There are some absolutely gorgeous Easter cards available and living away from our family it is nice to exchange cards at this time of the year. There are lots of different cards to choose from including bunny cards (which I love) and bilby cards - the Easter bilby delivers our Easter eggs as bunnies aren't allowed in my state! There are also a myriad of vintage cards, chick cards and religious cards.
Do people still send these cards though? It seems more and more that people are just sending greetings through social media and e-cards which is such a shame as it really is nice to receive a card through the mail.
Let's have a look at some of the beautiful cards that are available to send Easter greetings to your friends and family around the world.
Cute Vintage Easter Cards
I do love cute Easter cards and some of the vintage designs really lend themselves to cuteness
I do love this one as it looks like the rabbits are begging the little girl for Easter eggs! At least that's what I see when I look at this fun and cute card. There are lots of other cute vintage cards that are based solely on bunnies, but I do like seeing a little girl in this one.
Custom Easter Cards That are Gorgeous
I know as a mum that when our children are little they really like personalized things and the idea that the Easter bunny would leave them a personalized card, well .....
My parents lived in a different country to us so my daughter was always sent an Easter card and a gift - I remember one year she was sent a gorgeous bunny soft toy that actually smelled of chocolate. For years that chocolate aroma lingered, she loved that bunny!
I think a custom Easter card like this one would put a smile on any child's face.
Fun Easter Cards for Dog Lovers
There are lots of different Easter cards featuring dogs to choose from including gorgeous Golden Retrievers, Pugs, Dachshund and even this cheeky looking Boston Terrier -
I'll admit I'm a dog lover from way back and as far as I'm concerned I am and always will be a dog mum! I would absolutely love an Easter card that gives a nod to one of my 'babies' and I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
I could not believe the variety of different dog breeds that are represented in Easter cards, definitely pop on over to Zazzle and have a look you will not be sorry!
Which Style of Easter Cards Do You Like?
So which type of Easter card is your favorite. I could be here for hours looking at cards which is why I have only added a few, but I have to say I love cute Easter cards whether they are modern or vintage.
Before I go let me ask you two questions - do you send Easter cards? What type of Easter cards do you like to receive?
Happy Easter!
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Decorating for Easter can be as simple as changing the centerpiece on the table, to a more dramatic change, such as changing out the art on the wall with a seasonal Easter/Spring piece.
3. Place Easter Bouquets or Easter Ornaments in the Main Rooms - Add an Easter Wreath
The easiest way to add a touch of Easter, is to include a bouquet or ornament in the room. You don't have to go with a standard flower bouquet (although that's always lovely) ... try an Easter egg tree or a lighted Easter display ornament.
Add an Easter wreath to the front door or add several inside the house. Place one or two in the foyer and of course find a place for one in the living or dining rooms. Again be sure to scroll down and view some examples.
4. Easter Wall Art - Add Fun Creative Pieces to the Wall for Spring
The nice thing about Easter wall art is that it works for both spring and summer. Get a piece or two and put it up in the foyer, living room or dining room for both seasons. You'll have Easter covered and the fun continues through all the warm weather.
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For many families, Easter is a day for tradition and celebration, but traditions have to start somewhere.
Most of the Easter traditions in our family were started by my mother, and her chicks have simply followed her example throughout the ensuing years.
However, any of us can start a new Easter tradition without having to terminate the family traditions we hold so close to our hearts. I have found several things in the following articles, that I would like to add to our Easter family traditions.
Some changes are just for fun, while others are for dietary needs. The Easter Menu
The traditional Easter menu in my childhood home was similar to Treasures-by-Brenda's Traditional Easter Dinner Menu. The one main deviation that Brenda makes from our family menu is a luscious carrot cake. As I read her article, I wondered why I have never had a carrot cake for Easter. It just makes since. Easter bunnies need Easter carrot cake! Therefore, a new tradition must be started in our home this year. We need carrot cake on our menu. Easter Recipes for Vegetarians & Vegans
As the "chef" for holidays, I vowed to try to find ways to make cooking for the holidays easier.
One of my personal favorite tips is to do as much in the days before the holiday as possible. Then, you can focus on enjoying the actual day. Good Housekeeping has published some totally awesome "Easter Brunch Ideas" article. The site is packed with recipes for just about everyone. They even has recipes for Vegetarians and recipes for Vegans! Discovering this article thrilled me beyond description. You see, my daughter is a vegan and I have been quite challenged to find recipes that are actually vegan friendly. Therefore, a new tradition and addition to our Easter dinner will be this Vegan Spinach and Mushroom Quiche Recipe. Since my husband is the Quiche chef of the family, I will get help in the kitchen too!
