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How to Dye Easter Eggs with Rice

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April 7, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, Easter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Social Media

How to dye Easter Eggs with Rice and Food Coloring – all supplies are found in your home – plus more Egg dyeing techniques and tutorials.

How to Dye Easter Eggs with Rice

Dyeing eggs is so fun! We shared with you before, Easter Egg Ideas that are outside of the box. Today we have more Easter Egg ideas – How to Dye Easter Eggs with Rice. This egg dyeing process is really simple too.

This easy to-do DIY makes memories that will last forever. After dyeing, celebrate Easter this season with your kid’s favorite tradition, Easter egg hunting! These eggs are easy to make, using simple ingredients in your home. Use this recipe for spring party decor or even as a game – like an Easter Egg toss but only one is not hardboiled! For more Easter egg hunting ideas, be sure to check out our nighttime glow in the dark Easter egg hunt.

(I have to insert that the paragraph above was written by my fifth grader. I have learned to embrace her presence and put her to work on some of her first tasks of work and helping mom out. Normally she helps by picking up toys or watching her younger siblings, but today I gave her a stab at writing an introductory paragraph to our Easter egg rice post. I’d say she did a pretty good job!)

Happy Easter and happy dyeing!

Many of these supplies you likely have in your home. I think you could make these without shopping, but below are the four supplies and ingredients you need!

Riced Dyed Easter Eggs Supplies:

How to Dye Easter Eggs with Rice:

First, hard boil your eggs on your own. There are many recipes online for making the best hardboiled eggs – I like the way we hardboiled eggs in this post, Reversed Easter Egg Deviled Eggs.

Once you have cooled hard boiled eggs, place one cup of rice into each baggie and add 7-8 drops of food coloring into each one. Close bag and squish the rice around so all the color mixes in well.

Once mixed well, open up and place one hard-boiled egg inside. Close bag and shake the bag around until you have your desired color.

You will repeat step 2 until all the eggs are colored. Have fun mixing two or three colors or make a fun rainbow egg with all the colors.

After all eggs are complete, place back in carton or on paper towels to dry and store in refrigerator. You can check out our drying rack tutorial if you want to make your own.

Don’t forget our other Easter Egg Dyeing Ideas!

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Think outside the carton box! Take a look at these Easter Egg Ideas. Some more challenging, some for decorating, and some easy peasy! Pin to Pinterest on your craft or Easter boards.

Also take a look at these Farmhouse Easter Decor Ideas. Adorable spring home tours and ideas. Pin to Pinterest on your home and Easter boards.

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Easiest Chili Ever – Hearty and Flavorful Dump Dinner

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April 7, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Social Media

A family favorite, the Easiest Chili Ever – Hearty and flavorful dump dinner using seasoned chili beans.

Easiest Chili Ever

Any mamas suffering with me? Today was probably the 10th day of school interrupted in 2019. It’s only February, and we haven’t had a full week of school since December. I would raise a glass, maybe offer a toast with a bottle of an adult beverage, but on top of having all five kids off schedule, I also got Invisalign (clear braces) and am off any glasses of anything, except water… I digress. Yes, I am having my own pitty party of one.

Back to my family who never goes to school. Did you know that snow makes hungry kids turn famished? My children come inside form playing outdoors and they expect a full four course meal. Not only do they want non stop snacks, they want food to warm them up before they head back outside again. I go from making one meal a day (dinner) to making three large meals a day. One of our favorite go to meals for lunch and dinner is chili. The meal fills a crowd (when additional friends come over) and I can multiple ingredients depending on if I have more mouths to feed or if I need left overs.

If you have a favorite Chili recipe, like ours, upgrade your favorite chili with the hearty flavor of BUSH’S® Chili Beans. Simmered in their original chili sauces, made with a special blend of chilies, spices, garlic and onions, these are the beans to perfect your tried and true recipe!

SAVE NOW! Right now, head to Walmart and save one dollar when you buy any two cans of Bush’s BUSH’S® Chili Beans. Whether you prefer pinto, kidney, black, white, red or mixed beans, mild, medium or hot sauce, BUSH’S® Chili Beans offer the variations and flavors to satisfy you and your family.

Next time you need an easy recipe to fill a crow, try our Easiest Chili Ever. Just dump in the pot, warm, and simmer! Check out our white bean alternative, an Easy White Chicken Chili Dump Dinner.

