Bunny Bites and Egg Delights - Kids No Bake Easter Recipes

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Kids love Easter and decorating eggs but they also love to get in on the fun of making all the yummy treats. These kids Easter recipes are the perfect way to let them participate in the fun and make some delicious bunny bites and egg delights. The instructions for each of these are no-bake methods. You can bake your own items if you wish or just buy them store bought and then add the decorations to turn them into fun treats for this coming holiday.

Kids Easter Recipe #1

Easter Bonnet Cookies

These bonnets are made for eating and not for wearing even though they look so pretty.

Ingredients

Sugar Cookies
Vanilla Wafers
Frosting
Decorating Gel
Fruit Roll Ups
Directions

Take a vanilla wafer and spread frosting on the bottom of the wafer.
Place it in the center of a larger sugar cookie frosting side down.
Now frost the entire thing (both cookies).
Wrap some fruit roll-ups around the center (where the wafer is) and gently tie it into a bow.
Finish it off with some fun designs using the decorating gel.
If you want different colors for your bonnets simply add some food coloring to the frosting before you cover the cookies.

Kids Easter Recipes #2

Easter Egg Spinach Dip

This traditional bread and dip recipe is perfect for your party this coming holiday.

Ingredients

Large Oval Shaped Loaf of Bread (Rye or Pumpernickel)
Spinach Dip (store bought or make your own)
Yellow Food Coloring
Directions

Cut the loaf in half lengthwise.
Hollow out the middle of both halves.
Take half the spinach dip and place in a bowl.
Add yellow food coloring and blend in until you have the desired color.
Place the yellow colored spinach dip directly in the middle of the bread bowl.
Place the remaining spinach dip all around the center.
With the bread pieces taken from the middle, tear into small pieces and place all around the bread and serve.
Tip: Add some cheese amongst the bread by using a small scoop and block cheese. These will look like jelly beans placed in with the bread pieces. If you want you can decorate the outside of the bread (egg) using a spray cheese.

Kids Easter Recipe #3

Easter Bunny Cupcakes

These adorable bunnies won't last long once the kids see them. With their floppy ears and whisker noses, they look so cute and cuddly.

Ingredients

Cupcakes (store bought or make your own)
White Frosting
Black and Red Licorice strings
Nutter Butter Cookies
Brown and Red M & Ms
Directions

Frost the cupcakes (if not already bought that way) with white frosting.
Place 2 Nutter Butters on each side of the cupcake at the back (these are the ears). You can add some pink frosting to highlight the bunny ears.
Place 2 brown M & Ms in the cupcake for eyes and a red one for the nose.
Add some whiskers using the black licorice.
Finish this yummy bunny of with a smile using the red licorice.
Kids Easter Recipe # 4

Rice Krispie Easter Baskets

Rice Krispie treats make the perfect ingredient for shaping into fun designs. These Easter baskets are so fun to make and decorate.

Ingredients

Rice Krispies
Marshmallows
White Frosting
Green Food Coloring
Jelly beans or Oval Shaped candies
Directions

Make the Rice Krispie treats as directed on the box.
Use a small bowl and place up side down.
Spray with cooking spray.
Press the Rice Krispies treat onto the bowl to shape it into a basket. Let it cool before removing.
On a sheet of waxed paper press some Rice Krispie treats into the shape of a handle. You may need to measure the bowl to make sure you make this long enough.
Turn it right side up and place on waxed paper.
In a mixing bowl combine the frosting and green food coloring.
Spread the frosting on the inside of the bowl to make it look like Easter grass. You can use other colors if you want.
Press the candies into the frosting to fill the basket with eggs.
Take your Rice Krispie handle and place frosting on both ends. Press on each side of the basket to hold in place.
To brighten up this kids Easter recipe you can use fruit roll-ups and wrap it around the handle for some added decorations.

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Easter Fun for Kids

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Let's have some fun with the kids for Easter! I have a couple of delicious ideas that you can make with ingredients you already have on hand. The best part of these recipes is that your children will have as much fun making them as they do eating them. It will be smiles all around as you make these fun Easter treats with your family.

Let's hop to it! We will start with decorated Jell-o jigglers and then make some cute egg shaped cookies. Your imagination is the only limit here. Easter is a great time for making and decorating fun things to eat! Decorating them with the pinks and greens of spring plus all the delightful sprinkles that are available in the stores now make them especially attractive this time of year.

Decorated Jell-o jigglers

4 small pkgs. or 2 large pkgs. Jell-o any flavor

2 1/2 cups boiling water or juice (apple or pineapple are good choices)

To make jigglers:

Completely dissolve gelatin in boiling water or juice.

Pour into 13 X 9 inch pan and/or molds.

Chill until firm, about 3 hours.

