I received product from HERSHEY’S and a stipend from Global Influence for this post. All thoughts and opinions listed here are my own, as always.
I don’t know about you, but my 4-year-old started asking for us to decorate for Easter the day after Valentine’s Day. I gently reminded her that she was forgetting St. Patrick’s Day, and all things green and gold. That appeased her until last week, when she INSISTED that we start putting some bunnies out on display.
For some moms, the thought of decorating for each season puts a twinkle in their eyes, and a spring in their step. Crafts and all things creative all their element.
Not so for me. I never really decorated much for any season except for Christmas before I had kids, but seeing how excited they get about putting out knick knacks leaves me feeling as though I should be doing SOMETHING. But after just 5 minutes on Pinterest searching for Easter crafts, I start to feel overwhelmed and WAY out of my comfort zone.
But you know what? It really doesn’t have to be that way! HERSHEY’S recently sent me some of their Easter candy options, and it occurred to me that I could do some very practical decorating, by making use of some of the candy I would be buying, anyway for Easter baskets. Instead of spending a ton of money on craft supplies that might or might not get used, and that will definitely cause me stress and anxiety, I could just buy candy. Buying in a bulk is a great way to make your dollars stretch even further.
Sounds like a plan!
So here’s how I created a cute centerpiece just by using the candy I would have already purchased, plus $3 in other supplies. I went to the Dollar Tree and spent $2 on 2 bags of the grass that looks more like paper than plastic. I only had to buy 2 bags because each bag came with 3 different colors, and I only wanted to use green. So if you’d like to use more than 1 color, you’ll probably only need 1 bag. I also spent $1 on a bunny figurine to stick in the middle of the display. And I had a pretty wooden bowl on hand, already. You could use any sort of tray to make this display, or you could even create it on a mantel or shelf without a container.
All of the candy you see came from bags that I would have purchased anyway for filling Easter baskets. This idea can put some of it to use ahead of time, and the candy you don’t use for the display can just get tucked away in your closet until the Easter bunny needs it!
After I placed the grass in the container, I added JOLLY RANCHER Hard Candy lollipops. They have a bag with an Easter theme, and I picked out the Easter egg designs to go in the back.
Then I placed the CADBURY Mini Eggs along the front, as well as a Cadbury Egg, as if it were hidden in the grass.
I took the larger WHOPPERS ROBIN EGGS and put one on each side of the display, made to look like little bird nests. So cute!
Finally, I sprinkled some HERSHEY’S KISSES Milk Chocolates around the area where the bunny was doing his watering. I thought it was cute to make it look like he was growing an Easter candy garden.
So there you have it: a very affordable, very resourceful Easter decoration idea that even the craft-challenged can create! This is also a fun one to have the kids help with; they can create whatever type of “candy garden” they want!
And I certainly can’t say that I’m dreading when the time comes to “clean up” and “put away” this display. I just hope it makes it to Easter! The kids will actually withhold from eating it; it’s me I’m worried about!
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Our favorite easter tradition is going to church and then coming home to an Easter Lunch and an egg hunt. my favorite craft is the Road Rally Egg Hunt.
My favorite tradition is our annual Easter Egg Hunt for our grandkids, its so much fun!
My favorite Easter tradition is dying Easter eggs with my kids and I like the Reese’s Racers craft.
My favorite Easter Tradition is when we dye our Easter Eggs together as a family. I love how everyone decorates their own a little differently. I love the recipe of Easter Basket Cupcakes. They are adorable when done and just look like fun to make.
We love Easter egg hunts, always so much fun with the kids and friends. The Macaroon Cookie nests recipe looks amazing!
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my favorite tradition is hiding plastic easter eggs and putting money in one in my kids easter baskets….i like the race cars made out of the chocolate eggs…my kids will like that
i like the MOUNDS Coconut Easter Basket Cake recipe
Our tradition is to have a big sit-down dinner with family. My favorite is the Reese’s Racer — very cute.
We usually try new methods to dye eggs each year – and those Peanut Butter Easter Bonnets look like a new tradition – LOL
My fave Easter tradition is our Easter family dinner. I’d like to try the recipe for Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
I always leave bunny feet leading up to the baskets to excite the kids more. I love the Coconut Honey Bars recipe.yummy
Coloring eggs! And I like the Easter fun on wheels craft.
Peanut Butter Easter Bonnets
I like the easter basket cupcakes
We love doing easter egg hunts. The foil wreaths seem fun!
My favorite tradition is coloring eggs and Coconut Marshmallow Nests
The Coconut Marshmellow Nest is my favorite recipe and I love dying and hiding the Easter Eggs!!
our tradition is doing an easter egg hunt in the morning for our kids. I love the easter cupcake Idea.
We do a scavenger hunt with the kids just like my mother did with my brother and I when we were little.I think the Peanut Butter Bunny Cakes would be cute! Can never go wrong with Peanut butter and chocolate either.
My family always colors eggs for Easter. I think the Easter bunny egg racers https://www.hersheys.com/celebrate/easter/craftdetail.aspx?id=90436 would be fun to make AND eat!
