50 Easter basket ideas! YEA! With Easter just around the corner I thought it would be fun to put together a list of things the Easter bunny can bring…besides candy! My kids are getting so excited! Easter is such a fun holiday!
50 things to put in a Easter basket besides candy!
I added ideas for the whole family. :D
- Coloring books
- Markers and crayons
- Bandaids
- Fun toothbrush
- Play dough
- Silly putty
- Puzzles
- Barbies
- Superheros
- Bubbles
- Sand toys
- Pool toys (squirt guns, goggles, etc.)
- Movies
- Bouncy balls
- Sidewalk chalk
- Slinky
- Legos
- Letters and shapes for bath time fun
- Felt food
- Eggs full of cheerios
- Eggs full of small toys
- Blocks
- New sippy cups or water bottles
- Gardening supplies
- Hair accessories
- Nail polish
- Mud mask
- Movie tickets
- Stuffed animal
- USB drive
- Trail mix & Jerky
- Cologne
- Baseball cards
- Frisbee
- Personalized stationary
- New pajamas
- Sunglasses
- Rubik’s cube
- Admission passes to the zoo, museum, etc.
- Gas card
- Stickers
- Children’s Bible
- Bunny ears
- Crazy socks
- Finger paints
- New books
- Jump rope
- Neck tie
- board game
- Play dough carrot
So what do you put in your kids Easter baskets?
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Megan
Thank you for this list. Still haven’t gone shopping yet. But I will be making the fish “Carrots.” My girls love them. I really try to not go the whole Candy route.
Best wishes on the show tomorrow. Will try to record it! ;)
Amelia
we always got (and I always give) band-aids. :)
Crystal
I do that in my son’s stocking every year!
Renee S.
Cool, I will DVR you tomirrow!
Meggan Hayes
I have seen a lot of bunny/egg/basket craft ideas this year and was just wondering if you had any religious craft ideas for Easter. I would love to have some inspirational crafts to help my kids celebrate.
Erin
Sidewalk chalk, silly putty, cute pajamas, and books are my go-to Easter basket stuffers:) I’ll be posting about the Easter baskets I put together later this week.
Brittan
Great post!! I have a tradition of putting a bathing suit in my daughter’s Easter basket. She usually needs a new one around this time of year so I figured why not make it a yearly thing? I also got her a $4 Easter movie from Target this year. Nail polish is a good one too. :)
Crystal
Love the bathing suit idea! I do similar things too like beach towels and sunscreen.
kara
Great list!! This year I am doing homemade playdoh, a handmade headband to wear with her Easter dress, a new Easter book, a chocolate bunny, $4 in quarters in eggs (because Luci is 4 years old now), and I still need to stop at the lds bookstore to pick her up something like a ctr bracelet. LOVE Easter! We’re going to the pageant tomorrow night. Have you gone yet this year? Good luck on the show tomorrow!!!
Jessica
oooo this list was much needed!!! No chitlins of my own, but I made a cute little holloween treat bag for the little girl next store and wanted to do an easter basket for her as well! Thanks for the list!!!
Sheena
Thanks for all the great ideas! I think Easter has the best candy but I’d still rather put stuff in my kids’ baskets that they can use — not just eat.
Courtney
I always try to do something somewhat religious. My little bug is a little over 1, this year he is getting a CTR tie tack.
Deana
I only give one small chocolate bunny and the fill the basket with fruit. Each of my girls get two of their favorite fruits and they don’t have to share it. I will throw in a little pressie too but I have to be careful because my girls have started talking about asking the Easter bunny for an ipod touch. I think I have blurred the line between Santa and bunny!
Melanie
This is the first year my little one will be old enough to do an Easter egg hunt so I plan on letting him have a little candy but I’m also going to scatter musical “shaker” eggs that we made. He had a blast making them with me and he keeps sneaking them and trying to play with them early.
Nicole
Books are my “must-have” item in Easter baskets. No matter how old my kids are (14, 4, and 2), they each get a book. I try to avoid candy. Food alternatives that I use: fresh fruit, trail mix, microwave popcorn, graham crackers, goldfish crackers, and dried fruit.
Crystal
He’s just two. I follow a similar rule to what you stated in your TV spot. I only buy stuff he needs or I’m going to buy anyway {this goes for stockings too}. This year, he’s getting a new sippee cup, goldfish, his favorite fruit snakes, sidewalk chalk {from Sidewalk Sensations on Etsy last year and Sunshine & Sidewalks on Etsy this year}, play dough, new beach towel, sandles, finger paints, a movie, new book, sun hat, sunscreen, bubbles and an egg filled with his first fake tattoos. As an infant, I did Puffs instead of the fruit snacks and threw in a new bib and owl bath mitt, some baby toys, baby bath soap, new white onesies, etc. As a child, we had the same basket every year and one large item. I’m keeping that tradition going and filling his same basket from his last two Easters, and he’s getting a tricycle too. I plan ahead and start gathering soon after Valentine’s Day. That way nothing is a shock to the wallet!
Hege
This year I will make caramel Apples and popcornballs to put in the childrens easterbox ( shoebox because they are large) together with somekind of puzzle, Cocoa (instant) and marshmallows, oranges and a cartoon mag to read. A pair of mittens and warm socks is also good to have in the cold or out on a crosscountry skitrip ( day trip). I also just saw a receipe on straw worms Made of gell-o and straws, Great idea:)
Jamielyn
Great idea! Your kids will be so happy!
Alison @ Ingredients, Inc.
Great post girl!
Erin
I got some of their favorite candies, crackers, Brave Tattoos, little toys from Walmart’s birthday favors sections (jacks, frogs, etc.) card games, random little toys and puzzles, the tiny towels that soak up and expand in water, pennies and nickles – all for baskets and our egg hunt.
Kat Geitner
LOVE the Rubiks cube, hadn’t thought of that. Wii romote is also needed so I will add that to tomo shopping list as well. MAGIC 8 ball is fun!