Easter Traditions

Dying Eggs
With so many ideas at our fingertips with Pinterest and on the internet, we are finding so many neat ways to make Easter exciting and special for Anna Claire.

But yesterday, we yielded to tradition and dyed Easter eggs. It was super fun! Anna Claire loved coloring the eggs with her crayons and seeing the eggs come out of the dye in different colors.

I was a little apprehensive about using brown organic eggs, wondering how they'd take color, but they turned out great!

Waiting is always the hard part.

How I love this sweet smile!

I should have taken a picture of the other side of the eggs with her designs. Man!

~Voila~ Thanks to my friend Mary for the idea to make eggs with all of our names and the year. We made eggs for the kitties too. :)

Magic Beans
Another tradition we began this year, was planting jelly beans on Easter Eve, and seeing them bloom into lollipops Easter morning. I figure we can do this for a couple more years and still get the "wow" factor. ;) She was amazed this morning and couldn't wait to see!

Digging the holes

Then planting the jelly beans...

"Wow! Wook! They did make wowipops!"

Bunny tracks
At our house, the Easter Bunny leaves several indicators that he's been to our house. Of course he brings sweet girl an Easter basket, but he also leaves the window open, and bunny tracks! We did it last year and it was such a hit, we knew we'd repeat it until it becomes unbelievable to her. The tracks are made using "Easter dust" (also known as flour) and a template made out of a file folder.

The Easter Bunny also decorates the room and leaves an Easter egg hunt in our family room so the Easter fun can continue.

Bunny tracks!