I love to color eggs with my son and I would love to try the Chocolate-Nut Pinwheel Cookies
my favorite recipe is coconut marshmellow nest. my favorite tradition is coloring easter eggs
My favorite tradition is just getting to see family all together at once. I like Easter Bunny Egg Racers – fun to make and eat!
The vrroom vroom and easter race both sound like two craft activities my kids would have a blast with
i love egg hunts for kids
My favorite Easter tradition is the egg hunts for kids. I love the Hershey Vroom Vroom craft.
My favorite Easter tradition is dying eggs kinda messy but fun
I like the Road Rally Egg Hunt
I like the tradition of coloring eggs and I want to make the Hershey’s Chocolate Cheesecake recipe.
this looks wonderful Velvety Chocolate Cream Pie
I love to color Easter eggs with the kids. they have so much fun with it. I think I would like to make the foil egg wreathe. thanks
My favorite Easter tradition is dying eggs with my children. I like the Peanut Butter Easter Bonnets.
I enjoyed the Coconut Cake Nests recipe, wouldn’t mind trying it.
My favorite Easter tradition is the Easter Egg Hunt. I love the idea of the personized REESE’S Milk Chocolate Covered Egg as an easy Easter treat.
My favorite tradition was hiding eggs for my daughter. My favorite recipe from the site is the Peanut Butter Easter Bonnets.
I like the recipe for Sugared Chocolate Eggs.
Favorite tradition is easter egg hunt and favorite recipe is the velvety chocolate pie.
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FUN!!! 🙂
We love having cookouts and a large Easter Egg hunt, we also love the Easter Egg hunt on Easter Monday and afterwards have a picnic. Of course this year may be different with this odd weather system.lol I also love the Spring Hop Scotch Craft I think its great for little girls.
Thanks for the chance,
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My favorite Easter tradition is also my favorite recipe on the Hershey’s site. It’s the Easter basket cupcakes. My mother would make these every year to share with my class. I love coconut and always thought it was amazing how she could make it green to look like real grass.
The princess basket is adorable!
Well I don’t celebrate Easter, but I like eating Easter candy!
I love the Spring Birdhouse Centerpiece Craft!
Who DOESN’T like eating Easter candy, my friend?! Do you have a favorite? Mine are Cadbury eggs, with the Reese peanut butter cup eggs in a close second!
My favorite Easter tradition is the visit from the Easter Spider! The Easter Spider hangs plastic eggs on fishing line all over the back yard (or inside if it’s snowing/raining) and it looks like they are suspended in mid air!
…and I love the Easter bouquet with candy in the vase!
My favorite tradition is dying eggs! My favorite recipe is the easter basket cupcakes http://www.hersheys.com/celebrate/easter/recipedetail.aspx?id=6031
We love the annual egg hunt.. I like the Chocolate swirled Cheesecake on hersheys.com
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My favorite Easter Tradition is decorating eggs with the kids.
My favorite Hershey’s recipe is the Fudgey Fruit Pizza
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My fave traditiion is going to my sister’s house every year. She has the whole family and it’s always a pot luck. We hide eggs for the kids,there’s only 3 of them but it’s so much fun. Next year we’ll have my granddaughter who will be a year old so that’ll be lots of fun. She’s due May 6th.
I’d love to make the bird house with all the Hershey’s Kisses glued all over it. I think I’m going to make 2 of them for my nieces. Such a cute idea! Thank you 🙂
My favorite tradition at Easter has to be the egg hunt and getting to see the excitement on the faces of the little ones as they find each and every egg! I’m looking forward to trying the critter cups with my four year old daughter as gifts for her cousins.
I love the Hersheys Easter buddies
My favorite Easter tradition is dying eggs with my step daughter…..since she loves hard boiled eggs we still do this even though she’s a senior in high school now….and I still make an Easter basket for her and my hubby every year, my Easter baskets are a little different.
They have candy in them but they also contain other stuff, Usually some sort of clothing item, and some other fun little thing they each will enjoy, I always enjoy it and they love getting their Easter baskets and seeing what I’ve put in them. We always dye the eggs in the morning and then I give them their baskets while I make Easter dinner…
From the page, I like the Hershey’s bird house the best, a neat take on a gingerbread house but for Easter,,,,,I’m going to make this for Easter this year,,,,,my step daughter will enjoy helping make it with me…..we will probably make some of the other crafts and treats too…thanks for sharing!
We color eggs. And I want to make the Velvety Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe
Church, then brunch and egg hunt for the little ones. I want to make the HERSHEY’S Foil Egg Wreath Craft.
I love the mini cadbury chocolate eggs! Yummy!
I love dying eggs. I like the peanut butter easter bonnet cookie recipe.
Chocolate Mint Dessert and we always go to church and then to my in-law’s for dinner
I would like to make the critter cups with my kids. We always hide the baskets on Easter morning.
Always have an Easter egg hunt for my Grandkids, really like the coconut marshmallow nests!
Going to my Grandma’s to hunt eggs and I’d love to try the Chocolate Cherry Cheese Pie
annabella @ centurytel dot net
We like coloring eggs and doing easter egg hunts. I like the recipe for Coconut Cake Nests.
