OSTARA CRAFT! Ostara is basically witch Easter, and you know what Easter’s about…eggs! I did natural dyes with my grandmother growing up, and loved using tips from @misswondersmith last year. This version is a little more quick and dirty (anyone else’s kids home for spring break?), but we added a new level - egg tea lights! This is from @northwoodsfolk , whose children seem to be much more patient than mine. But it’s a GREAT way to teach the littles not to cry over broken eggs. They just become

The word Ostara comes from the Anglo-Saxon goddess name, Eostre. Eostre represented spring and new beginnings. The celebration of spring is present in many ancient customs, across all cultures, and it seems that Wicca has borrowed from many of them for Ostara. Easter is associated with Christianity and to a pagan Spring festival that dates back long before Christ. The feast day of Easter was first a pagan holiday of renewal and rebirth. Honored in the early spring, it praised the pagan goddess o