I love shopping for Easter baskets! I’ll buy the required chocolate bunny (a small, hollow one) and jelly beans, but for the most part I like to steer away from candy, which is pretty easy to do since there are so many fun things to buy for the kids for Spring. Here are some ideas for non-candy Easter basket fillers your little ones will love:
- Bubbles
- Stickers or temporary tattoos
- Birdhouse or birdfeeder
- Rain accessories – boots, raincoat, or umbrella
- Sand toys
- Sandals
- Books
- Bath toys or bubble bath
- Chalk
- Sunglasses
- Playsilks
- Rainmaker
- Hand puppets or finger puppets
- Art supplies or crafting items – paints, brushes, glue, scissors, coloring books, blank books
- Magnifying glass
- Flashlight
- Kite or ball
- Sun hat or baseball cap
- Dress up clothes or accessories
- Toothbrush (with a favorite character on it)
- Silly straws, sandwich cutters, reusable snack bags or sandwich wraps
What great non-candy items will you be using to fill your child’s Easter basket?
Nightgowns with their favorite character (or pajamas for boys) are for this year, last year they got kid sized kitchen aprons for when the help bake, and we always include hair accessories.
I love the pajamas idea; my kids could probably use some so I may just do that too! Aprons & hair accessories are good too.
We always include a new swimsuit.
Great idea!
Great list! Thank you! We might get the kids each a favorite movie on DVD and some art supplies:)
Yes! You can never have too many art supplies. Hop would be a good DVD for a basket.
Awesome list! I am so tired of candy being part of every holiday. I found some of that scratch paper at Lake Shore Learning that starts out black but different colors are revealed when the child scratches out a design. I plan on using that as part of my daughter’s basket this year.
I agree! We have a candy bowl and it’s constantly full – Halloween, Christmas, Valentines, Easter… Totally unnecessary! Those scratch sheets look like fun. I bet your daughter will love them 🙂