Here’s a simple card stamping idea that’s fun for everyone, easy to make and cheap! You need to cut a potato in half and use a cookie cutter to get the final shape (a star for example) and use the potato as a stamp. Then you just need to wet the potato-stamp in some tempera and stamp away!

Cheap, easy, fast, fun and disposable!

Easter is all about the kids! (and the resurrection of Jesus, but this site is not about religion, so back to crafts…)

Nowadays with our hectic lives we forget what a wonderful holiday Easter is for kids. They love to hunt for eggs and also painting them and preparing for this glorious event. Just wanted to give you an easy to-do Easter crafts for you to do with your kids and spend some quality time with them. The idea is to sponge paint the eggs. Hold the boiled egg in your hand, soak the sponge on some acrylic crafts paint -remember to remove the excess paint- and then dab the sponge on the egg. Leave the egg in an egg holder until the painted side is dry, and then repeat with the other side. And that’s it!

Whenever you decorate an egg you need to blow it out first. This is easy to do; all you need is a needle and a dish. Poke the needle inside the egg, making a hole on the top and another on the bottom of the egg (beware to break the membranes so that the inside will actually come out). Then, blow through the top hole and the insides of the egg will, slowly, come out through the bottom hole. After the egg is empty, rinse it and dry it. And it is ready to start decorating.

With small kids, a great decorating option is finger painting. Just wet your baby’s fingers with different colors and after they’ve left their marks spray with a spray sealer… and Voilá Easter eggs!

Easter season (like Christmas) is a great time for doing crafts with your kids. Here’s a list of ideas that are easy to make and kids love doing:

The options are endless, mainly what you’ll need to do is plan the activities at least a couple of weeks in advance, go through the materials you’ll be needing and get them previous starting the crafts. Don’t forget to gather Easter art clips or, if you are good at drawing do them yourself – and your kids can trace them.

Come back again soon for Part 2

When making a scrapbook it is important to plan in advance its general layout. In the case of an Easter scrapbook the main idea is to capture the family in this festive time. After all, Easter is all about traditions. Here are some ideas for you to organize an Easter Scrapbook: take pictures of your kids decorating Easter eggs, making paper Easter bunnies and while they are in the Easter egg hunt. Also, a must-picture is kids dressed up for Easter dinner, when the whole family gets together. So, plan your pictures in advance and you’ll end up with a scrapbook the whole family will want to look over and over. Happy Easter!