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Easter Cooking Cinnamon Roll Bunny Faces Easter Story Snack Mix Empty Tomb Buns Resurrection Cookies **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks!
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I have found quite a few great looking recipes that I hope to try out with the girls this year! Some of them are based on the true celebration of Easter--Jesus' resurrection. Others are based on the fun of spring and Easter. Since time is getting short, I thought it would be best to just share pictures and links so you can get what you need together if you decide to make one of these recipes. Let me know if you try any of these out and what you thought! Enjoy! BREAKFAST/BRUNCH OR EVEN LUNCH RECIPES Cinnamon Roll Bunny Faces Super simple, super cute! What child (or grown-up) wouldn't like to see a smiling bunny looking up at him/her on Easter morning? This idea was shared with me from my friend Stacy via The Pampered Chef's Facebook page. Dyed Deviled Eggs The Organized Wife shared this great idea. It takes a little work, but look at the results! I so want to try out this recipe! This could be used for a variety of holidays, too! Eggs-tra Special Quiche This fancy-looking, but easy breakfast recipe was shared on the Clubhouse Magazine site. I know my girls will love this! It's like having pie for breakfast! Empty Tomb Buns I just came across this one this year and am definitely going to try them! I like how Thoughts About God explains what the different ingredients represent. I have a feeling that these are going to go over well with my family! Sunrise Breakfast Cake Another yummy looking recipe from Clubhouse Magazine. I've never made a coffee cake from scratch and can't wait to try this one! DESSERTS/TREATS Bunny Cake Find the how-to on my Recipe: Bunny Cake post and why this recipe is particularly special to me and my family. Easter Egg/Bird's Nest Recipes for this fun, tasty treats using Shredded Wheat can be find all over the internet. Here is one posted on Cooks.com that uses chocolate and peanut butter, but you could omit the peanut butter and still have a yummy treat. Here's another version that uses marshmallows instead from Cooks.com. Yet another version from Clubhouse Magazine is "Birdie in a Nest" that could be used for breakfast/brunch. Leave out the bird and yogurt and it could be filled with chocolate eggs or jelly beans instead. Check out their recipe here. Either way you go, children will love making and eating this messy treat! Easter Story Cookies aka Resurrection Cookies I shared this recipe on my Recipe: Easter Story Cookies post. I love that this one has Bible verses to go along with each step of making them! Oh, they're yummy, too. Easter Story Snack Mix This one comes from Clubhouse Magazine from Focus on the Family. This would be a great way for your family to share the true message of Easter with your neighbors, friends and co-workers. So, these are the recipes that looked particularly inviting to me this year. Will I get to all of them for Easter? No way. BUT, I do plan on trying all of them in the upcoming weeks and you know that I will let you know how they turned out! What special recipes do you and your family prepare for Easter? **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! This recipe is a great illustration of the story of Easter. Not only does it use a variety of a child's senses, but the child is involved in every step. Also, having each step correspond with a Bible verse is just genius! Sweet Girl really got into this last year and now that she really knows the story of Easter, I'm sure she'll enjoy it even more this year. I hope you take the time to make these cookies and to share the special story of Easter with your family and friends. I got this recipe from "Simple Pleasures" A collection of favorite recipes, Christian Ministries. I didn't read all the verses to Sweet Girl (who was just three years old at the time), but I did explain everything to her as it is laid out here. Easter Story Cookies To be made the Saturday evening before Easter. Ingredients: 1 cup whole pecans (or substitute chocolate chips), 1 tsp. vinegar, 3 egg whites, pinch of salt, 1 cup granulated sugar Supplies: Measuring cups and spoons, bowl, electric mixer, 1 qt. or gal. size zipper bag, wooden spoon, masking tape and Bible What to do: 1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. (This is very important to do first!) 2. Read John 19:1-3. Explain that after Jesus was arrested, He was beaten by the Roman soldiers. Place pecans in ziploc bag and let kids beat them with the wooden spoon to break into small pieces. (I double bagged mine just to be on the safe side!) 3. Read John 19:28-30. Explain that when Jesus was thirsty on the cross He was given something like vinegar to drink. Let each child smell and taste the vinegar. Add teaspoon of vinegar into the mixing bowl. 4. Read John 10:10-11. Eggs represent life. Explain that Jesus gave His life to give us life. Add egg whites to vinegar. 