Enjoy a Live Easter Basket Decorated with Spoon Bunnies
by Dian Thomas
One
of my favorites though the years is a live Easter basket. It takes
about a week for the grass to grow, but it is a great project to do
with kids or grandkids.
A live Easter basket with Spoon Bunnies is a great project to do with the kids or grandkids.
You will need:
Easter basket
Heavy clear plastic, 12” larger than the inside of the basket
Indoor potting soil
Wheat seeds
Line
the inside of your basket with plastic and leave at least 6” of
excess all the way around. Fill the basket to within an inch of the
top with potting soil and pat the soil down firmly. Sprinkle the
surface generously with seed, and cover lightly (1/4” to ½”)
with potting soil.
Water
well, making sure all the seeds are moistened. Pull the excess
plastic over the top of the soil to preserve moisture. Set the
basket in a warm, sunny spot. In two to three days, the seeds will
start to sprout, and within a week to ten days, you will have grass.
Decorate
the basket with a bow and colored eggs. Add a Spoon Bunny to the
basket. The grass will grow rapidly. Trim with scissors. Use the
trimmed grass in sandwiches or salads.
Spoon
Bunnies
Tuck these delightful bunnies into your live Easter basket.
6 white plastic spoons
red and black puff paints or permanent markers
1 yard heavy black thread
glue
6 tiny pink pompoms
1 (8-1/2” X 11”) rectangle white felt
1 (8-1/2” X 11”) rectangle pink felt
6 round suckers (smaller than the spoons)
3 yards pastel ribbon
6 small white pompoms or cotton balls
Paint
eyes, mouth, and cheeks on the back of each spoon. Let dry. Tie
three 1-1/2” strands of heavy black thread together in the
middle and glue above the mouth for whiskers.
Glue
pink pompom nose above the whiskers. Cut ears out of the white felt,
and cut smaller inside ears out of pink felt. Glue small pink ears
on larger white ears, and glue to back of head.
Place
a sucker in the spoon and tie ribbon around the neck. Glue a small
white pompom or cotton ball tail on the sucker stick.
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