"E" is for Easter

Wow! Day 5. Trucking right along. Today's letter?

And this time of year, E is for Easter!

Continuing my goal this year of making decor for every holiday and not just Halloween, I decided to take advantage of "E" day and make something Easter themed. Two birds and all that.

Before I got started, I asked Darian if he thought I should make another banner (bunting) like I did for St. Patrick's Day. His answer? "Ya. I thought that looked pretty cool." Well...at least the tween recognizes the decor attempts I've made this year, even if his dad has stayed pretty oblivious.

I really liked the book page look of the St. Paddy's bunting, so I decided to go a similar route with this one. This time around though, I did things just a bit differently. I also paired it with a second project. Whoa. Are you totally blown away now? Yep. Two for one. Double project post! I'm just that amazing. (Insert eye roll here.)

As with the St. Paddy's bunting, the thing that took me the longest was figuring out the paper combination. I was able to cheat a little bit since I dug into the stash of paper that I used for the Spring/Easter Reversible Blocks.

After that, I used the Pazzle to cut out some cute little bunny shapes in blue polka dot.

I cut the book pages just like I did on the Saint Patrick's banner and also cut out some egg shapes in a few different colors.

I'll admit that I was kind of winging it with those eggs. I knew what I wanted to do, I just wasn't sure if it would work out right.

I adhered a bunny to each book page...

...and added 1/2 of a cotton ball for a fluffy little bunny tail. (I think that's my favorite part.)

I stapled the banner pieces and the eggs onto some twine and we were good to go!

Plan success!

Now...you're thinking...hey, that was only one project. And you'd be right. I took the above picture before I finished the second project (mostly because I was waiting on some paint to dry and I was losing the good light). 

So, let's get on with it.

Originally, I had planned to put some wording on the banner. But in the end, I decided that it would just get too cluttered.

I picked the phrase "Hippity Hoppity" and then promptly learned that I have apparently failed in my family's holiday song education. Neither Collin nor Darian had a clue. Hippity hoppity? What the heck is that?

Ugh.

Anyone worth their Easter song salt (are there really that many holiday songs dedicated to a nonreligious themed Easter?) knows the song of Peter Cottontail. Right?

If not, here's how it goes.

Here comes Peter Cottontail

Hoppin' down the bunny trail

Hippity, hoppity, Easter's on its way.

Bringing every girl and boy

Baskets full of Easter joy

Things to make your Easter bright and gay.

He's got jelly beans for Tommy

Colored eggs for sister Sue

There's an orchid for your mommy

And an Easter bonnet too. Oh!

Here comes Peter Cottontail

Hoppin' down the bunny trail

Hippity hoppity, happy Easter Day.

Here comes Peter Cottontail

Hoppin' down the bunny trail

Hippity hoppity, Easter's on its way.

Try to do the things you should

Maybe if you're extra good

He'll roll lots of Easter eggs your way.

You'll wake up on Easter mornin'

And you'll know that he was there

When you find those chocolate bunnies

That he's hiding everywhere. Oh!

Here comes Peter Cottontail

Hoppin' down the bunny trail

Hippity hoppity, happy Easter Day

Hippity hoppity, happy Easter Day!

Now, I'll admit that my own knowledge of the lyrics fades pretty well past the first verse (and I won't make too much of a comment as to what I think of the "chocolate bunnies that he's hiding everywhere"), but shouldn't the guys have known "hippity hoppity"? I think so.

So this project was pretty simple. I grabbed one of the boards that I got from ReStore for a ridiculous $1 (I love ReStore) and gave it a quick, clean coat of white spray paint.

Once that dried, I adhered letters that I had cut out with my Pazzle, a cute little paper bunny, and of course a poofy little cotton ball tail. You can't have Peter Cottontail without the cotton tail.

I gave the whole thing a light spray of clear coat and then I was done!

Crummy lighting, but you get the idea. Yup...the cotton tails are still my favorite parts.

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