Today is the first day of our Spring Break! We have a short vacation planned to San Francisco but we have a couple of days at home to prepare and get things in order before Easter. Since my kiddo is home, we decided to enjoy the outdoors and create some cute and lovable Cuties Spring Critters.  Aren’t they adorable?  These are perfect to include in Easter baskets or as an Easter centerpiece to compliment your celebration spread.  Kids and adults will love them and won’t be able to resist grabbing one to enjoy or admire.

It’s Cuties Mandarin season. They are kid-sized it’s a treat kids can peel and eat all on their own.  Have I mentioned they are seedless?! Why not make this super nutritious snack loaded with Vitamin C and Vitamin A potassium, fiber, folate, minerals and antioxidants. It’s non-GMO.  It’s America’s most preferred brand of clementine for all these reasons.

Make this fun and tasty craft snack with your kids. Supplies are available at your local craft store.  You can decorate them as much as you want but ultimately, you want to make it easy for little hands to unwrap and enjoy the real prize:  a juice Cuties Mandarin.

Supplies you will need:

Cuties Mandarins
yellow, blue and pink tissue paper, cut in 4″-inch x 4″-inch pieces
plastic clear treat bags 3″-inch x 4″-inch
ribbon
wiggle eyes 0.39-inch size/10 mm
colorful feathers
orange construction paper
pink construction paper
white construction paper
sharpie
pom-poms 0.75-inch size/19 mm
clear drying craft glue

To make Cuties Chick and Cuties Blue Bird:
1. Wrap a Cuties Mandarin in yellow or blue tissue paper.
2. Place in plastic bag with bottom of Cuties as a base.
3. Tie with ribbon or string.
4. Glue wiggle eyes with clear drying craft glue.
5. Glue 2-3 colorful feathers to the tissue paper where bag was sealed.  Feathers should be glued between tissue paper and plastic bag.
6. Cut out a small orange square.  Fold in a diagonal and glue bottom half to the Cuties Chick (or bird) to resemble beak.
7.  Set aside to dry.

To make a Cuties Bunny:
1. Wrap a Cuties Mandarin in pink tissue paper.
2. Place in plastic bag with bottom of Cuties as a base.
3. Tie with ribbon or string.
4. Glue wiggle eyes with clear drying craft glue.
5. Cut out a set of ears from the pink construction paper and a set of smaller ears from the white construction paper.
6. Glue white ears on pink ears (see photo below).
7. Draw the bunny’s nose, mouth and whiskers with a black permanent marker.
8. Using the clear drying craft glue, glue a colorful pom-pom on the bunny to resemble a tail.
9. Set aside to dry.

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