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10 Easter Pinterest Fails to Never, Ever Try at Home

With Easter almost upon us, it’s time to break out the PAAS egg dye, hide some Peeps in the closet, and (of course) check social media for some fun ideas on how to inject a little holiday-themed merriment into your home. But watch out: For every pretty Pinterest or Instagram image, there are hundreds of messy, disappointing, or even downright disturbing Easter project fails. So heed our advice and sidestep these holiday-dampening blunders below—before it’s too late!

1. Use spellcheck before decorating a cake

There are no do-overs when writing on a cake with frosting. If you’re going to use a bright red icing pen (which would be very hard to scrape off and cover up), make sure you know how to spell every word.

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2. Eggs and electricity don’t mix

Why would you want your kids to have to reach their hands into a circuit breaker box? There must be better—and less dangerous—hiding places than this.

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3. Don’t wait until the last minute to buy an Easter basket

Otherwise you might have to make do with what’s around the house. Because nothing says “Happy Easter” like an old Bud Light box.

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4. Lamb cakes are harder to make than they look

Baking and cake decorating are real skills that people spend years perfecting. If you plan on attempting to bake your own Easter cake, be realistic about your abilities. After all, why terrify the kids with a mutant lamb pastry?

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5. ‘Shaving cream’ egg dying is not all it’s cracked up to be

Toddlers don’t care about your Pinterest-inspired new method of dying Easter eggs. So you’re aiming to revolutionize the process using shaving cream and food dye like this mom? Warning: Your kids will likely just end up confused, crying, and messy.

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6. Baking bread in the shape of a bunny is hard

Case in point? This sad excuse for a bunny below. Look how much dough these people wasted on a creature whose ears look like its feet. Leave the Peter Cottontail–shaped sourdough serving bowls to the pros.

Poor bunny

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7. Kids will be kids

There’s nothing like a little bathroom humor to liven up your Easter egg hunt. If you give kids a marker and a blank surface, there’s a good chance they’ll write something inappropriate, especially if they’ve reached that age.

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8. Babies don’t like posing as bunnies

Nine times out of 10, babies hate being placed in an uncomfortable position for your holiday-themed photo shoot. Is your whimsical bunny portrait really worth a half-hour of listening to a screaming child? No, it’s not.

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9. Bright colors won’t show up well on brown eggs

Was the local Kroger out of white?

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10. Don’t hold your Easter egg hunt on a hill

Young children are bad at balance, we all know that, so think twice before putting the Easter eggs on a hill. Easter egg hunts require your toddler to bend down, shifting a majority of their tiny bodyweight forward, so face planting is inevitable.

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