Good morning, I hope you all had a lovely weekend! It was Mothering Sunday yesterday, and I was thoroughly spoilt with a lie-in, breakfast in bed, a handmade card and flowers from my lovely boys! All this means that Easter must be just around the corner, in fact due to Easter falling late this year, the Easter holidays begin at the end of this week for us, eek! This has led me to break out the Easter supplies and start making some Easter themed lunches, with today's lunch having a chick theme.
In this lunch Small Child had leftover home made potato wedges, a hard boiled egg (which was a bit of an experiment, so I'm pleased with how it turned out!), organic natural yoghurt, topped with some yellow sprinkles, half a kiwi fruit, cut open in a zig-zag pattern with a sharp knife, chopped dried apple rings, cucumber and raw carrot slices, cut and arranged in an attempt to look like a chick peeping out of an egg (it did originally have a beak too, it must have fallen off!), and finally some dried apricots. I decorated the lunch with these super cute duck and egg picks, and added a hen spoon from our mini bento cutlery set. To make the egg, I cut around the whole egg with the tip of a sharp knife in a zig-zag pattern, being careful not to go all the way through. Once I'd got all the way around, I carefully lifted the top of the egg off, leaving the yolk intact. I added eyes to the yolk with an edible marker pen
I recently found and bought some cute plastic shaped eggs, one of which was chick shaped, so I filled it with raisins and a couple of mini rice cakes and popped it into his lunch bag as a little after school snack.
As I'm getting into the mood for Easter, planning lovely Easter themed food and games for the holidays, I thought it would be fun to have a little Easter giveaway too, so I've gathered together some supplies to help one lucky winner make some brilliant Easter themed food.
The prize consists of one set of Easter themed cookie cutters, one Easter themed cupcake decorating set (perfect for bento and snacks as well as cakes!), one egg shaped silicone mould, and one set of lamb and chick cup cake rings (3 lambs, 3 chicks). All items are brand new and unused and will be posted free of charge to the lucky winner.
To enter, please use the Rafflecopter below, and don’t forget to leave your comment. Good luck!
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Emma Hartley says
Thank you for all the inspiration!
A.Smith says
Hi, we make a big Easter cake every year and try to top ourselves from the last. This year we're attempting a garden cake with bunnies eating the vegetables.
Jennifer C says
Adorable!
Hayley Smith says
We don't have any yet but doing our first Easter treasure hunt this year, got our little Easter baskets ready!
Clare Wood says
We always have an Easter tree with real blown hand painted-by-the-family eggs and various very lovely painted eggs that I've accumulated over the years. Not this year though because we will be away!
Tracey Peach says
Only one:
Eat As Much Chocolate As You Can
Jess says
Such a cute lunch
Liz Burton says
We always do an egg hunt in the garden.
Tracy Nixon says
I always paint boiled eggs with my children then organise an egg hunt around the garden or our home depending on the weather! I always make Easter cards with them too. Those are two things my mum always did with me and my siblings when we were growing up so I have always done it with mine!
Emily Gallichan says
This Easter will be our first with lil bub. I don't really have any cash at the moment but I have plenty of craft supplies to use up and have been collating a few ideas on a Pinterest board. I am definitely going to try to continue the tradition of my childhood - painting a hard boiled ostrich egg for Easter morning breakfast. If I can find one...I'm not so sure they still do them anymore - sounds pretty exotic! Otherwise your average free range chicken eggs can get painted up for some token Easter snaps before getting promptly demolished. There will be bunny ears too - of course.
Grace says
Wow, an ostrich egg sounds amazing!
Stacey says
I don't really have any Easter traditions currently, but i've got a feeling that we will be starting some when my niece is old enough!
Jackie Allum says
No, but you've made it look like so much fun, I might just have to start!
Marleena P says
I never had any Easter traditions but will begin this year by hosting Easter Brunch for my side of the family. My family and my in-laws all live in the same town so splitting the Easter dinner between the two was tough until now!
Jo Hutchinson says
We normally organise an Easter egg hunt
Tina says
Ermagherd! So cute. Check out my board for cute-tastic stuff for this year: http://www.pinterest.com/KOTWBB/easterpascha-14/
Sarah says
What a fun lunch! Can you start making lunches for me, too? 😉
We don't really have any Easter traditions. We always did the Easter basket thing... but that's about it. No big meal, no other excitement. My birthday is around or on Easter a lot since my birthday is 4/11. My mom's is 4/14 and my sister's is 3/29 so we have a lot going on around that time. 🙂
Grace says
Thank you! Small Child and I both have birthdays around Easter too, it's always a pain when they fall in Lent and I've given up something yummy like chocolate!
Shannon says
Easter egg hunt! Love doing it with my kiddos.
Emma Lander says
Oh I LOVE your website. such imaginative ideas and we love chickens in our house 🙂
Grace says
Thank you!
clair downham says
we eat fish on good friday and lamb on easter sunday
The Mummy Diary says
I always do the children an easter egg hunt around the garden, then chocolate for breakfast 😉
thebeesleybuzz says
that is amazing what you have done with that boiled egg! Our Easter tradition is visiting Granny and Grandad for a roast dinner followed by an Easter egg hunt around the garden. Its pretty much the only time of year we get invited round for a meal because of J's difficulties in using cutlery so it is really special to see grandad go to all the effort of doing something really nice for the kids and seeing him all excited about setting up the egg hunt. (Rebecca Beesley) x
Grace says
Thank you! That sounds really lovely x
olivia kirby says
I always do an egg hunt for my 3 and my niece, already collected all the chocolate, sweets and stationery bits to hide for them!
Claire @ Great British Family Blog says
None yet but I plan to do easter egg hunts from next year (not sure my 11 month old would understand currently).
Wottawally says
Oh wow - inspiration already! Yoohoo.... must put thinking cap on.
Merlinda (@pixiedusk) says
Nice price I am in!
Ruth's all sorts says
So cute! Lots of fab ideas here 🙂
Karen Bell says
We always love to do an easter egg hunt.
Caroline (Becoming a SAHM) says
What a lovely lunch, such a lot of effort but it obviously paid off! It looks yummy and the egg is very clever! Thanks so much for linking with #creativechallenge
kelly says
we usually have a easter dinner 🙂
Natalie White says
An Easter Egg hunt 🙂
Lorraine Polley says
we have an easter egg hunt for my grandson daniel 4
Sara (@mumturnedmom) says
This is fab! I wish I had the patience (actually more like the time!) to do this 🙂 #CreativeChallenge
cindy ray says
Nope not really except dye eggs and each kids gets a basket
Caroline says
I have the same cookie cutters and we've been using them for sandwiches all week. Your lunch box looks absolutely fab, thanks for the inspriation #creativechallenge
Grace says
Thank you!
Katrina says
no so I need to start coming up with some!
Aini Othman says
They are so lovely!
Kimberley Robinson says
We always do a indoor easter hunt and starts when their eyes open lol
Jenny K says
Brunch followed by an Easter egg hunt for the littles.
Natalie Crossan says
An easter egg hunt for my daughter 🙂 x
melanie stirling says
No Easter traditions for us.
Capture by Lucy says
Oh the ducks, the ducks!!!! On my wish list!!!!!
Grace says
I love those picks too, they're so cute aren't they!
Koogle says
~A very cute chick-themed lunch. I love the hard-boiled egg chick. It looks amazing!
Anna says
Cute Easter chick lunch. Thanks for sharing it at Leftovers on Fridays