Materials
- Eggs with their guts blown out (see this video)
- Silk neckties (can also use scarves or fabric scraps – must be 100% silk)
- Tissue paper cut into long strips (dark colors work best)
- Non-metal pot (I used my slow cooker, but you can find ceramic and glass pots at the thrift store – no metal)
- Vinegar
- Coffee filters
- Dental floss or strong white thread/twine
- Mod Podge
- Gold Paint Pen
Paper Bunny Fruit Bags
Bunnies are the simple (and cute) mascot for Spring, and they inspire these fun fruit bags. They’re made from paper bags and will instantly liven up lunch time fruits and veggies. Place a basket out at brunch and your guests will be instantly drawn to the tied ears, colorful nose and sweet peak of fruit inside.
To make the bunny paper bags you’ll need; paper bags (look for fun paper bag designs at your local craft store), a roll of colorful tape, ribbon to tie off the ears, and fruit to place inside.
To make the bunny fruit bags, cut the edges off your paper bag so that you are left with two open sides. The bag should be cut to be a little narrower than your fruit. Cut the open end of the bag into the shape of rabbit ears, the ears should meet around a third of the way down the bag.
Sit the apple inside the paper bag and gather at the top, being careful not to tear the paper. Fix the gathered bag in place with some paper ribbon, knot the ribbon twice and fan out the ends into a bow. Cut a small triangle of pink washi tape and add it to the front to make a cute bunny nose.
Use different patterns and colours to create a fruity Easter display — you could also use any type of round fruit or vegetable to fill these paper bunny bags. They look sweet in a bowl as a grab and go snack, and would make a lovely easter surprise inside a lunch box.
12 Recipes Using Hard Boiled Easter Eggs
Easter Sunday will be much more perfect if your house is anything like mine you will have at least a couple of dyed hard boiled eggs on your hands before lunchtime.
My first inclination is usually to chop the eggs up and make egg salad sandwiches for lunch for the next few days if not longer.
This year if you want to try something a bit different here are some recipes using hard boiled eggs along with some new twists on old time favorites like egg salad sandwiches and deviled eggs.
Try out one or two, perhaps you’ll find a new family favorite to make year round. Click on picture for recipe.
To make these recipes you will need hard boiled eggs. Click here for a tutorial on how to make the perfect hard boiled eggs from Recipe Lion.
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Add a bit of zip to regular deviled eggs with my Roasted Red Pepper Deviled Eggs. It’s become a family favorite![spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
Make your favorite deviled egg recipe into these pretty pastel eggs.
Here’s a photo tutorial on how to dye your hard boiled eggs from Donkey and Carrot. Just dye the whites and pipe in your favorite yolk mixture![spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
Or serve these deviled egg chicks from She Knows. [spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
Lighten up your egg salad recipe by using adding Greek Yogurt. Here’s a recipe from Damn Delicious.[spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
Here’s another egg salad recipe from My Yummy Life using Greek Yogurt, this one adds a bit of dill for some extra yum![spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
Two Peas and Their Pod has a great recipe for Avocado Egg Salad.[spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
For a lower carb alternative try these Light Egg Salad Wraps by Lady Behind the Curtain.[spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
Skip the Egg Salad and use those hard boiled eggs in this Egg Wrap with Avocado and Ham from the Cookin Canuck.[spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
Try these Scotched Eggs, they’re a complete meal! Hard boiled eggs wrapped in sausage with a crispy shell. Here’s a recipe for Baked Scotched Eggs from Left Side of the Table. [spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
For something a bit with a bit more spice try these Egg Masala Curry In Spicy Tomato Gravy from Lisa’s Kitchen.
Served over rice this would make a filling meal. [spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
Here’s another Egg Curry, Indian Onion and Yogurt Egg Curry recipe from Girl Cooks World, this one uses Greek Yogurt.[spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
Last Minute Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt Ideas
When my kids were young we always had a neighborhood Easter Egg hunt on Easter Sundays. It’s a great day to get together for some fun, food, and neighborly chats; and a great way to use up all those hard boiled eggs.
It didn’t take a lot of effort on anyone’s part since everyone was dying Easter eggs anyway. After the hunt some of the adults would supervise the kids in games and the others would head to the kitchen to turn the eggs into Egg Salad Sandwiches. The rest of the luncheon food was pot luck.
We still get together with the neighbors on Easter Sunday for an Easter Egg Hunt, only now the kids are our grandkids!
Here are a few tips to help you plan a last minute Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt. If you’ve tried it yet, you may want to plan one this year. You might just start a new neighborhood tradition!
A couple of days before the hunt:
1. Get together with the neighbors and decide where your potluck luncheon will be held. You may have to host it in a 2-3 yards to fit everyone. Decide what time the hunt will begin.
2. Gather chairs and tables and decide on a time when they can be set up at the host yards. It may be easier to have each neighbor bring their own chairs, but hopefully you’ll have a neighbor who can bring over a folding table or two at least to place food on.
3. Decide on how many eggs each neighbor will bring; both dyed hard boiled eggs and plastic eggs. Set a budget on how much each neighbor should spend to fill the plastic eggs. Decide if you will have a “golden egg” for the grand prize. If you want to have one the easiest prize would be money; each neighbor can contribute $1 that can be stuffed in a special egg. Decide if you want to limit the number of eggs each child can keep; if you do then decide on how many. Don’t forget the teens and tweenies, you may want to do a separate hunt or different activity for them.
