Personalized Gift Baskets

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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Gift Basket Supplies

Gift baskets are very thoughtful gifts that you can give to your friends, family, co-workers, bosses or even clients. On the next holiday or special occasion where you were planning to send a card, send a gift basket instead. To make it even more special, why not make the gift basket yourself? Most people appreciate the time and effort spent in making a homemade gift. Don’t know anything about making gift baskets? Don’t worry; this article will give you the basic things you need to know in order to make your very own gift basket.

To make your own basket, you will need to purchase some gift basket supplies. Let’s start with your gift container. A gift basket can be made out of any container. You can use wicker baskets, wood crates, wood baskets, metal tins, plastic pails, wire baskets or photo boxes. You basket can be made out of plastic, metal or any other materials. They may have a handle or not.

You can also use gift boxes with or without handles. Some even uses gift bags, stiff plastic ones, paper gift bags, muslin bags or metallic bags. No matter what kind you’d want, you will have a lot to choose from. All these come in different sizes and colors. If you’ve been receiving gift baskets before, you can even re-use these old gifts. If you do not have any container available in your home, be sure to buy all other supplies before buying your container so that you will know which size is most appropriate.

Next you’ll need fillers. Fillers are the stuff found at the basket’s bottom that acts as the base, which raises the gifts. They are also used for filling spaces in between the gifts to prevent the gifts from moving around. You can use tissue paper as filler — tissue paper comes in sheets and different colors. You can also use newspaper as the base filler, just be sure to cover it with a layer of thin tissue since the ink from newspapers can rub off. Often used fillers are shredded papers. There are also fillers made of heavier paper shreds, cellophane shreds, wood shreds, tissue paper shreds and metallic shreds. You can also use straws or fabrics as fillers.

Next supplies you’ll need are wraps. Most common wraps are made from cellophane. Cellophane comes in assorted colors, tints and prints. If you’re making a food gift basket, be sure to use FDA-approved cellophane. You can also use shrink-wraps. These are films of transparent plastic that is used to wrap the basket then when heat is applied to it; it will shrink to create a snug-fitting seal. This too comes in assorted colors and tints. Another wrap you can use are tulle netting. This is sheer and fine and is the same netting that is often used in veils.

To complete your gift basket, you’ll need to buy your gifts. You can put anything in your gift basket. Food, candles, clothes, potpourri or any personal item you’d want to give the receiver. To beautify your gift basket, you’ll need to buy bows and ribbons. These can be bought in any craft shop. They come in an assortment of colors, sizes and textures. You can also buy any more adornments. Lastly, be sure to buy your enclosure cards. This is where you write your wishes for the person receiving your gift basket and of course your name. So go now and have fun making your gift basket.

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