These Joyful Easter Baskets Can Be Put Together With Items in Your House (2024)

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Putting eggs, candy, and toys in baskets for children is a classic Easter tradition, but you don't have to fill those personalized Easter baskets with the same old stuff this year. Take your Easter basket one hop further this year: These non-candy Easter basket stuffers are so much better than a basic chocolate bunny.

Start with a chocolate Easter bunny, then add the recipients favorite candy, a few small toys, or even inexpensive jewelry. For older kids we love to fill a few eggs with money (think small bills!), drop in a few $5 gift cards (especially if it's a teenage easter basket), or even some sample-size toiletries.

Turn brown paper bags into adorable bunnies, brighten a woven basket with colorful pom-poms or cut and weave strips of cardstock. Or, challenge yourself by coating a basket in preserved moss or sewing strips of felt into a rainbow shape.

Kid-friendly ideas include books, toys, coloring books and small games in addition to the usual chocolate eggs and stuffed bunnies. To make your basket really special, look for indulgent Confections that will wow your recipient, no matter how young or old.

One of the best basket storage ideas for living rooms is to stash essentials for your reading nook. You can keep throws, pillows and even books next to your favorite spot to curl up. You'll need a good lamp too.

Since seedlings and eggs are associated with new life, the baskets came to symbolize new life. Later on, as more people embraced Christianity, they would hold on to their old customs. That's the main reason why we still give baskets filled with goodies during this holiday.

As Christianity spread throughout Europe, many pagan customs were absorbed into Christian traditions, including the practice of giving baskets during Easter. Over time, the symbolism of the Easter basket evolved to reflect the Christian themes of rebirth, renewal, and the triumph of life over death.

This tradition has since been adopted by people of all ethnic backgrounds, who enjoy its rich symbolism. On Holy Saturday morning, families prepare their Easter Baskets and fill them with symbolic items. The baskets are later brought to church to be blessed during a short service in the early afternoon.

The next time your Dollar Tree. gets some of their punch bowls and fluid bowls, fill up a punch bowl with some Easter grass and goodies. Cover your bowl up with another bowl, and then use tape to tape it into place. You're gonna do the same thing with the fluid bowls.

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Fill a jumbo plastic egg with small toys and accessories, and let the kids "crack" it open on Easter for a unique, fun surprise they'll love.

Easter Grass (wheatgrass) is like a super plant. It is literally growing before your eyes. And one of these days I'll put a time-lapse camera on it (if I knew how to do that.

The early medieval Catholics saw Easter baskets as a way to celebrate the end of Lent. People would fill baskets with food and treats and bring them to the church where a priest would bless the baskets.

There are numerous ideas for small toys that you could fill eggs with: bouncy balls, small craft items, Play-Doh, tiny cars like Micro Machines, mini kazoos, hand stamps, toy accessories, mini rubber ducks, fake bugs, pirate patches or just for fun—confetti!