Unique Easter Basket Ideas for Kids, Toddlers & Adults

It is an important tradition to give gifts to family and friends at Easter. However, most people get confused when they pick up an Easter gift for loved ones. Here, we give you plenty of ideas for Easter gift basket ideas and basket filler ideas for everyone on your list.

Easter Basket Ideas for Kids

As a parent, you can get confused about what to put in an Easter basket that’s fun and unique. Jellybeans and chocolates are the usual things used in homemade Easter baskets, but there are many other healthy and viable alternatives to try.

What to put in your children’s Easter baskets is a big question for most parents. While some would like to continue the tradition of chocolates, others are looking for options. We give you here, plenty of ideas for traditional and unique Easter basket fillers for kids:

1. Some popular Easter basket ideas for children include paints, crayons, stickers, coloring books, plants, bird feeder kits, gift certificates from local hamburger or pizza.

2. You can even fill their baskets with temporary tattoos, fairy dust or fake flower seed packets.

3. You can even fill their baskets with edible goodies such as marzipan, marzipan bunnies, marshmallow peeps, hot cross buns, bunny-shaped biscuits and sweets of course.

4. If your child is musical, you can place a small musical instrument in the basket, surrounded by lots of sweets.

5. Girls will enjoy fake jewelry, lip balm, hair accessories and trinkets.

6. Boys will love baseball and basketball cards.

7. Stuffed toys are always a hit and you can always place beneath them, theme park tickets as a surprise!

8. Packets of flower seeds

9. Small musical instruments such as maracas, a harmonica or

10. Coloring Books and crayons

11. Handmade spring themed wreath to hang in the room of the child

12.  Plastic eggs filled with coins for the child’s piggy bank

13. Tickets to see a play, a baseball game, or any another event

14. A full day family pass to an indoor swimming pool to clean everyone’s skills for the summer

15. Finger Puppets

16. A iTunes gift card

17. Small toys like yo-yos, bouncy balls and jump ropes

18. A new swimsuit, swimsuit cover-up and/or pyjamas (to switch from winter and prepare for the outdoor season ahead)

19. a package of Goldfish

20. a mini-set of the sidewalk chalk

21. Put jigsaw puzzle pieces in each plastic egg.

22. Bubbles

You can also try the following unique Easter basket ideas to make this Easter one of the most memorable Easter ever.

A Unique Easter Basket idea with Books

If your kids are bookworms or you would like to make books their best friends, you can build a nice Easter basket idea with books. Small children will enjoy Easter story books with Christian themes and older children can enjoy many topics like Harry Potter and Nancy Drew, for example. An ‘Easter’ related title will make the gift even more suitable for the holiday. Depending on their reading preferences, you can gift them Easter baskets with books and help them discover the hidden reader inside themselves.

Unique Easter Basket idea with DVD and CD

This is a great idea for children and young people as their Easter gift basket. You can fill their basket with the latest movie DVDs or music CDs. They will enjoy their Easter basket gift and enjoying watching their favorite film. If you wouldn’t mind shelling some more bucks for a close gift recipient, you could add an MP3 player like an ipod or a Kindle to read electronic books.

Easter Basket Ideas for Toddlers

You can make creative and Fun Easter baskets for toddlers. These young minds are looking for fun and play and you only have to present what they expect.

Fill the basket with colorful Play Doh clay tubs.

Fill with toys like bath toys and sand toys for hours of playtime.

Find out their favorite cartoon character and fill the basket with character toys like Bob the Builder, Noddy, Pokemon, etc.

Easter Basket Ideas for Adults

Easter is a celebration for the entire family and not just children but even adults look forward to their Easter baskets.

1. Popular Easter basket ideas for adults include coffee packets and coffee mugs for those who can not survive without their warm cup.

2. Or you can even try Easter basket ideas for adults, such as filling the basket with cigars, surrounded by other goodies.

3. A person who loves golf can be given with Easter basket filled with gold tees and a mini-book.

4. Or you can gift girlfriend a spa Easter basket filled with various creams, lotions, bath soaps and candles.

5. Couples can use Easter basket ideas for adults by adding heart-shaped candles, candy and perfumes.

6. Or you can seduce your love interest with an Easter basket filled with delicious wine bottles.

These are a few homemade Easter basket ideas you can try to make your Easter special. Just fill the baskets with something of your choice that is useful, practical and relevant. All you have to do is get your creative juices flowing and come up with Happy Easter basket ideas.