Ingredients:

2 cooked and shredded chicken breasts
4 cups chicken stock
2-16oz cans BUSH’S® Chili Beans (yellow can)
1-4oz can diced Chile’s
1 cup southwest corn
1 1/2 cups white cheddar cheese
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons dried cumin
2 teaspoon dried oregano
1 tablespoons onion powder

Don’t Forget the Garnish:

Cilantro, washed
Lime wedges
Tortilla chips

Dump Dinners – Our Easiest Chili Ever!

Author: Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living

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Ingredients

Scale

2 cooked and shredded chicken breasts
4 cups chicken stock
2–16oz cans BUSH’S® Chili Beans (yellow can)
1–4oz can diced Chile’s
1 cup southwest corn
1 1/2 cups white cheddar cheese
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons dried cumin
2 teaspoon dried oregano
1 tablespoons onion powder

Garnish:

Cilantro, washed
Lime wedges
Tortilla chips

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Instructions

First boil raw chicken breasts until cooked through. Drain water (or use later for chicken stock) and move cooked chicken to a bowl.

Shred Chicken with a hand mixer or with a fork.

Add cooked shredded chicken back to the pot.

Mix in chicken stock, canned beans, green chiles, corn and spices.

Bring to a boil on medium to high heat.

Allow to slow-simmer until you are ready to eat.

Once you are ready to eat, stir in cheese until melted.

Scoop into a bowl and garnish with cilantro and a lime wedge.

Serve with tortilla chips.

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Directions:

First boil raw chicken breasts until cooked through. Drain water (or use later for chicken stock) and move cooked chicken to a bowl.

Shred Chicken with a hand mixer or with a fork.

Add cooked shredded chicken back to the pot.

Mix in chicken stock, canned beans, green chiles, corn and spices.

Bring to a boil on medium to high heat.

Allow to slow-simmer until you are ready to eat.

Once you are ready to eat, stir in cheese until melted.

Scoop into a bowl and garnish with cilantro and a lime wedge.

Serve with tortilla chips.

Note: If simmering for a longer period of time, add BUSH’S® Beans in at the last minute and cook until warm.

Leftovers are great. My favorite way to eat this the next day is drained and over greens. It makes a perfect salad!

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Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Savings.com. All opinions and the recipe are my own.

Easy White Chicken Chili Dump Dinner

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April 7, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Social Media

Make your family this Easy and Flavorful White Chicken Chili Dump Dinner using BUSH’S® Chili Beans.

Easy White Chicken Chili Dump Dinner

I am a lazy chef but I have rich taste. Most of my meals are one pot dinner or slow cooker meals. As my number of children has increased (we have five), my cooking style has become even more tactical. Cans, stockpots, instant pots, whatever makes our life easy and home simple. To explain a real life scenario of my kitchen, this was my twins when I didn’t get breakfast on the table fast enough. They were resourceful (and hungry!)

Speaking of the twins, I often look for meals that they can enjoy with us. We are at a stage where purees are out the door and I need to make hearty meals that include them. I am not into making multiple dinners, so I always try to incorporate flavors and appropriate sized food they can pick up and enjoy without me having to hand feed them.

One of the things I often grab for the twins are canned veggies and beans. I will mix in rice or seasoning and warm them and place them straight on their high chair tray. It is always nice when that canned “meal” is flavorful. They are getting so picky about bland food! By already having flavor in the can, it eliminates my prep time and makes for easier dump dinners.

Our family loves a good Chili recipe. I love one that is quick and easy and all seven of us can enjoy it! When making your own blue ribbon award recipe, considering making your life simpler by looking for BUSH’S® Chili Beans give your chili even more “chili” flavor. These beans are made just for chili. Already simmered in their original chili sauces, made with a special blend of chilies, spices, garlic and onions, these are THE beans for your great chili… plus they eliminate the extras you need to add later! Thank you BUSH’S®!

OPTIONS: If you can’t find BUSH’S® Chili Beans (yellow can), go for BUSH’S® Pinto Beans (blue can) like we did in the recipe below. You can consider eliminated some of the added spices and chiles if you go with that option.

