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Easter Basket Ideas with Mike and Ike

Our Easter Basket Ideas
Photo-A-Day #3998

With Easter coming this weekend it is time to start thinking about what to put inside your baskets. In our house we try to limit the overall amount of candy that is put into the kid’s baskets. However, you can’t go having a Easter basket without jelly beans and now Mike and Ike makes some great jelly beans. We received a bunch of these new jelly beans to check out and review. Opinions are our own. There are two flavors of the jelly beans: Assorted Fruit and Tangy Twister. There is also a limited-edition Mike and Ike box called Easter Treats.

Easter baskets also mean fun toys and games for the kids as well. I picked up some Crayola Sidewalk Chalk and some Color Alive coloring books. This way the kids have something to do other than to tear through a ton of candy.

Another thing that I have been doing ever since the kids were small was to hide Hot Wheels cars in eggs for the egg hunt. This year I picked up eight cars and eight large shiny eggs. This way each of the kids get 2 cars each (I’m including our niece and nephew in this as well). I explain more in today’s vlog.

More about the Mike and Ike flavors below.

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National Crayola Crayon Day 2015

Avengers Coloring Page
Photo-A-Day #3644

Today was National Crayola Crayon Day. For the past couple of years I have done something special for the day to celebrate. Last year I did my Use Every Color in the Box activity and colored a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles page. This year because I am attending the #AvengersEvent on my birthday next week I decided to go with an Avengers picture.

I picked up a new box of 64 Crayola Crayons at Target (they were buy one get one for 50% off). I then got out my NX300, my NX30 and some lights, Disney Infinity Figures and set up a little studio so that I could video myself coloring 1 crayon a minute until I had used the entire box. I then made the video below and sped up the hour of coloring to a 9 minute video with some of me talking into the camera and most of it of me coloring the image. Enjoy.

Below I have some fun information about Crayola that you may not already know. Continue reading National Crayola Crayon Day 2015