I've got some time to kill (didn't think i'd be saying that for another few years lol), so I thought we could play a game of "What's in my Easter baskets?". I finished putting them together on Monday and I cannot wait for the kids to see them. Let me start with a disclaimer by saying that I live for putting things like this together. Gift giving is for sure one of my Love Languages. With that being said, here are the finished baskets, i'll break down how I decorated them and what's all in them further down.
Other than a few things, everything I got came from the One Spot at Target, the dollar store, or we already had it. Easter baskets don;t have to be expensive, if you're still putting your baskets together make sure to check out the dollar sections at your favorite stores, you may be surprised! Since this was the first year that Lola would really appreciate an Easter basket, I really wanted to splurge on a cute one from Target, but they were $15 each... that would be $30 total for my kids. Even though I plan on using these baskets every year until they no longer use them (tear), I still couldn't justify spending that much. I decided that I could make cute baskets myself. I started with two of these plain wicker baskets, which were much more reasonable at $6.00 a piece.
I found some blue and white, and rainbow twine on clearance at Target (#ihearttarget), and decided to wrap the handles with it. The rainbow for our sweet girl and the blue for our little man. About halfway through the wrapping process I started questioning why I did this to myself! It probably took a good 10 minutes to do each basket, but it felt much longer ha! After that was done I went into my paint samples stash (everyone has one of these right?) and found some pink paint leftover from our big girl room makeover and grabbed some white paint, leftover from who knows what. I painted the top rim of Lola's basket with the pink and did little man's in white. I added 3 little pom poms to the side of Lola's basket (again these are from target's clearance rack). I'd like to add a few to his as well, but I didn't have any on hand so I just left his as is for now.
What do you put in an Easter basket for an 8 month old? Good question. To be honest I probably wouldn't have done a basket for him this year if it wasn't for Lola. She would most likely ask where his was if he didn't have one, so I decided it would be easy to throw a few things together for him. With that being said he got a book, a cute little sheep (Walmart), some Veggie melts, Puffs and a few teethers. Lola on the other hand got a few more things in hers ;)
I found this cute little Looney tunes book at the Dollar Tree and obviously had to get it. She also got a little sheep (but pink of coarse), some play doh, bubbles (a fan favorite in our house- even our Bernese Mountain dog gets in on the action), a play necklace and bracelet (One Spot), princess magnets (One Spot), a little windmill (Hobby Lobby), piggy polish (she puts her fingers in her mouth so I don't let her wear regular nail polish), and her first bible. As parents we love the excitement that the Easter bunny brings, but we also want to make sure she understands what Easter is really about. Jesus. There is no playbook for parenting. You may do something different with your kids baskets, and that's okay! We can just try our best to teach them the things that are important to us and hope that they grow up to be good people.
So there you have it, that's "What's in my Easter baskets". Easter is still a few days away so i'm going to go practice hiding and finding eggs with my little lady on this gorgeous day. For a little comic relief i'll leave you with this picture of the eggs that Lola "hid" for me to find. She's the cutest. Happy Easter!
So there you have it, that's "What's in my Easter baskets". Easter is still a few days away so i'm going to go practice hiding and finding eggs with my little lady on this gorgeous day. For a little comic relief i'll leave you with this picture of the eggs that Lola "hid" for me to find. She's the cutest. Happy Easter!