Easter Baskets - Odenville,AL

My girls (ages 6 & 2) always need new PJ's. The 2 year old is getting a new set and the 6 year old is getting a nightgown. Also, this year in eggs, we're putting the pastel colored mini marshmallows instead of jellybeans or chocolate. They're pefectly colored for the spring season, there's not a ton of sugar and a little goes a long way.

This has been the topic of the day! My 4yo boy got a Spongebob fishing pole. ($9 at WalMart). We gave it to him this past weekend and took him fishing for the first time. He absolutely loved it! So I think for Easter, we'll buy him more plastic worms and a tackle box. Put some gummy worms in it as his candy for Easter, but no hooks. Wal-Mart actually has Transformers and Spiderman poles as well. It is a great family activity and fun to get outdoors. Your 2yo may not be able to do it just yet, but he'd love seeing the fish. Hope this helps.

I have an almost 2 and 4 year old and here is what is going in their baskets....chapstick, sunglasses, chalk, coloring book for the older one, sand shovels, watering cans, some plastic filled eggs with 'army' men in it for my 2 year old and then some candy. Nothing extravagant because they will also be getting candy and money in the eggs they find in the yard!

a couple of pieces of good quality easter candy. mine are old enough now for X-box live subscriptions, dvds or a new pair of basketball shorts, but when they were smaller it was legos, kites, seeds, bubbles, sidewalk chalk.
:) khairete
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We usually do a book and/or a movie. We aren't so big on candy.

In thinking about waffle blocks for my little guy.

When my kids were small I gave them new crayons/markers, play dough, books, matchbox cars, things they would actually play with and use. As they got a little older I got into the habit of giving them summer type items: swim suit, swim goggles, flip flops, sand toys, water guns, etc. Have fun :)

Well an egg filled with candy is good a monster truck they would probably love. A small coloring book, some kind of craft they can do with you. And I always get them the chicken that poop the gum they get a kick out of that so much.

We discovered that Chuck E Cheese has almost no one in there on Easter Sunday, so I plan on trying to get to Chuck E Cheese this week to get tokens or gift cards to put in my kids baskets. They are 4 year old boy and 7 year old girl. This is about the only time I can handle going into Chuck E Cheese. The other things I plan on putting in the baskets are a pool towel for each one now that we have a swimming pool, a large container of bubbles for them to share. ( I refill the little bottles so there is no fighting) a new container of sidewalk chalk. I will put in a few pices of candy but not much. Also I have put in books as well as hot wheel cars, last year it was zhu zhu pets.

My 2 year old girl is getting a Mr. Potato head, a plastic bat (cheap filler item with no tiny plastic parts), a recorder (cheap filler item with no tiny plastic parts), a package of bracelets, sunglasses, socks, bendable easter bunny figures (cheap filler item with no tiny plastic parts), peeps, and three eggs (shaped like fat easter bunnies) with some jelly beans in them.

My 2 year old daughter is obsessed with bubbles and stickers. So I'm going to the dollar store to load up. Also, she loves the pool, so I'm going to get her some pool toys.

We theme our baskets to avoid the excess candy. My son got a new pony last year, so we got him a small water bucket and filled it with small brushes and such. The year my son learned to swim we did goggles and swim toys. This year we did sand toys and bubbles. We have also done things like dolls, books, small card games and toy cars as well.

Books, coloring books, crayons, sidewalk chalk, bubbles, matchbox cars, bath toys, sunglasses, finger paints, water colors, etc. I love filling their Easter baskets with stuff we can do outside because winter is over and we can finally spend time outside!

Here are some of the things the Easter Bunny has brought our kids in the past:
sidewalk chalk
bubbles (yes, they generally get spilled within the hour, but you can get 3 bottles for $1 at Dollar Tree)
Leapfrog toys (there is a FridgeFarm magnet set that looks like a barn and has animal parts the kids match up)
Bubble machine ($10 at Walmart)
sandals
sand toys
balls

We keep it simple. Not a lot of toys and very little candy. I do get my son a small chocolate bunny, but I usually try to get him outside toys. This year, it is a football, sidewalk chalk and bubbles. We use jelly beans inside our eggs for the egg hunt.