Easter Baskets.. what’s realistic

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Seen many reels of people making up lovely Easter baskets. Some pretty expensive ones too to be honest. Do you do Easter baskets in you’re house what goes inside them? I think it’s a lovely idea just not sure if it’s a thing me or the Easter bunny want to start in this house 😅to think a couple of Easter eggs is still what the bunny brings most houses?

An Easter egg and a chocolate bunny was the norm for our kids growing up.

Nope. Not doing the overconsumption Instagram Easter in this house.

I do an egg hunt with my DD, I got a kit from home bargains that included pre made clues but in the past I've made the clues myself. We did it this morning as her dad has her this weekend.

She got:

4 mini packs of mini eggs
4 cadburys cream eggs
1 milky bar small egg
1 medium blue m&m egg
1 packet on mini m&ms
1 large Gulyan egg
1 large lindt egg with bunny

This amount of choc will last her weeks amd she'll share some with me

Easter is low key in our house - the kids get a small Easter egg and a book each from the bunny. We also get a cadburys Easter egg hunt pack and hide eggs around the house for them to find. Definitely not up for Easter baskets/balloons etc

I have always just bought one egg, two at a push. No basket, no clothes, no toys.

Honesty what a load of shite, just buy them and egg or do an egg hunt like normal people do.

Didn’t know it was a thing. One large Easter egg , one Buttons egg, and an Easter egg hunt was the norm in our household.

Mine gets an egg and a small gift like a small Lego set or a book. We don’t generally buy toys and gifts away from birthdays and Xmas.

Nah I go to organised Easter events rather than faff about at home with stuff. I prefer low maintenance parenting! 😂

I suppose the concept of having a basket is from doing Easter Egg hunts (you put them in the basket obviously).
Other than an egg, some easter crafts and maybe a toy bunny or similar I can't think of anything else to go in there.
If you have a basket use the same one every year.

Absolutely not getting into doing Easter baskets or whatever else may crop up. My son is 3.5 and daughter is a newborn so starting as I mean to go on! It’s just more stuff to think about and more crap kicking around the house.

Nope, no Easter baskets here.

My kids will be getting a smallish supermarket egg from us, plus probably a chocolate thing (egg/bunny) from my mum and something similar from MIL. On Sunday we'll have breakfast at my mum's house, go to church, do the Easter egg hunt in our local park and have roast lamb for dinner.

My kids are 3 and 5 year old boys, and I don't think they would care at all about an elaborately decorated Easter basket, so what would be the point apart from for social media?

When my kids were smaller I used to give them an easter bunny, easter egg probably some easter sweets or mini eggs.
Then my parents and family would also get them a lot of chocolate and maybe a fiver in a card.

I realised though that a lot got wasted. I used to end up melting it all down and making rice crispy buns.

My dd was saying the other day that for some of her friends it's like Christmas or a birthday again and their parents are spending hundreds of pounds on expensive clothes and presents. Luckily for me my kids understand I can't do the same and they think it's crazy too.

The Easter baskets here are empty and used for collecting the mini eggs from the egg hunt! Then at the end they find a medium sized egg. And they are reused every year.

Would this work
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I kid you not, my colleague was showing us her Easter baskets yesterday and they honestly came to about £100+! I’m talking hotel chocolat treats, that posh truffle company, artsy bits… it was insane! I mean, I would LOVE one myself, but my kids wouldn’t be bothered about a £30 hotel chocolat egg compared to the £1.15 cadburys ones. I wouldn’t waste my time, money and energy on an Easter basket for my kids.

😳

Personally, I found Hotel Chocolat seriously overrated anyway. Some very weird, even unpleasant, flavours in its filled chocolates.

Wow, that’s about the amount I’ve bought for my whole family of 4 😄
I really try not to get sucked into the whole over-consumerism business. There’s only so much chocolate we need!

I am going to do an Easter basket this year only because DS is now a teenager and has insisted I'm not allowed to hide the eggs anymore

But it's literally just the eggs/sweets I've bought in a reusable basket we use for doing this. Wondering if I should have got a bow or something now 🤔

Kids get a basket with a easter teddy this year it's a chick, easter colouring book and colours a small egg and a chocolate bunny.
They then use the basket for their egg hunt.

An egg, singular. Why does every occasion need to be made into a huge OTT gift giving event filled with unnecessary packaging, boxes, baskets and plastic crap that won’t be used again.

I suspect you didn’t mean to post that on this thread

Out of interest, why are you doing an Easter Egg hunt today?

In this house you get an empty basket, which you then fill with the eggs you find in the garden.
grandparents probably bring a larger egg (like the 5-6 inch ones) for each child.

Mine have always just done a little Easter hunt in the garden. I don't want them to have too much chocolate so it's usually a medium size egg, a chocolate bunny, a little pack of mini eggs (the Easter equivalent of Christmas chocolate coins) and then a few things like a lip gloss, craft kit, shower gel etc. It makes the hunt a bit longer and interesting.

My family never did anything at Easter. I got 1 small egg some years but not always. Nothing from grandparents or anything like that. I'm not sure why - I don't think it occurred to them really. Definitely no egg hunts or baskets.

I remember going to a friend's house one Easter and seeing so many chocolate eggs on the table that they had been given. I was so envious.

I try to make sure my kids have fun and get a few nice things but without going to over the top.