Do you MAKE your childrens Easter Baskets or do

[snowwite]

I always make them.We try to put more toys and a book and less candy.We usually put in some new spring out door toys like sidewalk chalf,frisbee,bubbles.For the past few years I have filled colorful pail and shovel sets as the basket.

 

[ticktock]

I always make ds's basket. He has a huge artisan made willow basket that I paid way to much money for years ago when I was broke and shouldn't have spent that kind of money. In fact my aunt was with me and I could tell by the way she was acting she didn't approve of me spending what little extra money I had on something she considered so trivial as a "fancy" Easter basket.(it isn't actually fancy, it is vey old fashioned)

It was so worth it though. That basket is the center of my ds's Easter memories. Even now, when Easter draws near he'll go in the closet and dig out his basket. He's 12. Most of his friends are just intrested in getting candy or presents but ds will get out his basket and say remember the year we...

I think we should give our children things of quality, but less of them. A hazy memory of plastic junk can't compare to a well loved but still beautiful Steiff animal or a leather bound book. I have often forgotten this myself and indulged in a frenzy of consumerism. I have always been sorry, it makes the time less magical and actually kind of ugly.

Tinkerbess I love the idea of umbrellas for baskets!!! That is too cute.

 

[disneymac]

I make them too. I also re-use the same basket every year and have the kids put them out for the Easter Bunny to fill. I try not to get too crazy with the candy since they also get baskets from their grandparents and godparents! This year I have a baseball math leapster game for DS and Mermaidia for DD. Happy Easter!

 

[aprilgail2]

This year I have a baseball math leapster game for DS and Mermaidia for DD. er!

I am just putting my daughters baseball math leapster game up on Ebay....she has at least 20 leapster games and that is the only one she can't stand....I hope he likes it but most of the reviews on that one game are not good.

 

[diannaneglia]

Well my kids are getting alittle old for the Easter Bunny but I still make them up baskets. Since we don't have long after Easter for our Disney trip, I think I will make them up with Disney in mind. I plan on giving them Disney dollars in them for sure...I might try and find everything Disney related to add to them as well. I never bought the premade ones...just thought it easier and more creative to make them up on my own...but sometimes this is time consuming if you don't have that time.

Just my two cents!

 

[Snow Brite]

I have always made the 4 for my kids too. We don't have baskets that we reuse but I do usually get them a sand pail and shovel instead. They all have an assigned color, so their bucket (or whatever it is) is always in that color. I also don't do much candy, just a chocolate bunny and a few little things and then a book, or a pencil, or sunglasses or things like that.

The one thing we do that no one else has mentioned...is the Easter Bunny leaves the "baskets" in a different place every year. And he (or is it a she?) leaves a trail of jelly beans from the kids door to the basket.

 

[Aidensmom]

Ok, so who BUYS the pre-made ones? Seriously, I have never known anyone who does, but someone must.

 

[Mimi Q]

I make the girls baskets myself.

 

[NMAmy]

I make dd's every year and always have.

My dad used to make me a basket every year until he died when I was 40. He would make homemade egg dye from greens, etc. and make beautiful eggs. He'd also send us a letter each year from the "Dum Bunnie." He'd have little jokes and drawings. I've saved mine and dd's--they're very precious to us.

 

[Pixiedust34]

I always make them so the kids get stuff they will like, plus good candy!

I can't wait until Easter.......ds is getting the DuckTales dvd in his basket. He will love it.

 

[MsLeFever]

Ok, so who BUYS the pre-made ones? Seriously, I have never known anyone who does, but someone must.

Well, they always have the big premade ones at Easter egg hunts around here....and I'm always a bit relieved when my kids don't find the right egg!

 

[saucymb]

DH and I have our first baby due in just two weeks, and a few months ago I suggested we get an Easter basket for the baby even though he will only be a few days old when Easter arrives. He thought that was ridiculous, the baby would have no idea if it was Easter or if he got a basket, etc.

