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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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