For Egg decoration ideas click here!
4. Mark the territory where the eggs will be hidden.
5. Ask each neighbor to sign up for the potluck so that you will have a variety of food, not just desserts. Remember to ask one or two people to bring bread and ingredients for egg salad sandwiches.
6. Decide where and who will turn the hard boiled eggs into egg salad sandwiches. This can be a group effort in one person’s kitchen or you can have volunteers take a dozen or so eggs home to their kitchen to make their hard boiled egg dish. Check out my post 12 Recipes Using Hard Boiled Easter Eggs for ideas.
7. Decide what if any other games and activities you want to have for the kids. Decide on the supplies you will need for the activities, who will provide them, and who will supervise the activities. You may want to start out with an Easter Bag/Basket making activity before the hunt.
8. Decide when and where neighbors should bring their eggs for the hunt. Decide who will hide them.
Morning of the hunt:
1. Designated egg “hiders” can hide the eggs.
2. Set up borrowed table and chairs in the host yards.
3. Gather the kids for the first activity if you have any, otherwise start the hunt.
4. After the hunt have the children give the boiled eggs they don’t want to keep to their parents or the people in charge of making salad.
5. Keep the kids busy with games and activities while egg salad sandwiches are being made.
6. Bring all the food to the host yard and set them up on tables.
7. Enjoy! This could be the first of many more neighborhood events![spacer height=”-20px”]
For older kids hide some eggs in high places, they love the challenge![spacer height=”-20px”]
Start the event with a Bunny Bag craft like these from Fun A Day . The kids can make these cute bags to put their eggs in. You can get packs of plain paper bags or gift bags from the Dollar Store and decorate them with construction paper, pipe cleaners, and left over supplies from other craft projects gathered from the neighbors.[spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
Keep kids busy making Jelly Bean Bracelets from Artzy Creations. [spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
This Egg Popper Tree by Studio DIY is a good alternative for older kids. [spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
A sack race is always a fun game.[spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
Egg on Spoon Races are always fun. Think of different variations![spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
A Lollipop Patch by Catch My Party is a great idea for younger kids.[spacer height=”20px” id=”2″]
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Breakfast Strata
Easter morning is always hectic. Between sorting out Easter eggs and aiming to Church, it’s powerful to search out time for a hearty breakfast. Thankfully, I actually have a make-ahead breakfast dish that may provide you with much energy to survive the chaos.
Growing up, we have a tendency to continually create this scrumptious egg casserole as a part of our Church breakfast fundraiser. It absolutely was filled with fragmented sausage and cheese and that i loved it. Well, this can be a a lot of refined version, courtesy of Ezra’s cake.
There are several things i really like concerning breakfast strata. Initial and foremost is that the reality you create it ahead. The maximum amount as i like pancakes and contemporary toast that has time to form them on a busy morning? Not ME. However I will pop a dish within the kitchen appliance and walk away!
Next, it’s therefore filmable. the fundamentals keep the same—bread, eggs and milk. however the remainder, you’ll experiment and build your own favorite combos. For this version, I sauted spinach with garlic and mushrooms then further tomatoes and bacon. to form things even a lot of fascinating, I used jalapeno focaccia because the bread base.
I like spinach; however I wasn’t entirely sold-out on that within the formula. Next time, and there’ll be a next time, I’m aiming to eliminate the spinach and replace it with some artichoke hearts and roast red bell pepper for breakfast strata..
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Ingredients
5 cups of cubed bread (french bread, sourdough, jalapeno focaccia, etc.)
2 cups grated cheddar cheese
10 eggs
4 cups milk (I used 2%)
3 green onions, sliced
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon salt
Pepper to taste
6-8 slices of cooked bacon, chopped
12 oz bag of baby spinach
2-3 garlic cloves, minced
3-4 plum tomatoes, chopped
8 oz container of sliced mushrooms
Instructions
1. Spray a 9 x 13-inch baking dish with nonstick spray. Place the bread cubes in the dish and top with cheddar cheese. Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, milk, green onion, cayenne pepper, mustard, salt and pepper together. Pour mixture over bread cubes.
3. In a medium skillet, heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil or butter over medium heat. Add mushrooms and cook for 2-3 minutes or until softened. Add garlic and saute for another minute. Add washed spinach and 1 tablespoon of water. Cover the skillet and let the spinach wilt, 2-3 minutes.
4. Spoon the spinach mixture, tomatoes and bacon over the the bread cubes. Gently press down with a spoon to make sure everything is moistened.
5. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for up to 24 hours.
6. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Bake the strata, uncovered, for 60 minutes or until the top is golden brown and doesn’t wiggle when you shake the dish.
7. Cool for 5 minutes before serving.
- 5 cups of cubed bread (french bread, sourdough, jalapeno focaccia, etc.)
- 2 cups grated cheddar cheese
- 10 eggs
- 4 cups milk (I used 2%)
- 3 green onions sliced
- 1 teaspoon dry mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- Pepper to taste
- 6-8 slices of cooked bacon, chopped
- 12 oz bag of baby spinach
- 2-3 garlic cloves, minced
- 3-4 plum tomatoes chopped
- 8 oz container of sliced mushrooms
