this year, i am in charge of the annual easter egg hunt at my church. basically, that means i’m in charge of orchestrating the hunt, but i’m also responsible for providing some treats for the kids’ baskets. now, i could have taken the easy route and just bought a few big bags of candy, but i thought maybe parents might appreciate a little variety. and because i’m always reading inspiring blogs like this one, and because i think there will be less than 20 kids participating in this year’s hunt, and because (as mr. happy stuff would say) i’m always trying to make things more difficult than they need to be… i decided to put together a few non-food easter treats. and i thought i’d share them with you in case you’re looking for some easy easter basket ingredients.
today’s installment is a little easter notebook. i drew three simple easter-y images (and left them as line drawings so kids could color them if they wanted to), scanned them into my computer and then printed them onto colored cardstock. i added 5 or 6 sheets of plain white paper (you could also use paper that’s been printed on one side for a “greener” alternative, but half of the notebook will have the printed side on the front of the page) and stacked them all together.
i then folded one of the white pages to find the center line. you could also draw the center line on with a pencil (i found the drawn line easier to follow than just the crease).
sew a straight line down your crease or center pencil line. if you don’t have a sewing machine, you could easily staple this part instead.
if you have a paper cutter, now would be a good time to use it,. if you don’t have one and if you’re too impatient to wait until you have access to one, a ruler and an exacto knife work just fine. these three notebooks ended up being different widths because i am not a graphic designer. i don’t think the kids will care.
if you’d like to make your own notebooks and you’d like to use my artwork, click on the link below to download the .pdf.
tomorrow, i’ll show you what i did with the notebooks!
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