Casey Major-Bunce, 32 from Portsmouth is a Mum of 4 and an inspirational mum influencer (Instagram https://www.instagram.com/majorbuncehome/) on a mission to reduce stress and overwhelm by sharing mum hacks focused on fun family time.
Heralded ‘an inspiration’ and ‘a genius’ by other mums, she pushes forward on her mission to help and inspire other mums with her cost-effective fun hacks, tips, and tricks via the power of Instagram. Her celebrity supporters include influencer Mrs. Hinch, who regularly uses and shares Casey’s top hacks; Stacey Soloman, and Miss Greedy.
After starting her account during the lockdown, she began to share hacks in October 2022 and rose to over 20K in just 8 weeks with mums flocking to try out her hacks and seasonal tips and tricks.
Here, Casey shares with mumernity some cost-effective and fun Easter hacks to try with your little ones…
Sheep Cup Cake Hack – you don’t have to bake!
You will need: Shop brought plane cupcakes, Buttercream icing, Edible eyes and edible glue (most superstores sell them), White Mini marshmallow, Chocolate mini eggs, and Smarties.
Using a spoon or a knife pop the buttercream on top of each cupcake. It doesn’t need to be too thick, around a tablespoon per cupcake.
Start adding your mini marshmallows to the cupcake. I like working from the centre down, creating lots of lines, and then fill any gaps with some more marshmallows.
Cut your egg in half and add it to the front of your cupcake then place in the fridge for 10 minutes.
With some edible glue or icing, place the edible eyes and break a smarty in half for the ears and create a face.
Fun Egg Box Snack Idea
Fill an egg box with plastic eggs and pop some snacks in each egg. My kids love this and it and it’s really good for children trying new and different things.
Make Easter Jars
Just use an old jar – remove the label; the best method I find is pouring boiling water. It removes the glue and the label at the same you could also use a hairdryer. Spray paint the lid. You could even use nail varnish if you don’t have any spray paint. Pop some shredded paper at the bottom and fill it with some mini chocolate eggs, pop in a Maltese bunny in the middle, and add some ribbon and you’re done! A great Easter gift! Here is a video – https://www.instagram.com/p/CopsQP1DmDd/
Fair Game
To make Easter egg hunts a little fairer, give each child a different colour plaster egg and tell them they can only collect their colour. You don’t always have to fill plastic eggs with chocolate. On an Easter egg hunt, you could pop in nail polish, lip gloss, hair ties, bracelets, Barbie clothes, and even fill them with play dough…
Easter Donut Nests
Buy some plain ring doughnuts and use a spare one to fill up each hole make a circle with edible glue or icing and start to fill it with crushed Flake. You could also use Oreo biscuits crushed. Add some chocolate
eggs to the top or even Jellybeans and you’ve made an egg nest. Here is a video – https://www.instagram.com/p/CoIVMDhDwFI/
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