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?

As our DS has gotten older he gets so much chocolate from other family and organised egg hunts that we stopped buying him more chocolate. I’ve done a little basket, a few cheap Minecraft books and pens, Bath bomb and marshmallows. Prob cost about £10. I wouldn’t go crazy.

I’ve got an Easter basket for my 5 and 6 year old. All they will have in it is a packet of jelly bunnies each, a packet of small chocolate mini eggs each and a £2 paint your own egg cup inside. They have a couple of normal size Easter eggs off grand parents

We have always done little Easter baskets. This year there is one small £1 chocolate egg, a little Maileg rabbit each for their dolls house, some Easter themed stickers and a some of the chalk eggs. We also have some lovely tin reusable Easter eggs to hang in the garden that we put a few mini eggs.

No plastic tat in sight but something my children really enjoy and not overloading on chocolate!

1 egg each for my dds, never anything else. This year they're larger though as they were on offer. I've always done little clues for them to find them, even last year when dd1 (21) was back from uni. She's not here this Easter though so I'm hoping I can get away with it as it's just dd2 (16) here. I start to find it a bit of a headache after doing it for about 18 years!

I am not bothered about claiming it but don't pretend you aren't thinking of that group of people with your comments.

We have 5 kids away this weekend between a friend and I, 4 out of 5 don’t eat chocolate or eat very little chocolate ( 2 tube fed ) then an additional 2 with dairy allergies and the 5th who does like chocolate

they have a Easter gift bag each

2 tube fed who both eat small amount of chocolate got a normal kinda egg each so tiny lol plus youngest one a squish toy and a kitty corn surprise egg toy a busy book and stickers.
oldest got 2 cds she wanted and a manga book and 3d dragon fidget

the 2 dairy free kids who don’t like free from chocolate are both 5 they got a packet of sweets a smashers dino egg toy, busy book, stickerd and a 3d dragon fidget toy in egg each.

older but who does like chocolate but obviously the rest got gifts so he for 3d fidget dragon egg to, a basketball snap back hat he wanted, 2 suprise 5 balls with NBA players in it and a Easter egg.

No baskets here. An American tradition I’m not keen on starting, my house is already full of enough crap, I don’t need any more.

We do egg hunts, just around the house or garden. Lots of various eggs and bunnies. This year we have considerably dialled it back, a handful of branded chocolate eggs as my DCs no longer like the cheaper non branded ones. I got a small Cadburys and Lindt pack plus a couple of other treats, mini Easter themed milk bottle with straw I plan to put some mini eggs and malteesers Easter bunny in them and they have a small non chocolate themed gift each, a lip balm, a pair of socks and a Easter themed bath bomb.

We haven’t done any of our usual Easter crafts this year but have put out ones from previous years to decorate.

I don't know what an Easter basket is. I mean obviously a basket with chocolates and stuff in but as a recognised concept I've never heard of it or seen it.

Easter = some small eggs hidden in the garden for a hunt (with no pretence of the Easter bunny, wasn't a creative that featured at all in my childhood) and bigger eggs from family (not from us because they get loads of others). Not presents of any other kind or a presentation or any big deal.

My ds didnt eat chocolate as a toddler / preschooler. So eggs were out. So we did presents and gave them a £50 budget each child. With an Egg for dd and sweets for ds.

Since ds developed a taste for chocolate they have a little easter basket and still £50 easter
budget. In the easter basket is an easter themed mug, easter sweets from m&s, an easter egg, small eggs like kinder, reeces and cream eggs, face masks, nose strips, chicken bath bombs.

nothing goes on social media

That’s fine. You obviously have bigger issues at play.

I was not thinking of any group. At no time did I say that, and when you brought it up, I repeatedly explained what I actually said but you are either unwilling or unable to understand that.

It’s very strange that you read one word a stranger online has posted, and think you know exactly what they’re thinking. It’s actually very narrow-minded and narcissistic.

You’re the one who conjured the image of working class people and benefits recipients. I’m guessing that’s because you have some sort of chip on your shoulder about your own situation and are sensitive about it, reading slight where there is none.

You’re the one who brought benefits and social class into this. You. Nobody else. Just you.

I have bought DH , and DC a large lindt rabbit each, and DC (teens) got a couple of bags of mini eggs as well.
DH has bought me an Easter egg that he thinks I don't know about! 😄
I rarely go on Instagram and was unaware Easter baskets were a thing, I presume they're just the Easter version of a Christmas eve box

My teens will still want to do an Easter egg hunt rather than be given their eggs!

We still have, and use some of the mugs! DC now 30.
I remember one year buying them Harry Potter mug, plate and bowl and just putting a small Cadbury egg in the mug.
They only ever had two eggs each. One from us and one from Grandparents.

We have family coming tomorrow but I doubt they will bring Easter eggs. We still have some chocolate left from Christmas!

Easter basket?! Never heard of such a thing!

Mine used to get a £1.50 type egg, and then we'd do a hunt around the garden (or house if it was p*ing down with rain) for another 5-7 small eggs each. Then in the afternoon we'd decorate some hard boiled eggs and go for a walk somewhere we could roll them down a hill. (They kind of needed it after all tht chocolate.). Nursery etc would do bonnets, pictures etc..

Mine got a couple of eggs each from me, too.old for an egg hunt now. They also got an egg from both my dsis and dm.

People I know spend fortunes, expensive new outfits, personalised balloons, ridiculous!

I won’t be doing one. Kids get too much these days.

I have never heard of an Easter basket either.

My mother was born and grew up in Germany, and we had an Easter egg hunt when we were little, way before they became a "thing".

We had little baskets to put the eggs in when we found them, but we weren't given an "Easter basket".

My social media isn't awash with this kind of thing as none of my friends have young children.

One chocolate egg and an Easter egg hunt with plastic eggs and a prize at the end (dinosaur eggs to excavate). He'll also get a chocolate egg from granny.

@RampantIvy We had little baskets to put the eggs in when we found them, but we weren't given an "Easter basket".

So you did have an Easter Basket 😂
Yours was to put eggs in.
What goes in an Easter Basket will vary depending on the families church and culture.

You can still buy the ones with a mug but there isn't much choice.

Egg hunt here. The Easter Bunny expects some hard graft in exchange for the eggs. Clues are super-difficult. Take the bigger one all morning to solve, and test comprehension, spelling, decoding and maths skills. Little one hasn't got a hope, but cheers when her big brother solves one and runs after him to get an egg.

Eggs are a mix of little wrapped chocolate ones and playdough or craft eggs with little activities. Each child gets a "big" egg at the end of the hunt - large Creme egg one for older child, small Freddo egg for little one. Then we bake and decorate Easter biscuits and make Easter nest cakes.

Its a bit of fun and will last her ages! She won't het anything from her dad as he's useless. She'll get more from family and friends though.

Easter basket?! What fresh hell is this?!?!

As a kid, it was a little wicker basket with sticky fake grass and plastic eggs filled with jelly beans and tiny chocolates. The baskets, grass, and eggs were reused each year.

It was basically a way to stretch out a little to look festively like more.