Karissa Tunis

How Much to Serve at a Party – Food, Drinks, Dessert

Great news! You do not have to be an expert party planner, or a professional event coordinator, to host a successful event. Take advantage of these free resources (like how much to serve at a party) from Adore Them Parenting. Now you will be able to plan your next festivity like a pro! And who knows, maybe you will even be asked to join the entertainment committee. Or become the next event organizer for your child’s school or local club 🙂

Our first topic is food. Whether you are throwing an extravagant dinner party, or are just having a few friends over for appetizers, you always want to make sure that you are serving enough refreshments for everyone to enjoy! …

Religious Easter Craft for Kids – The Tomb is Empty

The tomb is empty! This morning we took that inspiration and created a beautiful religious Easter craft for kids. Follow these simple instructions to make your own simple Easter garden:

Purchase potting soil, a small clay pot, and shade grass seed
Collect some rocks and twigs to decorate
Create crosses out of twigs
Sprinkle grass seed generously on top of the dirt
Sit in a warm, sunny spot
Spritz with a water bottle a few times a day
Grass will begin to sprout in 7-10 days

He is risen. He is risen indeed!

Religious Easter Craft for Kids

Created by Carey Martin Bender
For more on this topic, check out the full Easter Fun collection

HERE ARE 4 MORE EASTER THEMED CRAFTS & TREATS I KNOW YOU WILL LOVE:

Easter Activities for Kids – easy and fun Easter activities for kids

Jelly Bean Tree – cute and inexpensive Easter decor

A Cute Easter Treat for Kids – perfect Easter treat or party favor

Easter Jars – adorable chocolate bunny jars are easy and delicious

For more on this topic, check out the full Easter Fun collection

Featured Contributor: Carey Martin Bender

Carey Bender is a wife, mom, and entrepreneur. She is a fashion lover and a fitness fanatic who is always looking for a DIY project, a perfect cup of coffee, and inspiration around every corner. Carey adores Lancaster County living, but is always dreaming up her next adventure.

Easy Easter Gift – Easter Jars!

Check out these fun easy Easter gifts – Easter Jars! These were made for less than $3.00 per jar! I found these adorable glass jars in the Target $1 bins (of course). I added “grass”, a small chocolate bunny, chocolate carrot, 2 chocolate eggs, and some twine around the top. And voila – a cute, inexpensive, and super easy Easter gift! Keep scrolling down for another photo and some other fun easy Easter activities that are perfect for kids, enjoy!

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Jelly Bean Tree – Cute and Cheap Easter Decor!

This Jelly Bean Tree craft provides a super cute and cheap Easter decor option that your whole family (and guests) will surly love! All you need are some branches, a large vase, jellybeans, and a hot glue gun to get started.

It is the perfect time of year to be picking up branches from the yard, and now you can make them beautiful again by bringing a little bit of “outside” in, and decorating them with jelly beans! I prefer the pastel colored jellybeans to give it a more “Eastery” feel, but the option is yours of course as to which brand you use.

This article is written by Carey Martin Bender
For more on this topic, check out the full Easter Fun collection

Cheap Easter Decor Instructions

1. Collect your branches and vase

2. Arrange the branches in your vase

3. Carefully use the glue gun to attach the jelly beans all over the branches.

4. All Finished!

My 5 year old enjoyed helping me with this project and we were thrilled with how beautiful it turned out.

HERE ARE 3 MORE EASTER THEMED CRAFTS & TREATS I KNOW YOU WILL LOVE:

Easter Activities for Kids – easy and fun Easter activities for kids

A Cute Easter Treat for Kids – perfect Easter treat or party favor

Easter Jars – adorable chocolate bunny jars are easy and delicious

For more on this topic, check out the full Easter Fun collection

Featured Contributor: Carey Martin Bender

Fingerprint Easter Egg Craft

With Easter coming up, we wanted to share with you a fun option for decorating your Easter eggs. All you need to make this fun fingerprint Easter egg craft are:

Eggs
Acrylic paints
Sharpie or marker pens
Your fingers!

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Family Conversation Starters – Early Intervention

We hear all the time how important it is to open up the lines of communication. Communication improves relationships with partners, friends, and coworkers; but we can’t forget that it also improves our relationships with our children.

Taking the time to have a genuine conversation with your child can be so much fun and so insightful! It also helps to build up a great family bond, which is why we are offering a few family conversation starters to go a long with each curated collection of content….

Easter Egg Coloring Sheets

Here is an easy and free Easter activity for your kids! They will surely love these Easter egg coloring sheets!

Use as an Easter party activity. Or print out on card stock, cut out, and use as Easter decorations. In addition, you can simply print out a few sheets for a fun, festive activity leading up to Easter 🙂

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Family Conversation Starters – Easter Fun

A Cute Easter Treat for Kids

Here is a cute Easter treat for kids that could be passed out to friends, used as a party favor, or even as a place setting on a table at a springtime gathering. It’s an adorable spin-off of the traditional s’more! However, Easter S’mores use a peep instead of a traditional marshmallow. Add in a graham cracker and chocolate to make this sweet Easter treat. We put all contents in a plastic baggy, stapled to a piece of card stock, and added a cute note that said, “You’re one of my favorite peeps”.

This was a fun treat to put together with my daughter for her preschool class! Continue scrolling for more photos and some additional fun Easter activities that are perfect for kids!

This article is written by Carey Martin Bender
For more on this topic, check out the full Easter Fun collection

Easter Treat for Kids – Easter S’mores

HERE ARE 3 MORE EASTER THEMED CRAFTS & TREATS I KNOW YOU WILL LOVE:

Easter Activities for Kids – easy and fun Easter activities for kids

Jelly Bean Tree – cute and inexpensive Easter decor

Easter Jars – adorable chocolate bunny jars are easy and delicious

For more on this topic, check out the full Easter Fun collection

Featured Contributor: Carey Martin Bender

Autism: Rule #1

In all honesty, there really are a lot of things to know and learn about autism. Clearly, after more than a decade of navigating the autism learning process, I will freely admit, I’m still learning. Lately though, as my boy is getting older, there are things I wish I’d known sooner, done differently. The one piece I wish I’d learned first in our journey is something I’ve come to see as the first rule of autism and the prevailing smart point. Of all things autism, this is the one I wish I’d internalized in those very earliest moments. Continue reading below to learn the Autism: Rule #1….