Inside each egg was a (not candy!) gift. I thought the parents would appreciate that, but I'm not so sure that the kids did.
I found this tutorial for the bunny finger puppets and thought it looked easy enough. The woman who created the tutorial actually hints about these being tricky to sew but obviously she didn't do a very good job at that because I was not prepared. I cut out all of the pieces and sewed on the eyes, nose, and tail a couple of weeks ago, and saved the body stitching for later. Each bunny was supposed to have white-on-color ears, which if you'll notice in the picture below, did not happen. The blue bunny is even missing part of his white ear (and his nose fell off several times).
Before I began sewing the bunnies' bodies, I told Jared, "Get ready, 'cause if this doesn't go well, you'll be holding me and rocking me to sleep tonight as I cry." Well, the ears kept getting sucked down into the machine, the machine jammed several times, and I couldn't seem to move around the bunnies' curves fast enough, so at one point Jared really did come over and hug me until I was calm. Nasty little bunnies!
After taking a break, I sat down and finished all twelve puppets. Some have crooked stitching, and others have gimp eyes, but in the end they turned out cute enough. But never again....
