Easter with the Maynard Family

Hello and welcome back!

I'm finally recovered from the bronchitis.

I don't have a lot to post, because I was feeling

so bad, I didn't even do any crafting.

We did have a wonderful Easter and had our 
Annual Maynard Family Egg Coloring Contest.
Here are a few pictures of my grandkids and also the

egg contest results.

Marie and Asher all dressed up in their Easter outfits.

Marie got a Jessie dress from the bunny.

Asher got a Woody shirt from the bunny.

Here's Marie with all their Easter eggs.

This year there were only 4 of us that participated

in the egg coloring contest.

Things have been crazy around here.

Kelsie and Sara have been very busy with their business

Clumsy Cloud Gifts (dot com)

Below are the 4 entries.  I posted them on facebook and

people casted their votes.

Sara's "Duo Color Explosion"

4th place

Jaryd's "Pink and Purple Splendor"

3rd place

Marie's "Pretty in Pink and More"

2nd place

Your's truly "Marbled Neutrals"

1st place.

I used onion skins to color my eggs this year.

Onion skins were chopped up,

the eggs were run under water so the skins would

stick to them.
They were then wrapped in pieces of 

knee high stockings and tied closed.

They were place into a pot with water, salt, vinegar

and a little bit of blue food coloring.

Boiled to become hard boiled eggs.

Once they were removed and onion skins were

rinsed off they turned out marbled.

I only had brown onion skins,

but next time I'd like to try multi colored

skins and include some white and red onion

skins.

They were easy to color this way and turned out

great.

Did you color eggs for Easter this year?

Here are winners from past years from our contest.

2023 Marie (age 3 yrs old)

2022 Kelsie

2021 Brad

You can see we didn't have the time to 

decorate like we usually do,

but it was fun anyway.

And now I have bragging rights until next Easter.

Thanks for stopping in today to see what I've

been up to.

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

enjoy spring!

 

Easter Eggs

Hello all you crafty people!

Easter is coming and in our family

we usually have an Easter Egg Hunt.
In the past we have used those little plastic eggs

and put numbers inside that correspond to a 

prize.  The prize is inside a plastic cup that is covered

with tissue paper.  You have to "punch" through the

tissue paper to get your prize.  It could be anything

from candy to some nice squishy jello.
We have a lot of fun with it.
Sara said she'd love to have some reusable fabric

eggs and sent me a picture of them.
So of course, being me, I had to make some.

They were simple to put together and I used 

some fabric that each of us had and scraps that others

from my Buy Nothing Group gave me.

I made my templates in 3 different sizes.

They can be made in any size you want and 

we wanted them to be fairly small.

Here are some of them in the smallest size.

They open in the back to put a little treat inside,

or in our case, a number.

Here are more, you can see that any design of fabric 

can work.  It just needs to be a light weight fabric.

All my fabrics were fabrics that would be 

appropriate for quilting.

They turned out so cute and we can use them over

and over.
They can be used for any kind of goodies in an 

Easter basket also.

Here is the video I used to learn how to make them.

I made my own pattern, but otherwise followed these instructions

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you'll be back again soon.

Until then,

have an egg-cellent day!

 

2023 Maynard Egg Coloring Contest

Happy Easter!
A few weeks back I shared our 2022 Egg Decorating Contest.
Today I'm sharing our contest for this year.
We had a wonderful afternoon together coloring and decorating
eggs for Easter last Sunday.
We all met up at Jaryd and Sara's house,
had egg salad sandwiches for lunch, very appropriate,
I thought.  Then we got down to business.

Brad and Jaryd were taking their designs seriously.
We all had up to 6 eggs each to decorate,
but had to choose only one to enter in the
contest.

Here I am concentrating on one of my eggs.

Even little Asher got in on the fun. He didn't
color any eggs, but he sure liked eating them.

Kelsie lettered the eggs for my title for the contest.

Here are all the eggs we colored.

Jaryd's 
"He's got the whole world in his hand"
30 votes

Brad's
"Clawing his way out!"
9 votes

Dave's
"I'd rather nap."
17 votes but 10 were laughing, so technically
he got 7 votes.

Kelsie's
"Shoot for the stars"
45 votes

Kristie's
"You crack me up"
27 votes

Marie's (3 yr's old)
"Amazing egg of many colors"
48 votes

Sara's
"Crackodile"
15 votes

Zoe's
"Love you a Minion"
17 votes
I posted the pictures on Facebook for our family and friends to vote
for their favorites for a whole week.
The voting was brisk and the winner is
3 yr old Marie with 
Amazing Egg of Many Colors
with 48 votes.
Marie now has bragging rights until next Easter.
We have so much fun doing this every year.
Not only the contest, but the being together and
decorating, looking up ideas and being amazed at some of the ideas
that everyone comes up with.

