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
One day while brainstorming gifts for college students, my daughter and her friend suggested an egg hunt as an idea. This year, that’s exactly what I did – sent an Easter Egg Hunt to college students! No- they are not too old!
Because there are 4 girls in the apartment, I had to decide how to accomplish this task. Who hides the eggs? Who finds them? It needed to be quick and easy, so as to not take too much time from studying!
Bags of Eggs
My solution was to place 10 filled eggs in 4 paper bags. Each bag contained eggs of just one color. The girls could then select a bag of eggs and hide them from the others. The hunt begins with the four of them hunting for eggs of all colors, but their own!
Because I can never do anything the easy way – that’s just who I am! I needed to come up with creative fillings for my eggs! Candy alone was not going to cut it. Since they are college students, I thought something inspirational would be great. Something to inspire them to work hard.
Easter eggs, bags & quotes
While searching for fun quotes I came across some great ones from television shows. I finally decided to use Phil’s-osophy from Modern Family! For those of you who don’t watch the show – Phil, a father of a college student on the show, makes a book of his philosophys. The quotes are hilarious with just enough stupid and a little bit of inspiration all wrapped in one funny quote!
Egg Hunt Directions
Easter Eggs
Suggestions for fun egg fillings: Favorite Candies…Gum… Money – always a favorite…Post it Note study accessories – there are tons of study accessories, small post it notes, tags for flagging pages. Check out the Post it Note site. They have fun stuff that encourages studying!…Nail Polish…Short socks – find fun, crazy colors!…Fun messages of encouragement from YOU!…Inspirational Quotes – from television shows, Dr. Seuss, check the web and you will find an endless supply!
Some of these items are a bit large and may require a larger egg!
After packing my bags of eggs in the shipping box, I enclosed a Happy Easter Card with a poem of Happy Egg Hunting directions – check out the picture!
Final update: The girls had a great time with the egg hunt. It was quick and easy and didn’t take too much time from their studies! They especially enjoyed the words of wisdom from Phil’s-osophy! One thing they changed, was that each roommate picked only one color egg to find. It sounds like that was the way to go. It provided them an opportunity to laugh at each other as they struggled to find their final egg!
