In the Easter Basket

I was thinking about the same thing - going easy on the candy this year! Also we've been thinking about going easy on the little gift basket period . . . and turning it around so that my daughter would do more of the giving. We got these fancy treat bags that have chicks (her favorite) on it and we plan to bake some little treats (something else my daughter loves to help with) for each of the family members. Otherwise, for my daughter, I'll probably fill plastic eggs with tiny toys so she can hunt for them on Easter morning. Believe me, she would just LOVE the plastic eggs . . . she has this big desire to lay eggs and hatch them . . . so I'm not kidding when I say she's just fine with getting eggs! I'll probably get my son a new baby toy. Oh - even though I said going easy on the candy - I already bought some malted chocolate "eggs" from Trader Joes (on my daughter's favorite egg theme).

Nice to hear Doran, this shows your love for your kids, well we don't have easter, but many similar things those are specific for kids, some are for sons and some for daughters and some for both.. Thanks for sharing. Sorry for late response.. Welcome always. Cheers. Prof

My son only got a little bit of candy as I don't like him eating a lot of candy. He also got sidewalk chalk, bubbles, Alvin & The chipmunks the squeakeal movie (he wanted that so bad lol) and he got a workbook (he's 3 so he likes writing his numbers and letters) and he got a coloring book too.

we dont have easter baskets for our daughters but we do have a easter hunt. i buy them little trinkets throughout the year to keep for easter. now that they are older, we bought them each a memory stick plus some candy this year.

I have not even started shopping for Easter yet. My kids are not real big candy eaters and never have been. They still had Christmas candy from their stockings until I threw it away. So, I probably will not put a lot of candy in them. I will be looking for toys and activities for them. I think that they get much more enjoyment out of these things than the candy. I have looked at the big baskets that are full of toys and activities with a little bit of candy and have been thinking about getting those. I am just not exactly sure what I am going to do yet. Time to get busy I guess.

Hi Dorann, I think we will just bring our kids to the mall. there they can enjoy thegg e easter hunting. i am excited with the way you are preparing for easter friend. i hope i can do it too here. in our country most of the preparations for easter as it relates to egg hunting, bunnies etc. are the malls, subdivisions, and other groups. we are more on the church activities. some churches also introduce this fun activity with the kids.

I haven't do anything. A lot of times I wait until the last minute to do so. I always try to reduce to put so many candy in it. I try to get the basket that has activities toys in it. And I'm not sure what I'm going to put in there this year. They bigger now, I don't think I'm going to put too many toys in it.

I haven't started yet. Next week the children will be at their grandmother's, so I will be able to sneak some things into the house. Usually it's candy and one other thing (toy, game, stuffed animal)...

I seem to have forgotton about easter and then all of a sudden these chocolate eggs start appearing on the supermarket shelves and we are all then reminded of how close Easter is once again! Well, I'm single and I don't have children but having said that I still like to treat myself to an egg once in a while. There's just so much choice when it comes to selecting a chocolate easter egg! I bought one a few days ago anyway and so I've had my fill! It sounds like you have a good plan yourself though for this upcoming period! Andrew

Thankfully, mine are not big candy eaters. They like skittle or nerds, so I buy some of that for them. I usually get them a new dvd, since we have seen the ones from Christmas a hundred times by now. I probably will get them a small lego binocle, they really like those. Last year they got guinea pigs, well they were thrilled for about a month, and you know who is taking care of them now. So no more pets.

My daughter's Easter present will be spent in Orlando for her performance. It was either letting her perform or getting the traditional going to park for the hunt. She not into the baskets. She is not sweet eater. She chose the park. I like giving them options so they do feel like they missed out. I personally would of like the hunt because it costs much less. Have a good holiday and I hope the children enjoy their goodies. They grow up so fast and then again so do I , lol.

I don't have kids of my own, so I get to be the crazy uncle that gives all the good stuff...I want my nephews to get all jacked up on sugar in any way that they can...because that is what good uncles do :)

I bought the traditional stuff, a couple of chocolate bunnies, some chocolate eggs, some jelly beans, etc. I figure that I only buy chocolate a few times a year so I let my daughter enjoy it.

I do wait until the last minute to get my stuff together, but this year I am not going to do very much candy at all. I will probably get the dvd Princess and the frog and a few other things for my 5 year old daughter, but my 19 month old son still not sure. He does love Thomas the train so I might get him something to do with that.

It's many years since I had to think about getting sweets and chocolate for Easter but at my son's school we used to make up a little easter basket for the children. These usually held a small chocolate easter egg, a fluffy little easter chick and a pack of colouring pencils

Honestly I don't plan on doing too much w/ the baskets. I want to get my oldest a razor scooter as it's silly to buy one for Christmas and then let it sit for several months in the basement or shed unable to use KWIM? But I don't know if I'll have the money for that. Otherwise so far we bought some kites from the dollar store thus far. Usually my Aunt (Great Auntie whom also has no kids) will make up baskets for them and the in-laws will. So we'll probably dye eggs and have an egg hunt in our yard and then head off to the in-laws and just get stuff after the holiday perhaps... we'll just have to see how money is and right now it's pretty tight... I wish it wasn't.

hi doranmwin oh my I did not realize Easter is that close wow. Well I am now out of the loop for years. but I do remember getting the Easter baskets for my two little kids many years back. Then it was heavily into Chocolate Eggs and other candies, and real Easter Eggs too because at the time we had not yet began to realize that most kids got way too much sweet stuff and far too little things that were much better for them.But at least the real Easter Eggs were better for them than all the candy they usually got. Now we all have a better handle on good nutrition thank heaven for that. wow my only living child will be 51 this coming June, its hard to believe. we lost our daughter when she was eight, which took a long time for me to get over but now its just bittersweet, she would be fifty now.