5. Read Luke 23:27. Explain that salt represents the salty tears shed by Jesus' followers, and the bitterness of our own sins. Sprinkle a little salt into each child's hand. Let them taste it and brush the rest into the bowl. 6. Read Psalm 34:8 and John 3:16. Explain that the sweetest part of the story is that Jesus died because He loves us. He wants us to know and belong to Him. Add 1 cup of sugar. 7. Read Isaiah 1:18 and John 3:1-3. Explain that the color white represents the purity in God's eyes of those whose sins have been cleansed by Jesus. Beat with a mixer on high speed for 12-15 minutes until VERY stiff peaks are formed. 8. Read Matthew 27:57-60. Explain that each mound represents the rocky tomb where Jesus' body was laid. Fold in broken nuts. 9. Line cookie sheet with waxed paper. Drop mixture by spoonfuls (teaspoon-size) onto waxed paper. (Don't make them too big! The insides will not be so "hollow" if the cookies are too large.) 10. Place the cookie sheet in the oven, close the door and turn the oven OFF! 11. Read Matthew 27:65-66. Explain that Jesus' tomb was sealed. Give each child a piece of tape and "seal" the oven door (symbolically) . 12. Read John 16:20& 22. Explain that they may feel sad to leave the cookies in the oven overnight. Jesus' followers were in despair when the tomb was sealed. GO TO BED. ON EASTER MORNING: Read Matthew 28:1-9. Unseal the oven door and take out the cookies. Take a bite. Notice--the cookies are hollow--empty- -just like the Tomb! On the first Easter Jesus' followers were amazed to find the tomb open and empty. **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! My grandmother, Pap-poo, made a variation of this Bunny Cake--with some little helpers-- as long as I can remember. Last year, Pap-poo, The Master, and Shaba Girl made the cake. Precious memories. We will hold on to that tradition and make a Bunny Cake this year as well--our first Easter without Pap-poo. This recipe is easy and everyone can get involved in helping to make the bunny come to life! If you have some family members who do not like coconut, don't cover the entire cake with it. I hope you try this recipe out with your family. Who knows, it may become a family tradition for your family, too! Bunny Cake How To Ingredients:
Note: This cake is really too large for a cookie sheet once it is assembled. Use a large piece of cardboard covered with aluminum foil or pretty paper to serve your Bunny Cake. Store any uneaten cake in an airtight container. What to do:
**All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! St. Patrick's Day Weekend Breakfasts Saturday Night's Dinner Green Pudding Dessert Craft #1: Leprechaun Masks Craft #2: Paper Plate Leprechaun Faces The Rainbow Cake Fun & Games Everyone who was wearing green got $0.50 that the "leprechaun" left with me. I also had a game where everybody picked a number to see who would go first. Each person got to pick a goodie bag. All of the goodie bags had a small handful of M&Ms and an extra treat. There were prizes for two of the bags: My brother chose the one with the green Hershey kiss and won $1.00 (which he gave to Shaba Girl). Love Bug chose the bag with a "gold" chocolate bar and won $5.00! Everyone had fun with the game and everyone got a treat! The hats left by the "leprechaun" were a hit, too! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! With everyone being sick, I haven't done anything to gear up for St. Patrick's Day this year except decorate a little. I have a few crafts planned this weekend and also plan on making Rainbow Cupcakes or maybe even a Rainbow Cake. These cupcakes are not much harder than "regular" ones, but really make for a fun treat because of all of the colors. We did these cupcakes at cooking class in the fall. I thought these would be more fun for St. Patrick's Day than just making green cupcakes. To make them more festive, I was thinking about dying the icing green and topping with a chocolate coin. You could even use M&Ms or Skittles to make a rainbow, especially if you were making a sheet cake. Rainbow Cupcakes Ingredients: Your favorite cake recipe or box mix and frosting-- both prepared and food coloring Supplies: Muffin tins, muffin tin wrappers, Ziploc bags, 4-5 containers (large measuring cups or bowls), spoons or spatulas What to do:
Dying the cake mix. Sweet Girl was in charge of making the green cake batter. Everyone made a color for part of the rainbow! The finished product. We piped on the icing and added sprinkles. YUM! