Easter Basket / Gifts

Resi · #1 April 3rd, 2010, 08:26 PM

What did you put in your child's Easter Basket? Care to share a picture? What are you plans for Easter?

Oliver is getting spoiled by us this Easter. We just got done setting up his gifts and Easter basket. I can't wait for him to wake up and check everything out.

We got him a table and chair set from Pottery Barn Kids, a sand toy bucket set, a couple plates with Peter Rabbit on them, and placemats with Peter Rabbit. In his Easter Basket there are blueberry and strawberry freezed fruit, a chocolate peanutbutter egg, hat, sunglasses, gymboree bubbles, nontoxic natural playdough, fork and spoon set, and bunny ears!

Here are pictures!

We are staying home on Easter and my mom is coming over for lunch. I'm making a baked chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, rolls, asparagus, and brussel sprouts. I'm making Berry Cheesecake Parfaits too.

We are going to start a new tradition of painting a wooden easter eggs each year. We will date and put Oliver's name on the bottom of the egg. Each year he will make one and we will hide them on Easter morning for him to find. I don't care for the plastic eggs or doing hard boiled eggs so I found this as an alternative. I think it will be a lot of fun to look back at the eggs each year. Tomorrow morning we are going to attempt to have Oliver make his first egg.

ScottishBrit · #2 April 3rd, 2010, 09:21 PM

Where did you find the Wooden Eggs? Thats a cute Idea. You did get him A lot of goodies!! Have you tried those Freezed dried TJ's fruit's before? Does he like them? Im always tempted to get them but haven't yet. I got Cambria a Felt Lamb Basket with a Lil Lamb that you squeeze and it says "Baaaa"...She loves making Lamb sound's right now. 2 Elmo books, and a Lil turtle watering can...I didn't get her much. No candy yet. I dont want her to have any just yet...

SandKmommy · #3 April 3rd, 2010, 10:20 PM

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Bre*n*Will=Reid · #4 April 3rd, 2010, 10:46 PM

Reid is getting:
2 small squirt guns
A squishy ball thing
Playdough
Peeps
Elmo easter eggs with jellybeans (we will help him bite pieces off, not have them whole)
Two toy cars
Marshmallow owl on a stick thingy
Sand bucket and shovel
Age appropriate remote control car
Bouncy ball
Toy bus
Animal crackers

....and I made scones again, and made one in the shape of a bunny with the eyes, nose and mouth made with dried cranberries

We dyed easter eggs (he loved dropping them in the dye!) and plastic eggs filled with jelly beans and animal crackers that we will hide for him. I am telling him that the easter bunny brought his basket (the other stuff will be from "us) and I also have a big golden egg which will be our yearly tradition. It will have the "best" stuff in it- this year it has MORE jellybeans and some chocolate....future years it will have money. lol.

soImarriedAnerd · #5 April 3rd, 2010, 11:04 PM

We are doing our wooden eggs tomorrow also!!!!
London is getting-
bubble blower
punching balloon things
electric toothbrush (he has a thing for chewing on our and since he has 1/2 a tooth we figured we could kill two birds with one stone! LOL )
a new pair of pj's (he is wearing now)
and a couple of things not here yet---some cloth diaper stuff

resi---I want to know how the playdough is! I have some on order!

Resi · #6 April 4th, 2010, 04:49 AM

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Originally Posted by ScottishBrit

Where did you find the Wooden Eggs? Thats a cute Idea. You did get him A lot of goodies!! Have you tried those Freezed dried TJ's fruit's before? Does he like them? Im always tempted to get them but haven't yet. I got Cambria a Felt Lamb Basket with a Lil Lamb that you squeeze and it says "Baaaa"...She loves making Lamb sound's right now. 2 Elmo books, and a Lil turtle watering can...I didn't get her much. No candy yet. I dont want her to have any just yet...

I ordered the wooden eggs online. If you go to my facebook page I have the link on there. I never bought the fruit before. I thought I'd give it a try with Mr. Picky. I don't really want Oliver having candy yet either but since he is picky he will only have a couple little nipples of the chocolate. I won't normally get him so much but I wanted to get him that table and thought I might as well make it an Easter gift.

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Originally Posted by soImarriedAnerd

We are doing our wooden eggs tomorrow also!!!!
London is getting-
bubble blower
punching balloon things
electric toothbrush (he has a thing for chewing on our and since he has 1/2 a tooth we figured we could kill two birds with one stone! LOL )
a new pair of pj's (he is wearing now)
and a couple of things not here yet---some cloth diaper stuff

resi---I want to know how the playdough is! I have some on order!