Easter Desserts
I love all of the fabulous specialty desserts for Easter. Frankly, the pleasure derived from making and serving the desserts far outweighs eating them for me.
As you can well imagine, I actually had a difficult time selecting the dessert article to feature.
In the end, I selected two articles that really stood out because they both offer a variety of fun ideas and recipes.
Good Housekeeping presents several really beautiful Easter cake Ideas and Country Living focuses solely on fabulous Easter cupcakes.
It is truly a difficult decision. I just might have to have multiple Easter desserts this year.
Now that really would be a new Easter tradition!
Please Share Your Easter Menu Ideas and Articles
We would love to hear your menu ideas, suggestions and tips for making the Easter holiday easier,and Easter Recipes. Please share your Easter recipes and tips links in the guestbook below.
I look forward to hearing from all of you!
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Treasures from the Archives of Review This Reviews!
Easter is always an opportunity for fun! From decorating the house with cute bunnies & ducks, to dressing up in new beautiful spring clothing, and of course, Easter egg hunts, we all look forward to celebrating this holiday in style. There are also some really fabulous Easter crafts that can be made ahead of time or with the whole family on Easter day. Making something together always ensures wonderful memories. Oh, and be sure to take pictures! As you already know, Easter is always on a Sunday. The date changes slightly each year because the day we celebrate Easter is based on the spring equinox. Click here to read this article and the history on Why Dates for Easter Change Each Year. Since it is a religious holy-day for many of us, we start our Easter morning with a special breakfast and a worship service. It is often a day for the family to spend the afternoon together in celebration. Easter parties are not uncommon events. They usually include Easter baskets and Easter egg hunts. Because our team of Contributors come from various countries, backgrounds, religious beliefs, and traditions, we each celebrate Easter in different, yet similar ways. Because we are all writers, we publish articles based on our beliefs and celebrations. I'm sure you will find something for everyone in our treasury of Easter articles featured on the Review This Reviews Easter Pinterest board below!
For a written list of the Easter related articles reviewed on Review This Reviews, please visit our Site Directory and select "Holidays" from the "Fast Click" category tabs on that page. You will also find additional holidays articles under that category along with the Easter reviews. To see all of our Easter articles on Review This Reviews!, simply click the Easter tab in the sidebar menu in the right sidebar.
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I think just about everyone loves some bunny sometimes, and these adorable Easter bunny crafts are sure to be loved by all.
Every holiday presents a new opportunity for crafters to create a new gift, a lovely decoration, or perhaps add embellished apparel to our wardrobe. In preparing for Easter, we think of flowers, Easter eggs, Easter baskets, but foremost in our playful hearts and minds, are Easter bunnies!
Crafting for Easter is always a lot of fun, so let's jump right in and review this selection of Easter crafts.
Easter Bunny Crafts in Apparel
Either of these Easter bunny shirts would be fun to make! Perhaps, the choice of which top to make would be determined by the age of the recipient. However, I can actually imagine crafters of any age would make these shirts, wear them proudly and dare anyone to challenge their creative Easter apparel.
The post about the Bunny Rabbit Sweater is written in Swedish, but with photos, crafting becomes a universal language. It is pretty easy to see that she used embroidery stitches to add a bunny face to a gray sweater. Really cute ideas!
From bunny pillows to bunny shaped washcloths, we can make bunny home decor to dress every room for Easter.
The Hoppy Bunny Pillow article is fabulous! She uses one of my all time favorite craft items, fusible interfacing. Plus, she gives us the bunny template to print so we can easily add the lovely bunny image on a pillow.
The Chocolate Bunny would be fun to place anywhere in the home! I love the photo with it placed on the white place setting of china. Anyone would delight to find a Chocolate bunny waiting for them at the dinner table and this one won't get eaten.
But, let's not forget our restrooms, especially the children's bathroom! Everyone will enjoy having a bunny washcloth tending to their needs. Baileygrib finishes the washcloth bunnies by adding eyes, a nose and a tail, but truly we could stop after step 6 in the instructions and have temporary bunnies that, with the rubber band and ribbon removed, could serve once again as a washcloth. I think everyone recognizes the shape of a bunny without the details.
