Eco-friendly Easter basket tips and ideas make it easy to create high-quality Easter baskets that your kids will love! Use these easy natural green living Easter tips to reduce your carbon footprint and make your children happy. Includes links to tutorials to make upcycled Easter baskets from recycled materials, organic Easter candy, and handmade eco-friendly Easter gift ideas.
If you are tired of cheap plastic store-bought Easter baskets filled with too much candy you’ve come to the right place. Use these eco-friendly Easter baskets tips and ideas to create high-quality Easter baskets that your kids will LOVE!
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How to make Eco-Friendly Easter Baskets
Follow these simple rules 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
- When you have to buy something, purchase quality eco-friendly products.
How to Make the “Basket” Eco-Friendly
We have a few beautiful woven 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 they early, they sell out fast!
Another alternative is to make your own basket or up-cycle one from something you would ordinarily get rid of or throw in the recycle bin. Check out this fun collection of upcycled Easter baskets made using recycled materials for lots of great ideas!
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How to Make the “Grass” Eco-Friendly
I don’t know about you but I can not stand plastic Easter grass! A few years ago I found paper grass made from 100% recycled materials that I store to reuse year after year and it is still in perfect condition!
Other alternatives to plastic grass are using play silks, shredded recycled paper, fabric or yarn scraps, or anything else you can come up with from around your house.
Play silks can serve double duty because they can also be used as a basket liner and the kids can use them for imaginative play for years to come!
- 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. Two corners of the play silk are tied around each handle with the remainder stuffed into the basket with the paper grass on top. Super easy, gorgeous, natural, and eco-friendly–woot!
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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, kids books, nature study supplies, and art supplies!
- Handmade toys and gifts — We put Easter Chicks and DIY Wooden Easter Eggs in my daughters Easter Basket that we re-use every year. (pictured above) These are also great to hide for Easter egg hunts. My daughter loves them and is as excited to get them out of the Easter box as she is to dig out the handmade Christmas ornaments that we re-use every year. Who knew creating eco-friendly habits would be so egg-citing?!
- Organic Easter Candy
– Delicious candy options that contain healthier forms of sugar than the dreaded corn syrup.
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- Spring Books for kids or Books that Teach Important Life Lessons.
- Kids Music that Even Adults Love.
- Organic Plush Easter Toys
- Natural and Eco-Friendly Easter Toys
- Diary or Nature Journal
- Nature Study Supplies
- Easter coloring books
- Art Supplies
Reduce your carbon footprint by following these simple eco-friendly Easter basket tips and ideas. Don’t worry… your kids will love them!
If you have ever wondered how Easter baskets came to be associated with Easter check out Easter Traditions to Start with Your Family, and don’t forget to hop over to have a look at our Spring Bucket List Seasonal Activity Guide!
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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!