Last minute Easter Things to Do

4/22 & 4/23 Visit the Easter Bunny at the Morris Plains ShopRite from 10 am - 5 pm. Free balloons and other goodies.  Be sure to bring your camera!

4/23 Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by the Real Life Church (open to all) at Veteran's Memorial Park in Parsippany at 3 pm sharp.

4/23 Largest Easter Egg Hunt in Morris County with 5,000 eggs (free!).  Meet at Gazebo Field on Main Street in Chester at 10:30 am for the hunt.  Attendees can also enjoy live music and comedy from a clown and visit the Easter Bunny.

4/24 Easter Egg Hunt at Imagine That! in Florham Park from 10 am - 3 pm. Breakfast brunch includes apple juice for the kids and coffee for the adults w/ bagels and jellies too.  Children: $13.99   Adults: $10.99.* Call to reserve your space: 973-966-8000 ext. "0"

4/24 Easter Egg Hunt & Nature Walk for children 3 and up.  Pyramid Mountain, Boonton.  Cost: $2 per person. Preregistration required, please call 973-334-3130.

Free and easy Easter Craft

This is how our l'il guy turned out.

I believe it's supposed to rain most of this week.  So much for springtime walks in the park.

Anyway, a roll of toilet paper, a color printer and some glue can buy you a good half hour of relief from trying to come up with things to entertain the kids.

You can find the instructions and printable piece parts here.

Since you now have a rather cute cylindrical bunny decoration, if you have the toilet paper rolls and the stamina, you could potentially make enough for each place setting for your Easter dinner and put the silverware into them.  My bunny is going to be an only child, though.

Rainy Day Fun Idea

I'm thinking I'm not alone in having underutilized exercise equipment. Today was a rainy day, so after naps, we went downstairs to the office where my elliptical machine lives a lonely life.

 I dragged in my baby's horse jumperoo and my toddler's small trampoline was also temporarily parked there for the winter. I set the girls up into their stations, turned some music on and we all "exercised" together. My toddler and I called out words of encouragement to each other and the baby.

 It was fun and funny,and best of all it was a great pick-me-up on a rainy day. I posted a pic of my Fisher-Price Galloping Fun Jumperoo which is holding strong on kid #2 and I like the idea of simulating a horse ride - it just makes the whole jumping experience seem more authentic, ya know?