What fun and shenanigans do you have in store for Easter? Need a bit of inspiration for fun things to do for the whole family? We’ve got a few cracking ideas for you…
Decoration ideas: Easy to make and fun for the kids!
Bunny Bunting – simply use the template shown in the middle below! Cut out the shape and place the stencil onto each piece of hessian fabric which are cut into triangle shapes– get your paint in pastel colours (normal poster paint will be fine or even acrylic) and go for it! Finish them off once they’ve dried by sticking a small white pom pom on for their tails!
Easter Bunny Strings – Again, use the above template to draw onto different patterned card to make your bunny shapes. Thread some colourful string through the holes you’ve made either side of the bunny’s shoulders, stick on the pom poms to give them tails and hey presto – you’ve got yourself a marvellous Easter bunny string!
Decorations to buy: Easter wreaths for your front door!
Easter egg blue wreath available to buy from here!
Easter egg nest wreath here!
Easter bunny wreath here!
CONFETTI CHOCOLATE EGGS – OOH AAH!
Making confetti chocolate eggs! Something fun to do with the kids, a treat for the adults and you could hide them in your Easter egg hunt.With a few hollow eggs, a little melted chocolate as glue, and lots of sprinkles, it’s super simple to create this fun and colourful Easter treat. Check out this step-by-step guide on BRIT+CO!
How to plan the most epic Easter egg hunt!
What better way to celebrate Easter than with a good, old-fashioned egg hunt! Follow these steps to plan and execute this exciting Easter tradition:
- Get your house ready for your Easter egg hunt by hanging pastel coloured balloons outside the front of your house and maybe an Easter decoration on your door so everyone knows where they’re going. If you plan on serving wood fired snacks at the hunt, decorate a few tables with pastel coloured tablecloths and streamers. Make sure you have those all-important Easter baskets ready for your kids to take on the hunt for gathering their eggs!
- You can hide plastic or chocolate eggs, just make sure you get the supplies far enough in advance so there’s no panic on the day. You could fill plastic eggs with small toys, sweets, mini chocolates, coins, stickers, or numbers that correspond to bigger prizes, such as stuffed animals or chocolate bunnies. If you’ve got a range of young and older children coming to the hunt you could always separate their hunts to different zones making the older children’s slightly harder to find so it keeps them as entertained as the younger kids.
- You can spice up the hunt by hiding a golden Easter egg! The kids will love the excitement of the challenge to be the first one to find it.
Easter Day Recipes!
Wood fired oven baked eggs – For a simple lunch or dinner after all the Easter egg hunt mayhem. This recipe is perfect if you’re not planning a big Easter feast with the family. After all, you can’t eat chocolate all day! See the Stone Bake recipe here!
Traditional Easter Meal for all the family – Stone Bake’s Wood Fired Leg of Lamb with wood roasted potatoes is perfect for Easter!
Want to use up all those chocolate eggs? Here’s a scrumptious wood fired baking recipe to do that!
- 250g plain flour
- 250g thickened cream
- 6 tbs white sugar
- 24 small Easter eggs halved
Fire up your wood fired oven as per usual. Bring the oven up to maximum temperature and let the oven temperature gradually cool to baking temperature, for this recipe around 200° C. For more detail see our Cooking Techniques guide.
Combine flour, cream and sugar and place in a well-greased muffin tray. If you want to get rid of any larger Easter eggs melt them down and add them to the flour mixture to make them chocolate muffins!
Place an Easter egg half evenly in each uncooked muffin. Bake the muffins in your wood fired oven until raised and golden brown. DELISH!
Have a Happy Easter folks! We hope it’s an ‘eggciting’ one! Be sure to share your Easter pics with us on Facebook, Twitter or email us at info@stoneovenco.co.uk!
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