White Chicken Chili Dump Dinner Ingredients:

2 cooked and shredded chicken breasts
4 cups chicken stock
2-16oz cans BUSH’S® Chili Beans (yellow can) or BUSH’S® Pinto Beans (blue can)
1-4oz can diced chiles
1 cup frozen corn
1 1/2 cups white cheddar cheese
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons dried cumin
2 teaspoon dried oregano
1 tablespoons onion powder

Don’t Forget the Garnish:

Cilantro, washed
Lime wedges
Tortilla chips

Easy White Chicken Chili Dump Dinner

Author: Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living

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Ingredients

Scale

2 cooked and shredded chicken breasts
4 cups chicken stock
2–16oz cans BUSH’S® Chili Beans (yellow can) or BUSH’S® Pinto Beans (blue can)
1–4oz can diced chiles
1 cup frozen corn
1 1/2 cups white cheddar cheese
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons dried cumin
2 teaspoon dried oregano
1 tablespoons onion powder

Garnish:

Cilantro, washed
Lime wedges
Tortilla chips

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Instructions

Boil raw chicken breasts until cooked through. Drain water (or use later for chicken stock) and move cooked chicken to a bowl.

Shred Chicken with a hand mixer or with a fork.

Place garlic in large stock pot and heat for about a minute.

Add cooked shredded chicken to the pot.

Mix in chicken stock, canned beans, green chiles, frozen corn and spices.

Bring to a boil on medium to high heat.

Allow to slow-simmer until you are ready to eat.

Once you are ready to eat, stir in cheese until melted.

Scoop into a bowl and garnish with cilantro and a lime wedge.

Serve with tortilla chips.

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White Chicken Chili Dump Dinner Directions:

First Boil raw chicken breasts until cooked through. Drain water (or use later for chicken stock) and move cooked chicken to a bowl.

Shred Chicken with a hand mixer or with a fork.

Place garlic in large stock pot and heat for about a minute.

Add cooked shredded chicken to the pot.

Mix in chicken stock, canned beans, green chiles, frozen corn and spices.

Bring to a boil on medium to high heat.

Allow to slow-simmer until you are ready to eat.

Once you are ready to eat, stir in cheese until melted.

Scoop into a bowl and garnish with cilantro and a lime wedge.

Serve with tortilla chips.

Note: If simmering for a longer period of time, add BUSH’S® Beans in at the last minute and cook until warm.

Leftovers are great. My favorite way to eat this the next day is drained and over greens. It makes a perfect salad!

ENTER TO WIN! Enter the $500 #BUSHSChiliBeans giveaway hosted on Savings.com.

Additionally, be sure to RSVP and join the #BUSHSChiliBeans Twitter party that takes place Tuesday, February 19th at 10AM PT/1PM ET. Talk about your favorite cold weather recipes and about how BUSH’S® Chili Beans can make a great addition to those recipes! There’ll be $500 in gift card prizes up for grabs, so be sure to RSVP to be eligible to win!

Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Savings.com. All opinions and the recipe are my own.

20 Creative Ways to Enjoy a Spring Break Staycation

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May 15, 2021 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Social Media, Spring, Travel

Vacation from home! Check out the 20 best staycation ideas to enjoy a Spring Break Staycation. We’ve included staycation ideas you can easily drive to and ways to have fun on vacation right from the comfort of your home. Have fun!

Spring Break Staycation Ideas

You don’t need to shell out money to create a fun spring break vacation for the kids! This year and last year showed us that it’s important to learn how to have fun from the comfort of our homes. While we didn’t have much of a choice, we now know that it’s totally possible to have a blast without jet setting anywhere.

Whether you’re looking for creative ideas for your child’s spring break, activities for the summer, or just a few fun ideas for a long weekend, you’ll love these easy and frugal staycation ideas. Enjoy a holistay within your hometown and browse these 20 kid-approved activities!

From stargazing, to camping out in your backyard, to museum scavenger hunts and more, these Spring Break Staycation ideas are the best ways to make a vacation from home special!

What is a staycation?

Not all of us have the budget or willingness to take the family on a vacation every spring. Staycations bring all the fun of a great vacation into your very own home or hometown. They typically involve extra special activities that you might do when you’re on a real vacation, like camping in your own backyard or setting up a kiddie pool in the backyard.

Whatever your reason for enjoying these staycation ideas, let us know how much you love them in the comments!

Family Staycation Kit Digital Download

Looking for some fun ideas for a staycation at home? Grab this free Staycation Printable Pack to make it FEEL like your family is on a real vacation! Play tourist in your own town with these stay at home vacation ideas including a bucket list, menu planner, printable postcards, room keys, room numbers & more.

Add in the Science

Staycation ideas can be educational, too! During the week, have a day at home. Add in as many five minute science experiments as you can. The kids will have tons of fun getting to play scientist for the day!

