Everyone loves the crispy goodness of Rice Krispie treats. Mold the treats into a basket, add Easter candy and you have created a fun addition to your Easter celebrations!
What do you need?
Fresh batch of Rice Krispie treats
Muffin Tin – you will be using it upside down!
Candy – lots of candy!
After mixing up a batch of Rice Krispie treats, cool slightly then mold the Rice Krispies around the underside of a greased muffin tin. I used a standard size muffin tin and a mini-muffin tin. The mini-muffin tin worked best. The baskets made with the standard muffin tin held up pretty well, but if not eaten quickly enough they will start to sag!
You will need to alternate holes on the muffin tin to have room for the bowls!
Rice Krispie Treat Baskets
After the bowls set up, I removed them from the muffin tin and decorated them with melted chocolate and pastel sprinkles!
If using sprinkles, you will need to gently press the sprinkles into the Rice Krispies in order for them to stick!
Rice Krispie Treat Baskets
I filled my eggs with an assortment of candy and to some of the bowls I added “grass”. The grass I made by slicing the green and blue Dot Candies that I had on hand. Any type of green jelly candy would work wonderfully. Just slice them into thin pieces, clump a few grass blades together and add them to your baskets!
Rice Krispie Treat Baskets
This is an easy treat to send to college students, friends and family for a tasty Easter surprise!
If you want other ideas for a college student or anyone else on your Easter list, check my other posts:
Refillable Felt Easter Eggs! Who wouldn’t like a basket filled with these?
Refillable Felt Easter Eggs
I wanted to try something new this year so I came up with a way to make an egg that could be filled with goodies! The eggs are designed to take the place of Easter baskets for those occasions when Easter baskets for everyone is not practical! Times when grandma invites friends, family and neighbors to Easter or when you wish to send a little something to five college roommates!
These adorable eggs are made out of felt and have a velcro closure so the egg can be filled with Easter grass, candy, money (for the poor college student), gift cards, movie tickets… The sky is the limit!
Creating the eggs involves simply cutting 4 pieces of a single pattern piece (included in the post – of course!); sewing 3 seams; turning it right side out and attaching an adhesive velcro closure! It is that easy, until you get to the hard part – What to fill the eggs with?
What do you need?
Felt
Adhesive Velcro Closures
Filler – Definitely Easter grass and candy! The rest is up to you!
Felt for making Fabric Easter Eggs
Head over to your local fabric store and select a few pieces of your favorite felt colors. Because the pattern piece is 8″ long, a quarter of a yard is a good amount to buy. I purchased a quarter of a yard of the above 4 colors and it cost me $4! Felt is perfect for a project like this! It’s inexpensive, easy to work with and comes in so many wonderful colors!
With my total felt yardage of one yard, I was able to create 18 of these 5″ eggs!
A printable pattern piece can be found here : Egg Pattern
Each egg requires 4 pieces and I cut out two at a time because of the thickness of the felt. Any more than that and I can’t squeeze my scissors!
If you check the pictures you will see that I made some of the eggs a single color and mixed the colors on others! Put them together however you like!
Refillable Felt Easter Eggs
Put two pieces together and pin one of the sides. This is the side you will be sewing first!
Felt Pieces for Fabric Easter Eggs
Sew the two pieces together on the one side. Sew where the dotted line on the pattern piece indicates. I used a 1/4″ seam.
To prevent your seams from unraveling, “knot” the ends of the seam by using the backstitch to overlap a few stitches! Backstitching at the beginning and end of your seam will create a strong seam that will not unravel!
Sew the other two pieces together in the same manner.
Felt Pieces for Fabric Easter Eggs
Open up the pieces you have just sewn and pin them, right sides together. Sew around the outer edge of the egg where the dotted lines on the pattern indicate.
The rounded flaps are not sewn. The flaps will create the closure at the bottom of the egg.
Refillable Felt Easter Eggs
As you can see in the above picture, after you turn your egg right side out there will be 4 rounded flaps. After filling your egg, fold two of the opposite flaps down creating a seal at the bottom of your egg!
Attach the adhesive velcro closures on the last two flaps and seal up your egg!
You are almost done!
To finish your eggs. I created fun Easter tags for you to print for free!
Using embroidery floss and a large needle, I ran a double piece of floss thru the top of my egg and used that to tie on the gift tag!
You can find free printable copies of the Easter Gift Tags here!
Click here for small tags (shown in picture) that print 9 to a page – Easter Tags
Click here for large tags that print 3 to a page – Large Easter Tags
If you want other ideas for a college student or anyone else on your Easter list, check my other posts:
Gather your Peeps because it’s time to make Easter Bouquets!
Adults will love the Peeps Bouquet because it is so darn cute; college students will love it because they love anything from home; kids will love it because they love Easter Candy!
What do you need?
Peeps
A Container Filled with Foam
Bamboo Sticks
Ribbon
Easter Grass
Easter Bouquet
The container I used came from Target. If you look in the “dollar” section of Target, you should find seasonal containers that will work perfectly and will only cost you $1!
Fill your container with floral foam except for the top inch. Leave that for Easter grass and candy filler! I used wrapped chocolate eggs as my filler!
Buy Peeps of any color! Today you can find them in lots of fun colors – pick your favorites!
Skewer the Peeps with your bamboo sticks and arrange them in your foam filled container. I broke off the ends of some of the sticks to get a nice variation in heights! Fill in around the sticks with Easter grass and add additional candy if you like!
Bow for the Easter Bouquet Gift
Attach your bow to a bamboo fork with floral wire! The fork makes it easy to attach your beautiful bow to the Easter Bouquet!
Easter Bouquet
How fun and easy was that?
Easter Bouquet
Need Easter tags for your Easter Bouquet or any Easter gift?
You can find free printable copies of the Easter Gift Tags here!
Click here for small tags that print 9 to a page – Easter Tags
Click here for large tags that print 3 to a page – Large Easter Tags
