Paper Egg Hunts
When I was little, one of my favorite activities was creating my very own Easter egg hunts, made with pencils, crayons, and paper. I would draw an outdoor scene and add lots of little Easter eggs. Next, I would use an additional piece of paper to draw extra bushes, flowers, and animals which I would then cut out and tape over the egg drawings so that the eggs were hidden until you lifted the flap of paper. I usually made lots of flaps with no eggs under it, too. I had such fun "searching" for the Easter eggs and letting my siblings use them, too. This year, Liliana and I watercolored one, but she was super into using black watercolor at the moment we made it, so I mostly painted it. Liliana is having such fun lifting the flaps and I look forward to when she'll be old enough to make her own.
Today was a happy day in Sugarplum Land: Liliana and I created a little toadstool-themed nook in the corner of our balcony. We've eaten every meal since Springtime out on the balcony and spend a lot of time there since it is the coolest spot in the house thanks to all the breezes, so a play area will hopefully be the perfect addition. We started the play area with a little wooden stand that I had picked up at a garage sale and then stained. Upon that we added the girls' Fairy Lodge, some Holztiger toys, some toadstools painted by Aunt Em, and some toadstool houses that I made using some unfinished bird houses from a hobby store. (I used a steak knife to slice the easily cut wood to change the round bird holes into doorways, then painted the roof of each red with white dots). We then added a toadstool table, toadstool chalkboard, the garden pushcart, a clothesline with hand-painted clothespins (with which I plan to hang up the girls' artwork) and here we are in Toadstool Corner!
When I was little, one of my favorite activities was creating my very own Easter egg hunts, made with pencils, crayons, and paper. I would draw an outdoor scene and add lots of little Easter eggs. Next, I would use an additional piece of paper to draw extra bushes, flowers, and animals which I would then cut out and tape over the egg drawings so that the eggs were hidden until you lifted the flap of paper. I usually made lots of flaps with no eggs under it, too. I had such fun "searching" for the Easter eggs and letting my siblings use them, too. This year, Liliana and I watercolored one, but she was super into using black watercolor at the moment we made it, so I mostly painted it. Liliana is having such fun lifting the flaps and I look forward to when she'll be old enough to make her own.
