The Easter Penguin visits the night before Easter eve, bringing small treats. And also wet footprints!
Then we got ready:
Making "Easter-bread" houses,
making natural dyes with turmeric, blueberries, and beets,
dyeing eggs,
mixing the dyes to create new colors,
and building Easter Nests, which is a tradition from Gommie's side of the family and my childhood. There are rarely enough flowers and grasses in CT at Easter but we managed. And it was wonderful to share this tradition with the kiddos. We filled the nests with some of our dyed eggs, as well as carrots for the bunny.
I have never heard of easter nests. What a nice idea. It may be too late for my kids to start now but I can certainly do this with my Grandkids some day. Maybe???
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