Easter baskets....do you store buy, or do you make your own for your kids?

Umm...Ihave seven kids...I don't make the baskets anymore. But I also celebrate Ostara instead of Easter...its a Pagan thing. :) Anyways, we have our celebration and they go outside to find real eggs, some plastic eggs I put jelly beans in, one chocolate bunny each, and then toys and tattoos. LOL Tattoos because they also come in a plastic egg. Which they absolutely love and my daughter has already put on seven...washed then off...and applied 4 more. LOL We are trying to talk her into doing her whole arm...but she is not going for it. ha ha

I don't make baskets or buy baskets. I'm broke and can't afford too...lol.

im not so creative in pertains on that things..actually i have no easter bags or the likes...i dont give a fuss on such occassion maybe because my parents dont practice or not as well as creative as you...

I always make my own. The store bought ones always seem to have a lot of crud in there. Like they'll have toys that will break easy, lots of cheap candy and tons of fluff aka easter grass or trash. Now I know my kids would like those anyway but it's more special for me to make themtheir own. I try to get one main good toy and then a few little things. I also don't put that much candy because I don't want to wind them up anymore then they will be on that special day. :)

I always like to make up my daughter's Easter basket myself. I like to pick out the candy and maybe a little stuffed animal like a bunny or a chick. I like to get those plastic eggs and put little candies in them and hide them around the house for her to find while she's looking for her basket.

Well I have bought the baskets already made and I have bought the stuff to do it with it gets expensive that way but it is worth it so that you may know what is all in the basket for youre own kid and that way you can put as much things in it that you want the child to have instead of just a little bit of candy and a toy.

I have always made my sons basket. I stay away from the candy and buy something that he has been asking for ($15 or less) and healthy snacks that I know he likes.

This will be my daughters first Easter. We made her basket ourselves. Every year I'm going to make it myself. That way they're more personalized and it's fun doing it! Happy Easter!

We usually store buy one or two chocolate items and add a keepsake like an egg cup to the children's easter morning gifts. It is nice to have something left over once the chocolate is all gone!

I have never bought the store baskets, and growing up the store bought baskets were a lore more rare than they are now. For my daughter we buy candy here and there, but I liked to focus on fun spring activities too, like bubbles, jump ropes, sidewalk chalk, etc. My daughter loves it because I get specialized things like that, like a bunny wand for bubbles, or egg shaped sidewalk chalk.

I never got the store bought ones for Easter so my girls won't either. This year the Easter Bunny is bringing a homemade pillow, small stuffed animal, tiny amount of candy, Jenniffer gets a cadburry egg because she is 2 and that is the minimum age for those in my book, and a book for each of them. We are also going to dye eggs and hide them around the house.

When i was young, we used to leave the empty basket out which only had shredded paper in the bottom & when we'd wake in the morning here would be choccie eggs, rabbits whatever else in there. Plus there would be an outdoor egg hunt too! This year is my daughter's first Easter so we will get her just 1 or 2 chocolate eggs etc but we're getting her a Giant Beanie Kid dressed as a rabbit, she'll also get a solid candy egg (the kind that lasts forever - i think they're made of Marzipan (sp?) or something) & a new outfit! My parents have gotten her 1 chocolate rabbit to eat & a big soft toy rabbit! We'll put her basket with shavings in it, out on the eve of Easter & then when she's in bed, we'll put her things in there!

I make my own. I go to the dollar store and buy a cute little basket and pick and choose candies and chocolates, a cute stuffed animal and some small pens, pencils and mini activity books to fill it in. I too try to stay away from too much candies. The dollar stores have different items that are very cute and very cost effective if you have several kids to plan for! I also find this to be more personal and fun for everyone, rather than buying the impersonal pre-wrapped baskets at the mega stores.

i like to make my own then at least i can personalize more.

i would buy

we have some from past years I will dig one out for my wife, she likes that