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Easter can be a great time of celebration, a four-day family break filled with fun Easter activities the whole family can do together. Child would love to learn creative techniques with Mom/Dad, for example craft work. How about trying some new Easter recipes to impress your friends and family? There are some great ideas for you and your little ones that are sure to get their minds (and maybe hands too) off those chocolates for a while. However, with Easter coming closer, it is best to start planning from now.

From Easter crafts to recipes, here are 5 Easter activities ideas that your family may enjoy:

1. Easter Cards :

It's great activity for kids. If you have friends and relatives in distance, these cards can be sent to them and can be treasured by framing it or adding it into your scrap booking album. What you will need is just some colourful cardboards from local art supplies stores and cut them into post card size times 2 (as you will need to fold it later). Then cut out or make various shapes (egg shapes and animal shapes are some of kids' favourites) from different colours of cardboards, papers, or even pieces of fabric. Let your kids cut themselves with child-friendly scissors.

2. Making Easter Bunny Ears :

Kids love this easy and fun activity and they love to wear them too. All you need are colourful cardboards or thick paper and glue. Print and cut out the bunny ears using the white cardboard; then cut a pair of smaller ears using the pink/blue cardboard/paper. Glue the ears onto the white ears so the pink/blue resembles the inside of the bunny's ears. Cut around 7 cm of white cardboard to make a band of the right size to fit around your child's head. Staple in place and attach the bunny ears to the band.

3. Cooking with kids

They will love to help and get their hands busy with some of the easy and simple Easter recipes, such as mixing the flour, kneading and rolling the dough, cut out the biscuits in shape templates. This will serve as a cute looking snack as well for visiting friends and relatives.

4. Family Easter Eggs

How about making your family unique style Easter eggs? Get the kids to help in mixing the ingredients, shaping and decorating the eggs with confectioneries. It will sure keep the whole family busy and have lots of fun.

5. Having fun with Easter games

When comes to play with kids, the whole family can also participate and enjoy these several games such as Easter Bunny Tag, Easter Egg Hunts for the little ones, Easter Bowling Match, Easter Eggs Match-up and many others.

Those are just a tiny few of many other Easter activities ideas for your family. If you want to get more recipes, games and kids craft ideas, why not try this complete collection of over 200 pages Easter activities that will sure bring lots of fun for your family this year and in many years to come.

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The top Halloween costumes this year are "Hannah Montana" and "Batman." (AP/Spirit Halloween)

Easter's pastel tablecloths serving as the perfect background to beautiful Easter decor, or a basket brimming with scrumptious treats, furry bunnies, and brightly colored eggs hidden in the grass, conjure images of delight in the minds of all of us lucky enough to have experienced the family fun that surrounds the captivating holiday of Easter. The most spiritual of Christian holidays in today's world, Easter actually finds its origins in the ancient Hebrew and Pagan religions, as well. Even in the present day, we can recognize the Pagan fertility symbol of the hare, or our Easter Bunny, and the vibrantly colored eggs he brings, as the representation of spring's rebirth after the long stillness of winter.

Indeed, decorating in the colors of Easter can afford us the sweet and charming addition of spring to our home decors or gardens. And, as Easter Sunday approaches, preparing our homes for holiday brunch or dinner can add an irresistible sense of whimsy to this significant celebration. Beginning with the primary layer of our decorations, our Easter tablecloths can be selected from a myriad of pastel tablecloths that are offered by today's linen vendors and manufacturers. Whether we are looking for round tablecloths of lilac Fortex with square tablecloths of maize Fortex to place on top of them, or whether we are looking for rectangular party tablecloths in pinks to combine with pale green party tablecloths, utilizing Easter's palette of pastel tablecloths is the perfect way to incorporate all the enchanting colors of spring into our homes.

Creating the Perfect Easter Table

Additionally, in the exciting current marketplace, we can find holiday tablecloths of almost any shape and size. That's right! Whether we need large tablecloths or small tablecloths, oval tablecloths or custom tablecloths, we can certainly find them all. This variety of tablecloth size enables us to create layers of all our favorite Easter colors. There is also a wonderful new tool in the market place that can very easily be clipped to our top tablecloth in order to create an attractive swag. This clever new Couvert Clip enables us to cinch up our top tablecloth in such a lovely way, and yet, is easy enough for any of us to use. The Couvert Clip not only relieves us of having to form that artistic swag that florists and professional party planners take pains to create with fabric-damaging pins, but it also adds fun and delight to our decorations because these adorable new tablecloth clips can be adorned with any number of decorating themes. For example, after using the Couvert Clip to cinch up our Easter tablecloths, the brightly painted and sparkling, wooden Easter eggs that come with the Easter set of Couvert Clips, can be added to the Velcro patch provided on the outside of each tablecloth clip. If we prefer, we can even create our own designs that can be just as easily attached to the tablecloth clip's Velcro. The fun we can have with these tablecloth clips is only limited by our own imaginations.

