Homemade Easter Gifts for Girls

Easter is the ideal time to exchange gifts. This is how we can maintain our unity. The main aim of all festivals is to forget all differences between ourselves and be friends forever. Besides, we also have to think about the little one at home. Kids’ also expect attractive Easter gifts from the elders specially, mom and dad and their older siblings.

Are you planning to arrange some homemade Easter presents for your little girl? It will be a great idea. This is how your presents should have a personalized touch as well. Little girls love to eat candies and jellies. Get them a basket where you can keep variety of candies specially made at home during Easter, chocolate eggs, egg pastries, Easter cup cakes, lemonade and handmade cookies. Mums love to cook some of the favorite homemade foods for their kids during this festival.

You must decorate the gifts for the kids. Girls can be gifted with colorful ribbons, hair clips, pretty shoes and frocks that are completely made from your hands. Being mother, you can sew her pretty sweater or a cool cap. Baby girls enjoy all these presents from their parents. 

How to Decorate Easter baskets?

Always keep in mind that nothing makes a easter basket more special than a dose of genuine affection. For the brass tacks you need colorful ribbons, colorful gift wraps and jazzy papers, ducts, scissors and gums. Instead of buying the readymade hampers, you can make the baskets all by your own. The DIY hampers have personal touch in them and are much more appealing to the receivers.

1.     Just do the best wrapping as you can. If you want to keep the rugged look of the cane baskets or picnic hampers, you can. But if you have picked some plastic baskets and want to wrap the body of the silo, you can wrap those with colorful gift wrapping paper.

2.   If adhesives are used to wrap the body of the storage, leave those hampers for some time and let those dry up.

3.  You can fix some colorful ribbons at the handles of the storage and can deck up the storage with cool paper crafts.

4.   Finally, you need to fill up the Easter baskets with the gifts that are brought for those it may concern. Make sure that the foods are properly packed and stored inside the hamper. Don’t forget to keep some colorful Easter eggs inside the silos. 

Few Good Reads on Easter Island (Books)

We have picked some of the most appreciated and best sellers Easter Island books. Have a look.

The mystery of the island has attracted many fiction writers to think and pen down mystery novels. The same happened with Jennifer Vanderbes and her book “Easter Island”. The book has been ranked as a great debut copy of a well comprehended story teller like Vanderbes, an English graduate from the Yale.

The story deals with a master storyline of love, lust, betrayal, intellectual alliances and history. The book narrates the story of Elsa Pendleton, who travelled down to the Easter Islands from extreme North England along with her husband who was an archeologist. And he was by the Royal Geographical Society to research on the Moai statues.

The next good read on Rapa Nui would be The Mystery of Easter Island by Katherine Routledge. This is a narration on the writer’s experience on exploring the mysterious island and how the locals helped her and her team.

Chile & Easter Island (Lonely Planet Country Guide) is a book published by the Lonely Planet and is penned by Thomas Kohnstamm and Charlotte Beech. This is a beautiful travelogue and a guide to help the tourists to Chili and the Easter islands. Without anty doubt the book lists among the best sellers.

Easter Programs on TV

Festival related programming on special occasion such as Easter and Christmas has been a trend with television channels for quite some time. The very fact that TV channels air content with a focus on festivals is because of the fact that such programs are popular amongst viewers. TV channels in the Western world put a lot of effort in to creating relevant content on Easter day most of which is entertaining and insightful so there is no harm in turning on your television set if you want to partake of the festivities without leaving the comfort of your home.

Celebration Content on TV for Kids

More than a few channels geared towards entertainment for kids feature content related to the festival on the occasion. Most of this content is informative and entertaining for kids. Special fiesta themed cartoons or shows featuring the making of relevant crafts such as Easter egg painting, making bunnies and chicks and putting together gift baskets can be a creative avenue for your kids to spend their time.

Festival Content on TV for Adults

While many movie channels feature movies with the festival theme such as “Passion of The Christ” or “He Lived Amongst Us” many channels feature documentaries on the history of Easter. Bearing in mind that there is a little for everybody on the television during the festival season, one can go ahead and rest back and enjoy the festivities from home.

How to Decorate Easter Hats?

Children look forward to Easter hats and bonnets. They love to wear and flaunt new head gear that is specially designed for the occasion. In certain parts of Europe and America schools organize easter parades and special easter hat competitions. Children try and outdo each other by wearing lovely bonnets.

Besides children, even women love to flaunt fashionable hats on Easter. Fresh flowers, fruits, laces and ribbons are used to jazz up ordinary hats. Mothers, most of the time make their daughters cool hats that they can wear on the Easter Sunday.

The concept of wearing a new hat laden with flowers, fruits, lace and trimmings is symbolic of welcoming spring. There is so much you can do with an Easter hat, especially for kids. You can stick plastic fruits, little toy chicks, real spring flowers or plastic bouquets.

Some parents actually go overboard and decorate hats with chocolate eggs, candies, even cookies. Bunny hats are in vogue as well. Besides these children indulge in interesting kid craft that is then stuck on their Easter bonnet as a statement of creativity!

Women look pretty in veiled hats, caps with floral decorations and more. In addition the DIY designed hats usually have personalized touch. Sometimes mothers even embroider the names of their children on their personalized Easter hats. 

Video Games with Easter Egg Themes

It is impossible to think of Easter without fun and amusement. Every year during this time, the video game programmers develop some new Easter gamesfor the kids. The addicts wait eagerly for the Easter video games that are full of lots of colors and excitements. It was a time when video game cassettes were prepared from the players that parents of the previous years’ used to get for their kids. Today they get software in DVDs or download them the latest version of amazing video games those are energy boosters for the kids.

Hitting eggs, Paint your Easter eggs, creating the picture of Jesus’ resurrection etc are some of the ideal theme of the video games developed in this season. Often the programmers who are constantly in search of new theme apply the pagan symbols and stories in their games. Kids will enjoy running after Easter bunnies in the virtual world. In the place of the fiery godmother Eostre the medieval pagan goddess can be created there and as points kids can achieve eggs instead of stars. This will be the tricks of the games for children during Easter. They simply can’t leave their joysticks in collecting the bunnies and get super bonus from the godmother. This is fun!

The Best Easter Candies

We’ll be celebrating Easter as of April 20 this year. As the festival comes closer we begin to feel its significance and solemn impact!. There is so much more to the festival than family gatherings, parties, and exchanging gifts. Every action whether working on a gift for children or preparing for a party celebrates spring, new life and most importantly the rise of Lord Jesus from the dead.

Easter gifts are a way of greeting each other on this auspicious occasion. Easter candies are a great favorite with children and Americans spend nearly $1.9 billion every year.

The Easter candies are an amazing stuff. People purchase candies during this festival and each year people consume about 8 million pounds of candy which generates the production and purchase of this delicious product 

Though there is hardly any connection of candies with original Easter tradition or concepts. Modern celebrations are later additions to add to festive spirit. In olden family gatherings, food festivals and religious recognition were important. Today Easter is celebrated with delicious candies, jelly beans, chocolate eggs and beautiful pastels. The origin of Easter shows the availability of the chocolate in various parts of Europe during the 18th century that creates the aura of Christmas candies even today. 

Personalized Easter candies with printed messages are exceptional food stuff that come in a variety of colors, styles and flavors, especially for this festival.