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Saving the Easter Basket - Edey's Vintage and Current Needlework
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Saving the Easter Basket

 Instead of buying a new Easter basket every year for family members, get one really good basket for each person, decorate each one differently so that each has their own custom basket and put them away after Easter for the next year.  Bag up the fake grass in a large ziploc bag, and do the same with any plastic eggs that you have.  To keep the baskets dust free put them in a large plastic bag or bags also. A child that grows up with their own personal basket used each year will have fond memories of that one basket as being all their own. We fill the plastic eggs with different candies, and fill one egg per child with several quarters and an additional one with paper money. To cut down on the amount of candy we put in things like snack bags of beef jerky, trail mix, beef sticks,or something similar.

Instead of wrapping them in plastic, make a pretty cloth from a sheer type fabric, wrap that around the basket and tie with a pretty ribbon. Use that cloth each year too.  A short sheer curtain could be used if it was big enough to wrap around the basket.  Tulle or netting could also be used.

You can re-use the grass and the plastic eggs for several years.  That cuts down on the expense of buying a new already filled basket, which IMO always has junky stuff in them and are mostly fake grass filled anyway; and they are way too high priced for what you get.  

Edey

Comments

 

ArielDawn said:

We have several baskets that we save plus the kids seem to keep getting new ones from grandparents,  etc so we always re-use them. (I've had to freecycle/goodwill some of them)  I also save the grass and plastic eggs - plus any 'extra' little toys they get from the grandparents, aunts/uncles - they get too much.

Our kids get a little basket with 'stuff' in it - little cheapy trinkets, and their own chocolate bunny.   Outside their bedroom door we place an empty basket for them to use for their hunt.   We re-use plastic eggs that we put candy into - a few jelly beans, m&m's, that kind of stuff.   They then hunt for the plastic eggs around the house.

Mind you my kids are only 5 1/2 and 2 1/2 and the hunt is their favorite part.   We hid 31 eggs and they kept hoping to find more - just to be able to find them not because they had anything in them.

April 13, 2009 2:35 PM
 

cheapChic said:

I hit the thrift shop for basket and a cute stuffed toy usally buy the candy then thats it and it saved me 15dollars with the basket on the market wow they are expensive..

April 13, 2009 4:01 PM
 

Edey said:

The store bought baskets just aren't worth the price. Very cheap contents and the freshness of the candy is questionable. Edey

April 13, 2009 10:43 PM

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