Backyard Movie Theater

Pop some popcorn, plop together some pillows, put up a tent, string some lights… whatever it takes to make the coolest at home movie theater in your yard. Follow this DIY Backyard Movie Screen (from Simply Sprout) or pick up an outdoor movie screen for your evening.

Play Tourist

Play tourist in your hometown. Start by visiting your city’s visitor center and get creative with what new activities can fill your day. What new things do you want to see? Where haven’t you explored before? To really make your staycation fancy, book a hotel room for the night! Search places like Groupon for discounts and savings.

Baking Championship

Host a kids baking championship! Invite your kids’ friends or neighborhood pals to up the ante. Fill a basket with interesting ingredients for them to use or let them search the web for a recipe they want to make. You judge, determine the winner, and get to eat the food all at the same time… sounds like you’re winning! Adorable ideas for a baking party or championship from ikatbag.

Backyard Fire Pit

Make your entire dinner with just your fire pit! Can you tell we love food-related staycation ideas? Find camping recipes and make everything without using your kitchen. Two recipes we recommend are Camping Hot Dogs and Campfire S’mores Cones.

Go Geocaching

This activity is so fun, it will fill your whole day! Geocaching is the act of hunting for and finding hidden objects using GPS coordinates. Download the app and find hidden “treasure” in your town’s area. Learn more about how to geocache as a family on Frugal Mom, Eh.

Arts & Crafts Day

Host a whole day dedicated to arts and crafts! Take a look at some of these ideas – upcycled cereal box crafts, paint chip crafts, and rainy day activities. You also could pick up a craft supply set for a bunch of resources to help you get creative.

Picnic and a Discussion

Deepen relationships and learn a new fun fact about your loved ones! Have an Instagram-worthy picnic in your favorite grassy park. Picnics are a great opportunity to escape those everyday distractions like the doorbell, phone ringing, dog barking, and all the other things that interrupt quality time. Bring dinner conversation cards to start discussion and help you get to know your child and/or spouse better.

Backyard Campout

No need to venture into the woods — camp out in your own backyard! At night, you and your family can study the sky. Download the Sky Map App and study planets, stars, and constellations. Frugal Mom Eh has some creative ideas for backyard camping, as well.

Travel Abroad

Host an international vacation from home — no flight required! Choose a country you have always wanted to travel to. Eat food, plan activities, listen to music, and watch a movie. Of course, all of the eats and activities will be based on that country’s culture! Pick up a DVD from the library or watch something on Amazon Prime that relates to the country of your choice. Rick Steves has some great movies. Live, Life and Learning has a free printable passport you can use for your adventure with the kids. Every night of the week can be a different country!

Sleep Outdoors

Fill a truck or trampoline with pillows and blankets and have an outdoor campout under the stars! You can also see this idea in our Visual Summer Bucket List for Kids. Source and Source

Memories

Tired of keepsakes piling up? Get Marie Kondo inspired and get organized. This can be organized by school year or can just be a place you toss in old mementos, concert tickets, photos, and more. You’ll spend the whole night reminiscing over special moments with your family. A Bowl Full of Lemons can help you get started.

Family Game Night

Have a family game night or even a family game day! You can play many of these fun Minute to Win It Game Ideas. Craft a trophy for the winner, come up with some tasty Family Game Snacks, and let everyone choose a game to play!

Take a Hike

Go explore the great outdoors! Do some research and find a great trail in your area. You can carry along this nature scavenger hunt. You can collect what you find and make natural art with your all your treasures. Also check out our Hiking Trail Bucket List in our outdoor camping hacks and tips.

Enjoy a Scavenger Hunt

Speaking of scavenger hunts, take a look at our dozens of Scavenger Hunt Ideas. We love this outdoor Flashlight Scavenger Hunt, perfect for staying up late and doing something memorable.

My Town Rocks

Rock hunting is the newest community adventure since Pokemon Go! Search your local town and area for rocks hidden by citizens just like you. Join local community boards to see places where rocks might be hidden and discover areas of your town you might not be familiar with. You and your family can paint rocks together to “hide” around your town and surrounding area to spread joy and brighten people’s day! More ideas on My Town Rocks.

Visit a Museum

Have you ever played a scavenger hunt in a museum? Kids can get bored with museums, especially ones they’ve visited before. Make your local museums exciting again and play a museum scavenger hunt game. Consider it a treasure hunt of portraits and paintings!

