Chalkboard Easter Eggs

So easy and so much fun.  I painted wooden goose egg sized eggs with Martha Stewart's Chalkboard paint. I bought the paint and the eggs at Joann's.  I thought about sanding them.  I thought about putting a base coat on them.  What I did was get out a 1" foam brush and just started painting them.  I made 6.  I put probably 5 or 6 coats on them.  I knew I had put enough on them when they dried they had a nice shine still.  Before that they would dry and be a flat color like the wood had absorbed the paint.

Then I primed them with chalk I had bought at Walgreens.  It was $1 for a plastic box full of 12 large sticks of chalk.  I figured when the kids were tired of drawing on their eggs they could draw on the sidewalk.  That's exactly what they did.

I wrote their names on the eggs and hid them with a stick of chalk with the other Easter eggs.  They had a lot of fun finding them.  I had also made an egg for the oldest cousin who was 16.  I didn't want her to feel left out even though I figured she was too old for such nonsense.  I over heard her say as she sat and drew on her egg "This is so cool."

My Kids Are A Crack Up!

I consider myself a very lucky mom.  I have fairly cooperative teenagers.  At Easter my cousin had these beautiful Wisteria flowers in her back yard.  I asked my daughter to stand in front of them for a picture.  She's a hambone.  Doesn't take much to get her to pose for a picture.  I like that about her.  The picture turned out so gorgeous that I wanted my son to pose as well.

"Really mom, really?  Do I have to smile?"  he says.  I said, "No you don't have to smile, but a pleasant look on your face would be nice."  I think he pulled it off.

 Then he got a little cranky.

I was on a roll... "Now I want both my kids in front of the flowers!"  They pretended to be cranky teenagers. 

"Now the poodle in front of the flowers!"  Hey, they were really pretty flowers!  I think the poodle is saying, "Really mom, really? Do I have to smile?"