We don’t really ‘do’ Easter.
We are not religious, it’s not spring here, our kids don’t really eat chocolate and The Baldy Boy is working all weekend. So while we usually get together with family for a meal or something, that’s about as far as it goes. Now the girls are out in the Big Wide World (ie they go to kinder) however, they are learning about all kinds of things, like the Easter Bunny.
The Easter Bunny came to kinder, and left presents in the form of a couple of chocolate eggs.
Not quite two years ago my girl’s didn’t even know there was chocolate inside those pretty eggs and bunnies in the supermarket, but now they have tasted the thrill of Bunny’s with presents they are pretty keen on the idea.
Lucky for me extended family will fulfil the role of Easter Bunny and let me off the hook. I’m not quite the worst mother in the world though. When the girls talked about ‘doing something special for Easter’ I mentioned the words ‘craft’ and ’sewing’ and their eyes lit up.
So true to my word, we spent today, Good Friday, making these….
In case you can’t guess, they are Egg-citing Egg-beanbag people. Of course you knew that already didn’t you!
The girls drew on egg shaped pieces of calico (so did Muski but his is not in the photo) and then helped me sew them all together. We filled them with rice and I stabbed myself a million times sewing up their bums. We made one each for Zoe, Izzy and Muski and one for all of their grown up cousins (they are the ones in the photo… a prince, a princess and a man with a dinosaur tattoo!)
So no fluffy bunnies or chocolate here… but still a little something special.
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