A Few Special Easter Bunny Crafts that Make Great Gifts
Most crafters enjoy making gifts for our friends and family. The Easter Bunny Boxes would be the perfect gift box, but imagine how much fun a child would have helping you actually decorate the box. Whether you choose to make it in advance, or make the box together, I am certain the Easter bunny gift boxes would be a gift in it's own right.
Because I love Pom Pom animals, I simply had to include the Pom Pom Bunny pictorial instructions. In the article, the photos show making your own pom poms, which of course you can do. However, ready-made pom poms are available for a fast and easy craft.
One of our very own contributors here on Review This Reviewscrochets lovely items and sells them in her Etsy store. Don't tell anyone, but I am secretly hoping Wednesday Elf will purchase this pattern and make those bunny shoes in my size, (Mouse size 6, please).
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It is a different world that we live in as I write this post on March 30, 2020. Most of us are living 'physically distant' or practicing 'social distancing' from family and friends as together people throughout the world attempt to slow down the spread of this virus by reducing contact with others. I know that in my home Easter is going to look different than it has in the past. We are not very religious but we celebrate Easter as a way to come together with those who are important to us and, of course, close enough to visit. This will be the first Easter dinner we have eaten with just the two of us present in almost thirty years.
We usually start the day with an Easter egg hunt or, given the fact that we are all adults, a look-under-your-bed chocolate Easter bunny hunt.
The rest of the day is spent with a walk and a few board games. For supper we normally share a feast of scalloped potatoes, baked ham, fresh asparagus and some sort of yummy lemon dessert.
My husband and I spoke briefly recently about what we would do this year given that we are in self isolation and it will be just the two of us. Arbitrarily, I decided we did not need a chocolate Easter bunny, which removes the necessity of my husband going to the grocery store. The deal in our household is that I will be the one person to go to the grocery store once every two weeks. This reduces our contact with other people and lowers our chances of catching the virus.
However, I am hoping to make a smaller version of the Best-Ever Creamy Scalloped Potatoes recipe and some acceptable substitute (though I do not know what it looks like yet) for my Best-Ever Baked Ham recipe. In substitution for the chocolate bunny, we will make ourselves a special homemade treat, which will fill time as an activity and could well turn out to be better than a chocolate bunny. Yes, chocolate lovers that is possible!
We will pull out a few of our Easter decorations. We do not have many but we do have a few and they will help make the day brighter.
I love the idea of a Yankee Candles in an Easter scent like Sweet Bunny Treats, Bunny Cake, Easter Basket and Jelly Bean. I wrote on another blog about the very trendy Peeps scent. The candles shown on this page are the large 22 ounce jar candle and they generally retail for less than $30. Depending on the scent and how you use your candle, they will provide 110 to 150 hours of enjoyment. You can check out Amazon's complete collection of Yankee Candles for Easter by clicking right here.
How about you? I assume that you are also facing an unusual situation for Easter this year. Will you prepare a special meal? Have a chocolate bunny rabbit? Put out a few decorations?
However you choose to mark the day remember to stay home, be safe and keep on smiling. We are all in this together and together we will flatten the curve and get through this. As they say in French Canada with the picture of a rainbow and a smile, "Ça va bien aller."
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We make a day of it yearly by making Easter candy with our grandchildren.
Making your own chocolate candy for any Holiday is fun, and the kids have a
great time being creative with decorating the candy.
The photo above shows some of our daughter's and the kids' creative work
last year. I take no credit for the decorating, as none of it was done by
me. My only job is to melt the chocolate and take some pictures.
We use a double boiler to melt the chocolate on the stove. You can also melt the chocolate in the microwave using a microwave-safe bowl.
I never have any luck melting the chocolate in the microwave. I like using
the double boiler because I can add chocolate discs to the melted chocolate
and keep stirring it.
There are many brands of chocolates to buy. We have been buying Wilton Candy
Melts. We use milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and various colors for
decorating. You will find instructions on the Wilton Candy Melt bags for
melting the chocolate in the microwave or using a double boiler.
After the chocolate is melted we just spoon it into the various plastic
molds and then set the mold in the freezer for 10 to 15 minutes. After the chocolate is solid
you are ready to decorate with the different colors of melted
chocolate.
The bunnies shown above are just out of the freezer and will be decorated
with different colored chocolates using small brushes and toothpicks.
