Do you buy new plastic Easter eggs each year because you can't find the ones you bought last year?
Save a few cardboard egg cartons and store your plastic eggs in them. Not only will the cartons act as stands while you fill the eggs with candy (or a clever non-candy alternative), they make ideal storage boxes for the empty eggs so you can reuse them next year.
Related: Best of Parent Hacks: Easter
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Cute idea!
Posted by: Gillian | 06 April 2011 at 12:27 PM
Genius!
Posted by: Meg | 07 April 2011 at 06:15 AM