3rd Annual Garden Easter Hunt and Picnic

We live in a great little neighbourhood that literally has a child 6 years old or under in every other house on the block. For the last 3 years we moms have put on an Easter egg hunt for the kids at the garden behind our houses then have a picnic, each bringing a snack to share. This year I decided to make Easter eggs out of rice crispy treats.

I had never ever made rice crispy anything before but I figured out pretty quick that it's a very cool medium to work with!!

1/4 cup margarine
10oz of mini marshmallows
-microwave together for 1 min then stir.
-microwave another minute then stir
-divide marshmellow mix into 4 diff. bowls.
-add food colour to each bowl and mix well
(I use wilton colours cause they're more vibrant)
add 1 cup of rice crispies to each mixture and mix well.
Working quick so they don't harden too much,
spray the inside of a plastic easter egg with spray canola oil (not too much, just enough so the crispies won't stick).
put in one colour after the other to make a striped effect. I over stuffed them then forced the eggs shut so they would mould really well into egg shapes.
I left them in the fridge overnight in the shells and popped them out right before serving to the kids.

I couldn't find our Easter basket from last year so I figured I would make a milk jug into a rabbit with Kai. He of course wanted it to be batman instead so that is what we did. Super easy! I also found this link about milk jug crafts http://www.squidoo.com/making-milk-jug-crafts

this was my egg hunting spiderman last year

Last year I brought these little gems to the picnic
(carrot eyes and carrot beaks)