Fast Forward to this past Saturday at Target: he spied all of the very cute Easter baskets and fillings for the baskets, and decided that we really should get the baby a basket! So I told him I thought that was a WONDERFUL idea, but only on the condition that he pick everything out himself! So I wondered over to the clearance section while he spent nearly a half hour picking out the perfect items for our babies first Easter Basket!

We both grew up with our parents making Easter baskets for us, so that's what we will do for our children as well.

 

[mickeyboat]

I make them for the kids. The premade ones look cool in the stores, but they are really pretty empty when it comes right down to it.

When we were kids the Easter Bunny used to fill our baskets, and then hide them. The hiding spot got more difficult as we got older. I remember having it hidden in the microwave, the oven, and inside a cake carrier in the pantry. My brother's was hidden behind the furnace air filter. Some years we were pretty distraught when one of us found the basket, and the other didn't.

The Easter Bunny hasn't hidden the girls' baskets, but he may consider it when they get a little older.

Denae

 

[DaisyD]

Always homemade! I remember my ex inlaws bringing over a premade one that you buy in the store. It was so cheap and tacky with an unknown plastic doll and a bunch of cheapo candy. Yuck! Homemade is the best!

 

[TiggerTails57]

Always homemade!........the one my DD talks about most is the one she got at Disney, we were staying at the WL. DH and I snuck down to the Mercantile Store and picked out some nice things, with the center piece being a Disney Easter Bear with bunny ears. Easter morning there was a knock at our door.........we told DD to please see who that was at the door. There was an Easter basket all decked out! SURPRISE!!!
She really was not expecting a basket that year, I think she thought the trip was her present.

 

[disneymac]

I am just putting my daughters baseball math leapster game up on Ebay....she has at least 20 leapster games and that is the only one she can't stand....I hope he likes it but most of the reviews on that one game are not good.

Thanks for the info, but since it's the only one he keeps asking for, he'll be getting it anyway. I hope he likes it, but if he doesn't, at least he won't be bugging me for it anymore!

 

[Trish Bessette]

I make by DD's. I can't stand the store ones, the only good thing about them is the price. $20 sounds much better then what I spend I don't buy much candy. Neat toys, a summer outfit, sandles, jewlery, CD's, DVD's that type of stuff.

Then the Easter Bunny hides plastic eggs filled with money & candy all over the house and yard.

 

[Buckalew11]

I make DDs also. I reuse an Easter Longenberger basket from her first Easter. I woked on it today as a matter of fact! It is so much fun to find the little goodies to put in it! (I love being the Easter bunny!!)

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

My brother is 20, I am 22 and my mom still makes us easter baskets. The premade ones look nice but there really isn't much in them. In my house everyone has their own basket so each year my mom buys the easter grass and a bunch of candy and fills the baskets. I think it is nice that she still does this. We still also do an egg hunt. There is no money in them and no prize for winning but we still do it. And every year she forgets where some are and we find them about a month later. (Thank goodness they are the plastic eggs!) I have a feeling that even when I move out and get married she is still going to make me a basket and buy me chocolate on valentines day and all that. She pretends that she wants me to move out so she can turn my room into a sewing room but I think she secretly will miss me greatly.

 

[BrinxFam]

Making Easter baskets is so fun! I have never bought an already made one and never will. When I was in high school, working at Wal-Mart, I worked with a young, single mom who was going to buy one of the already made baskets for her then 3 year old little boy. I said "You aren't buying that are you?" She asked me what to do if she didn't buy it. She didn't know how to go about making an Easter basket for her son. I told her just buy some little things that he likes and a chocolate bunny, maybe a little more candy too. Then pick out something to put it in. When she came back from her lunch break she was so excited because she spent her break picking out stuff for the basket. She said she didn't know who had more fun, him opening the basket or her making it. It was really kinda funny but she recalled the incident the next year and we all had a good laugh about it.
My sister was the same way. She didn't get an Easter basket growing up so when my nephew was born she didn't even think about it. We were at Wal-Mart just before midnight the Saturday before Easter picking up all of the stuff. It is fun to help people start new traditions, don't you think.

This year my girls are getting Game Boy Micros in their baskets. DH will probably have a fit when he sees the other things I've bought, too.