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I occasionally get asked by people how to use Riddle Me to create a fun Easter activity. Here’s a few ideas.

In addition to hunting for Easter eggs, you can plan all kinds of other activities this Easter for your children to enjoy. Planning different activities to do together as a family is a great way to bring everyone together, especially during the holiday.

Kids love being in the kitchen with you. Planning a few simple recipes you can do together is sure to be a big hit.

• Standard Sugar Cookies -use different Easter themed cookie cutters to cut out shapes, and decorate them with icing and sprinkles. Kids love painting the icing on with clean, small paintbrushes!
• Bunny cake- Using two layers of a round cake, use one for the head, and another to cut out ears and a bowtie, then frost and decorate with things like coconut for fur, jellybeans for eyes and nose, and string licorice for the whiskers. Dye coconut to make the inside of the ears pink and dye extra coconut green to use as grass around the whole cake.

Other ideas include:

• Have the kids decorate their own Easter basket which gives them the chance to have a personalized basket for all their goodies.
• You can find all sorts of puzzles, riddles, and games that are printable on the internet (one really popular one right here-see the testimonials). You can even find themed coloring pages for the younger children (or the young at heart)!
• Have the kids make cards for each other from scratch.

These are just a few ideas, but there are many more out there that are great for family fun. You are sure to find ones that everyone will really enjoy and remember as you spend the holiday together.

Making of Easter Cookies:

Easter cookies have always been a source of delight and crisp for those are eagerly looking forward to Easter time and decorated Easter cookies are one of the important members of Easter menu which will make your Easter a super special event. Easter cookies are simple to make and comes in different shapes and sizes. For most of the people Easter cookies are remembered with the shapes of bunnies, rabbits, chicks, lambs and Easter eggs. You can find most of the shapes easily and get them through cookie cutters as well.

Ingredients:

3/4 cup sugar

1 pinch salt

3/4 cup softened butter

4 tsp orange juice

2 tblsp milk

3/4 cup currants

3 egg yolks

4 cup all-purpose flour

Easter cookie glaze:

Food color

2 tblsp powdered sugar

1 egg white lightly beaten

Easy way to make Easter cookies:

• Switch on the oven and allow it to heat up to 350 F (175 c).
• In the mean time you should grease several baking sheets with butter.
• Then take a large bowl and beat butter with sugar into it until creamy.
• A little later you can also beat in some more ingredients like egg yolks, orange juice and milk. Don’t forget to add currants.
• After that sift flour and salt into bowl and mix in so that it forms fairly stiff dough.
• You should knead it lightly and gently on a floured surface until it is smooth.
• Following this roll out to 1/8-inch thickness.
• With the help of a round 2-1/2-inch-fluted cookie cutter, cut out circular shapes from dough and place them on greased baking sheets.
• The trimmings will be as such. Knead and roll out the trimmings and cut out more same circular shapes out of the dough until it is used up and no trimmings are left.
• You should bake the cookies for 10 minutes and then remove from the oven.
• Now it is time to brush the baked cookies with egg white mixture and sprinkle them lightly with the powdered sugar.
• Return to oven once again for about 5 minutes longer or until the cookies is light brown in color.
• After 5 minutes remove them from baking sheets to wire racks and allow it to cool.
• You should always store it in an airtight container.
• Easter cookie glaze

How to make Cookie Glaze:

• For the cookie glaze, mix together egg and powdered sugar into a bowl.
• Later also add a few drops of food coloring, if needed.