Easter Decor

The sun is peeking out...spring is right around the corner....and a couple of weeks ago I started decorating our home for Easter. My first step was to change up the chalkboards from Valentine's Day to Easter. The one above is hanging at the top of the stairs.  I found an idea on Pinterst that had a chalk board with a rainbow of colored eggs hanging from it. Well mine aren't exactly eggs - I picked up some free paint samples at Home Depot and used my 2" circle punch to create an egg-type look. Either way it is bright and celebrates the greatest TRUTH about Easter. Eva loves to look at all the colors and I taught her that when I say, "He is risen. JESUS is ALIVE!" to say, "Hooray!" and put her hands in the air. Super sweet.

 This chalkboard is in the playroom. I do like a good pun.

I kept my burlap table runner out and added some Easter color. I like the chocolate bunny figures that my mom got me. Chocolate is a pretty important part of Easter....I originally had fake yellow daisies in the vase but a friend came over for dinner last week and brought me reall yellow daisies! I guess she knows my taste pretty well.

My bookshelf decorations are pretty condensed. The silver bunny piggy bank was mine growing up and when my mom brought it to me from her house it still had $2.71 inside (all in pennies.....). The striped frame was also one that my mom found in a box of my old stuff so I just added a photo of Eva from last year. The rolled paper egg art is my own creation that I made this year! I'm pretty proud of how egg-cellent this project turned out. First, I took an old diaper box and cut the perfect size piece of cardboard. Then, I covered it in fun scrapbook paper. Finally, I cut strips of coordinating scrapbook paper, rolled them up on a pencil, and glued them into place.

Alright, here comes the fireplace wall. That tricky wall that we actually don't use as a fireplace, can't nail anything in to, is super reflective and hard to photograph. My iPhone actually took better photos of this wall than my DSLR camera. Go figure. I hung a sparkly Easter sign up top. Below I cut out eggs from the same coordinating scrapbook paper as the egg craft and strung them up with some pink yarn. I kind of wish this all looked fancier but it's all above Eva's bookshelf and stuffed animals so I figure fun and simple works too.

Another proud piece of art - Eva actually made this! I put down tape for the cross and let her smear paint across the paper. I think it is beautiful. 

Then there is this Picasso inspired egg art. I like it because it was all Eva's creation and her first time to get to dip stuff in a bunch of glue and put it on paper. (I did reinforce a few pieces with hot glue during her nap time but left everything exactly where she put it). The point was to make something that had different shapes, colors and textures. I hung it down low in the playroom so she can touch it and we can talk about it. 

And finally Eva made this! Hahaha, just kidding. Some of our fabulous youth students painted this for us and I think it is awesome. They just gave it to us the other day so I haven't hung it yet. It seemed spring/Easterish to me so I'm including it just to brag on their awesome artistic skills. I'm thinking of putting it either in the playroom or our bedroom. I really, really like it.

Over the next few weeks I have a few more fun Easter ideas. We definitely need to have a practice egg hunt. I want to put Eva's lunch into colored eggs and let her hunt for them and then eat it outside.  I can't decide if I think the Easter bunny is creepy? I don't think I will make a big deal out of it. I like Santa for Christmas, but a giant bunny that hides eggs? Did I ever believe in the Easter bunny? I can't even remember so it must not have been too big of a deal. I have a couple of small things I am putting together for her Easter basket but I'm just going to tell her that they are from us because we are so happy to celebrate Jesus!!!