This year, I started a new tradition that does just that - stretch the holiday fun. I started off small, because I didn't want to be too overwhelmed with my busy schedule and not have fun creating holiday fun. I will hopefully add new traditions each year until my holiday is really egg-stravagant.
For a week before Easter, I put a center piece on my table consisting of plastic eggs, a little easter grass (you know the stuff that gets everywhere and floats mindlessly around the house), and a bowl of yummy - cadbury mini-eggs!
Here comes the fun part. Every morning before breakfast, my babies get to pick an egg that has been filled with trinkets, candy, or little easter toys of some sort. Then after they eat their breakfast - they can have two cadbury mini-eggs before going to school. Let me tell you, I don't even have to shake them awake anymore. All I do is turn on the light and bam - they are up and dressed and ready to choose an egg. They get to shake them and roll them, but they can not open until they have chosen one. It is sooo much fun to see them all excited. This year, I put starburst candies, lifesaver gummies, and all sorts of $1 toys from the Easter aisle at the local walmart. They have bubble rings, pop-up eggs, pop-up bunnies, bouncing balls, and bunny erasers. The fun part is that they never know what they are going to get. All the extras leftover can be used to fill their Easter Bunny Baskets on Easter Sunday too!
Here are my thoughts to add to traditions for years to come:
1. Add a slip of paper with a love note from Mommy and Daddy
2. Cook a special easter breakfast every morning (bunny-shaped pancakes for example)
3. Put a note on their doors - that makes them find their eggs hidden in the house (especially for the older one who is getting to be quite the reader)
4. Mini-easter egg hunt every morning
5. Easter color booklet to do a little every morning
6. Read an Easter book every morning
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