Thanks for stopping by, 
I hope you have enjoyed your time here.
Do you have any kind of Easter tradition with 
egg coloring or anything else for that matter?
I hope you'll come again soon.
Until then,
Happy Easter
and enjoy some eggs!

 

Spring Time Crafting

Happy Spring!

Spring is finally here, at least according to the

calendar it is.  But here in the Buffalo, NY area,

you never know when the weather will

decide to turn wintery.
I hope you are having beautiful weather

where ever you are.

Today I have some spring crafts to show you,

that my granddaughter, Marie, did.

This is the picture she made for her Daddy for

St. Patrick's Day.  She is 3 yrs old, so she didn't 

draw all of it or do the writing, but she did the painting

herself.  I think it's quite the masterpiece.

This is the front window that my daughter in law,

Sara, did for Easter.

Marie wanted to make her own decorations like

Mommy's, so Sara drew it and Marie added all 

the color.

Even Daddy gets in on the act with

crafting.  Here is Jaryd painting a 
"truck" with Marie.

It's actually a wood VW Bug,

but Marie calls it a truck.

She wanted to paint it for Daddy's truck.

I wish I had a picture of it, but I don't.

Thanks for stopping in today to see what

has been happening with me.

Come for another visit soon,

until then,

encourage creativity in a child.

 

Easter Fun with Marie

Hi! 

 It's time to make some Easter crafts.

I made these with my granddaughter as little

Ester gifts for those who we had Easter dinner with in 2022

They are so simple to make, just use some 

craft paint to make the foot prints.

An eraser works well for the "cheeks" and nose

and a finger print makes a great tail.

She was only 2.5 at the time, so I had to help with 

the little details, but they were very simple and 

a lot of fun.

Here they are all lined up ready to have their eyes put on.

Googly eyes on and ready to go.

Here is the other one that she made.

Carrots are always fun too.

Everyone that got them was happy to

have a Marie original.

Thanks for spending some time with here,

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

try crafting with a little one.

 

Fun Easter Egg Hunt

Hello everyone!

For the last few years my son and daughter in law

have hosted Easter dinner.  They started a tradition of

having an inside Easter egg hunt.
Everyone gets to participate in searching for 

those little plastic eggs that can be filled.

They put numbers in the eggs 

whatever number you find, is the number of the cup you

get.  You punch through the tissue paper on top to 

get your prize.

You never know what you will find in the cup,

it could be a little tiny jar of Nutella

Or some magnetic clips

Or maybe a cute little pizza hand sanitizer.

Or the cup could be filled with shaving cream or whipped topping

or maybe even jello.

For our 2022 hunt, they took Marie, then 2.5 yrs old, and went shopping

at the Dollar Tree.  She picked some pretty interesting

prizes.
We always have a lot of fun when we play this and sometimes

it's hard to find all the eggs, as Jaryd and Sara forget where they hid them.

No matter who wins what, we have a great time 

and I look forward to this year's hunt

Do you do Easter egg hunts with your family?

Maybe you'll want to give this a try and see how they 

like it.

Thanks for stopping in today,

I hope you enjoyed your time here

and will come again soon.

Until then,

make some fun Easter plans.

 

Our Annual Family Easter Egg Competition 2022

Hello everyone.
Easter is fast approaching and I realized that I never

posted about our 
Annual Easter Egg Coloring Contest 2022,

so I thought now would be a good time.

We started in 2021 with our family competition and

like our Christmas Cookie Decorating Contest,

there is no prize except bragging rights for the year.

I post the pictures on facebook and our family and friends

vote for their favorites.

Here are the eggs from 2022

Dots and Lines by Brad 6 votes

Pray for Peace by Kristie 17 votes

Dinosaur by Jaryd 9 votes

Dino Friends by Marie (age 2.5) 12 votes

Dino-corn by Sara 18 votes

Bunny by Zoe 18 votes

And last by certainly not least,

the clear winner

Flowers by Kelsie 43 votes.

I'm glad you came by today and I hope

you are inspired in some way. 
Maybe you'll even have a friendly little

competition of your own this year.

After Easter I'll post the entries and results

of the 2023 contest.

Until then,

decorate some eggs!