Felted Easter Eggs

We made our first Easter project today. We found the idea in Family Fun Magazine. You need plastic eggs, felt roving in several colors, electrical tape, and panty hose. I got a package of felt roving at Michaels for less than $5 that included all the colors you see here and made all the eggs you see here.


First, we used the electrical tape to keep all our eggs closed tightly.


Then, we cut 4 inch pieces of the roving and spread the piece out so that you have a 4 inch x 4 inch square. Do this three times so that you cover each egg with 3 squares, overlapping each perpendicularly.


Then decorate with other colors. It was easiest and worked best to do lines. You can also use 100% wool yarn for this which I think would be ideal but we didn't have that on hand.




The eggs look like this and yes, they are pretty messy looking. Fit them inside the panty hose carefully so as not to disrupt up your design and tie a knot between each egg.



You will end up with a row like this.



Ford liked the rows just as they were and thought they made a great toy. Put them in the washing machine on hot and then dry them on high heat.


Carefully remove the hose from the eggs and you are finished. The heat makes the felt shrink to the eggs and here is what our finished product looked like. Overall, I think they look best when you have a lot of them together. It was a fun and cheap kids project.

Valentine Favors

Delaney and I spent time today making our first of many Valentine treats. First we made arrow snacks that we saw the idea for in Family Fun Magazine. We used Pretzel Sticks and Brachs candy gummy hearts. One bag of gummy hearts made about 36 arrows.



For each one, you need a whole heart and one heart that you cut a triangle out of to make a tale shape for your arrow .

And this is how we bagged them up. I got these stickers printed from Pear Tree Greetings. We put them on solid card stock and stapled them onto the clear bags. These will be for Delaney's four year old class at school.



Next we made some favors for Ford's class. We have bags of crayons and pieces of crayons laying around. I found this great idea for what to do with them on Pinterest.

I found the heart ice cube trays at Ikea. We filled them up and put them in the oven for 15 minutes at 250 degrees. Let them cool and then pop them out of the silicone mold. They turned out great. We bagged them the same way we did for the arrow treats. But we did add a note to the back of each that they are not edible just in case the three year olds in Ford's class think they look good enough to eat.