Affordable Easter Basket Ideas for Kids

Easter Basket

In the ’90s, Easter baskets were small in size with a huge handle. Those baskets are not in style anymore! You can pick up some interesting baskets online. You will find a lot of assorted baskets, Easter tote bags, Easter buckets at Easter Egg Warehouse from $2 onwards.

If you don’t have Easter basket, you can use a paper mache basket, paper bags or even reuse your old basket.

Paper Mache Easter Basket

A bowl wrapped in colourful tissue paper. Have a look at DIY ideas by Momtastic to make a paper mache Easter basket for kids. You can create unique shapes and choose a kitchen bowl in the desired shape.

Easy Easter Baskets to Make

Sometimes you don't need big Easter baskets to celebrate. You can make inexpensive bags with just 2 pieces of standard paper and glue. You will get a lot of printable craft ideas online, you just have to print the design, stick them together and make a paper bag!

Reuse your Old Basket by Painting Them

Don’t spend a lot of money on buying new Easter baskets. You can just reuse the old and existing ones. Paint the baskets with attractive colours and you are all set for the Easter season!

Other easy and simple Easter basket ideas

• A wicker basket

• Fruit basket

• A large, colourful bowl

• A plastic container

Easter Basket Filler Ideas

Now that you have arranged an Easter Basket for kids, you need to look at inexpensive, yet cute and interesting items to add to the basket.

Buy Candy at Cheaper Prices

You will find a lot of interesting, colourful and tasty candies for less than $0.50. You don’t have to wait until Easter to buy candy. When you see good offers during Christmas or Valentine’s Day, grab a pack or two and use it for Easter.

Make Easter cookies at Home

Easter is all about Easter Eggs, chicks, bunnies and a lot of colours. Make cookies at home in the shapes of bunnies and eggs and add them to the Easter basket. Decorating the Easter cookies can also be fun for kids during the holiday season. To make Easter egg cookies, you can read the recipe by Kidspot. The decorations are cute and they are extra special for Easter.

Popcorn and Sweet Treats

Add pastel coloured popcorn and sweet treats to the Easter Basket. These popcorns are colourful and crunchy. You can easily make them at home. It is one of the cutest Easter basket ideas that you must try. They are pretty and delicious too. For an interesting recipe, you can check out Two Sisters Crafting.

Let the Kids Fill their Basket

You can put candies, jelly beans, cute stickers, little toys in plastic eggs. Hide the plastic eggs inside or outside the house and organise an Easter Egg hunt that your kids will enjoy. The little ones can fill their own basket.

A New Book

Include new books that you’ve purchased at discount sales. Comics, bedtime stories for the little ones, novels and fiction for older kids are the best gifts to add in an Easter basket for kids.

Easter Colouring Sheets

There are many Easter-inspired colouring sheets available on the internet. You can print them and add it to the Easter basket. You can find Free Easter colouring sheets on The Organised Housewife, Brisbane Kids and many other websites. You can also include pieces of crayons or some water colours to make it more exciting for the kids.

Easter Party Stickers, Confetti and Easter Decorations

You can add Easter decorations such as confetti, cutouts, stickers, hanging decorations, door decorations, kits, banners and balloons. Kids can come up with creative ideas to decorate the party venue for Easter. You can buy a wide range of Easter Party Supplies at Express Party Supplies. The price range is between $1 and $20.

Easter Gifts, Toys and Stationery

You can find a lot of Easter-inspired small notebooks, eraser, ruler, puzzle or even bunny money box and soft toys on Send A Toy starting from $4.

You can even buy customized Easter gifts starting from $40. If you want to stick to your budget, you can make baskets at home and find fillers that are useful for the kids that are also easy on your pocket. Hopefully, these Easter Basket ideas are inspiring and satisfy your budget.

You may also read, Cheap Christmas gift ideas on a budget and buy cheap Christmas decorations.