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Easter Basket Ideas with Mike and Ike

Our Easter Basket Ideas
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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.

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Chop Stick Skills


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A couple of weeks ago I was being fun and eating jelly beans with chop sticks. My friend Tee saw the photo on Twitter and we had a conversation about having a Chop Stick Challenge at the PBS Annual Meeting. I ordered some cool chop sticks through Amazon.com. I had every intention to bring them with me and Tee was going to bring some jelly beans. Well, she brought the beans and I completely forgot the chop sticks. Tee gave me the jelly beans to bring home and I promised that I’d do a set of photos when I ate the jelly beans. I used my new NX Mini to take these photos.