Skunk Hollow Craft Club - Watercolor Eggs, Spring In A Jar, & Hidden Surprise Eggs

We recently enjoyed our last Craft Club for the season - as things are slowly beginning to warm up and get green, the garden and outside work will keep us busy in the evenings. We plan to start Craft Club back up in the fall when the weather turns cool again and drives us indoors. For our last Club night, we had some guests - my sister and her six-year-old son asked to join us and made the evening even more pleasant!

We started out with the ever-popular watercolor garland - this time we cut out eggs in Easter colors. This is our third garland - hearts, shamrocks and now eggs. We can't seem to help ourselves! The garlands are so easy, festive and pretty hanging above the archway.


Our second project was Spring In A Jar - I so love this idea and this one could be adapted for any season, too. It was so much fun to make the collage in a jar, but it was also fun raiding my craft drawers and pulling out appropriate ribbons, trinkets and goodies to make them with. As it's a bit hard so see in the photos, here are a few instructions (also click on the link for the original directions). Stuff the bottom of a clear glass or plastic jar with Easter grass or raffia. Then fill the jars with ribbon, trinkets, and other goodies. Some we hot-glued in, some we tied to pieces of raffia and hung from the lid, some we just sat in the bottom of the jar, etc. Experiment - the sky's the limit!



And last but not least, my nephew's favorite part: Snack Time! The day before E. and I made these Rice Krispies Hidden Surprise Treats in plastic eggs. A sticky occupation but definitely worth it -



As usual, my thougthful sister showed up at the door with goodies for Eli and I. Flowers from her yard for me . . .


And festive, light-as-air shortbread treats for Eli from Panera's . . .


Come again, J.!