This year Americans will celebrate Easter on Sunday, March 27. Four out of five U.S. residents plan to celebrate the holiday, which means spending as much as $17 billion, or $145 per person, on a wide range of holiday products, from food and candy to greeting cards and Easter décor items. If you’re looking for ways to reduce your holiday expenses, why not start with the Easter basket. Below you will find simple ideas how to make a cute DIY basket for $10 or less.
- The Beach Basket
If you live close to the shore or are planning a family beach vacation, consider making a sunshine-and-sand-themed Easter basket. Get a sand bucket and fill it with inexpensive beachy items like flip flops, a beach ball, or stuffed sea life animals. If there are several kids in your family you may organize a sand castle building competition! Give the contest a cool name and hand out paper invitations with the date and rules outlined. To make your kids inspired consider printing out photos of great sand castles and then arrange them into an idea book.
- For Your Little Artist
Print out some black and white Easter-themed clip-art for homemade coloring sheets. Staple the sheets together to make a custom coloring book, then add paints and a paintbrush or a small box of crayons and put all these in a wicker basket.
- The Wellness Basket
Skip sugary jelly beans and the chocolate rabbit this Easter and fill the traditional wicker basket with healthy snacks, such as raisins, grapes, almonds, tangerines, grapes, or other fruit or veggie your child loves very much. You may also put in the basket a jump-rope or Band-Aids for some extra fun.
- For the Tech-Head
Your child will be thrilled to find a selection of handmade coupons redeemable for prizes in a basket. For example, it can be a new smartphone app, or one iTunes song download, or one movie download. Just stipulate that only one coupon can be redeemed a week. Make sure you staple the coupons into a book so your kid won’t lose it during the holiday.
- Spring Has Sprung Basket
Get an empty flower pot, wash it well and fill it with seed packets and tulip bulbs. Put inside a shovel, a pair of gardening gloves, and detailed instructions on how to grow the flowers.
- For Your Little Handyman
Get an old tool box, clean it up and put a measuring tape, a toy hammer and wrench, a clipboard and some paper in it. You can also purchase a kid-sized hard hat or a plastic crate in case you have no spare tool box in the house.
- For the Fashionista
If your daughter is a stylish girl she will appreciate getting a purse or a statement hat instead of the traditional Easter basket. Fill the purse or the head of the hat with a range of beauty items like a set of colorful barrettes, mini bottles of nail polish, a pocket mirror and a brush.
