50 No Candy Easter Basket Ideas
50 No Candy Easter Basket Ideas…great inspiration for easter baskets other than candy. Surprise your kids with little things that they will love!
Easter Morning
Easter is an amazing holiday. Not only do we get to remember the reason for the season, but we also get to shower our loved ones with little treats and gifts! I remember waking up on Easter morning and running around the house with my siblings trying to find where the Easter bunny had hidden our baskets and eggs. It was so much fun and I looked forward to it all year. I will now get to do that for my children and it’s so exciting!
Below you’ll find 50 ideas for Easter Baskets that aren’t candy. Now don’t get me wrong, I am definitely not against candy but I also don’t think the baskets need to be filled to the brim with it. In my experience, kids like the small little gifts the best, and I’d prefer they don’t eat candy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner that day so it’s a win-win for everyone!
50 Easter Bakset Ideas for the Entire Family
- Coloring Books
- Markers and Crayons
- Eggs Full of Cheerios
- Character Bandaids
- Fun Toothbrush
- Play Dough
- Silly Putty
- Puzzles
- Barbies
- Superheros
- Bubbles
- Sand Toys
- Pool Toys (squirt guns, goggles, etc.)
- Movies
- Bouncy Balls
- Sidewalk Chalk
- Slinky
- Legos
- Letters and Shapes for Bath Time
- Felt Food
- Eggs full of small toys
- Blocks
- New Sippy Cups or Water Bottles
- Gardening Supplies
- Hair Accessories
- Nail Polish
- Mud Mask
- Movie Tickets
- Stuffed Animal
- USB Drive
- Trail mix & Jerky
- Cologne
- Baseball Cards
- Frisbee
- Personalized Stationary
- New Pajamas
- Sunglasses
- Rubik’s Cube
- Admission passes to the zoo, museum, etc.
- Gas Card
- Stickers
- Children’s Bible
- Bunny Ears
- Crazy Socks
- Finger Paints
- New Books
- Jump Rope
- Money or Gift Cards
- Board Game
- Play Dough Carrot
Thank you for this list. Still haven’t gone shopping yet. But I will be making the fish “Carrots.” My girls love them. I really try to not go the whole Candy route.
Best wishes on the show tomorrow. Will try to record it! 😉
we always got (and I always give) band-aids. 🙂
I do that in my son’s stocking every year!
Cool, I will DVR you tomirrow!
I have seen a lot of bunny/egg/basket craft ideas this year and was just wondering if you had any religious craft ideas for Easter. I would love to have some inspirational crafts to help my kids celebrate.
Sidewalk chalk, silly putty, cute pajamas, and books are my go-to Easter basket stuffers:) I’ll be posting about the Easter baskets I put together later this week.
Great post!! I have a tradition of putting a bathing suit in my daughter’s Easter basket. She usually needs a new one around this time of year so I figured why not make it a yearly thing? I also got her a $4 Easter movie from Target this year. Nail polish is a good one too. 🙂
Love the bathing suit idea! I do similar things too like beach towels and sunscreen.
Great list!! This year I am doing homemade playdoh, a handmade headband to wear with her Easter dress, a new Easter book, a chocolate bunny, $4 in quarters in eggs (because Luci is 4 years old now), and I still need to stop at the lds bookstore to pick her up something like a ctr bracelet. LOVE Easter! We’re going to the pageant tomorrow night. Have you gone yet this year? Good luck on the show tomorrow!!!
oooo this list was much needed!!! No chitlins of my own, but I made a cute little holloween treat bag for the little girl next store and wanted to do an easter basket for her as well! Thanks for the list!!!
Thanks for all the great ideas! I think Easter has the best candy but I’d still rather put stuff in my kids’ baskets that they can use — not just eat.
I always try to do something somewhat religious. My little bug is a little over 1, this year he is getting a CTR tie tack.
I only give one small chocolate bunny and the fill the basket with fruit. Each of my girls get two of their favorite fruits and they don’t have to share it. I will throw in a little pressie too but I have to be careful because my girls have started talking about asking the Easter bunny for an ipod touch. I think I have blurred the line between Santa and bunny!
This is the first year my little one will be old enough to do an Easter egg hunt so I plan on letting him have a little candy but I’m also going to scatter musical “shaker” eggs that we made. He had a blast making them with me and he keeps sneaking them and trying to play with them early.
Books are my “must-have” item in Easter baskets. No matter how old my kids are (14, 4, and 2), they each get a book. I try to avoid candy. Food alternatives that I use: fresh fruit, trail mix, microwave popcorn, graham crackers, goldfish crackers, and dried fruit.