In the photo above, Bobby is filling a mold with chocolate and adding
sticks. Tyler is preparing to decorate with different colors of chocolate using toothpicks and brushes.
This Easter, take the opportunity to create lasting memories by making your
own homemade candies. Whether you're a seasoned baker or just starting out, this delightful activity is sure to bring joy to your celebration. Share the
sweetness with family and friends, and embrace the satisfaction of crafting
your own Easter treats. Happy Easter!
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I have always enjoyed creating fun food for holidays, birthdays and special occasions, but Easter treats are especially delightful. There is something inherently fun about bunnies, lambs, chicks, and decorated eggs.
They all represent the celebration of new life and spring, which make them most appropriate for our Easter celebrations.
Making Special Memories While Making Special Easter Treats In our home, everyone gets involved in making special Easter treats. One of my all time favorite Easter memories was actually when my son was in college. He called to ask if he could come home for the weekend before Easter, bring a friend and make Easter cupcakes for a charity bake sale. There are many reasons why that request thrilled my soul, all of which I am sure any mother of college age children could understand. I had a wonderful time drinking coffee, taking pictures and watching the guys "create" their special Easter treats. It is truly amazing what all you can learn about your children if you simply listen to their conversation while they decorate cupcakes.
The faces they put on the Easter bunny and lamb cupcakes were simply downright hilarious. Needless to say, their cupcakes sold out at the bake sale and I never even got to taste one myself, but I know for a fact, they were delightful.
Stepping out of my own kitchen and into the homes of other authors, I find there are several awesome Easter treat suggestions that would truly be a lot of fun for the whole family.
Andreaberrios invites us to make this gorgeous and creative Easter Cake Pops. She offers suggestions and recipes for chicks, bunnies and Easter egg cake pops. I am certain any of these would be extra special Easter treats.
Seeking More Special Treats
If you are like me and you are constantly on the lookout for special treats.
Now tell us, do you have a special Easter treat story full of special Easter memories to share?
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With less than a month to go before Easter, now is a good time to finalize plans for your Easter party, get-together or egg hunt. Learning what others have done may give you a fantastic idea you can incorporate into your holiday celebration this year.
Kid's Easter Party
When it comes to Easter parties for kids, WriterJanis has got it covered. In her lens titled "How to Plan an Easter Party for Kids and Easter Party Ideas" she covers almost every option. From invitations to centerpieces, games to music, and food to decorations -- there are ideas for anyone planning a hopping Easter celebration with children.
Easter Egg Hunt Ideas
If you are planning an Easter egg hunt for older children, lestroischenes has some great ideas. She uses herself and her family as examples in her lens titled "The Easter Egg Hunt". I found this lens interesting as it gives the version of an egg hunt from another part of the world -- France. It's a fun lens!
Easter Party Food Ideas
You have to have some sweets! Our very own MissMerFaery has a great idea with her "Bird Nest Cupcakes" lens. Such a simple but cute idea that's perfect as a sweet treat addition to any Easter party or get together.
Puzzlemaker shows us a lot of different cupcake and treat ideas themed for Easter featuring M&M's as a main ingredient in the decorations on this lens: "Easter Cupcakes and Treats with M&M's".
A bunny, a carrot, a flower and a chick, these ideas are simple but fun and the perfect addition to your Easter party.
The best part? The kids can help with the decorating.
It's Time...
Now, armed with some helpful information and creative ideas, I hope you will get to planning your Easter party soon. The bunny will be here before we know it and we all want to be ready!
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It's not too late to get crafting for Easter - we have been busy making little chicks, coloring in Easter bunny paper dolls and even making some little chocolate eggs of our own with a chocolate mold.
The past week we have also made baskets for an egg hunt, and were lucky enough to attend a willow weaving workshop at our local zoo, where we learned how to make these bird nests pictured! These make a lovely Easter gift, with a knitted bird or two and some pretty foiled eggs.
This time of year is a haven for crafty ideas - spring is in the air, nature is abundant with bits and bobs to use in crafting, and we have Easter and Earth Day to inspire us! Tomorrow we're going to combine the two events by recycling the pretty colored foil that my children's Easter hunt eggs were wrapped in (below), and using them to create some kind of object or collage. We've not decided yet!
Hubpages is the perfect place to find Easter craft ideas, or to write your own how-to's and reviews! Whether you want inspiration for a craft, or want to see how you can share your own ideas, take a look at some of these terrific pages.