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! On "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" day, we also made breadstick snakes to go with our dinner. We were pretty ambitious with everything we got done that day! I know, snakes don't have anything to do with the Grinch, but we needed some bread to go with our stuffed shells. :) We had never worked with breadstick dough before and the girls really enjoyed stretching it out to make snakes. I posted the recipe on my "Miles and Miles of Reptiles" post but wanted to share a few pictures with this post. *Header photo from phillipmartin.info **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! "You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch." "And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” This book was requested by Sweet Girl. It was fun to do a Christmas book when it wasn't Christmas time. I can't believe I never thought about doing something with this story around Christmas because we always watch the video. We had a lot of fun with this one! Take it further:
Breakfast: We started off the morning with some special "Cat in the Hat" bananas with red and white sprinkles. We also had a yummy smoothie. Lunch: I used some leftover ham to cut out triangle shapes for Christmas trees. I cut up a fruit strip for the trunks. Carrots made for the forest ground and the cheese balls were the "stars" according to Sweet Girl. Again, this was just the presentation plate. Cheese and fruit were on the side. The Grinch: Before and After activity Sweet Girl and I did this activity while Love Bug napped. We used this sheet to get started. We talked about what the Grinch was like before his heart grew. She did a pretty good job coming up with adjectives to describe him. Then, we talked about what the Grinch was like after his heart grew. I wrote the "bad" characteristics in red and the "good" ones in black. Sweet Girl colored in the picture of the Grinch (and gave him a body!) after we were done. I liked this activity because it got us thinking and talking about the movie. Now that Sweet Girl is older and can communicate really well, I can see us doing more of these type of activities. Craft: Grinch Face I was really pleased with the way these turned out. They have such character! I got this idea from kiboomukidscrafts.com There's no set template which is great because they don't look like cookie cutter Grinches. :) Supplies needed: Green and red construction paper, white paper, scissors, black marker, red and yellow crayons, glue stick, cotton balls What to do:
Activity: Grinch Goo Bag I was so excited when I came across this idea on Growing a Jeweled Rose's website! We had to improvise with what we had because I totally found this activity by accident. We used liquid bathroom soap because it was the closet thing we had to hair gel, but it worked out fine! Supplies needed: A zip-lock bag, green food coloring, craft foam, buttons, a permanent marker, clear hair gel and packaging Tape or Duct Tape What to do:
*This is an activity that should be done with adult supervision. There are small objects in the bag and the soap/gel should not be ingested. We did have a bag get a small hole in it. I suggest playing with the bag at the table or kitchen floor--not on the carpet! After the project:
Grinch Recipe: Who-Pudding We ended the night with this yummy recipe came from the Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook my husband checked out at the library. We "cheated" and used store bought tapicoa pudding, but used their recipe for the sauce. Below is the entire recipe. Who-Pudding How To Ingredients:
Supplies needed: measuring cups and spoons, grater, bowl, fine strainer, bowl, medium saucepan, mixing spoon, fork, stove top, blender, serving dishes and spoons What to do:
Makes 4-6 servings. The sauce keeps well in the refrigerator is you don't use it all. **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! I had a lot of fun planning for the Dr. Seuss party today. I put it together kind of last minute because I thought it would be fun to share what we've been doing with Shaba Girl and the rest of the family. I think I went overboard with all of the activities, but I wanted something for everyone. I had stations set up around the living and dining rooms for people to choose what they wanted to do. Everyone had to wear a Thing 1 or Thing 2 badge and my rule was that everyone had to do at least one Seuss activity. :) Here is a glimpse of our fun. Header photo source: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/dr.%20seuss%20birthday **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! This was a new book to us this year. I love the lesson that it teaches. It's fun and even funny to think about what it would be like if we could do things like animals or even other people can do. However, God has made us all special and we all can do something well just the way we are. At the end of the book, the boy realizes that he's just going to be himself. What a great message to send children. I couldn't find much online when prepping for this book. It doesn't help that the Seussville site has been down ever since I started planning for this unit. Take it further:
