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This year, Easter Sunday falls on April 12th. Easter Sunday activities include colorful Easter parades, Easter Sunday religious services and the always exciting Easter egg hunt! The anticipation in preparing for an Easter egg hunt can only be matched by the excitement many children experience leading up to and during the actual hunt itself.
Preparations for the Easter egg hunt include selecting a location, choosing decorative crafts and paints for the eggs, boiling the eggs, painting them and then hiding the eggs around the lawn or yard. Pastel colors work best for egg-dipping, as they are bright enough to see even through tall grass. On Easter Sunday, at least one parent will have to dress as the Easter Bunny during the hunt, requiring them to wear an oversized bunny costume.
As for the children, the fun usually begins at daybreak, when they awaken to find Easter baskets filled with Easter candies and chocolates. The madcap excitement continues as they get dressed in their favorite Easter Sunday costume.
Get a head start on the festivities. Pick an outfit for the kids from the following children's Easter costumes, such as:
1. Rabbit or bunny costume
2. Marshmallow Peep or other Easter candies like Jelly Beans
3. Religious or Biblical figure like Jesus, Joseph, or the Virgin Mary
And these ever-popular costumes that children always enjoy dressing in:
4. Fairy or Pixie such as Tinker Bell
5. Superhero
6. Fairytale Princess or Disney Princess like Aurora or Jasmine
7. Swashbuckling Pirate like Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean
8. Angel
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If you are planning to throw an Easter party this year. Why not make some cute invitations and make an ever lasting impression. All you need is a little bit creativity.
Cute Choco Candy Invitations: Easter and chocolates go hand in hand. Why not take it the traditional way this year and send out Invitations attached to a sweet chocolate Easter bunny. You can even send out invitations attached to a delicious candy bar.
Hand Made Easter Egg Invitations: This is an easy and fun craft that is also good to do with children. Cut out invitations into an egg shape from construction paper or card stock. Decorate the front of the invitation in pretty colors and designs, using glitter, jewels or ribbon to give it a finishing touch. One the reverse side you can write the Easter party details. Each invitation will be unique and your guests will appreciate the effort you put into making the invitations yourself.
Plastic Egg Invitations: Another simple idea to send out Easter invitations is to send the information inside plastic eggs. You can buy large colorful plastic eggs and then put a folded note with the event details inside. You can also add sweet candies and jelly beans for the little invitees can enjoy. To give the eggs a finishing touch, you can decorate them or tie a ribbon around them. These invitations can then be hand delivered or mailed to the invitees.
Online Invitations: Not up for the time and effort needed to make homemade invitations? Another great option is to send online invites to all your guests. This works great especially if you are inviting a large group of people and need to keep track of RSVPs. These online invitation sites have some beautiful Easter themes, and you are sure to find one that suits your event!
Note: If you are planning to have activities like egg dyeing or an Easter egg hunt, then ask your guests to wear older clothes or to bring along an apron with them. This will ensure that their nice Easter clothes won't be ruined if they get stained with dye or grass.
Be creative and plan a great Easter party!
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While Easter has significant religious connotation, it's a perfect time to host local events, an egg hunt in your yard or nearby park, food festivals and family parties to welcome the spring in a grand way. It's the time to express the joy of renewed life and there is no better way of doing so than organizing a fabulous Easter party. No matter how you are and where you are, make sure you do something special on this holiday and make it a day to remember.
Especially kids love to enjoy all the fun associated with this special holiday and you will easily find wonderful ideas to plan your Easter party on the internet. Creating family fun at Easter is not too difficult when you have innumerable online event management companies to guide you and eventually make your Easter party truly special. You can also think of a good party theme which will provide the perfect framework from which the rest of the planning process can flow. Once the theme for your party is chosen, decisions about the kind of invitations, activities, food, drinks, and decorations become much clearer.
Filled with homemade decorations, Easter crafts, special treats, mouthwatering recipes, party games and fun filled activities, your Easter party can even fetch you lots of money if you intend to promote your event and sell tickets. The guests and invitees of your Easter party can get busy with the Easter egg hunt, enjoy the Easter Bonnet Cake, dance to the lively music, or just indulge in the delectable food.
April 12th (Easter Sunday) is not too far away and you have very little time to arrange for all the things required to host a lovely Easter event. So hurry, plan your Easter party immediately, send out invitations, sell loads of tickets and make your event a grand success. Welcome the spring and Celebrate Easter 2009 in an egg-cellent way!
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Depending on your personal belief system, Easter, April 4th, 2010, has a varied significance for people all over the world. One thing that that most people can rally around is that this is a fun-filled time of year to dye colored Easter eggs and start new craft projects.
This Easter some children are creating their own version of an Easter basket by painting Easter pots in lieu of the traditional Easter basket. With a variety of safe lead-free glazes on the market today, they can paint the full spectrum of the rainbow on any given pot. The Easter pot is sturdier than the traditional basket and can be used year after year.
Under adult supervision, low fire glazes is another way to take a child's pottery project to a new level of creativity. Children can make these Easter pots and then give them as gifts to grandparents or godparents. There are so many colors and types of glazes available that each child can express their own personality.
