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[ECBG]

I always made our two son's Easter basket.  I'd do a large Russel Stover Rabbit in the center with Russel Stover eggs and Cadbury eggs, and a small stuffed animal until they got out of the animal stage.  DH still gets his large RS rabbit!  Forty one years of chocolate rabbits!

[beach-mom]

We still do them, and until DS left for college, we had our "Easter Egg hunt"! I bought girl and boy plastic eggs (unfilled) and DH hid them. They had to find the number that was equal to their age, then they got a surprise! Even though they thought it was corny after they were teenagers, they still went along with it. DS won't be with us for the second year , so I'll be mailing goodies to his college! 

[MaRina]

We still give a Easter Basket to our son, he's close to 18. My mother gave me one until I was married. It's fun to hunt for fun useful things to put in it besides just candy. 

[blackhole99]

Easter was a hugh deal in our family when we were kids, my family is of Eastern European desent and very Polish Catholic. I remember my grandparents and my Dad taking baskets full of food like kielbasa and ham, raisin bread and hard boiled eggs to the church for the priest to bless.The Germans on my Mother's side of the family made us kids the most beautiful Easter baskets you could ever imagine. The wicker baskets were theirs when they were kids and my Grandmother and the Aunts would put all kind of figural chocolate pieces, white choc. lambs , pink choc. bunnies and a big hollow choc. egg with our names on them  filled with small choc. foil wrapped eggs. Of course there would be the yellow peeps and jelly beans and then they would wrap the baskets up in pastel cellophane and tie it with a big beautiful ribbon. I remember we thought the baskets were so fabulous we didn't want to open them, we would  be dressed up in our Easter finery and walk around the yard with the baskets and the adults would take our picture. Of course that ended when we were 12 or 13 and thought that Easter baskets was just for babies. I did carry on the tradition for our son, but he did not appreciate the fancy basket.LOL

[Lucky Charm]

I make traditional Easter baskets for the grandchildren. 

I buy nice wicker baskets and usually hand paint them with either chalk paint or milk paint.

I don't go overboard with candies, although whatever I do use is organic. I'll add oranges, gala apples and bananas, a few little toys.  Things like hairclips, lip balms, maybe a book or diary.

This Easter I'm giving our daughter and 2 daughters in laws these beautiful beveled glass candle holders from Frontgate. 

They love the smaller ones I have on our patio table and the larger ones were on sale from $99.50 to $19.50!  (!!!)

They're 11 x 13", so I'll get some large 3 wick candles, add pure white sand and top that off with sea glass which I collect.

Last year they got monogramed canvas beach totes that I filled with nice thick beach towels, Devita sunscreen and To Go cups. 

[violann]

My kids LOVED Easter Baskets! Then one year a crazy relative made fun of HER grandson because he was too OLD for a basket (he was TEN!).

I will be making Easter Baskets for MY grandchildren as soon as they're old enough to search for them (or crawl into them!) and I hope they'll want them 'till I go to my reward!

[MoJoV]

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

I make traditional Easter baskets for the grandchildren. 

I buy nice wicker baskets and usually hand paint them with either chalk paint or milk paint.

I don't go overboard with candies, although whatever I do use is organic. I'll add oranges, gala apples and bananas, a few little toys.  Things like hairclips, lip balms, maybe a book or diary.

This Easter I'm giving our daughter and 2 daughters in laws these beautiful beveled glass candle holders from Frontgate. 

They love the smaller ones I have on our patio table and the larger ones were on sale from $99.50 to $19.50!  (!!!)

They're 11 x 13", so I'll get some large 3 wick candles, add pure white sand and top that off with sea glass which I collect.

Last year they got monogramed canvas beach totes that I filled with nice thick beach towels, Devita sunscreen and To Go cups. 

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Lucky charm,do you need another DIL?  You have a volunteer here. Your baskets sound excellent!

[Irshgrl31201]

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@hovis wrote:

We have six grandchildren and every year we make our own. No matter what age they still like to get the Easter basket. Each one gets the same so there's no comparing. When I was small my aunt made the Easter baskets. They were gorgeous. I mean it. They were big and decorated beautifully. She had a nack for design and it showed up in the baskets. Even my husband gets a basket. Anyone make baskets for their loved ones and do you like receiving one ?

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Yes, I still do this for my daughter and she is almost 27! I also make one for my husband and I have a grandson who is almost 2 and the Easter Bunny always leaves him a basket over here too and hides eggs for him! 

I really enjoy doing the baskets. 

[Irshgrl31201]

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

I make traditional Easter baskets for the grandchildren. 

I buy nice wicker baskets and usually hand paint them with either chalk paint or milk paint.

I don't go overboard with candies, although whatever I do use is organic. I'll add oranges, gala apples and bananas, a few little toys.  Things like hairclips, lip balms, maybe a book or diary.

This Easter I'm giving our daughter and 2 daughters in laws these beautiful beveled glass candle holders from Frontgate. 

They love the smaller ones I have on our patio table and the larger ones were on sale from $99.50 to $19.50!  (!!!)

They're 11 x 13", so I'll get some large 3 wick candles, add pure white sand and top that off with sea glass which I collect.

Last year they got monogramed canvas beach totes that I filled with nice thick beach towels, Devita sunscreen and To Go cups. 

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You have some great ideas! I love it! I do it the same way you do it. I actually only put a very small amount of candy in the basket. With my daughters basket she will get a lot of cute little things that she loves like spring and summer colors of nail polish, lip gloss, eyeshadows and cute colorful Urban Decay eye liners. Decorative and colorful coffee mugs and any other cute things that I think she would like but really stuff I know she would use. I try to really make sure she will have a use for these things and not just stuff that adds to clutter. 

My grandson is obsessed with stuffed animals and stickers so I am sure there will be those. He loves the show Baby Einstein especially the ones with Marlee Matlin doing sign language. I have been doing his alphabet in ASL since he was first born and he can do all of those so I bought him a bunch of different ASL flash cards for his basket. 

[Irshgrl31201]

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@violann wrote:

My kids LOVED Easter Baskets! Then one year a crazy relative made fun of HER grandson because he was too OLD for a basket (he was TEN!).

I will be making Easter Baskets for MY grandchildren as soon as they're old enough to search for them (or crawl into them!) and I hope they'll want them 'till I go to my reward!

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What a jerk!! Why do people do that?