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How to Make Gold Leaf Easter Eggs

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February 16, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, Easter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Social Media, Spring Leave a Comment

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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.

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Easter Resurrection Cupcakes Recipe – He is Risen!

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February 14, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Easter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Social Media Leave a Comment

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“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

Ingredients

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

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.

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Glow in the Dark Easter Egg Hunt at Night

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February 12, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, Easter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Social Media

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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.

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.

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Easter Teacher Gift Idea – Some Bunny Printable

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February 9, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, Easter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Printable, Social Media, Spring Leave a Comment

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You’re the best teacher some bunny could ask for. This free spring printable makes a cute Easter Teacher Gift Idea. Pair with pencils, jelly beans mason jar, the possibilities are endless!

Easter Teacher Gift Idea

We love Easter Printables as much as we love Punny Teacher Gifts. Today we combined both to give you a creative Easter Teacher Gift Idea. You are the best teacher some bunny could ask for!

Pair this gift with some cute spring school supplies or perhaps a sweet treat. We did both. We found Easter pencils at The Dollar Tree and also picked up an adorable spring mason jar mug and filled it with jelly beans. There are endless ideas for this Easter craft gift.

Easter Teacher Gift Supplies:

Jelly Beans
Easter Pencils
Plastic Mason Jar Cup (this set is very Easter-y)
Tulle
Curling Ribbon
Easter Some Bunny Printable (see below)

You will also need a resource to print this. We suggest sending the order to Staples and printing on card stock. More on that below.

Easter Teacher Gift Directions:

You really can go any direction with this gift idea, but here is what we did.

Take your Easter Some Bunny printable below and print then cut out into circle gift tags.

Place a hole punch in the top of the gift tags.

Cut curling ribbon and wrap around your pencils. Tie on the gift tag and curl.

Take your jelly beans, open and fill the mug. Place the cap on well.

Tie Tulle around the mug and thread through your gift tag.

Add curling ribbon and curl.

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I like to order my prints at Staples. It saves on ink and is only a few short miles from my home. I pick-up at the store, but of course you can upload them online and then have them shipped to your home.

To Order Your Printables at Staples*:

Download and save your image from this post. (Please note these images are for personal use only and cannot be sold or used for commercial use.)
Sign in or create a Staples account on their print service page.
Return to Staples print service page.
Go to Start Project.
Go to Documents Printing.
Select the Buy Now Button under color.
On the left column, select your file.
Select upload.
Select done.
Give your job a name.
Make sure your project is single sided. The orientation should be portrait.
I changed my media to 8.5×10 and the media to 67 lb coverstock (I prefer a cardstock feel over printer paper feel.)
Select add to cart.
Proceed to checkout. You can choose to ship to your home or to pick up at your local store. Pay online and show your invoice when you pick up (I just show the order number on my phone at pick-up.) The order invoice will arrive in your email inbox.
Enjoy!

*Note: these Staple print service steps were added in Winter 2019 The directions may change as the website changes. They should give you a general outline of how to upload and order a print on Staples.com.

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Easter Food Craft Ideas for the Kids

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February 8, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, Easter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Social Media, Spring

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Spring crafts you can eat! Easter Food Craft ideas for the kids including chick cookies, sheep cupcakes, peeps cars and more.

Easter Food Craft Ideas for the Kids

Bunny Ears Abound! It’s that time of year that all of the sweet treats come in bright colors and any savories are served in cute shapes! These Food Crafts are no different. There are so many easy treats to make with your kiddos. From pudding and pretzels, to rice krispie treats, we’re sure you’ll find a recipe here that will be perfect to serve at your Easter gathering or make for a festive gift to give.

Easter Carrot Rice Krispie Treats from Frugal Coupon Living

Easter Resurrection Cupcakes from Frugal Coupon Living.

