Charlie Brown Easter Egg

When I was brainstorming all these Easter eggs, the Round-Headed Kid seemed like an obvious choice.  I'm a huge Peanuts fan and have always loved Good ol' Charlie Brown. Speaking of which, can you name another fictional character that has as many nicknames as he does? Peppermint Patty calls him Chuck, Marcie calls him Charles (technically, Charlie is the nickname and Charles is his given name), and Lucy and Violet regularly call him Blockhead. Sally calls him Big Brother. Charlie Brown introduced himself as Brownie Charles to Peggy Jean, which is what she calls him. There are probably others. 

Anyway, this Charlie Brown egg is really quick and easy to decorate. Other than drying time for the paint, it only takes about five minutes to do. This post contains affiliate links. 

Charlie Brown Easter Egg

Materials:

• white egg (raw, hardboiled, or empty)
• Folk Art acrylic paint (Linen, Daffodil Yellow)
• Sharpie (black)

Steps: 

Paint the pointy end of the egg with Daffodil Yellow and the round end of the egg with Linen. When the paint is dry, use a Sharpie to draw Charlie Brown's eyes, nose, mouth, and hair squiggle. Draw a line separating his head from his shirt. Add two triangles for the shirt collar and finish with the iconic zigzag. 

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I have two more decorated eggs to share. Rather than wait until 2026, I'm going to share them next week, even though Easter will have passed. For all who celebrate, I hope you have a wonderful Easter.

Snoopy on Ice Picture Frame

Back when I was planning Trevor's Peanuts-themed birthday party at the skate rink, I laminated and fussy-cut some of the Peanuts gang, not sure how I'd use them. I still didn't have a plan when the party rolled around, so I just taped them to the wall as decorations. I didn't throw them out, though. When I came across them this week, I decided to add them to a picture frame. It's really easy to make your own - affiliate links below. 

Snoopy on Ice Picture Frame

Materials:

• Square unfinished wood frame
• Folk Art Paint - Blue Lullaby and Wicker White
• laminated and fussy-cut Peanuts characters (stickers or window clings would work, too!)
• adhesive
• Enamel Accents

Steps:

Paint the bottom portion of the frame white. Without cleaning the brush, mix some blue paint with a small amount of white on a palette, but do not blend them completely. Use horizontal strokes to create a cloudy (yet predominantly blue) sky. 

When the paint is dry, adhere your characters to the frame.

Add dots of white Enamel Accents to the sky. Let it dry completely. 

Peanuts Birthday Party

We celebrated Trevor's 13th birthday last Friday with a Peanuts-themed party at the ice rink. It was awesome. 

This is one of the easiest and most fun party themes I've done. The first step was making the invitation. I designed it using PicMonkey. Affiliate links below. 

With the invitations out, I turned my attention to party favors and decor. I started with plain treat cups, then painted each with Folk Art Multi-Surface Paint. I did two coats to get good coverage. When the paint was dry, I used a Sharpie to draw on the details. Can you name each of the characters?   

The top row is Linus, Charlie Brown, and Lucy. The bottom row is Snoopy, Sally, and Peppermint Patty. I filled them with peanuts for the party. They were a hit. 

I'd planned to make Peanuts-themed candy bar wrappers, but I discovered these amazing chocolates from the Vermont Country Store for way cheaper than I could have made them. I bought all that they had (sorry), but hopefully they'll restock them. 

Next, I made a banner featuring the same six characters. I cut triangles from colored cardstock, decorated them with a Sharpie, then used Glue Lines to attach them to yarn. (It's a bunch of chain stitches. I've been practicing since my crochet lesson.)

Here's the completed banner hanging above the cake. 

The cake was really easy to make. Whenever I make a cake that is a different shape than my pan, I cut a piece of paper to the size of the pan, then experiment with how to cut it to get the shape I want. I baked my cake in a 9"x13" pan. To make it into a shirt, I cut a strip off the bottom, then cut that on the diagonal to make two sleeves.  

The sleeves were a little too long, so when I cut the actual cake, I had a piece left over. Good thing, since it allowed me to do some cake quality control. (It passed.) I thought I had cake boards on hand that would fit my cake, but I didn't. So I had to build the cake on a baking sheet.

I used Wilton's gel food colors to get the frosting to just the right shade of yellow. I rolled out Satin Ice Modeling Chocolate between two pieces of parchment and used a sharp knife to cut the zig zag design.   

Far from perfect, but definitely recognizable!

The birthday boy was very happy with how it turned out. Check out the glow of 13 candles! 

Everyone had a really good time, which is all that matters.

 Happy 13th birthday, Trevor!