Are holidays just too commercial? Fed up of your kids whinging in the supermarket aisles?
This Spring make your own Easter gifts, free of branding and to your own taste - you can even get the kids to help out (or at least lick the spoon.)
Home-made Chocolate Eggs
• Save the plastic casing from a shop-bought egg to use as a mould
• Melt your chosen chocolate in a bowl above a pan of boiling water
• Pour the melted chocolate into both moulds, and tip to cover the whole shape, making sure to keep the texture even and not to leave a thick puddle at the bottom
• Allow the eggs to set, and repeat the process two more times, until the halves are as thick and delicious as you want
• When both halves are cool, use a small amount of melted chocolate around the edges to glue into a whole egg
If you’re feeling creative, use white or dark chocolate as well to create a marbled egg, or fill your eggs with sweets. Try to use Fairtrade chocolate where possible.
Dyed Eggs
To liven up your kids’ Easter breakfasts, colour hard boiled eggs:
• Soak a paper towel in water and vinegar, before dropping on food colouring of your choice
• Place the paper around your egg, and wrap the whole thing in clingfilm
• Leave for half-an-hour, then enjoy
Cress-Head Eggs
Let your kids enjoy their colourful egg– then tell them you can bring the shell to life!
• Put the empty egg shell into an egg cup, and draw on facial features with a marker pen
• Wet a small piece of cotton wool, and place it in the bottom of the shell
• Sprinkle cress seeds onto the cotton wool
• Protect your egg with a piece of paper until the seeds begin to sprout
• Move it next to a window
• Gently water every day until Mr or Mrs Egg has a lovely green head of hair
• Give it a ‘hair cut’ and have some delicious cress sandwiches – eating their greens has never been so fun!
