I’m going to take a short break from the Centsable Savings Plan for a couple of weeks to focus on Easter…but it will be back soon.
Each Easter, I want to keep the focus on Christ rather than all the “extras” of Easter. Yet, I do want it to be fun for my boys, too.
So, we put together a fun little Easter basket with a little bit of candy, a book, maybe a small item if I can get a good deal….and a homemade chocolate cross (and you can tell that my then 2 year old enjoyed his cross immensely!).
Although some stores do carry chocolate Easter crosses (I think I saw them at Meijer one year), I decided to make my own so that I wouldn’t have to hunt high and low to find one. I spent a couple of dollars on the cross mold the first year, and then I purchase the chocolate candy melts each year.
It is SO easy to make the chocolate cross. You basically just melt the chocolate and pour it into the mold. And you can just use your microwave to melt the chocolate if you don’t have a double boiler. Check out my homemade chocolates tutorial for more details.
I found my chocolate cross mold on Ebay (this is the one I have
, but there are lots of different ones to choose from), and you can pick up chocolate melts at JoAnns or Michaels using the 40% off coupons that they always have in the Sunday paper.
I know that Easter is still about a month away, but I wanted to give you time to order your molds without the stress of hoping they came in time for Easter.
What do you do for Easter? Do you give your kids chocolate Easter bunnies or something else? How do you reinforce the message of Christ in your home? For more frugal ideas, please visit Life As Mom. For more Easter ideas, please visit Keeping the Kingdom First.
Corrie is a "cents"able wife and stay-at-home mom of 2 boys.
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I have seen chocolate crosses at Dollar Tree and Walmart in the past, but it does me no good since my son is allergic to dairy and cannot have milk chocolate.
So this year I am buying my own molds and making my own easter chocolates that are allergy safe.
To keep Easter Christ-centered we stay away from character themed baskets and egg kits. We make Resurrection cookies the night before. Our egg hunt consists of silver and gold plastic eggs filled with Christian themed stickers and candies. This year I even found some Christian printed eggs filled with candies at Dollar Tree. They bear images of Jesus, lambs, or crosses. My son’s basket always has a video and at least one book, usually purchased from a Christian family store or Dayspring.
Wow…great find at the dollar store! I’ll have to check ours out to see if they still have the eggs.
I think this is so great of you to keep the focus on Easter