There can be so much more to Easter Baskets than just eggs and candy. We’ve put together some of our favorite basket ideas and fillers that will excite all your hunters on Easter morning.
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Favorite Easter Basket
Gifts & Fillers
Personalized Easter Baskets by Thirty-One Gifts
Get the cutest personalized Easter baskets at Thirty-One Gifts. We’re in love with the limited-time Hippity Hop Mini Storage Bin. It’s just perfect for the season for holding all their Easter basket gifts, toys, and treats.
A Double Duty Caddy can be filled with treats and toys with the divided two large pockets and small side mesh pockets for organization. Add a mini zipper pouch to store art supplies, small toys, stickers, or other gifts in their basket.
After Easter, your loved ones will be able to continue using their bin all year long for storing their treasures and organizing their personal belongings. Personalize the mini storage bin or double duty caddy with your child’s name or monogram, a Icon-Its symbol of something they love, or a personalized message.
A Water Bottle That Filters
Add something useful to their Easter basket this year with a LifeStraw Play Kids Water Filter Bottle. This water bottle is perfect for every day uses and for adventures, too. No matter where they go, you can be confident that they will have clean and safe water with the built-in activated carbon filter that removes chemicals and chlorine while improving taste.
It can remove 99% of all waterborne bacteria and protozoan parasites – for up to 1,000 gallons of use! The 10-oz size has a leakproof design and is perfectly sized for kids to take with them and use for sports, travel, hiking, play, and even around home. Keep them hydrated and give them the best water possible with a LifeStraw Water Filter Bottle. Best of all, when you purchase you also help give safe drinking water to a child in a developing country for an entire school year!
Easter Basket Fillers That Give Back
Yoobi is a great source for affordable, and darling, Easter basket fillers! They have cute accessories and art supplies like this bunny zipper pouch that’s just perfect for the season. Fill their baskets with fun seasonal gift your budding artist will love, like this darling Easter egg stamp set.
Yoobi even has the cutest sidewalk chalk options including egg shaped sidewalk chalk set, an incredibly cute ice cream cone shaped sidewalk chalk, even a rainbow sidewalk chalk! For every Yoobi item you purchase, you’ll help a classroom in need! One school supply item will be donated for every item you purchase – helping to supply classrooms across the U.S. receive the supplies they need!
Building Sets that Promote Creativity
I always gravitate towards non-candy Easter gifts that my children can enjoy all throughout the year. Perfect for promoting creativity and developing fine motor skills, the Wonderhood Corner Shops Creative Building Set comes with 16 double-sided plastic building panels, 20 connectors, and 1 plastic staircase, providing your child with many creative possibilities.
Building their very own Main Street, your child will love visiting Wonderhood Candy, Ice Cream & Sundaes, and the General Store with their very own 3D figure, Emma. Best of all, Wonderhood toys are all compatible. Combine Wonderhood Corner Shops with Wonderhood Pet Palace or Grand Hotel for endless Easter Basket fun!
A Practical Easter Gift for Babies
I always struggle knowing what to get my babies for holidays, especially Easter. I want their gifts to be both cute and functional. Luckily the Binxy Baby Shopping Cart Hammock meets both of these requirements. Binxy Baby Shopping Cart Hammocks provide a safe and comfortable way for you to transport your baby through the store while still leaving plenty of room for groceries.
Whether you buckle your baby directly into the hammock or buckle their carseat into the hammock, the Binxy Baby meets or exceeds all applicable safety standards. Best of all, when you’re done using your Binxy Baby, simply roll it up and stick in in your diaper bag. Available in a variety of patterns such as Full Bloom, and Triangles, the Easter Bunny will knock it out of the park with the Binxy Baby.
Books for Easter Baskets
Growing up, my parents gifted me a book for every holiday. This Easter, I can’t wait to carry on the tradition with books from Lonely Planet Kids. Encouraging young readers to learn about and explore the world around them, Lonely Planet Kids has a variety of books teaching children about different cultures, historical events, nature, space, and more.
Whether your young reader is interested in learning Japanese, challenging their minds with Brain Teasers, or traveling around the world, there is a book for every child. Lonely Planet Kids also features a variety of sticker, sketch, and travel journals. Looking for some fun titles to try? Check out Lonely Planet Kids Dinosaur Atlas and The Animal Book.
Add a cute and portable skill based game by Smart Games to their basket! Their Compacts and Pockets games will keep them busy and entertained, and last much longer than any candy might. Each of the different games will challenge them starting with the easiest puzzle level and let them gradually move to harder and harder puzzles and challenges when they’re ready to advance.
This means the games stay interesting and grow with them. There are a variety of fun themed games like this new Jump’IN puzzle to help the rabbits quickly hide from the foxes. Or choose a Ghost Hunters, Temple Run, Penguins Pool Party, and many more games to choose from!
Add a fun, and exciting, way to encourage the kids to get outdoors with a set of Neon Street Rollers! These LED Light-up roller skates clip onto their everyday pair of shoes so there’s no storing bulk skates that are not in use.
Plus, they adjust to grow with them and can be used starting at age 6 and up to 132 lbs! The LED light-up wheels are activated as they move and require no batteries. They come in 3 fun colors – pink, blue, and green. Find them at neonlyghts.com available for just $19.99.
Unleash their creativity this Easter with Sidewalk Chalk from RoseArt. Playing outside with Sidewalk Chalk is way more fun with RoseArt’s neat chalk sets. Gather the kids for fun chalk games with their 5-in-1 Chalk Games Set.
The multi-game pack comes with 5 different fun and exciting games. The Chalk paint and Jumbo Chalk Paint Makers are always fun to paint and color fun and creative pieces of art along the driveway. RoseArt’s large selection of outdoor chalk sets will keep the kids outside being creative and having fun for hours.
Which of these gifts is your favorite idea to add to your kids Easter baskets this year?
Nancy at Whispered Inspirations
Saturday 24th of March 2018
These are some really awesome ideas for Easter! I love the stamp set.
Toni | Boulder Locavore
Saturday 24th of March 2018
These are awesome ideas! Really fun items and usable!
Claudia Krusch
Friday 23rd of March 2018
These are awesome ideas! Our baskets always have books and gift cards!
Cathi Crismon
Friday 23rd of March 2018
Oh my! I love non-candy Easter basket ideas!! I had no idea LifeStraw had a kid's cup.That is so cool! We've given the straw and the LifeStraw Go. We have them in our emergency backpacks too. I'm loving the Wonderhood Corner Shops building set. SO cool!!
Sherry
Friday 23rd of March 2018
These are all great ideas. We are all avid readers here so I would definitely include books in my gift baskets.