Handmade Easter

This year for Easter we tried a lot of new handmade versions of old traditions.

We tried coloring Easter eggs naturally with plant dyes.

We made some papier mache Easter eggs.

I only saw the idea a few days before Easter, so I only got one made per basket, but I can see this being a long-term replacement for the plastic eggs. It’s a lot of fun to have to bust and rip open the eggs to get to treats hidden inside!

And finally, I tried growing grass in the Easter basket instead of using the crinkly plastic stuff.

I’ve seen this idea for a few years and have never remembered early enough to do it.  I used wheat berries (kernels) and they take about two weeks to look good.  Also, my wheat is pretty old and a little bug-eaten, so my germination rate wasn’t fantastic.  So, though I would have liked the grass to be a bit thicker, it turned out OK and I think it was a lot of fun to have the eggs in actual grass!