Easter Baskets for Class Party with Jelly Bean Prayer

Here is the project that I posted over at Little Scraps of Heaven's Design Team blog for Wednesday...As room mom I help plan out my son Jayden's class parties and for the Easter/Resurrection party I got these adorable plastic container baskets and filled them with colored eggs with corresponding colored jelly beans inside. I used the paper piecing from the Jesus Loves Me...you can view it HERE and I found a really neat poem about the meaning of the color of jelly beans that are in the matching colored eggs and the poem reads:

Red is for the blood He gave.

Green is for the grass He made.

Yellow is for the sun so bright.

Orange is for the edge of night.

Black is for the sins we made.

White is for the grace He gave.

Purple is for His hour of sorrow.

Pink is for our new tomorrow.

An egg full of jelly beans, Colorful and Sweet

Is a prayer, a promise, A loved one's treat!!

Charlene Dickensen, 1997

All 22 baskets all in a row =D

Each basket also had a baggie of M&M's a baggie with candies to make an Easter candy bracelet and an attached name tag with a scripture on it. I used my Accent Essentials to make the tag and the mat for my poem card =D

Blessings to all of you this Easter!!!

Easter Scrapbook Centerpiece

Welcome to your April!!!! Its also Friday!!!

Today is the DT Challenge day. This week's challenge was to create outside of the box. To make something that was NOT a card, NOT a layout, NOT album, and NOT a simple paper piecing. I guess "Non Scrap" lol! 


I decided to create an Easter table centerpiece =D I am "room mom" for my 
son Jayden's class and so I am planning the class Easter party. I thought this would be a cute decoration for the class and then after the party I would present it as a gift for his teacher. Jayden attends a Christian school and so it was neat to incorporate the "reason" for the holiday by adding the Christian Cross with a scripture 

This is how I constructed the centerpiece and what was fun is my son Jayden helped me make it using his toy tools =D I found some Styrofoam from packaging that we were going to throw away and used that to poke the craft sticks into...we glued Styrofoam side panels to create a box centerpiece. To glue we used a hot glue gun.

The grass around the centerpiece was cut from the free grass cut file I posted on a previous post yesterday =D 

Paper Piecing used: Little Scraps of Heaven "Feeling Froggy" HERE

Little Scraps of Heaven "Easter bunny collection" HERE

The EASTER banner title was a free printable that you can find at 

Autumn Leah Designs

My Boys with Easter Bunny Layout

I finally finished a layout of a picture of my boys two years ago lol! My mom made these adorable outfits for them for Easter to match. They were so excited to see the bunny....I was really surprised at little Ian not crying but actually laughing at the sight of the bunny =D 

Materials Used:

Paper piecing: Little Scraps of Heaven you can find the file HERE

White paper Lily flowers: Bazzill Basics Lily White

Pattern Papers Used: By Scenic Route Designed by Sarah Mine "Lynden Easter"

Chipboard letters: Scenic Route

Easter title stickers: K and Company Alpha stickers

Stickers on scallop circles: Scenic Route Lynden Easter Cardstock Stickers

Easter Bunny Banner TOO CUTE!

Intructions and details here: http://www.hostessblog.com/2009/04/diy-paper-bunny-garland-runner/