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Easter Candy Made Into Lollipop Flowers
Coloring Rice Green for a Springtime Display
Kid’s Crafts for Easter

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 03:25 PM PDT

After we filled our Spring bucket with colored green rice, we filled it with some yummy Easter candy made into lollipop flowers. Don’t you just love the idea of edible flowers?!

Supplies for Easter Candy Lollipop Flowers:

Springtime Bucket
lollipop sticks – any size
Easter candy – Reese’s peanut butter cups and eggs, Jet Puff marshmallow shaped bunnies
toothpick

Instructions:

Place a lollipop stick into the bottom of the marshmallow. You may need to twist it in, go about half way through.

For the peanut butter cups, place a toothpick into the bottom of the candy. This helps make a hole through the tinfoil and candy paper lining.
Insert a lollipop stick into the hole.

Now place each lollipop into your vase or bucket. It’s ready to display or give to someone you love.

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Posted: 18 Mar 2010 11:29 AM PDT

As I’m itching for Spring, we’re coloring our rice green today, helping to represent green grass. My own grass is now turning from brown to green and I think this Spring project is going to give it a boost. Let’s all say it together, “Stay out SUN!”

Supplies for Coloring Rice:

dry white rice – any kind
rubbing alcohol – this helps rice dry faster
green food coloring
plastic zip baggie
paper towels
tray

Instructions:

Place 2-3 cups of dry rice in a plastic zip baggie.
Pour in 3-4 drops of your green food coloring.
Pour in 1 Tablespoon of Rubbing Alcohol.
Now seal the bag and shake it all together. Make sure each piece of rice gets coated.

Pour your colored rice onto a tray lined with paper towels to dry.

Food coloring can stain, so be careful. You'll want it completely dry before you start to work with it again, as you don't want any color to drip. After 20 or so minutes, give it a stir with a spoon. It should be dry within an hour.

For my Spring display, I filled my pink bucket with crunched up paper towels so I don’t have to use as much rice to fill it. Then I poured in my colored green rice up to the top.