Older preschoolers might like to help (or receive!) these Resurrection Easter Eggs, demonstrated by ideadesigns. And if you're all out of painting and decorating eggs enthusiasm by now, why not try something different, such as this great idea by prosperity66, whoshows you how to make Easter Bells from plant pots!
Finally, I love this tutorial from KyraB. Now spring is here, we are itching to get gardening, and have been looking at making a fairy garden in a barrel and a terrarium. So her lens on How to Make a Christian Easter Planterseemed like perfect timing for getting crafty with planting, with an Easter theme!
I was delighted to see my Chick in Egg Easter Cards tutorial selected as Lens of the Day today! This is a great craft for little ones as you can keep it simple (a colored chick in a plain egg) or have fun decorating, coloring or painting it to the hilt! I am also delighted to have been blessed with the new regular position of Saturday poster for Review This, so from next weekend you will be able to find reviews, tips, inspirations and ideas from Little Crafty Kids here every week! Once again, have a Happy Easter, and happy crafting!
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Easter 2020, will probably be remembered by many as the Easter that wasn't. Let me explain, Easter still happened, but not in the way that many of us Born Christians would recognize. So we have had to find some creative ways to celebrate the Greatest Holy Day of the Christian Calendar.
To that end, my husband and I have been searching for ways in order to make Easter come alive again! We don't have any problem with following services on You Tube, or Facebook, but Easter calls us (personally) to dig a little deeper into our faith.
I am a Christian and not at all ashamed or embarrassed to admit it! I'm sure I'm not alone. The thing that always surprises me is that after Easter is over, many Christians think Easter is a done deal. One day, Easter Sunday and then everything goes back to "normal". (Well 2020's normal will be different than most.)
Many people don't understand that Easter Sunday is just the beginning of the Easter season. It does NOT END until 50 days later at the Feast of the Pentacost!
That gives Christians a whole 50 days to deepen their faith and strengthen their belief system.
The trouble is that you can only read the scriptures for so long and then hopefully have a good discussion on what was read. Our God speaks to each of us through these scriptures and each of us will take away lessons that are meant just for us. Each will take away a lesson that speaks to them personally, and it may not be the same message that you get! The Bible is alive and speaks to each of us in a way that we will understand in our hearts.
Being in house arrest has given us some time to look for other ways to celebrate our faith and grow at the same time.
We are so lucky that we can search out lots of different ways to celebrate our Christian Holidays. You Tube, Facebook and the Internet offer us unlimited ways to enhance our faith journey. Alan and I were blessed to spend 3 months in the Holy Land in 2018. We were there from the middle of January to the Middle of April, which just happened to be Easter of that year. What an experience that was and it still resounds with us today. If you would like to see where we lived and worked during that time here's a You Tube video about the region and why it was so important to Christians all over the world. https://youtu.be/Jcfkn9zivis
After having spent that time in Magdala, we came back home really driven to look into our faith, deeper, so that we are well informed Christians.
Now, during this time in our lives, that has us more upside down, than right side up, we are looking again for ways in which to make our faith "come alive". To that end, both of us have been trying to figure out who the person of Jesus was and who His followers were too. We have had many lively discussions on this aspect of our faith and really haven't come to any conclusions. What we see in the Scriptures can look pretty cold and too Godly or shall we say Jesus sometimes come off as unreachable. But that is not the Jesus we want to believe in, we want a Jesus that is just like us, happy, sad, funny, serious and a whole lot more....He is the Jesus we could relate to!
Thank goodness that I found a series that really delves into the "humanity" of Christ! This series has 8 episodes and each one of them is really so well done. The series holds true to the Biblical Christ, but also opens up the Humanity of him who is known as the Messiah.
I would like to share with you a link to get to this series and I'm sure that you will be moved just as I was. This series is not available on DVD or any other media other than at the APP store. I have a link for you right here. It is called The Chosen. This is an 8 part series each one is about an hour long and focuses on the beginning of Jesus' life and ministry. While following Biblical texts, there is a lot of interpretation allowed in this series.
Not only are we treated to a "human" Jesus, we are also treated to the characters who become his Apostles and Disciples. His mother and other relatives also play a role in this series. I found it to be very interesting and profoundly moving.
Please come back and tell me what you thought! I know for myself personally, this series was a valuable tool in more ways than one. It brought so many characters to life that I had not connected with through just reading the Scriptures. My faith is alive and new ways of understanding that faith are always welcomed. You can watch the official trailer for The Chosen right here!