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Visit the Library

You can have SO much fun in your local library! Take a look at these 10 Quiet Library Games from Book Shark.

Virtual Museum Tour

Did you know many major museums offer virtual tours online? That means you can visit famous museums without ever leaving your home. Popular virtual tours include…

Be a Summer Travel Agent

Now that it’s spring break, summer break is just around the corner! Think ahead and hash out your summer activities and bucket list while everyone is home. Research itineraries, daily activities, and more just as if you were a travel agent. Check out our Visual Summer Bucket List for some ideas. Pick up this free travel planning kit from Pinch a Little, Save a Lot.

Painting Projects

Get the whole family in on that painting project you’ve been putting off! Paint your dining room table, redo your dresser, or spruce up a chair. Tackle a family project or redo an entire bedroom. We love these farmhouse weekend projects that can done in a few days. Not only will you get things done, you’ll have so much fun bonding and treasure the memories for years to come.

Get ready for summer! Take a look at these Visual Summer Bucket List Ideas for the Kids. Pin to Pinterest.

No more moans of “I’m bored mom” when you prepare for your summer with these Summer Boredom Busters and Activities for Kids! Pin to Pinterest.

How to Make Gold Leaf Easter Eggs

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April 7, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, Easter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Social Media, Spring

Easy tutorial, How to Make Gold Leaf Easter Eggs. Directions for real or faux eggs.

How to Make Gold Leaf Easter Eggs

Growing up I can recall getting my die tabs, dropping a hard boiled egg in a clear cup of colored water. This was how we colored our eggs every year. On rare occasions, I got a kit that also came with stickers or a stand and I was able to add a little texture to my Easter Eggs. As I have gotten older and have kids of my own, I have researched different out of the box, out of the carton, Easter Egg Ideas.

How to Make Gold Leaf Easter Eggs

That was our goal here. To provide you with a creative, really easy, Easter Egg idea. These Gold Leaf Easter Eggs use Liquid Gold Leaf (and it doesn’t cost that much!) You can make them with real eggs or faux eggs as we chose to do in this craft. We had Acrylic Paint, which we purchased at our craft store, but there are many pretty Easter colors online. There is some drying involvement, so feel free to break this craft up into a day or two. That makes each sitting even shorter allowing it to not become a craft that is too time dependent.

Gold Leaf Easter Eggs Supplies:

Faux Paper Mache Eggs (You can use real eggs – just hard boil them or blow them out first!)
White Acrylic Paint
Assorted Colors Acrylic Paint
Liquid Gold Leaf
Paint Brush
Craft Sponge
Floral Foam Brick
Flat Head Pins

Gold Leaf Easter Eggs Directions:

First, in a piece of floral foam, push in flat head pins. This will be your drying station so the eggs can dry elevated so your paint doesn’t smudge.

You will need to paint your eggs white. If you are using dark colors you can omit this step if you want, but for lighter colors it’s a must! If you are using real eggs, they are already white so you can omit this step as well.

Once painted, allow the paint to dry and then paint your choice of color. We chose Easter colors like light pink, light purple, a pastel blue, a Easter grass green color.

Allow to dry again. Luckily this doesn’t take long to dry but we waited a day to be safe.

Cut a piece of craft sponge to use in the gold leaf. Using a smaller piece allowed us to have more control over the coloring. Before opening your gold leaf, shake your bottle well. If you don’t it will come out a reddish color… no bueno.

Pour a bit of gold leaf onto a paper plate and sponge it as little or as much as want on your eggs.

Allow to dry and display. Enjoy and be sure to check out our other Easter Egg Ideas.

Easy tutorial, How to Make Gold Leaf Easter Eggs. Directions for real or faux eggs. #FrugalCouponLiving #Easter

Think outside the carton box! Take a look at these Easter Egg Ideas. Pin to Pinterest.

Also take a look at these Farmhouse Easter Decor Ideas. Pin to Pinterest.

DIY Easter Card Cricut Craft Tutorial

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April 7, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Printable, Social Media

Grab the crayons for this easy coloring DIY Easter Card. This Cricut Craft Tutorial makes a cute classroom gift for classmates or use as a Sunday school gift for friends.

DIY Easter Card Cricut Craft Tutorial

When Valentine’s Day is behind you but you really want to spread the next holiday’s cheer, take a look at these DIY Easter Cards. An adorable Cricut Design Space craft perfect for a classroom of students or a Sunday school class of friends. By choosing a Linetype image you create a Easter card perfect for coloring. Gift with Crayola Crayons.

