Saving Money on Easter Baskets
This is a guide about saving money on Easter baskets. There are a lot of ways to save money on Easter baskets.
Recycle plastic soft drink bottles to create these cute favor cups for your Easter table.
Hide Your Child's Easter Basket
We use to hide our children's Easter Baskets and they would have to hunt for them. Being 5 children, if they found someone else's, they were not allowed to say that. They had to leave it where it was.
How do I make Easter baskets from Clorox bottles?
We had a terrible flood last summer and I lost all of my Easter decorations, baskets I used for my kids year after year and other miscellaneous items. I am in dire financial straits this year and need frugal Easter ideas for kids and grandma as well.
Alternative Easter Baskets for Boys
Any suggestions as to what to use instead of the traditional basket at Easter time for a boy? In the past I have used a dump truck, baseball helmet, small tackle box, childsize wheel barrow, etc. I need some ideas appropriate for 6 and 8 year old boys.
Use a Balloon to Make an Easter Basket
Years ago I made Easter baskets using crochet thread and sugar water. I have read the 'instructions' found on ThriftyFun, but cannot find the type/size of crochet thread to use. I have not been successful with a size 10 thread, but it is very tight. Help!
Items for an Adult Easter Basket Exchange
Any ideas for men's Easter baskets? I have done food, so I looking for something new I can purchase or make. We do an adult basket exchange and it can change hands 3 times before it is kept. With that said we have all size men from small to XXL. That makes it more difficult.
Our two older grandchildren are too old for Easter Baskets but they have a little three year old brother just getting into the fun so this year I made this basket for him to find and then to share which he loves to do with his sister and brother.
Easter Gift Basket for Husband Who Loves Books, Video Games, and Cooking
I'm making a small gift basket for my husband for Easter and am running low on ideas. We don't have the $ for me to go out and buy the video game he really wants, but I'd really like to get him some small inexpensive things. He's so hard to buy for.
Making Easter Baskets and Hats
I am looking for ideas for Easter hats for boys and girls and baskets.
I designed this Easter Basket for my 1 year old granddaughter. I drew a bunny on both sides by hand, with beads for eggs under him. Then I put a pom pom tail on the end. I spelled her name out on the handle, with more egg beads.
Pre-Filled Easter Baskets Might Not Be Worth It
This is kind of a "buyer beware" concerning those pre-packed Easter Baskets the stores sell in the spring. My daughter bought a superhero one for my grandson this year. It was filled with small inexpensive toys, a few other odds and ends, and a box of cookies.
Last year I made a wonderful little Easter basket for my 5 year old granddaughter using an Easter Bonnet from the dollar store instead of the traditional Easter Basket. These Easter Bonnets for kids come in many different styles and colors at my local Dollar Tree.
Older children that have outgrown your typical Easter basket still love getting a basket, so I put new summer outfits, passes to a movie, gift certificates or cards to fast food places, and favorite candy bars, cookies or even gum.
Drawer Organizer Easter Baskets
Need a last-minute Easter basket? You've probably got packs of plastic drawer organizers (the kind you might put silverware in) somewhere in your house that you've never used. Well, now's the time!
Craft Project: Easter Basket Garter
Create beautiful holiday theme basket fabric garters to embellish baskets with strips of fabric and elastic. Add them on as embellishments to basket handles or rims. Here I have embellished this little baskets outer edge with a very pretty Easter print fabric in 3-inch wide strips.
Craft Project: Spring Basket Liner
Sewing a liner for an old basket to give it new life and purpose. Gather spring-like fabrics and old baskets to pick from. Draw around the bottom of the basket and add 1 inch to allow for seams. Cut out.
Do you need a quick basket for just about anything?
This adorable Easter basket is crocheted over a 2 or 3 liter soda bottle. With a sharpie, mark bottle 4 inches up from the bottom. Cut. Also cut one piece from below the shoulder of the bottle 1/2 inch wide for the handle. Round the ends.
