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Today is the first day of Spring, which means East­er is not far! Actu­al­ly, it’s just a lit­tle over two weeks away, which is absolute­ly INSANE! It seems like it was just Win­ter­time and the entire coun­try was FROZEN over! Okay, okay, that actu­al­ly was the case for the major­i­ty of the coun­try, but in my defense, we had a real­ly mild Win­ter here in Vegas and the tem­per­a­tures have been ris­ing quick­ly ’round these parts.

If you haven’t heard of the tremen­dous­ly pop­u­lar Dis­ney ani­mat­ed film, FROZEN, you must have been liv­ing under a rock… or per­haps a troll?! 🙂 Kids {and adults!} have been mes­mer­ized with the movie ever since it came out and my daugh­ter, Anabelle, is no excep­tion. She wore her Princess Anna dress at Dis­ney­land for Hal­loween last year and as annu­al passh­old­ers, we’ve had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to extend the cold sea­son and expe­ri­ence FROZEN FUN at the park recent­ly, regard­less of our local weath­er. Have you been?! We can’t wait to go back dur­ing Spring Break and to cel­e­brate East­er at the Hap­pi­est Place on Earth!

Since we’ll be at Dis­ney­land, I thought it’d be super fun to do a FROZEN East­er bas­ket this year! When Anabelle and I were at Wal­mart recent­ly, we checked out all the FROZEN themed prod­ucts in the East­er sec­tion and I had her make a wish list for the East­er Bun­ny. Can you tell she has a thing for Olaf?! In brain­storm­ing how to make the motif more apt for Spring, I auto­mat­i­cal­ly thought of the trolls in the film and their lit­tle moss out­fits. So, I went back on my own lat­er and picked up sev­er­al of items on her list, along with some addi­tion­al cre­ative treats and sup­plies to recre­ate the trolls out of East­er eggs! Make sure to scroll down to see the step-by-step tuto­r­i­al to recre­ate this cute lit­tle guys!

Putting the FROZEN East­er bas­ket togeth­er was super sim­ple! Kids loves games and activ­i­ties, which are espe­cial­ly handy when we are on our car trips {at least once a month to Dis­ney­land!}. Anabelle had picked out sev­er­al items, which I accen­tu­at­ed with some fun good­ies relat­ing to the sto­ry and its char­ac­ters. I also added a cou­ple of prod­ucts from the toy aisle that I knew she’d love. I opt­ed for the cute buck­et to hold all the items because it could serve as a stor­age bin after the hol­i­day, which is always a neces­si­ty in any home!

There was no doubt I had to include an Olaf in the mix, so I was debat­ing if I should get the Olaf bas­ket or stuffed ani­mals she was hug­ging in the pic­ture above, but then I spot­ted this new Olaf-a-Lot and fell in love with him! Errr… I mean, I knew SHE would fall in love with him! When you push his car­rot nose in, he talks and his eyes go cross, he can sit or stand and when you remove his head and turn it upside down, he auto­mat­i­cal­ly knows it and it’s reflect­ed in his humor­ous quotes!

Since Anabelle loves to col­or and draw, I thought this Col­or n’ Cre­ate Anna would be per­fect, not only because it can be cud­dled with, but also because the pens that come with it can be uti­lized to col­or direct­ly onto the fab­ric, then it can be eas­i­ly washed to start all over again!

The troll char­ac­ters in the movie are just too cute and I thought they would be per­fect for this Spring­time theme. I made them myself to sur­prise Anabelle come East­er, but you could eas­i­ly do this craft along­side your kiddos!

The fol­low­ing are the mate­ri­als you will need:

♥  Dec­o­rat­ing craft eggs

♥  Goo­gly eyes

♥  Grey and white acrylic paint and brushes

♥  Pen­cil and per­ma­nent marker

♥  Moss mat

♥  Glue/glue gun

♥  Scis­sors

Step 1:

Paint your craft egg entire­ly with grey acrylic paint. Since it is fast dry­ing, cov­er as much sur­face as you can while hold­ing it and allow it to dry a bit. Once dry, you can paint the remain­der of the egg where you were orig­i­nal­ly hold­ing it.

Step 2:

Give the grey egg some tex­ture by dip­ping your brush in just a tiny bit of white paint, wipe off most of it {on a paper or tow­el} then brush­ing over the egg in var­i­ous strokes and direc­tions. You want very faint paint strokes reflect­ed on the egg.

Step 3:

With a pen­cil, faint­ly draw the out­line of the trol­l’s nose and mouth.

Step 4:

Trace over your pen­cil marks with a per­ma­nent mark­er. Once you get the hang of it and if you feel con­fi­dent, you can skip the pen­cil step! I always err on the side of cau­tion and use a pen­cil first. But remem­ber you can always paint over your mistakes!

Step 5:

Glue two goo­gly eyes to the trol­l’s face, just above its nose.

Step 6:

With a very small brush, paint the trol­l’s teeth on the inside of its mouth. You can also uti­lize a white pen to draw the teeth. If nec­es­sary, re-trace the mouth with the per­ma­nent marker.

Step 7:

Cut a strip of the moss mat, approx­i­mate­ly 1½” wide.

Step 8:

Shape it around the bot­tom of the egg and trim the moss strip to size.

Step 9:

Shape the moss strip into a ring and glue it togeth­er, mak­ing sure it fits snug­gly around the bot­tom of the egg so that it does­n’t slip all the way through it. I uti­lized a glue gun to make sure it held togeth­er securely.

Step 10:

Take a small amount of moss, bunch it togeth­er, then glue it to the top of the trol­l’s head.

Repeat the process for as many trolls as you’d like and make sure to have fun and be cre­ative with them! Change their facial expres­sions with alter­ations to the mouth and even acces­sorize them with string and beads! Kids would love mak­ing these egg trolls, so I made sure to save some to make with Anabelle come Easter!

Every year, the East­er Bun­ny picks a theme for our gift and I know Anabelle will be exceed­ing­ly hap­py when she wakes up to this adorable FROZEN East­er bas­ket, just fol­low­ing our Dis­ney­land trip! What are your plans this hol­i­day sea­son? Do you have any oth­er FROZEN themed ideas to incorporate?

 

Merci Beaucoup!

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