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Easter & Spring, Holidays & Parties, Spring

Easy & Tasty EASTER gift

by Kirsten · on April 19, 2011 · 18 Comments ·

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Happy Easter this week. To be honest, I haven’t even purchased any trinkets for my kids’ Easter baskets yet. I hope Target’s dollar section has some goodies left for me, that’s so sad. This is a fun and easy project. I made 4 of them that I am giving to some of the ladies that I visit teach. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, that just means the ladies that I visit each month and share a spiritual message and make sure they are doing fine. Oh and one for my sister that SAVED me yesterday while I pampered my 4 sick kids, she deserves a medal.

HERE WE GO:  Grab some egg cartons. This was perfect timing because I just put the unused eggs into a bowl so we can dye them this week.

Egg CartonEmpty them like so.

Egg CartonPurchase a whole bunch of yummy Easter candy. Those Cadbury Mini Eggs are naughty as we all know.

Egg Carton Easter TreatsChoose an assortment of colors and textures.

Egg Carton Easter TreatsI love the new pastel pink PEEPS, rather than the hot pink ones. Call me a nerd.

Egg Carton Easter TreatsFill part of the spaces with half, plastic Easter eggs.

Egg Carton Easter Treats

Then fill them up. It’s fun to see all the candies and leave the other half of the plastic eggs off.

Easter Treat Cartons - A simple, yummy gift!

One of the cartons is like colors together and the other is more assorted, whatever floats your boat.

Easter Treat Cartons - A simple, yummy gift!Yummy. I do have to say that our family went on a “TREAT ONCE A WEEK” challenge yesterday….really bad timing. I DIDN’T GET TO EAT ONE PIECE…BOO, I don’t want to talk about it.

Easter Treat Cartons - A simple, yummy gift!Grab a fun piece of fabric. This is a leftover piece from Quincie’s PLAY KITCHEN curtain. I heart this fabric like crazy, giving up a smidgen is love.

Easter Treat Cartons - A simple, yummy gift!Wrap your fabric around the egg carton. You can make a thin strip or a thick. I did both.

Easter Treat CartonTie a cute ribbon or whatever you have around. Do you ever find that things turn out cuter when are are forced to look in your craft caverns and whip out a miracle?

Easter Treat Cartons - A simple, yummy gift!Thicker fabric.

Easter Treat CartonI love this quote by Joseph Chilton

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” LOVE IT.

Whatever you create, own it.

HAPPY EASTER.

Easter Treat Cartons - A simple, yummy gift!

For more Easter and springtime fun, check out our Springtime Printable Pack.

Springtime Printable Pack

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Comments

  1. jamie says

    April 20, 2011 at 8:54 am

    LOVE it!

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  2. [email protected] says

    April 20, 2011 at 9:13 am

    Brilliant! I will be sending my kids to school with their lunch in an Egg Carton, thanks to this! Lovely idea!

    [email protected]

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  3. plushpussycat says

    April 20, 2011 at 9:59 am

    Fun project–so colorful and pretty! Love the quotation! I need to post that in my craft room. Thanks for the inspiration! 🙂

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  4. Beth says

    April 20, 2011 at 11:51 am

    What a fun, cute and easy idea…thanks for sharing!

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  5. Leda Stoker says

    April 20, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    Cute Easter idea! I LOVE your quote! I immediately printed it and it’s up in my craft room! You guys have a great blog! Thanks!

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  6. [email protected] says

    April 20, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    What a cute idea! Keeps them all in one place and they can see what they have at the same time. Great fun!

    Reply
  7. PeaceLoveTerri says

    April 21, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    Soooo cute, I love this idea!!

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  8. tangie says

    March 22, 2012 at 10:25 am

    SO so cute!! what a fun little gift, and so pretty! thank you!

    Reply
  9. Quinn says

    March 26, 2012 at 12:58 am

    You should add Pinetrest on here so we can Pin your amazing ideas! I can’t wait until my son is older so I can do these wonderful ideas you have on here. I never would have thought to use an egg carton. 🙂

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  10. Cindy says

    March 20, 2014 at 7:24 pm

    Cute, but unsanitary. The outsides of raw eggs are still pretty dirty even though they do get washed, they are far from clean. If you look closely at most eggs you will see that they have small amounts of chicken poop on them. Not something you want kids exposed to on Easter morning.

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  11. Ana says

    May 24, 2015 at 12:31 pm

    I will be sending this to my missionary son next year. Thanks!

    Reply

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