Easter Basket Ideas

Simple, Easy, and Frugal Easter Basket Ideas

Go Back to the Early Days

The tradition of eggs, bunnies and baskets goes back to Germany, although eating eggs on Easter is a part of the religious holiday as well. During the 40 days of Lent, parishioners typically abstained from eating eggs. Thus, they were traditionally included in the feast one Easter Sunday.

The tradition that was brought by early German settlers in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country of the United States was to have the children make a nest in their hats or bonnets. The prettier the nest, the more likely that the bunny would leave some colored eggs and sweets in the nest. If you have not already established a tradition, this might be a good one to start or at least something similar.

Delegate

Have the kids come up with their own Easter basket ideas. They can make filling for the basket by cutting and crinkling construction paper. They can make cards to leave for the Bunny, explaining why this kid Easter basket is the best and deserves to be filled to overflowing. They might list some of the nice things that they’ve done or their accomplishments in school.

Instead of buying a ready-made kid Easter basket filled with junk toys and stale candy, your children will have created a keepsake card for you (the real bunny), used their creativity and taken some of the expense out of the holiday. Of course, this idea will require you to stay up late on Saturday night, boiling and coloring eggs. That might not fit your schedule. This idea should.

Easter Basket Ideas for Busy Moms

Of course all moms are busy, but some are more so than others. I have often had to work on the Saturday before Easter and you may be in the same situation. Instead of running out to an expensive department store on Saturday night looking for the perfect kid Easter basket, you can order one or more online and have it delivered to your office. In the morning, you, or the bunny if you prefer, will be the hero.

You can choose from a wide assortment of Easter basket ideas online. Many of them include beautiful bunnies, a few sweets, crayons, notepads and toys that the kids will enjoy on Sunday and for days after. After church, you and the kids can color eggs together. They’ll love it and you will too.

Another great gift idea is to shop throughout the year for Easter basket fillers. Luckily my mom bought my kids beautiful Longaberger Easter baskets a few years back and I just reuse these every year. So, you don't have to buy new Easter baskets every year, just reuse the old ones. Heck, you don't even need to use Easter baskets to fill with goodies from the Easter bunny. You can use a shoe box covered in brightly covered wrapping paper, or a simple plastic container filled with Easter grass and colorful Easter goodies.

Make things easy on yourself and don't wait until the last minute to buy Easter basket goodies. As I mentioned before, I like to buy gifts throughout the year, then I put them away. Just today I stopped in a local Dollar Store and purchased several goodies for my kids. They love them and will play with them just as they would expensive toys from a department store. I also like to buy each of my kids one or two "nice" gifts they will keep like books, or something special. This year I'm buying a couple of "group" presents, an ant farm like this link and a butterfly like this.

Let your creativity guide you when you're the Easter bunny and your kids are sure to be delighted... you will too with the time and money you save.