I'll let you know when he tries it out. It might be a while because I'm not sure I want him playing with it just yet. I was going to order it online but I found it at Whole Foods!

Everyone's baskets are filled with awesome stuff! It gave me more ideas. I wanted to get him a bubble blower but forgot. I can only get him so much and already spent more than I should have.

Angelaosaurus-rex · #7 April 4th, 2010, 05:06 AM

We dyed eggs last night! I have pics I will try to upload later. We hid them in the back yard this morning and he did a good job finding them! I got it on video I will also try to upload later! Since were moving and the movers already packed us up we just got him one of those cheapo pre-made Easter baskets, a movie, and 2 balloons! And Later we will bake and decorate special Easter cup cakes together!!!

Angelaosaurus-rex · #8 April 4th, 2010, 05:18 AM

We dyed eggs last night! I have pics I will try to upload later. We hid them in the back yard this morning and he did a good job finding them! I got it on video I will also try to upload later! Since were moving and the movers already packed us up we just got him one of those cheapo pre-made Easter baskets, a movie, and 2 balloons! And Later we will bake and decorate special Easter cup cakes together!!!

midnight_starr · #9 April 4th, 2010, 05:53 AM

I'm so excited to do this next year!!!!!

~*sierra*~ · #10 April 4th, 2010, 06:15 AM

cute stuff everyone!!

for some reason bre's 'owl on a stick' made me chuckle hehe

i was just telling dh we should have done an egg hunt for payne but really he's still so little, plus they arent even at our place today. i freaking LOVED easter when i was a kid, my parents would hide those little chocolate eggs like fiends and it would take me and all my siblings to be able to find them all! i cant wait to do that for my future offspring!

~*Bethy*~ · #11 April 4th, 2010, 09:49 AM

Since we dont really celebrate easter (I was formally christian and am TOTALLY burnt out on easter) We usually just have lunch at parents house. My dad knows Im not all up for tradition (christmas is another story!!) So its just low key

I think my step mom might have some eggs to hide at lunch, but thats it

No baskets, no church - just lounging around with yummy food

**jessie** · #12 April 4th, 2010, 11:32 AM

We didn't do a basket for Jax this year. We meandered around the store for over an hour and couldn't come up with anything to put in it. We did get a couple fresh mangos that I pureed for him to try... he loved them! He also got a new pair of pants from MIL, a book from SIL, and a vibrating toy turtle (lol) from his great oma.

I know... I'm a party pooper! We look forward to coloring eggs and having a basket next year.

Resi · #13 April 4th, 2010, 11:35 AM

Beth, We just do it for fun. We are agnostic.

Mars · #14 April 4th, 2010, 01:49 PM

Very nice!!!

I love all the pics.

It's not that big of a deal here although some places (schools, day care centers, etc) are doing a lot more things now.

I was planning to let Amara celebrate it at an outing with a friend but we have a wedding to attend.

ETA: We are planning to go kite flying tomorrow so I think I'll put a basket together for her. I just got her some new outfits and shoes from Gymboree (she wore 1 today) so I can add those too.

szczepanski · #15 April 4th, 2010, 03:13 PM

Nolan got an easter basket from Grandma, she got him a book, a cute outfit, some links, and a cute toy. Nothing too crazy.

ShannonMVT · #16 April 4th, 2010, 08:08 PM

We didn't do a whole lot. I got him a book "That's not my bunny" a touchy feely book.

My mom got him a stuffed bunny.
MIL got him a stuffed bunny and plastic basket (that he can later use for outside) and some plastic eggs to play with.

I might have done more but he's got a bday coming up so he'll be getting stuff then.

Trannyfromtheuk · #17 April 5th, 2010, 02:29 AM

Mia got spoilt

From us she got a trampoline and a toystory egg that came with a cup, plate, egg cup, toast stamper and a spork.

From my parents she got; 2 rpairs of pjs, easter egg, choc bunny

From my sis and bil she got a mini mouse t-shirt with a cute headband with minnie mouse ears on

button egg and milky bar eggs

From my other sister and bil she got a flake egg

My IL's she got 2 small choc eggs (even though we asked them to get her a buzz lightyear toy)

From Her GG (great grandma) she got a stuffed bunny teddy and a thomas the tank egg

from SIL/BIL she got a peppa pig egg with a cup

And from my uncle she got some mini egs

from Garys Aunt n Uncle she got a creme egg easter egg

So yeah, Considering she dosent really eat choc, we will probally have a supply till christmas