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Re: Remember making Easter Baskets?

People talk about making baskets for Easter and I assumed you were all hand crafting straw baskets..lol.I am Canadian and we called it filling an Easter basket.

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Re: Remember making Easter Baskets?


@ECBG wrote:

I loved collecting Easter basket candy.  DH said we had to have peeps (so they got added,yellow chicks only).  I'd get all Russel Stover and Reeses candy, and certainly not forget the Cadberry eggs, I'd nestle them in green "grass" in the bottom of their first straw baskets, the heavy ones from produce in the early '80's!  Add a stuffed animal and done!!!

 

After Easter, I'd reclaim the baskets and redo them the next year!

It was similar to "filling stockings".

 

Of course we dyed eggs with the cups of dye and vinegar, and the little metal egg holder that didn't work!


Parents did the same and cousins posted pics o FB from Easters past and all the little girls had their finest dresses and Easter bonnets on - I don't think I've seen that in a long time.