If you prefer an Easter Brunch, then this rustic farmhouse setting is an easy get together to pull off.


We set the table with baskets filled with eggs.  We used wooden candlesticks and cake holders to add that rustic charm.   We used a vintage floral sheet as the table runner.  Then we pulled out
Grandma’s china to set the table.

We placed some small nests on the table, along with bunny salt and pepper shakers.

We made a bunny garland, complete with pop-pom tails.   The centerpiece was the naked cake, (Recipe found here) topped with a nest and some candy eggs.

We like to pull everything together with fresh cut flowers placed in tin pails.    We just love how everything turned out.  It was the perfect mix of old and new, fancy and shabby.

To make the bunny garland:

Take a few different patterns of pastel colored scrapbook paper.  Find an image of a bunny on your computer and print it off.    Cut the shape and then trace onto the scrapbook paper.  Cut out a few bunny’s and string on a piece of  yarn.  To make the pom-pom tails, wrap a long piece of yarn around a fork abou 20 times.  Then tie a piece of yarn around it to hold it together, then trim the loops.  Perfect little bunny tails.

Hosting an Easter Egg hunt is fun for young and old alike.  Simple projects that you can do with your kids will turn your dinner table into a special Easter setting.

To make these individual Easter basket place holders, we cut a styrofoam cup in half.  We then hot glued a burlap and lace ribbon around it.  We attached a twine holder and then filled the basket with paper grass.  We made chocolate bunnies, which is a great project to let the kids handle.  Then we placed one bunny in the grass with a few pastel candy eggs.  Your guests will feel special to have their own individual basket, and your kids will love telling everyone that they were a part of the table setting.

To make the chocolate bunnies we bought chocolate wafers from the craft store and melted them as directed.  Then we poured the chocolate into the molds.  After they cooled we were able to pop them out of the mold and eat!


Another project you can get your kids to help with is this festive Easter topiary.  We just took a piece of poster board and shaped it into a cone.  Then you will hot glue plastic easter eggs all around the cone.  After all the plastic eggs are placed, we took some moss and stuffed it in between the eggs to give it a whimsical feel.  This project took about ten minutes and we bought all of the supplies at the Dollar Tree.

Tips for the Egg Hunt

*  Be prepared.  Have all of the plastic eggs already stuffed and ready to go.
*   Think begond candy.  Fill the eggs with toys, erasers, coins,.....the ideas are endless.
*  Let the younger kids start hunting earlier, that way they can scavage the easier ones before the big kids
snag them.
*  Try hosting a glow in the dark hunt this year.  The older kids will especially love starting this new t
radition.
*  Have an egg dying station.  Try the cool whip method.  Place a few drops of food coloring into a dish of cool whip and then swirl the color around.  Place the eggs in and let sit for 15 minutes per side, and then when they are done, they have a cool tie-dye effect.
*  Make sure you have enough eggs.  A good rule of thumb is 20 eggs per kid.  Make sure you enlist help on this.  Have your guests contribute to the hunt.

I love a good table setting.  I literally get giddy setting the table a little extra special for my family.  I think it's because it is something extra.  It's not the usual.  It's something that they notice, and something to be recognized as special.


Life gets crazy and super busy.  My kids are older, ages 10-16, so it's not very often that we are ALL home at the same time to eat dinner together.  And sadly, when we are all together eating, a lot of times it's in the car from one soccer game to another.  I know I'm not alone in this.  Dinner time has become less special, and just one more thing on my huge to do list.

That is why I am so passionate about Sunday Dinners.  It's the one day a week that I KNOW we will be all home, and that I will have a little extra time to make sure that my family feels special.  I show love by creating a happy, safe home for them to escape from their outside drama.  We will often sit around the table LONG after we've eaten and continue our conversation and laughter.  It makes this Mama's heart joyful.

During the rest of the week, we gather once or twice for dinner all together at the dinner table, and I don't go all out on setting the table, but I do make sure that on Sunday, we get that little bit of extra special.  Because Sunday is an extra special day anyways.

Love,
Heather