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DIY Easter Card Supplies:

4 sheets 12 x 12 white cardstock (to make 8 cards)
1 Colored Cricut Fine Point Pen
1 Black Cricut Fine Point Pen
Cricut Lightgrip Cutting Mat
Cricut Premium Fine Point Blade
Cricut Maker
Cricut Spatula & Scraper
Crayons – 2 per Easter card

There is a nice sale on the Cricut Fine Point Pens. I really like these tips, but buying them when they are on sale is the best time to buy them. The blade was the fine point tip and they do sell a 10 pack blade set on Amazon!

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DIY Easter Card Cricut Directions:

First, open Cricut Design Space.

Click on projects and do a search for the Valentine Cricut Card Set (we are using that template to make an Easter card.)

When you find it, click on it and then click the customize button to open it in Design Space.

Duplicate one of the pre-made cards in Design Space by right clicking on it and selecting duplicate.

Now drag the duplicate card template to an empty spot on the mat.

Next, all of the text boxes need duplicated by right clicking on them and dragging them to the appropriate spot on the new card.

Double click on the text to change it to say what you want it to.

Once the text is in place, the next step is to click the image button and choose an image.

Once the image is in the right place, be sure you are still clicked on it so it is highlighted and go to the top of Design Space and look for the Linetype box. Change it from cut to draw. This will change how your image looks.

Once the new card is set up the way you want it, highlight the larger card area and look on the side of the screen where you can see the different layers.

Now you will notice a highlighted grey box, this is your main card. Right above it you will see two text areas under the group heading and the design you chose This is all under a main attach heading.

Highlight all of these sections then go to the bottom and click attach. If you have done this right, the entire card will move where you want it to in Design Space instead of just individual sections of the card.

Make as many cards or different designs as you want repeating the steps above.

When you are done, be sure to click save and name your project.

Now you are ready to click the make it button.

Once the design is opened and ready to make you might notice the cards are spread out over several mats. This is ok.

Place a piece of 12 x 12 white cardstock on the light grip Cricut Mat.

Press the continue button at the bottom of the screen.

The software will look for your Cricut Device and automatically find it.

Now you are going to be asked to choose the material. Click popular and choose either the 60 pound or 80 pound cardstock depending on which you are using.

Once you make your choice, the load tools and mat section will come up. It will tell you to load the Cricut Pen in clamp A and the fine point blade in Clamp C. Be sure to listen for the pen to click in place because if it does not, it will not work. The machine will still work however.

Once this is done, press the load/unload button on your machine to load the Cricut Mat with the paper on it.

As soon as the C on the machine begins to blink, press that button and the machine will begin to draw.

The machine will ask you to change ink colors once the text is done. This is optional. I chose to change the fine point pen to a different color (a brown named tawny).

Let the machine finish drawing the design then it will automatically start to cut the rest of the design. Just let the machine work.

Once the machine is done, the load/unload button will begin flashing. Press it to unload the mat.

Now use the Cricut Spatula to carefully loosen the design from the mat. Doing this keeps it from bending or rolling when you remove the cardstock from the mat.

Finally, once the design is removed, simply add two crayons to each card.

Fill out the to and from areas or let your kids do that.

Now the cards are ready to be given out for Easter. Receivers can use the crayons to color the card!

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Look our long list of Cricut Freebies and Tutorials. There are so many great and beautiful ideas!. Pin to Pinterest on your Cricut and Crafts Boards.

Also check out these Free Easter Printables you want this Spring! Pin to Pinterest on your Easter and Printables Boards.

Easter Resurrection Cupcakes Recipe – He is Risen!

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April 7, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Easter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Social Media

“He is not here; for he is risen!” Share the message of the gospel this spring with these Easter Resurrection Cupcakes. These open tomb cupcakes are an easy food craft for the kids.

Easter Resurrection Cupcakes

He is not here; for he is risen! Matthew 28:6

Through this food craft, you can share the message of the Gospel. Did you know Gospel means good news? Our good news is Christ died on the cross for our sins and rose again on the third day. No works or actions of ours will get us through Heavens gates, only accepting him as our Lord and savior.

Our goal for these cupcakes is easy with a message of the Gospel. Either make a boxed cupcakes recipe or ask your grocery store’s bakery if you can have some un-iced cupcakes. Chocolate or vanilla cupcakes are fine. We used vanilla, but chocolate would definitely look more like soil! You can whip up this food craft in just a few minutes.

