This Reading Mama

(11) Coffee: Fuel for Homeschooling Moms Basket from Homeschoolin’ Mama
(12) Mom’s Quiet Time Basket from Upside Down Homeschooling
(13) Missionary Basket from Our Journey Westward
(14) Happy Mom Basket from Habits for a Happy Home
(15) Crafty Goodness Basket from Mamas Learning Corner

(16) Rejuvenate the Mom Basket from Spoonful of Imagination
(17) Beginner’s Math Manipulatives Basket from Meet Penny
(18) Welcome Spring: Gardening Basket from Abundant Life
(19) Healthy Living Basket from The Encouraging Home
(20) Mom’s Pampering Basket from Teaching Mama

(21) Kid’s Gardening Basket from Momma Hopper
(22) The Gift of Parenting Basket from Teachers of Good Things
(23) Preschool Crafts Basket from It’s Gravy, Baby!
(24) All the Extras – Electives and Enrichment Basket from Curriculum Choice
(25) Homeschool Mom Basket Case Basket from Classic Housewife

Aren’t there some amazing other baskets up for grabs!?  I am going to enter ALL of these giveaways.  There are some generous bloggers in this group that are just amazing people.  I hope you will join me on my blog hop quest today!  Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you had a great weekend and happy ALMOST spring!

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Pinterest

April 15, 2012 By Erica Deuel Leave a Comment

I love Pinterest!  It’s been a bitter-sweet relationship between Pinterest and me.  It began with a curious sense of exploration and hit a bump in the road when I discovered one of MY creations was out there so publicly.  Haha I can laugh about it now, but at the time I really kind of felt betrayed.

Two years ago when I was prepping my daughter’s bedroom I made a hair bow holder for her many hair bows out of some left over chicken wire that we had used the previous summer to make a compost pile.  I thought it up and thought it was genius so the hair clips could simply clip to the wire and still look so cute and be a wall display all on their own.  When I saw this idea ALL over Pinterest,  I was kind of mad, to be honest.  I thought it was MY idea and now all these people would be copying me.  Foolish me.

From there I went on a Pinterest boycott, but the craft-er in me couldn’t stay away for long.  I came back and if you visit my “boards” now you see I have pinned a lot.  On my “Pinterest” journey I have processed the phenomena of this website with lots of friends and my husband.  It stinks you can’t make “private” boards so no one sees what you pin, but than I now realize that defeats the purpose of the site.  I think they want ideas to be shared broadly and we all to benefit from one another’s creativity.  This rather selfish perspective of holding onto what I thought was mine has grown.  I now see that even though you might think you created something its probably been done already at some point or another.  What I thought was MY hair bow idea, I now don’t hold tight to at all.  I’ve made them for lots of friends/family as gifts and even sold some at craft shows.  Every one should experience this genius idea.  🙂  If you don’t have a girl, maybe you have a need for a noteboard?  You should make one!  They are so cheap and easy!

There are a lot of really creative people in this world.  We were created in God’s image…and I don’t know a better artist!  Who can design the scope, beauty and broadness of the Grand Canyon but then still create the smallest of bugs and organisms?  We all have some sort of creative spark in us and why not benefit from it?

I know as a busy mom I am often so exhausted I don’t have energy or time to think up fun, cheap things to do with my kids that will build fun incredible memories of their childhood.  Even if I know of an idea or did an activity as a kid…I may have forgotten it and cant pull it out of my brain when the time is right.  Pinterest helps me.  I love it and am proudly declaring my feelings aloud.

Here are three things I pulled off Pinterest that we did this Easter season.  PLUS, one Erica original (that I know now is probably widely done as well).

 

Pictures in order:

1.  (Erica’s Idea) This is what Rea’s hair bow holder looked like at the very beginning.  Its funny to see this picture now because those were some of my very first hair bows to ever make, and now you can’t see one tiny free space of wire because the thing is packed full of bows!

2.  (Pinterst Idea) We had a “dip dinner” one night over Caleb’s spring break.  It’s one of our favorite (and super unhealthy) dinners.  We get cheese dip & salsa from a local Mexican restaurant (Ceviche), or make buffalo chicken cheese dip and eat that on the couch while watching a movie together.  This week we added plastic eggs with special foods inside to the kids’ dinner.  They LOVED opening up the eggs and seeing what surprise was inside.

3 & 4. (Pinterest Idea) I printed off some charts/graphs/sorting activity sheets that we used jelly beans to help us complete them.  It was so fun!  The boys were practicing compare/contrast skills with counting and colors without feeling like they were doing “school”.

5. (Pinterest Idea) We put white daises in a jar with red food dye and watched how the leaves of the flowers soaked up that red dye.  I used this as an analogy to show how our sin was like the red dye and Jesus (the white flowers) took that on himself when he died for us.  The boys really got into it.  We talked about what is sin.  Every time we mentioned a sin I squirted some dye into the  jar of water.  I remember in middle school the PTA selling green carnations that they had used this food coloring idea with for at St Patrick’s Day, but I sure didnt remember it much less think to convert that technique into an Easter Illustration.  Thank you Pinterest!

6.  (Erica’s Idea)  Ever since the boys were little Matt and I have wrote letters to them in a a seperate journal for each of them.  We got kind off track once Reagan came into the picture, so there has been a lull of journaling.  Ever since our very first easter with Caleb, we have written our kid(s) a letter and put that in their easter basket with the rest of their goodies.  It’s a simple card that says something a long the lines of we are so proud of them, love them, and know that Jesus loves them even more than us and pray they come to see that in their lives at an early age and understand the true meaning of Easter.  This year we started the journals back up with writing their easter notes inside them, and wrote in Reagan’s for the first time.  It’s never to late to start something right!?  I think these journals will be a cool gift to give them one day.  Whether that day being a graduation or a wedding day, I think it will be special to have a journal full of love letters from thier parents.  We plan to write in them more frequently and especially on birthdays and holidays.  I’m sure this idea is not my original, but in case you haven’t seen it on pinterest or some place else just yet…I wanted to share it with you.

We all have something to share with one another!  I’d love to hear of a special tradition you do with your kids!  Please feel free to comment below!

Note:  If you don’t know what Pinterest.com is go check it out!  It is an online pin board where you can organize and share things you love.

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