Easter Crafts and Baking

Kirsty and I like to celebrate Easter with a little party, we buy each other surprise eggs or chocolate, bake cakes and decorate the table.
This year I'm going to make a table decoration for the centre of the table and Kirsty is going to make Easter nest cakes. We are also going to make place cards for each other.

Easter Table Decoration

For this craft I bought some ribbon, paper flowers and a small green bucket all from Hobbycraft and all £1 each.
I also had some pastel coloured paper and plain card already, and I collected some twigs from the garden.

To start with we ripped up the pastel coloured paper into thin strips to put inside the bucket to make it look nice and colourful.

Then I used some pritt stick on the back of the ribbon and wrapped it around the bucket in 3 strips. If you don't have ribbon you could draw patterns on some strips of paper instead.

I tied the paper flowers around the handle, they already had wires attached to them (you could use real flowers if you prefer.)

I placed some twigs in the top of the bucket to make it look like a nest.

Finally, I coloured a little happy Easter sign and stuck it to a bamboo stick for the middle of the bucket. You could use a lollipop stick or a twig to stick your sign too. You might want to use a piece of blutack for the bottom of the stick to keep it more steady.

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Easter Nest Cakes

Ingredients:
Shredded Wheat - 85g, crushed
Chocolate Bars - 200g
Mini Eggs - 2x 90g bags
Cake Cases

To start with Kirsty weighed the amount of Shredded Wheat and then crushed it into small pieces. This is going to give the cakes a nest-like texture.

She melted the chocolate in a pan. Once it was melted enough she poured it into the bowl with the Shredded Wheat. She stirred it until it was mixed well.

She spooned the mixture into the cake cakes and pressed the back of teaspoon into the middle of each to create a dip for the eggs to go in the nest.

She added 3 eggs to each nest cake and put them in the fridge to cool and to allow the chocolate to set.

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Easter Place Cards

We made place cards for each other using twigs, cocktail sticks, tissue paper, plain card and pens.

First of all we cut a piece of A4 card in half and then folded that in half again to allow it to stand and because we only wanted to decorate one half.

Then we glued tissue down to create the background. I used scrunched up tissue on mine to make a sun and a sheep and used twigs for the sheep's legs. Kirsty used twigs and cocktail sticks on hers to create the letters of my name.

I drew her name on in pen and drew around a tissue easter egg. Kirsty drew easter eggs in the background of hers and wrote Happy Easter.

Then we set up the whole display together! (including my wooden chicken that I bought from Waitrose's Easter range)