Personalized Gift Baskets

Candy Baskets

Making candy baskets can be a fun way to pass the time, or a rewarding way to earn supplemental income. Parents can use making gift baskets as an activity for their children for an afternoon or evening, or for holiday activities. It also makes a great gift for a loved one. Or with little time and effort, this fun and easy pastime can be turned to profit, especially on holidays and special occasions.

The first step in making a candy basket is to decide the type of candy basket to make. The nearest major holidays make good candidates, especially Valentine’s Day, Easter, and Halloween when candies dominate the scene. Birthdays, anniversaries, and other special occasions also make good reasons.

For Valentine’s or anniversaries, try a heart-shaped basket, which may be available from craft stores for you to decorate as you choose. You cannot go wrong with chocolate, and red containers and candies hint at romantic interest, while pink containers and candies makes a good choice for other purposes.

For birthdays and other special occasions, you can try to match the choice of containers and candies to the interests of the recipient, or simply choose whatever you think suits them best. Craft stores sell many types of blank containers of many materials, which can be decorated with colors, images, glitter, toy jewelry or other trinkets and adornments. Include toys, cards, and other small gifts if you wish to complete the theme.

For Easter you may wish to consider egg shaped candies and candy bunnies, and add a bit of colored ribbon and some colored eggs, and wrap in a green plastic sheet tied with a red bow to add color, or whatever else your creativity inspires. Small candy baskets can be hidden and children can have minutes or hours of fun searching for them like Easter eggs, and if each basket is a bit different from the others, they can have fun exchanging for their favorite candies with their friends.

Candy baskets can also be a great way to earn money, especially for young people. Candy baskets are popular items for fundraisers and for raffle prizes. If selling candy baskets to family and neighbors, one may consider stocking up with bite sized portions of popular candy snacks such as Snickers, Butter Fingers, Jelly Babies, Hershey’s Kisses, Life Savers, and more. For raffle prizes, you may want to try high end candies such as gourmet chocolates, or for that personal touch try your hand at homemade candies, for which many recipes are available in stores and online.

So what you are you waiting for? For your next holiday, birthday, fundraiser, or special occasion, consider making your own candy gift baskets. You’ll find that they’re fun, easy, and rewarding, and your friends and loved ones will always love the gifts you give them.

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Newborn Gift Baskets

Do you have a family member or friend who has just brought a little bundle of joy into this world and you want to congratulate them but don’t know how? Consider giving them a little bit of everything in the form of a gift basket. Newborn gift baskets are a great way to bring some joy in someone’s life and it will be greatly appreciated by the receiver. Here’s how to go about giving a perfect gift basket for the newborn baby.

Consider first, the gender of the child, as that will determine the traditional colors to decorate the gift basket in. For a boy, traditionally go with light blues, girls, pinks and purples, and there are gender neutral colors like light yellows and such.

Once you have selected the color of the basket, it is time to fill it. Lay down some sort of foundation in the basket like artificial grass or scrunched up colored paper. This will ensure things aren’t moving around in the basket and have the possibility of breaking.

Now to fill the basket with goodies. You will want to start by putting in a childrens picture book. This is fun for the child as well as for the parent as the two can engage in reading, one reading, one being read to. Next, the parents may be exhausted having a newborn in the house. Consider putting a package of diapers for backup in case the parent runs out and doesn’t have time to get to the store. Throw in a pacifier specific to the baby’s gender. Add a plush toy or stuffed animal for the baby to have in its crib.

Another touching gift to add would be pictures in a form of a scrapbook or photo album of the baby’s first days in the hospital or in the arms of its loved ones when it first arrived. Maybe throw in some personalized coupons for free babysitting to relieve the parents of some responsibility.

Next, add in a tiny blanket, it can be personalized with the baby’s name and birthdate. Finally, add a gift card to help the parent in this exciting time. Depending on how well you know the parent determines the price and store. If it’s a friend, somewhere between $25-50 to a store like Baby Gap is appropriate.

Now, get some cellophane and place it below the basket and pull it up to the top of the handle of the basket and tie it wrapping it. This allow the gifts to be securely in the basket and it gives a window into what’s inside. Add a card to the top where you tied the basket and it’s ready to be delivered. Now that you have completed the gift basket, choosing appropriate colors for the gender, placing in items fun and helpful for not only the baby but the parents as well, and wrapping it, it is time to deliver. You can do this as a congratulations for the parents after the baby is born, or rather, at a baby shower. If you do it at a baby shower some items will have to be changed or colors guessed upon as you may not know the gender, name, or due date’s.

In any case, this is a great way to give a little bit of everything to a newborn and new parents. One gift full of many little gifts that will be greatly appreciated. Consider a gift basket the next time you have a friend or family member who is expecting.

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Easter Gift Baskets

Easter gift baskets are always welcome gifts, and can be a great way to showcase your creativity. There are dozens of options besides the standard basket with plastic grass and a chocolate bunny; use the ideas presented here to take off on your own. You will need a container, the gift items, and something to pad and fill the gift basket. Coordinating these around a color, style, or theme produces striking and memorable baskets, and can guide your choices.

You might want a traditional woven wicker basket, but there are other options. An Easter bonnet or sports helmet, a colorful serving bowl, even a catcher’s mitt can hold gifts – and may be more welcome and useful to the person receiving your gift. Create a handle or carrying cradle to round out the basket metaphor for whichever container you use.

The standard plastic grass is always available. You can find paper confetti and grass that are more elegant at many craft stores, or create your own with a paper shredder. A soft Spanish moss is quite elegant; colored sand may be a fun touch in sports-themed baskets. Fluffy bath scrubbies, a nest of colorful tissue paper, or colored potpourri provide other options for holding your gifts. The basket grass should coordinate with the container and the theme, and may actually be part of the gift itself.

An Easter gift basket would not seem right without chocolate, jelly beans, and an Easter egg. Even here, you can be creative. Jelly beans come in a variety of styles and flavors. Chocolatiers sell high-quality chocolate molded into flowers, cars, sports figures, dogs or cats, and more: why settle for the commonplace bunny? In addition to dyed or chocolate Easter eggs, consider soaps and bath products or beautifully smooth stone paperweights in the shape of an egg, or painted Russian eggs.

Golf aficionados will be surprised – and pleased – with golf-ball “eggs” in their basket. Complement these basic components according to your selected theme. Add colorful golf tees to complement the round white eggs, bath salts with soaps, kitchen accessories, and other colorful elements. Add seasonal fruit if the recipient is health-conscious, or consider other items that would be especially meaningful to that person.

If your Easter gift basket is designed to promote a business or service, make sure that it is included in the theme – but don’t overpower the beauty of the basket with the message. Use a variety of locally-produced items when sending an Easter basket as a care package to someone far away.

Regardless of your previous experience, a visit to the craft department is sure to give you dozens of ideas for moving beyond the basic Easter basket. You will have a world of fun creating unique and interesting gifts which are sure to please those who receive them.

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