Easter crafts and recipes

Easter’s right around the corner. For those of you who celebrate it, I put together a link roundup of Easter-themed projects and recipes. Most of the projects are easy enough for kids to do. Happy Easter!

Easter projects

1. Dying eggs with onion skins – simply gorgeous
2. Eggshell mosaic – keep those beautiful bits of dyed egg shell after the eggs have been eaten. Kids can make beautiful mosaics out of them!
3. Easy homemade Easter Cards – instructions for making beautiful homemade Easter cards. You can use recycled ingredients, if you have them on hand.
4. Easter Bunny paper bag – a bunny shaped bag to collect Easter Eggs in
5. Easter Bunny Bank – recycle an empty salt container to make a piggy bank. A great way to introduce young kids to the idea of saving money!
6. Bunny Magnets – kids can help make these cute refrigerator magnets
7. Easter Placemats – dress up your Easter dinner with collage placemats made by the kids
8. Egg Buddies – recycle those plastic fake eggs into small planters, and let kids 3 and up learn a little about growing things from seeds
9. Batik egg dying – for (adult supervised) kids of all ages. Use masking tape to block dye, creating fantastic patterns of dye on your eggs.
10. Make a peeps picture frame – sparkly bunny adorns bright crafty picture frame
11. Bunny ears for kids – a band worn around the head with cute bunny ears sticking up in the back. Very easy.
12. Coiled Easter egg basket – made from strips of cotton. Not so easy, but very pretty (and frugal).
13. Crepe Paper Spring Birds from Martha Stewart. Not as complicated as you might think.
14. Eggshell Tulips – save those dyed egg shells, get some pipe cleaners, and you have something for the kids to do besides gorge themselves on Easter treats. Very easy.
15. Chic Chick Basket – this neat idea comes from Hershey, but no chocolate is required.
16. Jelly Bean Bunny – turn a little bag of jelly beans into a bunny with this print-and-cut design.
17. Stained Glass Easter eggs – get really neat effects with old or cheap nail polish.
18. Open Mouth Bunny Basket – a bunny head that holds Easter candy
19. Quick little bunny – made from old baby socks
20. Origami Easter Bunny – show kids how to use folding paper to make an Easter bunny

Check out Melissa d’Arabians’s method for creating beautiful dyed and delicious boiled eggs:

Easter recipes

1. Rack of lamb with mint and capers – and garlic and lemon to infuse the lamb with all kinds of delicious
2. Grilled Pepper and Sage Boneless Chicken Breasts – a nicely seasoned chicken dish that’s quick to prepare (no marinating)
3. Easter Hunt Pie – a super-easy vanilla cheesecake with graham cracker crust, pudding and chocolate candies
4. Lemon Easter Basket Cake – a cute lemon bundt cake made to look like an Easter basket.
5. Papier Mache eggs – great project for vegan families or families that don’t eat eggs
6. Resurrection Rolls – rolls designed to teach kids the religious symbology of the Resurrection.
7. Make an Easter Bunny Cake – a cake that looks like the Easter Bunny
8. Carrot and Walnut cake – a wonderful recipe for a traditional standby
9. Crab deviled eggs – deviled eggs with crab meat and crab salad ingredients