Craft-a-Thon

I spent Good Friday home doing Easter crafts with Sophia and her "BFF".  We made so many fun things!  It was a great day.  I was feeling a bit bad for not having done any Easter Crafts up to that point...well, we made up for it!!

Easter Bouquets 

Made from Egg Carton Flowers and Hand print Lilies. 

The egg carton flowers were easy, I cut out the cups the night before to save time but I'm sure older kids could handled this on their own.  I used small curved cuticle scissors to easily cut a rounded petal.

I got the idea for the hand print lilies here http://spoonful.com/crafts/handprint-lilies. 

Cute Chicks

Then we dyed Easter Eggs and made some of them into cute hatching chicks.



Carrots?

Then we made these CUTE dipped strawberries that look like carrots.  I think I saw the idea on Pinterest but if you can dip a strawberry, you can make these.  They were super yummy too.  You can get the full instructions here.

Really, these were sooooo yummy!

What else....

Bunny Whiskers :+

These were super easy and cute!  I had the girls choose the colours they wanted and then I used a glue gun to attach the pipe cleaner and pom poms.  White glue would have worked but the glue gun is just so fast!!

Peep Kabobs

Easy...Peeps on a stick

I used the Wilton Retzel Bags that I bought at Michaels

 

CRAYONS?

So what's in your lip gloss?

Actually, the truth is, I'm not really sure.  I recently read an article claiming that 55% of the lip stick and lip glosses tested contained lead!  I've tried to do a bit of research on this topic and I've found that most of the articles claim the same thing....lead, and a bunch of other weird things.
So, I got tired of researching and trying to figure out the facts from fiction and thought it would be a lot more fun to just make my own lip gloss.
I'm not saying that I'll never use lipstick ever again but I've started looking for more natural alternatives for every day products and switching them up where I can.  I've found that so far, ALL of the natural products that I've been using not only seem to be working better for my skin but also have been saving me a lot of money.  I'll post more of them as soon as I can.  I wanted to try them out for a while before I gave them my stamp of approval.
We all know that Crayola Crayons* are non-toxic and come in more colours than you can imagine!  This lip gloss contains only three ingredients, Shea Butter, Castor Oil and Crayons (which also contain pigment and paraffin wax).  I added a few drops of food grade Peppermint Oil because I don't really like the smell of crayons.  
This was quick and easy and it feels lovely on my lips!  I have only tried two colours but I can't wait to try more.

*make sure to get Crayola, non-toxic crayons. 
 
Recipe

Depending on the size of the container you have you can modify this recipe.  Also, half a crayon is a nice light colour but if you want a more opaque colour just add more crayon.
I am using containers that hold 10ml that I bought at the Dollar Store.  8 per pkg

1 tsp Shea Butter
3/4 tsp Castor Oil
1/2 Crayola Crayon
a few drops of food grade essential oil (I used peppermint)

 

 

Combine all of the ingredients (except the essential oil) in a glass bowl
and set the bowl over a simmering pot of water and wait until they all melt together

 

Remove the bowl from the heat and add the essential oil.

Pour it into your container and...

That's it!  It will harden up in no time and you will have a lovely lip gloss!

Purple Pizzazz and Wild Strawberry