The kids and I have spent the last few weeks talking about Easter and what it means to our family. My daughter is starting to understand our religious beliefs and the concept of Easter a little more. We have also been talking about Spring in general. To me Spring and Easter mean new beginnings, beautiful flowers, and butterflies. I say butterflies because I have great memories of driving out to the country with my kids and watching butterflies flutter by. 
We haven’t seen butterflies around just yet but plenty of flowers sprouting. The flowers in our garden inspired us to make these flower cupcakes using Smarties. Do you remember eating Smarties as a child? I remember sharing them with my sister, sorting the colors and picking our favorites. I love that my kids now do the same thing. Naturally Madi insist she gets all the purple Smarties and Jay is more than happy to hand them over. Last week we picked up a bag of Smarties along with a few other Easter finds.
The kids had a blast making the cupcakes. This is what happens when I let them decorate the cupcakes anyway they want.
After all the fun we did make a few that resembled flowers. To make them we used pink frosting, non perils, and 7 Smarties on each cupcake.Â
 Since we had a lot of Smarties leftover I decided to make little treats for the kids to give to their friends. The butterflies I made for Madi to give to her friends at our play date next week. She’s is so excited to hand them out.
 To make them I cut out 4 inch butterflies with my Cricut. I folded them in half to create a dimensional look. I then adhered the Smarties roll with glue spots. I love the way they came out. The colors remind me of the Easter Smarties colors.
My son thought they were too girly for him to hand out at school so I came up with this bag idea. I left a space for him to write Happy Easter on the bag topper. He wants me to change the pink but other than that he thinks it’s better than giving his friends pink and purple butterflies. I guess I can’t argue with him. :)
Yummy cupcakes..Beautiful!
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Very creative! Fabby butterflies & cakes. Yep, your sweets are not what I would call Smarties , only knowing the chocolate centred sugar-coated variety in bright colours. I would say your sweets are what we would call Refreshers but the size of Palma Violets.
Very cute! Looks like Spring is in the air!
Love the butterflies I may just have to borrow that oneHave lots of fun paper now just need to get some Smarties!! Thanks for sharing the great tips!
Big Blog Hugs, Janet
These ideas are SO fun! I adore the butterflies – great idea! Now I just need to finally get a Cricut! ;)
Jo-Anna
I love, love, love those butterflies! They are adorable. Thank you for sharing. Which Cricut cartridge did you use? I have a love affair with butterflies and am always looking for cute cartridges for my Cricut. :)
I’ll second that…which cartridge was the butterfly found on?? =)
Thank you for sharing these at Handmade Tuesdays. I think that these are adorable…not surprising because you always have adorable ideas!
Those butterflies are so pretty! What a creative idea!
Love the cupcakes … and the treat for friends is so cute too! Such great ideas!
Your cupcakes are so sweet, but I love the butterflies the most! I love the design and my little ones would love it! Thanks for sharing!
Take care,
Trish
This is such a fun idea!!!
Those butterflies are the sweetest things! Lovely! Thanks for sharing at oopsey daisy!
Cute ideas. So “Smart” ies ;)
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That is very sweet:)
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These are absolutely adorable! I would love for you to share this and all your other fabulous ideas at our Shine on Friday party here:
https://www.happygoluckyblog.com/2012/04/shine-on-friday.html#more
Fun, easy, & cute sounds like my kind of thing :)
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