To remove jigglers from pan:

Dip bottom of pan in warm water about 15 seconds.

Cut with cookie cutters or cut into 1 inch squares.

Moisten fingers with water and gently lift jigglers from pan.

To remove jigglers from molds:

Dip bottom of molds in warm water about 15 seconds.

Moisten fingers with water and gently lift jigglers from mold.

You can decorate the jigglers for extra fun!

Whipped topping, sprinkles, and gels are wonderful options for decorating your jigglers.

The fun is the limit to the variations for your jigglers!

Egg Shaped Cookies

1 cup butter, softened

1 cup granulated sugar

1 large egg, at room temperature

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy in a large mixing bowl.

Add egg and vanilla extract and mix until just combined.

Combine flour and baking powder in a separate bowl.

Add flour mixture to butter mixture gradually.

Cover and refrigerate dough for at least one hour to make handling dough much easier.

Set oven to 375 degrees.

Roll out dough to 1/4 inch thickness.

Cut dough into egg shapes or any shape desired. Plastic eggs make nice cutters.

Place 1 inch apart on greased baking sheet.

Make a hole for the ribbon by piercing a hole near top of cookie with a toothpick.

Bake in 375 degree oven for 8 - 10 minutes.

Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 1 minute before removing from baking sheet.

Allow cookies to cool completely before decorating.

Cookie Decorations

2 cups confectioners' sugar

1/4 cup warm water

1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Liquid food coloring

Sprinkles

Gels

Colored ribbon

Pour confectioners' sugar in a mixing bowl.

Add water gradually until it becomes a thick spreading consistency.

Add almond extract.

Add food coloring. Separate icing into different bowls if more colors are desired.

Using a spoon or pastry brush, cover the top of the cookies with the icing.

Add sprinkles to the wet icing.

Store unused icing in airtight container for decorating cookies later.

Allow the icing on the cookies to dry several hours or overnight.

Use gels or remaining icing in a pastry bag to decorate cookies.

Thread a ribbon through the cookie holes.

You are all set to enjoy the cookies by hanging them on an Easter tree or eating them!

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Cadburys Easter Eggs

Cadburys Easter eggs are made at their factory in Minford, Sutton Coldfield in the Midlands, the centre of England. They have been made there since 1993. Easter eggs have been produced by Cadburys since 1875. They had no patterns or carvings on them and were made of dark chocolate and filled with sugar coated chocolate drops.

The first eggs to be decorated were decorated with chocolate piping and marzipan flowers. It didn't take long for many more products to be added to the Cadbury Easter range, and by 1893 nineteen Easter products were in the Cadbury inventory. Richard Cadbury was an artist and was inspired by French, Dutch and German designs though he did adapt his designs on his eggs to something more acceptable to the Victorians.

The first cardboard packaging - filled with assorted chocolates - first appeared in 1906. These were to have a couple of decades in the market and were also exported with great success until the 1950s. 1924 saw Cadbury run a special Easter egg service train so customers in popular resorts in Britain would get their Easter eggs on time.

In 1925 Cadbury were selling 14 Easter lines, including a large egg wrapped in foil and decorated with a bow. Cadbury merged with Fry in 1919 so in reality the product lines were even greater as Fry sold 50 lines including chocolate cream bears, lions and other animals as well as small cream eggs and hollow eggs. Cadbury Crème Eggs are a direct decedent of these and are enjoyed to this day. Cadbury remains the most popular chocolate maker in the UK.

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Fun Games For Kids to Play on Easter

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Easter is the day when you and your family celebrate life, enjoy the brunch and eat lots of chocolates. However, spend the day with family is so much fun than being alone. To cheer up the situation, you can prepare games for the kids and let them enjoy the moment. If you are confused which kind of games you can have, try to use these ideas to make the Easter day more pleasurable.

Hop, Hop Easter Bunny

It is a relay race for two or three groups of children. First of all, divide the children into the groups, and ask them to jump with a plastic, or maybe Styrofoam egg between their knees. They have to reach the certain distance to become a winner. Once a team comes to finish line, they are the winner.

Easter Bowling

Use hard boiled eggs, some colored and one plain. Give the colored eggs to the participants, one person gets one. Then, roll the white one in the center of the room. Take turns to discover who is able to roll the egg closest to the plain one. The shape maybe the vital problems, so you can play it outside the house, perhaps in the backyard. But, you can do it in the living room when the weather doesn't cooperate.

Easter Bunny, Where's Your Egg?

For playing this game, you need large paper egg. Set the players to form a circle with a kid sit in the middle. He will be the bunny. Next, the bunny has to close and cover his eyes at the same time as a player chosen to sit on the egg. After that, all the players say, "Easter Bunny, Easter Bunny, where's your egg? Somebody stole it from your home!"