Still another way to include Easter's palette of pastels to our holiday decor is in our secondary layer of decorations. This is where we add cloth napkins in the same colors of our tablecloths, and alternate them as we place them on our pretty holiday tables. Matching chair covers and coordinating chair ties can also be utilized to make all of our mismatched or darkly upholstered chairs become part of the charming expression of our design.

Finally, we can incorporate the crowning layer of our special Easter decor. Beautiful spring flowers arranged into centerpieces, along with graceful tapered candles standing tall in cut crystal candle holders, can be positioned on each table. Or, we can rest a rustic basket in the center of every one of our tablecloths, and fill each of them with moss and the colored eggs that the children have rediscovered in our gardens. Whether we chose delightful bouquets, or charming homemade crafts to create our final touches, Easter has provided us with the perfect chance to surround our families with love and special memories through our celebration and creativity.

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Halloween: Obama, McCain and Palin costumes and masks on sale (Moldova.org)

The2008 presidential elections in the United Stated has influenced the popular holiday of Halloween, which includes trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, and watching horror movies. There will be no shortage of Obama, McCain and Palin costumes and rubber masks. According to reports, masks of the presidential candidates, Democrat Barack Obama and ...

Spring is approaching and that means Mother's Day is just around the corner. It seems each year it gets harder and harder to come up with that great Mother's Day gift. The last thing you want to do is add clutter to your mother's home. If you are stumped this year, I have a few ideas that will hopefully get your mind thinking!

New moms. You would think they would be easy to shop for, but there is one mistake that people sometimes make with her - they buy her something for that new baby, thinking that is what she would love most! Now let's think about this. She has carried this baby for nine months, given birth and is now up in the middle of the night. While I'm sure she loves everything about her new bundle, she could use something for HERSELF. A day at a spa might be perfect. Some jewelry perhaps? Absolutely no lingerie! Men, let me give you a little word of advise: most women view gifts of lingerie as a gift to himself. I'll leave it at that.

The busy mom. One of the nicest things you could do is give her the day off! Clean the house (make sure you get the kids involved!), take her out to a nice restaurant or cook for her at home. Make sure she has some time to herself. Maybe the best thing you could do is give her some quiet time.

The "kids are out of the nest mom". This can be a tough one. You now have kids of your own. You know how hard it is to be a parent. Now what do you do for that mom who raised you, but seems to have everything? One of my favorite gifts to give that has become a tradition is something easy, inexpensive and very personal. Most of us now have digital cameras. You probably have loads of pictures on your computer. One great way to store those pictures is on one of the many photo web sites. It is very easy to upload your photos and create albums. You have all those pictures, now what? My mom loves the calendar I make for her every year. For each month I include photos that are relevant to that time of year. I try and mix in photos of all the grand kids, family events, etc. It's a great way for her to have pictures year around, and who doesn't need a calendar? Photo websites have all kinds of great ideas for your photos and they have always been a big hit with my mom!

One of the most important things to do when it comes to Mother's Day, no matter which route you take - a personalized gift, a gift certificate, or just giving her some much needed time alone - make sure you get the kids involved. One way to do this is have them make her a coupon book. Little things that she can "cash in" throughout the year. Some can be big such as a night off from cooking dinner and some can be more on the funny side (although extremely useful) such as 10 minutes of total quite. Whatever you decide to do, make sure your little ones have some hand in it. With older children, make sure they take the time to let their mom know what she means to them. Even if it's just spending the day at home with the family and not running off with friends!

Mother's Day shouldn't be chore to shop for - sometimes just a card will do! Whatever you decide, make sure you let the mom in your life know how important she is, not just on that one day, but all year around!

Shane Cooper and his wife, Jodi, also run a gift related site focusing on ideas for truly cool and unique gifts. With over 20 years of marriage and experience giving gifts of every kind, Shane and Jodi know a thing or two about what's cool, unique and have ideas to share. cool Gifts To Give