April 10, 2009

Easter Project 4 you 4 your kids

For Easter morning, my mom use to put bunny foot prints all over the kitchen so we would see where the Easter bunny was. I asked my mom how she did that today. I thought I would do it for my boys! I remember it to this day how exciting it was to see that the Easter bunny ran through our kitchen and to see where he ran around to! Here's the trick: a sponge, tempera paint (crayola has a washable paint also, that can be used on most surfaces! Available at most all stores, Target, Wally, Meijer, even some Kohls, Micheals, HobLob,etc)
My mom said, she took a plain ole kitchen sponge cut it out into a rabbit foot shape (this below is a jackrabbit clip-art print) She then spread tempera paint (I'm recommending crayola, since times have changed, and crayola is readily available to most all of us.) Then you begin sponging the paw prints where you please. (disclaimer- I'm thinking non-porous would be much better and safer to wash off than porous surfaces-I admit, I personally haven't tried this yet, I am going to late tomorrow night, so use at your own risk.)

I hope you find this fun, I will post pictures after Easter!

4 comments:

  1. What a totally cute idea!!!! OH MY WORD! I love it!

    Cant wait to see the pictures :)

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  2. I just posted a link to this post because its the cutest darn thing Ive heard in a long time :)

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  3. What a great story!! My mom did that for me too one year, but she did it with powder pawprints all over the floor. I had to follow the prints around the house to clues which led me to my gifts. It was so awesome! I still remember how excited I was. (I hope you don't mind.. I may blog about it now that I'm thinking about it:)). I'm still not sure though how she created big paw prints. Any ideas? You're definitely the Krafty one in this friendship, not me!! :)

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  4. You got me remembering some old times too. Don't worry either the tempura or the crayola will work fine. Although, you ladies with Boy Scout boys had better make some of those footprints look like the rabbit was walking tippy-toe. When my son was a first year scout, I think it was right after Webloes, what's that 9 or 10??? he told me that "rabbits move fast so they would not be putting their whole foot on the ground like that" and kids are smarter today.

    This is my first visit (sorry it took me so long) but I'm here to welcome you to the Totally Useless SAL. We look forward to seeing more really clever goodies like this from you -- plus a Totally Useless Jar of course.

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