Easter Chick Lemon Cookies from The Gold Lining Girl

Carrot Garden Graham Crackers from Frugal Coupon Living

Easter Bunny Footprints Cupcakes from Frugal Coupon Living

Carrot Surprise Cupcakes from Hostess with the Mostess

Pastel Mint Patties from Mom on Time Out

Easter Cake from The Gunny Sack

Peeps S’mores from Frugal Coupon Living

Easter Cucumber Sandwiches from Cherished Bliss

No Bake Easter Racing Peeps from Living Locurto

Easter Peeps Pops from Love from the Oven

No Bake Coconut Caramel Nest Cookies from Love, Life and Sugar

Homemade Reese’s Eggs from Frugal Coupon Living

Pretzel Chicks from Raining Hot Coupons

Sheep Cupcakes from Wine and Glue

Easter Chick Cupcakes from The Simple Sweet Life

Peeps S’mores Pies from In Katrina’s Kitchen

Donut Bunnies from It’s Always Autumn

Hula Bunny Peeps from Sugar Swings

Bunny Pretzel Sticks from Candi Quik

Push Up Peeps from Love From The Oven

JELL-O Easter Eggs from Spend with Pennies

Easter Nutter Butter Chicks from Fugal Coupon Living

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Easter Rice Krispie Treat Egg Pops

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

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A fun kids’s food craft for spring – these Easter Rice Krispie Treat Egg Pops make a cute snack and classroom party idea. Dessert on a stick!

Easter Rice Krispie Treat Egg Pops

These are some of the cutest Rice Krispie Treats we’ve ever made! Marbled with pastel colors, these treats are cut out with an egg shaped cookie cutter and skewered onto sticks! You could also cut them out in your favorite Easter shape! The ingredients are simple and just take an extra couple of steps to make them look marbled. These would be perfect wrapped individually in cellophane and tied with a pretty ribbon to peek out of an Easter basket!

Also take a look at our Easter Food Craft Ideas for the Kids.

Ingredients:

6 cups Rice Krispies cereal
4 cups mini marshmallows
3 Tablespoons butter
Purple, red, and yellow food coloring
1 tablespoon butter for greasing your pan

You will also need-

Directions:

Add your marshmallows and butter to a large mixing bowl.
Microwave for 1 minute or until marshmallow gets puffy and large.
Separate your melted marshmallows into 3 separate bowls, and 1 drop of different food coloring to your bowls so they are all different colors and mix well.
Now scoop out 2 cups of your rice cereal into each bowl and mix.
Grease all sides and bottom of a 9×13 baking pan with butter.
Now start scooping your Rice Krispies into your greased pan, rotating colors.
Press your Rice Krispies into your pan evenly.
Freeze for 30 minutes.
Once cooled, remove from freezer and begin cutting out egg shapes with your egg cookie cutter.
If desired, place a colored lollipop stick into the bottom center of your Rice Krispie eggs.
Serve and enjoy!

Easter Rice Krispie Treat Egg Pops

Author: Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living

Ingredients

6 cups Rice Krispies cereal
4 cups mini marshmallows
3 Tablespoons butter
Purple, red, and yellow food coloring
1 tablespoon butter for greasing your pan
Egg shaped cookie cutter
Colored lollipop sticks

Instructions

Add your marshmallows and butter to a large mixing bowl.
Microwave for 1 minute or until marshmallow gets puffy and large.
Separate your melted marshmallows into 3 separate bowls, and 1 drop of different food coloring to your bowls so they are all different colors and mix well.
Now scoop out 2 cups of your rice cereal into each bowl and mix.
Grease all sides and bottom of a 9×13 baking pan with butter.
Now start scooping your Rice Krispies into your greased pan, rotating colors.
Press your Rice Krispies into your pan evenly.
Freeze for 30 minutes.
Once cooled, remove from freezer and begin cutting out egg shapes with your egg cookie cutter.
If desired, place a colored lollipop stick into the bottom center of your Rice Krispie eggs.
Serve and enjoy!

Also take a look at these Easter Food Craft Ideas for the Kids. Pin to Pinterest.

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

Ridiculously Easy Chocolate Pudding Bowls Made with Balloons

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June 21, 2018 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Easter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Social Media, Spring, Summer 2 Comments

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Ridiculously easy chocolate pudding bowls made with melting chocolate and the shape of balloons. You won’t believe how easy this ice cream balloon bowl tutorial is with a few simple steps and ingredients.

Chocolate Pudding Bowls Made with Balloons

Want a creative and cute dessert idea for the kids? Make the chocolate dipped balloon bowls. They are so easy, take a few simple ingredients and the kids will have a blast blowing up the balloon (okay, how are we kidding, you will be doing this) and dipping in in the chocolate.

Follow these simple steps. We served with vanilla pudding, but you could try other flavor puddings or even ice cream – I suggest serving on a plate or in a bowl as the chocolate will quick crack when you use a spoon to scoop out the yummy insides. Best of all, you get to eat you chocolate bowl!

Enjoy!