Also check out our other Easter Food Craft Ideas and Resurrection Ideas – Eggs, Gardens and Rolls.

Empty Tomb Cupcakes Supplies:

Easter Resurrection Cupcakes

Author: Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living

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Ingredients

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12 cupcakes
1 cup green frosting
¼ cup chocolate frosting
1 tablespoon flower sprinkles
12 mini powdered doughnuts
6 large marshmallows
1 tablespoon white sugar

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Instructions

Premake your cupcakes according to box directions and let cool.
On cooled cupcakes, spread a line of chocolate frosting to represent the garden path.
Next, pipe green frosting on each cupcake to resemble grass.
Gently cut ⅓ off each doughnut to create a flat surface. Press your doughnut tomb against the icing where the path meets the grass.
Next, cut each marshmallow in half and dip the sticky side in white sugar.
Then, press a sugared marshmallow to the side of the doughnut to represent the stone that was rolled away.
Finally, sprinkle flower sprinkles over the green icing and press lightly to attached.

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Empty Tomb Cupcakes Directions:

Premake your cupcakes according to box directions and let cool.

On cooled cupcakes, spread a line of chocolate frosting to represent the garden path.

Next, pipe green frosting on each cupcake to resemble grass. (Using canned green frosting, we used the small start pipping tip.)

Gently cut ⅓ off each doughnut to create a flat surface. Press your doughnut tomb against the icing where the path meets the grass.

Next, cut each marshmallow in half and dip the sticky side in white sugar. Then, press a sugared marshmallow to the side of the doughnut to represent the stone that was rolled away.

Finally, sprinkle flower sprinkles over the green icing and press lightly to attached.

Take a look at these other Resurrection Ideas – Eggs, Gardens and Rolls. Pin to Pinterest.

Also save these Easter Food Craft Ideas for the Kids. Pin to Pinterest.

Glow in the Dark Easter Egg Hunt at Night

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April 10, 2020 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, Easter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Social Media

Glow in the Dark Easter Egg Hunt at Night on Frugal Coupon Living. Using a flashlight or tealights, recreate this Easter Egg Hunt Idea outside your normal traditions.

Glow in the Dark Easter Egg Hunt at Night

Remember our Easter Egg Dying Ideas for thinking outside the typical egg dye? This time we wanted to share with you a creative Easter Egg Hunt, a Glow in the Dark Easter Egg Hunt.

Updated for 2020: This year I will be doing this night time Easter egg hunt with my family since the kids can sleep in the next day. I will not be using tea lights but will be using flashlights. I will have the older kids hide the eggs and then draw a map. This will add time to their daily routine. I will have the younger kids be the hunters using the older kids as guides and using their map (even if the map is unnecessarily). They can all sleep in the next day!

To achieve this fun scavenger hunt for the kids at night, we place flameless tea lights inside of our Easter Eggs. You can fill the remaining space with tiny candy, like M&Ms or skittles, or you can have the kids trade in their flameless lights for a treat basket that you have. That way they get to choice a candy they like and you get back your tea lights!

They sell glow in the dark Easter eggs online, but we find they do not get as bright as eggs with lights inside. We picked up our eggs and flameless tea lights at the dollar store, that means you can pull this off for next to nothing and it’s a memorable way to enjoy Easter and create a new family tradition!

Tealights add up so there is another way to play this game/hunt, have a Flashlight Easter Egg hunt. You can keep the glow in the dark theme with the flameless tealights or you can have bright colored eggs to they stand out when a flashlight shines on them. Enjoy an evening searching for eggs in the dark. Make it challenging by hiding the eggs in places that are not seen well in the light (or in the dark) or make it not as challenging and just fun by having eggs that are easily found in the light but not as well in the dark.

When inviting others, ask people to bring their own flashlight. You can pay attention to when the sun sets in your area on the weather channel and then plan a start time approximately 20 minutes after the sun sets. If you kids go to bed early, perhaps move this flashlight Easter Egg hunt inside and shut all the blinds in your home. You could have your own flashlight Easter egg hunt in doors!

Afterwards, have fun making these glow in the dark eggs with this easy science experiment with the kids!

Make real glow in the dark eggs with this easy science experiment with the kids! Pin to Pinterest.

Take a look at these Easter Egg Dying Ideas – Think Outside the Carton . Pin to Pinterest.

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