Making a picture frame is another great way to celebrate Easter. The sky is the limit where creativity is concerned. Take your favorite bunny stencils, stickers, paints and create your own personal Easter-themed picture frame. And when you're finished and ready to hang your picture frame, a nail hole filler will help complete the job. Add your favorite active shot from the Easter egg hunt and your picture frame is complete.
It certainly wouldn't be Easter without Easter candy. As soon as the Valentine's day cards and candy are removed from the shelves, chocolate Easter bunnies, marshmallow chicks and every type of candy you can imagine appears in Easter colors. For parents looking for ways to take the focus off the candy, creating arts projects with Balsa-Foam is a fun way to show your kids that there is more to Easter than sweets. This easy-to-use product can be cut with even a Popsicle stick to create non-edible Easter bunnies, eggs and chicks.
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Easter Day is one of the important official annual festivals in western country, which is the first Sunday after the full moon following the spring equinox. It is a religious holiday of Christian. They believed that Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. For commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Christian celebrate on that day called Easter Day or Easter Sunday. The 4th April is the Easter Day this year.
The Romans believed that "All life comes from an egg'', and Christian regarded eggs to be "the seed of life" which coordinates the resurrection of Jesus. That is why the Easter egg is its symbol.
At the secular spring holiday, most people will boil breakfast eggs in several pans which contains different vegetable dyes so that those eggs will be covered different colors. Instead of boiling them, some peoples will paint beautiful patterns, figures and pictures with bright colors on them to give them further meaning and decorate their houses. Chocolate eggs are children traditional gifts. By this way, they predict to bring joys and happiness; furthermore, they are the symbol of best wishes and sharing happiness of a new season.
Flying Kites is also a traditional celebrating game in some English-speaking country. It can be considered as the ascent of Christ.
On the holiday, people will prepare some delicious special food. Roast lamb is the main traditional dish. Easter pudding and the Simnel cake are the desserts.
Easter Sunday is knocking the door, have you prepared already? To celebrate this important feast at the lively and hopeful new spring means a lot for people. It may be the time to forget those annoying troubles and open a new page of life to see the energetic world. Painting eggs to enjoy the happiness or going out and take a journey with your families are good choices. Just lay down the burden to have a rest. I think this may be the its real meaning now.
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Kids love making craft projects out of foamies. You can find them for almost any holiday or occasion. Watch for them on sale after holidays, one container can last you for several years! Joann's and Walmart usually have good selections of them.
We had fun making crafts with our Easter foamies last year, and there were still enough left over to play with this year. I got out some Easter pictures from last year I hadn't scrapbooked yet, and came up with a couple of cute layouts using the Easter foamies.
For these scrapbook layouts, you will need a container of foamies that includes alphabet letters. The Easter set I found had a bunch of pastel letters to spell out the word "Easter", so that worked out perfectly.
Supplies:
Easter foamies
Eight family Easter photos
12x12 sheet of pastel, solid-colored scrapbook paper
2 12x12 sheets of coordinating spring or Easter patterned scrapbook paper
Scrap of white scrapbook paper
Paper cutter
Glue stick
Coordinating pastel brads (optional)
I created two different layouts for these sets of pictures. The background papers are the same color but a little bit different pattern, and then I used one sheet of solid-colored paper for matting for both layouts.
Easter Scrapbook Layout #1:
For the first layout, I cut a long, vertical piece of solid-colored scrapbook paper. It is about 2 inches wide, and is placed about an inch from the left edge of the patterned paper, and an inch from both the top and bottom of the page.
If you want you can attach pastel colored brads to the corners of this vertical piece to draw more attention to it. If you are going to use them, attach them to the four corners of the piece and then glue the entire piece centered about an inch from the left hand side of the patterned scrapbook paper.
This vertical piece will be used to showcase some of the Easter foamies. After I glued this piece in place I placed four foamies vertically on it, two Easter eggs and two bunnies.
I next cut out a white piece of scrapbook paper for the heading on the page. It is about 6 inches long and 3 inches high. I then matted this piece with solid-colored scrapbook paper. I then glued this piece approximately an inch from the top and an inch from the right hand side of the patterned scrapbook paper.
On this heading piece, I spelled out the word "Easter" with the foamies. I let my pieces go slightly over the left and right-hand edges of the matting, but if you want you can cut out a bigger caption piece to fit all the letters.
Lastly, I arranged and glued on four Easter family photographs. I arranged them so that they were slightly overlapping the solid piece on the left and slightly overlapping each other. For time's sake, I didn't mat these photos. If you want to, you can use the solid-colored paper to create mats for the photos.
Easter Scrapbook Layout #2:
For the second layout, I cut out and glued on the solid colored piece on the left the same as for the first layout. Instead of using the bunnies and Easter egg foamies, I vertically spelled out "Easter" with the foamies.
On this layout I did not include a caption at the top, but I did use the solid-colored scrapbook paper to create mats for the photos.
After I glued the solid colored piece on the left-hand side of the page, I arranged the four matted photos on the page and glued them in place. I then used Easter egg shaped foamies to fill in the spaces between the photos.
There you go, two easy Easter scrapbook layouts using Easter craft foamies!
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