Ingredients:

12 Small Round Balloons (water balloons work well)
8 oz Melting/Dipping Chocolate Candy (your choice of color)
1 box Pudding Mix
2 cup Milk
Candy Decorations (optional)

Directions:

Make pudding according to box directions and allow to cool.
Line a cookie sheet with parchment or wax paper.
Melt chocolate by microwaving 45 seconds, stirring and repeating until melted and smooth.
Inflate each balloon just until slightly larger than an tennis ball and tie off.
Dip and roll balloon in chocolate until covered about half way.
Place on tray and set tray in freezer for 10 minutes until set.
Dip and roll each balloon a second tip to thicken chocolate shell.
Return to tray and return tray to freezer for 15 minutes.
Snip top of each balloon to release air.
Gently slide your finger and pull balloon away from shell working your way around the edge.
If shell starts to soften, return to freezer for 10 minutes and continue after it firms.
If there are in holes in bottom, carefully fill with melted chocolate to patch and freeze to set.
Fill each egg with pudding and sprinkle with decorations if desired.
Refrigerate until served.

Ridiculously Easy Chocolate Pudding Bowls Made with Balloons

Author: Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living

Ingredients

12 Small Round Balloons (water balloons work well)
8 oz Melting/Dipping Chocolate Candy (your choice of color)
1 box Pudding Mix
2 cup Milk
Candy Decorations (optional)

Instructions

Make pudding according to box directions and allow to cool.
Line a cookie sheet with parchment or wax paper.
Melt chocolate by microwaving 45 seconds, stirring and repeating until melted and smooth.
Inflate each balloon just until slightly larger than an tennis ball and tie off.
Dip and roll balloon in chocolate until covered about half way.
Place on tray and set tray in freezer for 10 minutes until set.
Dip and roll each balloon a second tip to thicken chocolate shell.
Return to tray and return tray to freezer for 15 minutes.
Snip top of each balloon to release air.
Gently slide your finger and pull balloon away from shell working your way around the edge.
If shell starts to soften, return to freezer for 10 minutes and continue after it firms.
If there are in holes in bottom, carefully fill with melted chocolate to patch and freeze to set.
Fill each egg with pudding and sprinkle with decorations if desired.
Refrigerate until served.

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Easter April Fools’ Joke | April Fools’ Day Candy

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March 3, 2018 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Easter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Social Media 2 Comments

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With April Fool’s lying on Easter this year, enjoy this Easter April Fools’ Joke, grapes disguised as candy! A light-hearted and clean April Fools’ Prank Idea.

Easter April Fools’ Joke | April Fools’Day Candy

Hippity, hoppity, ~~Easter~~ April Fools’ Day is on its way….

Ready for some foolish, silly Easter fun? We have a very cute idea to celebrate both Easter and April Fools’ Day! Did you realize that this year, 2018, they both fall on the same day – April 1st. Well both Easter and April Fools’ are two of our most favorite holidays on Frugal Coupon Living. Have you seen our Innocent and Playful April Fools’ Prank Ideas? That being said, we knew we had to come up with something creative to merge the two holidays this year.

This Easter Sunday, unwrap some Easter chocolate and replace with grapes! This is a clean, bunny approved April Fools’ Prank Idea. Another way to take this idea the extra ~~mile~~ bunny run, is to place your wrapped foil grapes in Easter Eggs and send the kids on an Easter Egg Hunt. This is sure to buy you at least 20 minutes of sipping that mimosa. These treats won’t melt, even if you are experiencing a warm Easter Sunday.

Looking for more to do this Easter Sunday with the kids? Don’t forget our favorite Easter Food Craft Ideas for Kids.

Enjoy!

April Fools’ Day Candy

Supplies:

Directions:

Cut 2 ½” X 2 ½” squares from the foil. Cut out as many as you would like to make. Have one square per grape you intend to wrap.
Use the markers and color one side of the foil squares with Sharpie Markers and let dry for a few minutes.
Unwrap the Easter candy from the decorative foil, be careful not to rip the wrappers. Flatten them out a little so the wrinkles aren’t too bad.
Using the foils from the purchased candy and the foils you made with Sharpie markers, wrap one grape into each foil. They should look like the little chocolate eggs in the foils you can buy at Easter time.
Put them in a dish (or Easter Egg) and serve them.
Everyone will think they are getting a chocolate candy, but they will be unwrapping a grape.
Now just say “April Fools!”

Optional: Place chocolate covered grapes in plastic Easter eggs.

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