He’s just two. I follow a similar rule to what you stated in your TV spot. I only buy stuff he needs or I’m going to buy anyway {this goes for stockings too}. This year, he’s getting a new sippee cup, goldfish, his favorite fruit snakes, sidewalk chalk {from Sidewalk Sensations on Etsy last year and Sunshine & Sidewalks on Etsy this year}, play dough, new beach towel, sandles, finger paints, a movie, new book, sun hat, sunscreen, bubbles and an egg filled with his first fake tattoos. As an infant, I did Puffs instead of the fruit snacks and threw in a new bib and owl bath mitt, some baby toys, baby bath soap, new white onesies, etc. As a child, we had the same basket every year and one large item. I’m keeping that tradition going and filling his same basket from his last two Easters, and he’s getting a tricycle too. I plan ahead and start gathering soon after Valentine’s Day. That way nothing is a shock to the wallet!
This year I will make caramel Apples and popcornballs to put in the childrens easterbox ( shoebox because they are large) together with somekind of puzzle, Cocoa (instant) and marshmallows, oranges and a cartoon mag to read. A pair of mittens and warm socks is also good to have in the cold or out on a crosscountry skitrip ( day trip). I also just saw a receipe on straw worms Made of gell-o and straws, Great idea:)
Great idea! Your kids will be so happy!
Great post girl!
I got some of their favorite candies, crackers, Brave Tattoos, little toys from Walmart’s birthday favors sections (jacks, frogs, etc.) card games, random little toys and puzzles, the tiny towels that soak up and expand in water, pennies and nickles – all for baskets and our egg hunt.
LOVE the Rubiks cube, hadn’t thought of that. Wii romote is also needed so I will add that to tomo shopping list as well. MAGIC 8 ball is fun!
My “kids” are older and newly married. This year the girls` baskets will be enameled collanders with almonds, mints, nail polish and nail files. The guys will get car washing supplies, almonds, mints, and snack bars.
What fun ideas for older “kids” Kim! I know a lot of moms have been wondering what to get adults for Easter, thanks for sharing!
my kids are older, so for the girls they are getting movie night. (Popcorn, coke, DVD & a box of movie candy). The guys shose shine kit & candy.
Those are great ideas for older kids! Thanks for sharing Sandra!
My kids are getting several books, a coloring/activity book, new washable markers, flip-flops, 1 or 2 small toys, stickers, a new travel water bottle.
What perfect ideas for spring Lisa, they are going to love that!
Just to quantify, we live in SoCal. My kids always get their summer goodies such as new bathing suits, towels, sandals, sunglasses, totes ( I prefer practical, usable containers) and beach toys. I do sprinkle in only their fav candies. Now that they are older it’s only Sees candies. I do use very large plastic eggs to disguise some gifts such as bathing suits or special surprises. My mother is so into Easter, sometimes my kids have had 19 baskets from teeny to bigger…….I LOVE to make baskets year around 🙂
What a great idea for summer time! Thanks for sharing Laurie! 🙂
Great ideas! Since my daughters are 20 & 16, I bought them the traditional solid chocolate bunny, jelly beans, and Cadbury eggs. My oldest daughter wanted hair accessories so I got some from Ulta and my youngest I got a book she’s been wanting from Amazon. I also got some really cute spring colored fingernail polish. I’m going to Ikea this weekend to get some cute white scalloped containers to put their stuff in.
Those ideas sound perfect for your daughters! Thanks for giving us all ideas Crystal! 🙂
This is so awesome ! Thank you so much for posting with 7 kids it is very challenging .. This has saved my pocket book. Most of these things listed I can grab from the dollar tree.. Thanks again .
You are very welcome! Hope you and your family had a wonderful Easter Talicia! 🙂
Two of our favorites are kites and silly string. Even the big kids enjoy our annual silly string fight.
I think id love this site. ..love to join.
A gas card?
my son was only 3 years old when he cried no mommy i want a fruit basket and it not being the time of year for fruit baskets the local store didn’t have any so i call and asked them if they could make a fruit basket and then they asked the occasion i said my 3 year old is crying for a fruit only basket and i can’t find none so they made him a basket and called me to come get it my son was so happy they even put 2 toys and one little candy bar in it which upset him but he gave it away as soon as we got home with it. I love how all my kids make healthy choises on their own most of the time. they cry for salads over candy or fruit and veggies over candy love it .
Wow, that is amazing! Good job raising your kids to eat healthy. 🙂
I always do a bathing suit, flip flops. And a mask and a new movie.
Grateful for the Easter ideas. My girls will love these things. While a few pieces of chocolate is ok, I like more of your Spring ideas!! I am opening my yoga studio April 1 – my Mission in life is to make yoga a family ritual. So I am hosting a yog Easter egg hunt!
I will use these ideas thank u very much
Pajamas I do them for all holidays. Slippers, socks, toothbrushes bath crayons, foam, bubbles, fizzers, and loofahs.
My children are older, so I give them laundry baskets filled with shampoo, conditioner, dish soap, laundry detergent, favorite soda, microwave popcorn, etc.. They love it.