Use these natural green living Easter tips to reduce your carbon footprint and make your children happy on Easter morning.
Here’s a list of Eco-friendly Easter basket tips and ideas to make it easy to create high-quality Easter baskets for kids! You’ve come to the right place if you are tired of cheap plastic store-bought Easter baskets filled with too much candy.
This post about making Eco-friendly Easter Baskets includes links to tutorials to make upcycled Easter baskets from recycled materials, organic Easter candy, and natural Easter gift ideas. Use these eco-friendly tips and ideas to create natural Easter baskets filled with natural Easter toys and gifts that your children will enjoy on Easter Morning!
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How to make Natural Eco-Friendly Easter Baskets
Follow these simple tips to create gorgeous eco-friendly Easter Baskets. Guidelines that you probably already know and follow in your home.
- Reduce consumption
- Reuse {or shop at thrift stores/garage sales/craigslist}
- Recycle or upcycle
- Handmake
- Natural eco-friendly Easter basket ideas
Scroll down to find out how to use these eco-friendly Easter ideas to make natural Easter baskets that children will Love!
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How to Make an Easter Basket Eco-Friendly
We have a few beautiful woven Easter baskets that we store and reuse each year. One was handed down to us, while the other was found at a garage sale. You can also find tons of gorgeous used baskets at thrift stores–but get them early. They tend to sell out fast!
Another alternative is to make your own Easter basket or up-cycle one from something you would ordinarily get rid of or throw into the recycle bin. Check out this fun collection of upcycled Easter baskets made with recycled materials for lots of great ideas!
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How to Make Easter Grass Eco-Friendly
I don’t know about you, but I can not stand plastic Easter grass! A few years ago, I found paper Easter grass
made from recycled materials that I store to reuse year after year, and it is still in perfect condition!
Other alternatives to plastic grass are using Playsilks, shredded recycled paper, fabric or yarn scraps, or anything else that would work from around your house.
Playsilks
serve triple duty because they can be used as a basket liner or as Easter grass, and, children can use them as an open-ended toy for imaginative play for many years to come!
- Sarah’s playsilks – there are tons of gorgeous colors available. Click on the link to see them all.
- Paper Easter Basket Eco-Grass — made from 100% recycled paper!
In the photo below, the Easter basket on the left has a hand-sewn cotton liner and play silks for grass, while the Easter basket on the right has 100% recycled paper grass and a play silk basket liner.
Scroll down to learn how to make an Easter basket liner with a play silk or piece of scrap cloth.
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How to Make a Playsilk Basket Liner
Making eco-friendly Easter baskets with a playsilks basket liner is easy, looks gorgeous, and is eco-friendly–woot!
- Tie two corners of a play silk around each handle of an Easter basket.
- Wrap the edges around the outside and tuck the rest of the play silk into the Easter basket.
- Next, fill the Easter basket with recycled paper Easter grass or another play silk or two.
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Natural, Organic, and Eco-Friendly Easter Basket Gift Ideas
Fill your child’s Easter basket with natural options such as handmade or eco-friendly toys and gifts, organic or homemade treats, kids’ music, books, nature study supplies, and art supplies!
- Handmade toys and gifts — We like to put Easter chicks and decorated wooden Easter eggs in my daughter’s Easter Basket that we reuse every year. (pictured above) Wooden eggs are also a great alternative to hard-boiled or plastic eggs for Easter egg hunts. My daughter loves them and is as excited to get them out of the Easter box as she digs out the handmade Christmas ornaments that we re-use year after year. Who knew creating eco-friendly family habits would be so egg-citing?!
- Organic Easter Candy
– Delicious candy options containing healthier sugar forms than the dreaded corn syrup. - 20 Playdough Recipes for Spring | Fireflies and Mudpies
- Spring Books for kids or Books that Teach Important Life Lessons
- Kids Music that Won’t Drive You Nuts!
- Organic Plush Easter Toys
- Natural and Eco-Friendly Easter Toys
- Diary
or Nature Journal - Nature Study Supplies
- Easter coloring books
- Art Supplies
– Delicious candy options containing healthier sugar forms than the dreaded corn syrup.
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Natural Easter Baskets
Reduce your carbon footprint with these simple eco-friendly Easter basket tips and ideas. Don’t worry–your kids will LOVE them! And, if you have ever wondered how Easter baskets came to be associated with Easter, look at Easter Traditions to Start with Your Family, and don’t forget to hop over to look at our Spring Bucket List Seasonal Activity Guide!
Learn more about Rhythms of Play HERE!
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Awesome ideas. Last year we made music makers with left over Easter eggs. I think it is a better idea not to use them.
Thanks! I avoid plastic eggs but when we go on Easter egg hunts with groups we end up with some. We have found fun ways to reuse them too!
These tips are very helpful to making baskets more beautiful. Mostly kids love these types of baskets
I agree, Livia! So glad you appreciate making natural Easter baskets for the kids!
Hey Nell,
thank you very much for your great article!
I decided to continue with searching for present ideas for holidays when I was already busy with it because of Christmas.
I definitely will save your article for easter. 🙂
Thanks, Dennis! So glad you liked this article with our favorite eco-friendly Easter gift ideas. We have lots of ideas for the holidays too… check out our ultimate family gift guide linked above! In it, we share homemade DIY gift ideas and readymade favorite finds!