In my homemaking, I like to build up easter to be a more full season event that has a bit of month-ish long crescendo. SIMILAR TO CHRISTMASTIME! But instead of how the celebration of the incarnation (christmas) is punctuated by the beautiful start of winter with snow and pine tree decorum, the celebration of the resurrection (easter) is punctuated with the beginning of springtime with flowers, rainbows, and other signs of the new life decorum.
One way to create some family culture around easter is this springtime snack mix! I make an enormous size thing of it and keep it on the counter. We kick off using it by having a movie night on the saturday night before the first lord’s day of spring, approximately one month before easter. (Although I put it out a few days before with no tasting allowed to build anticipation!) We love it as a popcorn mix in on movie nights in the springtime.
And a scoop is sometimes served on its own from time to time as a little snack for people. (And naturally David often self serves himself impromptu handfuls throughout the month as well, as he should.) My autumn snack mix is here if you’d like to save it for then!
SPRINGTIME SNACK MIX
Serves like, a 7 and 1/2 gallon thing
Honeycombs cereal (spring-y for the bumblebee part, but they also look like flowers)
Another seasonal or strawberry cereal
Iced animal crackers
Cadbury chocolate eggs
Strawberry yogurt covered pretzels
Pastel m&m’s or sixlets (I prefer sixlets!)
Mini marshmallows
Mix ingredients together.
Note: These ingredients are VERY free wheeling given the nature of this concept! Consider them more ideas.
- Honeycombs cereal (spring-y for the bumblebee part, but they also look like flowers)
- Another seasonal or strawberry cereal
- Iced animal crackers
- Cadbury chocolate eggs
- Pastel m&m's or sixlets (I prefer sixlets!)
- Strawberry yogurt covered pretzels
- Mini marshmallows
- Mix ingredients together.
- Note: These ingredients are VERY free wheeling given the nature of this concept! Consider them more ideas.
Here are some springtime craft ideas for children, like this painted binoculars, coffee filter butterflies, buttercup flowers, and a rainbows idea.
