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Easter Basket Ideas From Our Readers

March 30, 2023

Amanda Siciliano

The kids' favorite non-baskets to date were the wheelbarrows filled with gardening tools and seeds.

Melissa Garrison Webb 

I usually give a couple small things for summer (sunscreen, flip-flops, goggles etc), and then check groupon for something to do. This year it's alien golf, laser tag, and a pirate boat outing. Cost me just a few more dollars than what I used to spend on candy and junk they don't want or forget about after a day.

Kayt DeMerchant

We love Trugg totes. They come in different sizes and are flexible rubber type things with handles. This year I got totes from Mixed Bag. I think the kids will love them.

Jane Dorler

Stuffed beach bucket!

Marla Kessler Gottschalk 

Squirt guns, water balls, sports shorts, and clearance t-shirts this year. A few candies and even money inside the eggs - we are learning to count various coins in school, so works out perfectly!

Cherie Dourlain 

Bubbles, books and sidewalk chalk

Melissa Munroe 

Anything they NEED... Socks, underwear, pajamas... I like to add books too!

Rachel Condeluci Becker

My oldest son loves to plant things, so I am putting a bunch of seeds and gardening stuff in his basket!

Stacey Weaver 

Sidewalk chalk, oyster crackers (her favorite), stuffed bunny, bunny ears, seeds to plant in the backyard, mini gardening tools, balls (another favorite - kickball, tennis balls, etc...) and a couple of animals for her ZooTalkers zoo.

Nancy Lincoln Gearhart 

Warmer weather PJs, goldfish crackers/bear grahams, crayons and coloring book, older kids get earbuds, tub toys, art supplies, perhaps a small doll...these are just my ideas and options... all of this does not go in one basket

Debra Scott Clingenpeel

Gardening things (seeds, tools, etc), butterfly net, dress-up things (wings, silly glasses with nose and mustache, tutu, etc) and always a new coloring book and stickers.

Jill Bradley-Allen

Little toys, jump rope, bubbles, fruit snacks and books!

Dee Beal Williams

Swimsuit, shades, sunscreen - you see where I am going with this.

Marissa Jones Hojdila 

1 chocolate bunny, a couple jelly beans, swimsuit, shades and sandals. Sometimes books too!

Jennifer Wine-Colwell 

We do smaller board games.....activity books for the car......reading materials for the older one.....one favorite candy for each of them....and summer fun stuff (shovels, sunglasses, flip-flops, etc)


Sabrina Dillon Brindle

No matter what I have in their baskets they always get new toothbrushes. And they love them. Kids are so weird!

Tanya Thorpe

Bathing suits, flip flops, beach towel, goggles and pool stuff.

Jill Dobransky Rose

Beach towel, sunglasses, flip-flops. Gardening gloves, sidewalk chalk, bubbles. Spring-like jammies and always a book!


Tooth brush, chap sticks, baseball gloves, (it's the season), cash, gift cards, video games, DVDs, baseball cards and pjs!


Cooking kits... ingredients to make a kid friendly meal.


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