**Please note: at the end of every episode there is a bit of "advertising", but you can skip that and move to the next episode easily. If you are touched by this series you can PAY IF FORWARD. But please don't feel that you must do this. I want you to enjoy this series as much as I have and that is my sole purpose in sharing this with you. I make no commissions or any other reward for sharing this with you. Happy Easter for the next 50 days at least.....
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The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes is an Easter Classic
This classic Easter picture book has been with us since 1939 and has stood the test of time. I still have the hardcover edition of The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes I received when I was just learning to print. It no longer has the dustjacket because little girls don't always know how important the dust jacket is if they grow up to become booksellers. They also don't realize that proudly printing one's name in big letters on the front pastedown to show possession decreases the value of the book.
As I look now at that proud possession about 68 years later, I see that the cloth binding is frayed at the edges and almost completely worn off the bumped corners. It is evident that this book, like the famous Velveteen Rabbit, has been loved very much.
I Loved The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
In this book, children learn that there are really five Easter Bunnies -- not just one. They must be the five kindest, swiftest, and wisest bunnies in the world. All the bunnies know this. They also know that when an Easter bunny becomes too old to run fast anymore, The Grandfather Bunny, who is old, wise and kind and lives at the Palace of the Easter Eggs, will pick a new Easter Bunny from all the bunnies in the world.
So every bunny tries to become fast, wise, and kind with the hope of getting picked someday. One of these young bunnies was a country girl Cottontail bunny. She told the other bunnies she would grow up to be an Easter Bunny someday, but they all laughed at her.
She grew up, got married, and had twenty-one baby Cottontail bunnies. She put her childhood dream at the back of her mind. It no longer seemed possible that it could come true. The elegant white rabbits and the jackrabbits continued to laugh at her, telling her, 'What did we tell you! Only a country rabbit would go and have all those babies. Now take care of them and leave Easter eggs to great big men bunnies like us.'
Cottontail did take care of her babies, and she trained them well to help her with everything that needed doing to take care of the house. They worked in teams of two, usually a brother and sister together, doing household chores, garden tasks, and even singing and dancing to entertain their other siblings as they worked.
When the little rabbits were half grown, Cottontail got word that one of the Easter bunnies had gotten too slow and everyone was gathering at the Palace of Easter Eggs to see whom Grandfather Bunny would pick as the next Easter Bunny. Naturally, Cottontail took her little Cottontails to watch the fun, but she was sad, knowing that she was only going to be able to watch some other rabbit get the job she'd always wanted.
As the larger rabbits showed how fast they were, the Grandfather Rabbit wasn't happy. He could see they were neither wise nor kind. Then he saw Little Cottontail Mother with her children and started asking her questions.
Did having all those children take all her time? No. She had trained them so well that they did most of the household work. Grandfather Bunny determined she must be very wise to train them so well.
Did her children always look so happy? Yes. Her household never had tears or cross words. Grandfather Bunny decided she must be very kind to have such happy children.
Surely, though, having all those children must not leave her time to practice running to be swift. Little Cottontail Mother whispered to her bunnies and they all raced away in different directions. She quickly rounded them up and they stood again in front of Grandfather Bunny. He appointed her as his fifth Easter Bunny.
But what about the little gold shoes? Little Cottontail was awarded those after quite an adventure. You'll have to read the book to see how she got them.
I felt quite insignificant as a child. I did not yet have any big dreams. But Little Cottontail demonstrated that even an ordinary person like me could accomplish great things if she learned to be wise and kind.
The illustrations by Majorie Flack have stayed with me for a lifetime. The introductory image shows the Cottontail family standing in front of the Grandfather Bunny at the Palace of the Easter Eggs. My favorite pictures were of the bunny sibling pairs doing their chores, Mother Cottontail rounding up her children to demonstrate how fast she could be, and most of the illustrations that show her earning her little gold shoes. I would pour over those pictures often as I relived the story, and not just at Easter time.
A Remarkable Book When It Was Published
This story by DuBose Heyward, who is more famous for his novel Porgy, which inspired the musical Porgy and Bess, was written long before most people were thinking about women's issues. Yet many many women today believe The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes proves that women are just as capable as men, even as Easter bunnies.
Although DuBose Heyward was an aristocrat himself, he pokes fun at aristocrats in this book. I see that as an adult reader. Adults will see deeper meaning in this book than very young readers will.
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