And I think the HERSHEY’S KISSES Brand Milk Chocolates Mice are adorable!
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My fave tradition is hiding my kids’ Easter baskets and then watching them search all over for them!
coriwestphal at msn dot com
finding easter eggs
the Easter Basket cupcake.
I love the easy critter cups, they are so cute, and our Easter tradition is hunting eggs with goodies inside of them
My favorite tradition is getting a new spring outfit for Easter. I would like to try the Peanut Butter Bunnycakes recipe. Thanks for the chance to win!
My favorite tradition is the easter egg hunt, and I think we would like the mocha truffles.
My favorite Easter tradition is the Easter egg hunt. I can remember how much fun we had.My favorite recipe is the peanut butter bunnycakes. Not only are they cute, but the kids would have fun making them.
Our favorite Easter tradition is going to church coming home and hunting for eggs…and we would love to try to make the Spring Birdhouse Centerpiece.
pattifritz2000 at yahoo dot com
thank you
Our favorite tradition is finding easter eggs and my favorite recipe is the Easter Basket cupcake.
My favorite tradition is meeting in the park for an extended family egg hunt..after Easter dinner. My favorite craft/recipe was the Easter bonnets and the birds flock together birdhouse.
oops, forgot to put my fav craft..love the Jolly Rancher mosaic eggs!
http://www.hersheys.com/celebrate/easter/craftdetail.aspx?id=11
We have a huge egg hunt. I think I have more fun than my grandkids do..lol
We always hide Easter baskets and plastic eggs filled with candy and treats.
I’d like to make the Coconut Marshmallow Nests.
We always have an Easter egg hunt with one plastic egg that contains hints on where the Easter basket is hidden.
I like the Easter Critter Cups Craft
My favorite Easter tradition is decorating eggs with my children. I like the recipe for Coconut Cake Nests.
My favorite tradition is baking Easter bread and I like the Coconut Marshmallow Nests Recipe
I love the egg hunt around our house every Easter morning. I like the HERSHEY’S Miniature Easter Egg Tree Craft.
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Love the easter egg hunt with my twins and I love the WHOPPERS ROBIN EGGS Wreath.
We love coloring eggs
My favorite tradition is coloring eggs with the entire family followed by an Easter egg hunt 🙂
My favorite Easter tradition is the egg hunt and I like the peanut butter Easter bonnets recipe.
favorite tradition is dying of the easter eggs and the recipe for Classic Chocolate Mousse Recipe sounds good
My favorite tradition is having an Easter Egg Hunt, and I like the Spring Birdhouse Centerpiece Craft.
Thanks for the chance to win this!
My favorite tradition is getting a new dress on easter! I think the birdhouse craft would be fun. http://www.hersheys.com/celebrate/easter/craftdetail.aspx?id=9
My favorite tradition is that we hide our kids Easter baskets for them to find on Easter morning. The older they are, the harder we make it to find.
I like the Bunny Trail cupcakes recipe.
Coloring eggs with my kids, we have so much fun!
I love Easter egg hunts! I loved them as a kid myself and now it is so fun to watch my children look for eggs over and over again after they have emptied them of their yummy contents.
we hunt easter eggs after church an before lunch,,
Spring Birdhouse Centerpiece Craft
I enjoy the easter egg hunts and I love the Velvety Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe
My favorite tradition is having an Easter Egg hunt! I like the Spring Birdhouse Centerpiece Craft
A favorite Easter tradition we do as a family is make Resurrection Rolls 🙂
The Coconut Marshmallow Nests look cute on the site 🙂
I like having family together and a nice dinner, I like the baskets.
And I would love to make the MOUNDS Coconut Easter Basket Cake.
I always look forward to coloring eggs with the kids 🙂
My favorite Easter tradition is coloring eggs with my daughters.
A recipe I like is the Velvety Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe. Looks delicious!
Thank you!
My favorite Easter tradition is doing an Easter egg hunt for my grandsons. They love it!
My favorite craft is the WHOPPERS ROBIN EGGS Wreath!
We love coloring eggs and I would love to try the Easter Critter Cups Craft.
We’ve always gone to an Easter egg hunt with the kids. Then dinner at my parents, we hide eggs around their yard. Love the bunny trail cupcakes:)
Decorating Easter eggs with my granddaughters is a favorite tradition of mine.
I like the recipe Peanut Butter Bunnycakes Recipe and my favorite tradition is just hiding the Easter baskets and watching the kids in the morning searching to find them to see all their goodies
I love to make jello eggs every year. I think the easter basket cupcakes at the Hershey’s website are so cute
I like the Easter basket cupcakes. My favorite tradition is hunting for Easter eggs.
My favorite easter tradition is jelly bean poop.
We follow the jelly beans to the baskets!
I loved the Spring Birdhouse Centerpiece Craft.
My favorite Easter tradition is when I decorate Eggs with my lil man. It’s fun for both of us, to see the eggs change color. We also have a scavenger hunt in the park every year. On the website, I like the cute peanut butter bunny cupcakes. Looks like a fun Easter dessert and craft all in one, to make with my son.