I know its early to be thinking about this but between all the children in our family we have soy, dairy, nut (tree and peanut), wheat and egg intolerance/allergies and I want to make Easter something special for them.
This is our first allergy Easter. Im after ideas that do not include food including chocolate and buns etc.
What things do you do for a non-chocolate/food Easter?
So far I have a few little chickens up my sleeve to pop into a couple of plastic eggs for a hunt but not sure what to put into the other plastic hunting eggs.
Any crafty ideas are welcome. Will also try making them each a bunny or chick from face washers...
Apart from that we have the standard books and PJ's ideas.
½ cup vegan butter , softened
½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 ½ tablespoons unsweetened applesauce
1 ¼ cups brown rice flour
½ teaspoon cornstarch
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 cup non-dairy chocolate chips
Directions:
1Preheat oven to 350°F and line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
2 Cream together butter and sugar.
3 Stir in vanilla.
4 Stir in applesauce.
5Combine flour, cornstarch, salt, and baking soda.
6 Stir dry mixture into creamed mixture.
7 Stir in chocolate chips.
8 Drop spoonfuls of cookie dough onto prepared sheets and bake, one sheet at a time, for about 8 minutes or until golden-brown.
9 Allow to cool 5 minutes on cookie sheet before removing to drying rack.
You could make these "Easter biscuits"...
Last edited by nothing2lose; February 21st, 2012 at 06:11 PM.
For food ideas check out quirky cooking, it's a blog and the lady who's it is has similar allergies in her family. She uses a thermomix but you can make some stuff normally.
i got some funky egg shaped wooden musical shakers last year - i think it was from ecotoys- good size for little kids hands and they still get played with regularly.
We have allergys here too and Chocolate is out in a big way.
From the rabbit.
I type out small notes for the easter egg hunt. Dc are handed the first clue, which leads to the second clue so on and so forth till the last clue to the prize. Which is usually a matching plate, cup, egg cup type deal that comes with a chocolate egg but minus the egg and packaging. Of course the notes are read for the little people and the clues are easy such as, to find the next clue that leads to the prize go to where the dog enjoys a drink.
We do $10.00 toys or activity packs from Mum and Dad.
The kids still enjoy Easter and it's not a huge hassle for us either.
We do an allergy egg hunt with the plastic eggs. We often put in jelly beans but not in them all, and those chicks.... at the end of the hunt there are prizes like colouring in books etc etc... the girls love it. They don't care what is in the eggs, they just love the prizes at the end.
I know I'm a bit late, but where do you get plastic hunting eggs from? I'm really keen on having as few chocolate eggs as possible. I have some blown eggs which we are painting, but I had never even heard of plastic refillable hunting eggs.
Allergy & Chocolate Free Easter
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