Subsequently, the Easter bunny has to open the eyes and guess who sit on the egg. If the bunny is successfully answer it, the child who sit on it has to become the new bunny and sit in the middle.

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Easter Egg Decorating

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Easter is fast approaching and if you're trying to get ready, there are probably many things on your To-Do list. Whether you have children or not, Easter egg decorating can be a fun activity and also a wonderful way to decorate your home. You might not realize that there are actually many different ways to decorate Easter eggs. In addition to the eggs themselves, there are many different ways you can display them and decorate them around your home.

For example, you may create an Easter centerpiece for your table. Some people use decorated eggs in an outdoor Easter holiday display. You can create eggs to be given in Easter baskets or given as gifts and you can create Easter eggs that will last for future years and make great home décor.

Now that you know some of the things you can do with your eggs, what are some ways you can decorate them?

Crayon colors
Stickers
Stencils
Sailing ships
Rubber banded eggs
Tie-dyed eggs
Leaf print eggs
Fingerprint eggs
Marbleized eggs
Dots and lines
Tape and paint
And many more

Feel free to be as creative as you'd like with your Easter egg decorating for this is part of the fun and appeal. It can be very exciting to see what types of designs and styles you can come up with.

Here are some additional ideas:

Create Easter eggs with personality- make an Easter egg family (mom, dad, children, grandparents, etc) or Dr and Nurse Egg, etc
Create blown eggs so that they can be kept for many years and not go bad
Create planter pots out of your painted eggshells by breaking the top and putting a small plant inside

Did you know that you can even decorate your Easter eggs with common things you see and find around your home? Before your next egg-decorating session, search your home and try to round up:

Bubble packaging
Aluminum foil
Rubber bands
String and ribbon
Tissue paper
Light bulb sleeves
Glitter
Sequins

You may even come up with some ideas of your own when you start collecting these things. Remember when you work with real eggs that you should boil them for about 15 minutes and then allow them to cool completely before getting started. Always protect your work area and your clothing if you will be working with paints. Never eat an egg that was painted with acrylics or non-food grade dyes.

We hope you enjoy these ideas and have a wonderful, safe Easter holiday!

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Easter Egg Decor

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Instead of buying Easter Eggs from the market, won't it be great if you could create your own "funky designs" at home? Sounds great, doesn't it! Every year, going to the same store and succumbing YOUR ingenuity to THEIR creativity is not such a cool idea. Not for me at least. So this year, create your own funky designer Easter eggs.

The very first step for Easter egg preparation is Boiling the Egg.

Before that, check if the eggs are fresh using a simple cold water test. Put the egg in a glassful of water. If it sinks at the bottom, it is fresh. However, if it sinks with its smaller side up, it can be used. Otherwise, try getting fresher eggs. This is important as otherwise you will end up with a greenish yolk.

Now put the fresh eggs in a large bowl (for bowling) and pour cold water over them. The water level should be such that it completely immerses all the eggs. Make sure you use as many eggs as your bowl can support. Do not let the eggs be over each other.

Give them a boil, and let them stay in the hot water for about 15 minutes.

For painting the eggs, you can use any food colors, liquid or paste and any decorative items like glitter according to your wish.

Once you have the right eggs boiled for the right amount of time, rest is all your imagination.

The significance of eggs is different for different people.

Some believe that the egg symbolizes the Resurrection of Christ and its shell, His tomb.

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The Golden Egg (Templar)

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Imagine waking Easter morning to find a basket with jelly beans, chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chicks... and a pretty, sparkly lift-the-flap Easter book! The Golden Egg, while no literary gem, is sure to be appealing to young readers with an eye for all that glitters. Simple rhyming verse tracks Little Duck as she searches high and low for a very special golden Easter egg. Along the way, she elicits the help of a fluffy chick, darling lambs, an elegant swan, and a bevy of bunnies. "They stop beside a babbling brook,/ and Duck lets out a 'Quack!'/ Swan is swimming down the stream,/ and cradled on her back,/ there is an egg so dazzling,/ so bright it makes them blink./ But is it gold? 'Oh, no,'/ says Swan..." (lift the flap) "'My egg is rosy pink!'" Alas, although the eager crew finds dazzling purple, green, blue, silver, and pink decorated eggs, there's nary a golden egg to be found. But the Goose upon her nest reveals something even better--a chocolate egg!

The conclusion is a trifle bewildering (could the moral really be all that glitters is not gold, but sometimes is chocolate instead?), but this book is appealing and attractive with plenty of shiny allure and interactive fun. Children will love participating in the page-turning Easter egg hunt, peering behind potted plants and cattails to see if they can find the elusive golden egg. (Baby to preschool)

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