Thrifty Easter Ideas
: Request : From 3/17/2000
I am curious if anyone has any thrifty Easter ideas. For baskets, presents, meals, games for kids, crafts, etc. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Linda
: Answer :
When my kids were younger, for Easter morning, we liked to fill and hide those colored plastic eggs that you can take apart, (we reused them year after year), and fill them with inexpensive Easter candy bought in the bulk food section of the grocery store. We also put coins or VERY SMALL gifts in them, like little erasers that look like animals (bunnies are nice!), or those fuzzy little yellow chenille chicks. I think even a "coupon" or "gift certificate" for a later treat, such as an outing for ice cream cones, or a trip to a park to fly kites would be a nice idea, too.
We used the same Easter baskets and Easter grass over year after year, and did not buy the expensive, highly-decorated Easter chocolates (the ones that look pretty but don't always taste so good). We mostly bought bulk candy/chocolates to put in the Easter baskets. We also tried to put something other than candy in the baskets -- usually new inexpensive kites and string, or maybe balsa wood airplanes, to encourage the kids to go outside and enjoy the day.
Ness
: Answer :
When my son was in Kindergarten (many moons ago) several of us would meet at the school and make Easter baskets out of gallon bleach bottles. Draw an outline of a bunny face, including the ears, on the front of a clean. bleach bottle. Then take scissors or a craft knife and cut out the ears and around to the back of the bottle, leaving the handle for the basket handle. Use markers or paint to paint the face and inside the ears. These turned out really cute.
When I was young, my mother had an Easter party for my brother's birthday. Instead of the conventional Easter egg hunt she came up with the idea of a treasure hunt. She hid small prizes in the plastic eggs as well as regular dyed eggs and some that were marked for special prizes. She provided each child with a different "map" that included riddles of where the special eggs were hid. This way each child would find the same amount of eggs. It was a lot of fun. We also played pin the cotton ball tail on a bunny.
And finally...when my son was young he was as much a fisherman then as he is now, so one year I filled a tackle box with the conventional Easter grass and included fishing tackle and gear in it instead of all the candy and bunnies. I think you could do something similar using other things that might interest the child. I can imagine filling a sewing basket with the items for a young girl to learn to sew or some other craft. Or a makeup box filled with toiletries and makeup for a teenage girl. And a bucket filled with car washing supplies for a teenage boy who has his own car or for your husband. Or a file crate filled with books or games.
Hope this helps.
Ann : Answer :
Saving on Easter Baskets: Go to any thrift store and purchase Easter Baskets very cheap, then go to the Dollar Store or any Walgreen store and purchase the candy much cheaper. Also these places have the grass that you can put into the basket and stuffed animals. You can go to yard sales, garage sales, moving sales and church rummage sales. Most of these places have new stuffed animals for Easter and Christmas, I have purchase new stuffed animals that I give away to the kids that I work with.
The also have the Easter Eggs, that you can purchase and put candy inside of them. Just check out your Goodwill and Salvation Army Stores or any thrift shop.
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