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?

Mine got a medium egg from us and from grandparents. We did a little egg hunt in the garden with mini eggs. Then a big roast lamb dinner and a lazy evening watching a movie & eating chocolate. No Easter Bunny or Easter baskets!

80 kid/90s teen. We never even did a hunt, just came downstairs to a couple of eggs. Easter was pretty low key bar a good sunday roast and maybe seeing family.

I think it’s more what’s in the baskets than an easter basket… so when people go ott and spend a fortune and fill a big basket with additional socials photos and videos..

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I’ve bought DD (14) a dress instead of an egg. She’s not bothered about an Easter egg, and although it cost more, I’d rather give her something she’ll get a lot more use out of!

When I was a child in the 90s we had Easter baskets left outside our bedroom doors by the Easter bunny. They were made of seagrass or something and lined with checked fabric, with the toys and treats arranged on top of colourful shredded tissue paper. It's been a while, but I remember:

Cute novelty candle, maybe a beeswax one with a bee design
A packet of seeds for the vegetable patch
One of those wind-up hopping chick toys
A bar of special scented soap
A traditional German wooden decoration to hang on the Easter twigs
A cute ceramic egg cup
Little Easter eggs

They were lovely.

My kids get a lot of Easter eggs from various family members so DH and I have always got them a couple of small gifts instead. This year DS (6) is getting a hot wheels car and a book, DD (11) is getting a body spray and a pretty note-book and they're both getting a rabbit shaped chocolate lolly. Instead of a basket they'll be in a couple of paper Easter themed gift bags we've been re-using for the last few years, but the principle is the same I suppose. We don't spend loads and it's stuff the kids will use and enjoy so I don't see the harm. We also do an Easter egg hunt in the garden, they collect the little individually wrapped eggs in plastic buckets with bunny ears that Grandparents bought years ago. The eggs are dead cheap from Aldi and the kids will eat them over a few weeks.

No Easter baskets here. Just an egg from us parents and various relatives. We don't have the Easter bunny either (wasn't a thing when I was a child as far as I'm aware!). I think we will do DD an egg hunt in the garden with some plastic eggs my mum has. She will be thrilled with that.

My DC are 17 and 13. In their baskets I have put a Lindt bunny, a packet of sweets, a bath bomb and a candle. They prefer that to lots of chocolate. I liked reducing the amount of sweets when they were younger too. I have often put gardening things in their baskets in previous years as another option. They will get a chocolate egg from their dad and grandparents too.

I do for my six year old daughter:

• An Easter themed book
• Easter themed colouring book
• Easter themed craft
• A small bag of sweets
• A cuddly toy.
• An Easter egg.

I got it all from Home Bargins so didn’t cost a lot at all.

Easter baskets aren’t a thing in our house. DC gets Easter chocolate from the grandparents and we do an egg hunt at home where at the end he finds some sort of craft. There’s too much crap as it is and there’s no need for huge quantities of chocolate- one from the grandparents is enough.
we do colour eggs though.

I do hope this is to provoke a reaction, that's a years worth. You're giving the child a gift of over eating, too much sugar and possibly a future of unhealthy eating.
One egg is plenty, a lovely day out, lots of attention and games, your time is far more precious.

Don’t be ridiculous

I’ve got a couple of Easter gift bags that get reused every year…. though starting to look a little worn now! 🤣

I think we keep it fairly sensible. They get one egg from each grandparent (they have 2 left). We’ve got them 2 medium eggs, some stickers, an Easter colouring book, a tube of bubbles and some haribo Easter sweets. So plenty to keep them busy for a bit and the chocolate & sweets will last a couple of weeks.

I wonder if anybody has ever done an 'Easter basket' without posting it on Instagram.

What a crock of shit.

Disclaimer that this is exactly what I grew up with as a fairly religious family who celebrated Easter practically like Christmas. It will also go nowhere near social media and is entirely just for us.

My guys get:

New outfit to wear to church
New trainers for the start of summer as their old ones are destroyed by now
At least one new book each
Notebook and pens (DD), colouring book and pens (DS)
Something crafty
Lindt bunny
Big egg
Medium egg
20 ish small eggs to hunt in the house

DD is getting some skincare she’s run out of, a claw clip, lip balm and an extra top she took a shining to the other week

DS has a couple of hot wheels, slime and a new rugby ball.

I also picked up some new dippy egg holders weeks ago that I’ve hidden and will get out on Sunday because ours were knackered.

We’ve always done an egg hunt in the garden. My 17 yr old is still excited for one, so he will join in with his younger siblings this year. We hide ten small plastic eggs that we’ve been using for about 15 years that are filled with little mini eggs or cadburys eggs. Then they get one big Easter egg as a main prize.

DD likes finding, so just small eggs- as in the tiny, foil wrapped eggs. Occasionally a toy.
I went all out one year, she opened every egg and had a mouthful and got bored, I ended up eating the lot. 🐷

The people that were doing it 100s of years ago probably weren't 😂
It's not a new concept. Obviously what people put in the baskets will vary and probably have changed a bit over the years.

Pack of hollow eggs to do an Easter egg hunt in the morning with a couple of chick buckets we use every year.

A £6 Cadbury egg and a £3 cuddly toy - just leave it in their bed!

then they usually get a few cheaper eggs from friends, relatives and neighbours. Who can be arsed to do much else?!

I love Easter. I’m from somewhere where it’s celebrated more than in the UK and I love spring time so think it’s a lovely
tradition. Growing up I was given a filled Easter egg (mostly sweets and the occasional item).

I made the kids Easter baskets last year and I loved it as I enjoyed making them. I also set up clues for them to find them. Unfortunately couldn’t afford to do it this year so only did an egg but hopeful for next year.

I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest my mum wasn’t posting my Easter basket on insta in ‘93.

Just get one nice egg and do a treasure hunt for it. You can get chatGPT to write you a cute treasure hunt, tell it the age of your child, things they like, and places where you will hide each clue and ask it to write you some age appropriate clues for each place.

For reasons that I've never had explained, my brother and I got bedtime clothing for Easter so I've continued that tradition with my kids and my niece and nephew - jamas, slippers, dressing gown etc. Off to message the parents and get to the bottom of this bizarre idea now 😂

Maybe it was a cost thing?

Whenever we’ve been a bit pushed over the years, we’ve bought things that were needed and dressed them up as gifts. So, an Easter egg and some pjs would have been the norm for us for several years. Same on Christmas Eve.

We do Easter baskets (and I don't have instagram).

DS (2)

bubbles
easter book
easter puzzle
sun hat
sunglasses
easter stickers
bath crayons
swim shorts
beach toy
beach towel

We've also bought him a balance bike.

Twin DD's (almost 1)

cuddly toy bunny
easter book
sun hat
sunglasses
swimsuit
beach toy
beach towel
easter puzzle
bath toy
first easter outfit

We've also bought them ride on trikes.

They'll get some chocolate easter eggs and we'll attempt an easter egg hunt with more chocolate too.