Since we largely avoid sweets and other processed foods, I have to become creative and develop other Easter baskets every year. As children, my brother and I were always looking forward to Easter, got baskets with a chocolate rabbit and drove on Easter eggs. Because of these special memories, I am working hard to make my children ‘baskets just as special (with less junkie stuff).
Our family focuses on making experiences instead of material gifts, and I wanted to find ways to bring this to our holiday celebrations. Over the years I have found some unique ideas and topics for the annual baskets. The children not only enjoy digging into their baskets on Easter morning, but also promoting family experiences.
Healthy Easter baskets: Are you going too far?
I definitely heard that the objection that the removal of sweets from an Easter basket, the whole healthy thing leads a little too far. If your thoughts run in this direction, you should:
After Halloween, Easter is the second largest candy holiday of the year. Every year over 16 billion Jelly Beans are manufactured together with millions of neon -marshmallow chicks and hundreds of chocolate society. The children’s Easter baskets are often filled with corn syrup with high fructose, food colors and ingredients that our body (and certainly our children’s bodies) should not consume.
My point is when I am extreme, it is because I react to a big problem.
Since food dyes can influence behavior and consume many people over 100 pounds of sugar per year, it is increasingly important to take into account healthier alternatives even during the holidays. These simple switches do not take the fun or tradition away; They only reduce the sugar and food dye content.
Sometimes the stress of choosing natural options can outweigh the advantages. However, I believe that this is a vacation in which we can definitely make improvements. We can still celebrate everything that Easter should be without the extremes at both ends of the spectrum.
Ok, that’s out of the way … continue to Easter baskets!
25+ candy -free Easter basket ideas
Here are some of the favorites of our family from Easter over the years. Hopefully some of them will bring the bikes and inspire some ideas that are perfect for their family!
Experience -based/topic -related Easter basket ideas
These baskets on the subject of experience are more fun and more durable than a sugar-loaded basket with sweets. Create an Easter basket based on an activity or a topic such as gardening, baseball, swimming or camping. Help your children the gift of a new ability or a popular past.
These are some of my favorite topics from previous Easter baskets:
Garden basket
A favorite in the past and a topic that we vote again from year to year. I use inexpensive clay pots for the “basket” and fill them with children’s -sized garden gloves, seeds, small garden tools and other garden -related objects. Each child receives a different kind of seeds that we use in our garden and help me to start the seeds, plants in our increased beds and water all year round.
Camping basket
A year to store our camping supplies, every child received camping articles in their basket. They got sleeping bags, flashlights, binoculars, whistling and camping silver.
Sports basket
Grörbe with equipment to play certain sports and even tickets for our local Minor League teams to play as a family all year round are always a favorite. For a year we used new attachments for our Ninja line in the back yard.
Film evening basket
The children really enjoy family film evenings so that their baskets of Sommer -PJs and cinema cards or DVDs can contain. Each child gets a different film and “moderator” in this film evening by making snacks and standing up for the film. Several years of favorites in our house are how you can train your kite and ash pout.
Craft basket
Every mother knows the challenge of keeping children comfortable and productive. Especially in the summer months that don’t come long after Easter! Craft baskets are perfect for this. I could fill the baskets with handicrafts such as construction paper, glue, scissors, buttons and modeling measuring tombs.
Schnitzel hunt
With this idea, the basket is part of the experience. In a few years I would like to give all children who do not fit in a basket. I create a scavenger hunt for the gift and leave the information in your baskets. Hide part of the first note in every basket so that the children can work together to find the first hint and lead them to a schnitzel hunt to the final destination or to the Easter gift.
Easter basket filler ideas
If you don’t want to follow an Easter basket, fill it with a random selection of healthy Easter basket ideas.
And if there is time: try homemade!
Just say no to the Neon -Jellee -Beans and Marshmallow chickens! Skip the chocolate rabbits and cadbury eggs completely and you should produce healthier chocolate, marshmallows or gelatine fruit snacks (perhaps in an ostermost). You can also make these sweet meringues.
And although it is not so comfortable, homemade sweets have a bonus: quality time that is preparing for Easter.
If your children still like funny Easter baskets without too sugar, there are many non-candidical options. There are still healthier sweets to choose from, such as dark chocolate or coloring vacuum cleaners. You can get a full list of my preferred, healthier candy options here. The following Easter delicacies contain a mixture of and homemade options bought in the shop.
Easter basket treated
Esaters gifts for older children
Many of the above ideas can also work for older children, but here are some ideas that are more tailored to this age group. Even teenagers like to get gifts if they like something they like!
Easter egg
Easter eggs are a tradition that I can appreciate with a nice meaning at this time of year. Of course I have some suggestions when it comes to how to color Easter eggs in a natural way. Take a look at this post!
If you use plastic east eggs to hide treasures, fill them with small objects instead of sweets. The eggs can also contain “points” with which larger prices can be “bought” from a box. Better still, hide real eggs or create a scavenger hunt with clues that end with a fun price or an entertaining goal! There are also some really cute reusable fabric -eggs that are a better option than the plastic eggs.
An Easter basket to appreciate
It takes a little outside the box to find new Easter basket ideas. However, I am confident that my children will not be robbed or missed the celebration of the season in the end. In fact, it is astonishing how colorful, sweet and festively a healthy Easter basket can be. I hope these ideas will help you fill your Easter baskets with treats, joy and good health!
What special family traditions do you appreciate at Easter? Do you have healthier Easter basket ideas for sharing? I would like to hear!