We started off the day with a duck coloring sheet while I fixed breakfast--which was nothing special. :) Lunch: I knew I wanted to do cheese duck feet, but wasn't sure what else I would do for the girls' lunch. I traced our Dora the Explorer's flippers (a bath toy Sweet Girl got from Shaba Girl) on a slice of cheese with a sharp knife. They turned out so cute! We had some extra deviled eggs and ham left over, so I created these fun little duck faces. I've been loving the rainbow colored Goldfish lately. You can do so much with them! Note: This plate was just for presentation. The girls had more food on the side. :) Literacy Activity: I used this writing prompt with Sweet Girl while Love Bug napped. While Sweet Girl may not be writing a lot of words yet, I think writing prompts are good for even young children. Sweet Girl is able to communicate what she is thinking and then I do the writing for her. She watches me write and is able to see how the words are formed and come together as a sentence. And of course, Sweet Girl draws awesome pictures! Pink Ink Drink This doesn't go with this book, but with One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. It was just something fun to add to the day. This drink is healthy and very easy to make. We had it for snack after quiet time before we started our craft. This recipe is from the Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook my husband checked out for me at the library. We did not thaw the berries ahead of time. I pureed the blackberries and let them sit a bit before putting the drink together. Frozen or thawed ingredients, this drink is yummy. The blackberries are "seedy" so you could strain the mixture if you don't like having to chew your drink! Your child can help with washing the fruit (if fresh), measuring the ingredients and adding them to the blender. Sweet Girl loves getting eye level to the measuring cup and telling me "STOP!" when I get to the right amount. Pink Ink Drink Recipe Ingredients: 1/2 pint fresh or 1/2 cup frozen blackberries (thawed), 1 cup milk, 6 fresh strawberries with the green removed or 1/2 cup frozen (thawed), 1 teaspoon honey Supplies needed: blender (I used a mini food processor for the blackberries and a blender for the drink part), spoon, clear cups for serving, straws What to do:
*This recipe says it serves one, but we each got a nice serving out of it. *Hint: If the blackberries are still a bit frozen, they will make a better base for your drink. Craft #1: Which-What-Who Face I came up with this super-easy craft because I thought it would be great for Sweet Girl to have more scissor practice, Love Bug just loves using the gluestick and I thought the results would be cute! Plus, the possibilities are endless on what you can make! My favorite part are the owl eyes. I already had the trunk pattern and just did an image search online for the other parts. I thought having some things printed in color and some things that had to be colored in kind of mixed it up a bit. The girls could also add their own details with markers. Add a stick and it becomes a mask! We just did a face, but you could do an entire Who-What-Who body! These are so fun to create, you will probably will want to make more than one. Which-What-Who How To Supplies needed: Paper plate or cut a circle from construction paper, a variety of animal body parts (ears, eyes, nose, mouth), scissors, gluestick, markers What to do:
Craft #2: Duck Feet I found this super-cute idea on Ten kids and a Dog blog. I didn't have any orange foam, so I used construction paper. They served their purpose, but didn't hold up well and needed a lot of taping. It's hard to walk around with duck feet! Supplies needed: Orange foam and scissors What to do:
Dinner: In keeping with the "if I had animal body parts theme," I made butterfly grilled cheese sandwhiches. I cut the bread before I buttered and cooked it. I figured it would be less messy that way. I even used the butterfly sandwhich cutter on the cheese. The girls also had Cheetos (a special snack), carrots with coconut (the girls' new fave thing) and pineapple or a fruit twist. I think it's good to shake things up a bit by serving foods that may be designated for specific meals at different times. While we ate, we talked about what would be good about having butterfly wings (and other animals' parts) and what would not be so good about it. We also talked about being happy with who you are and how God made you. **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! |
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