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Green Your Easter: 10 Ideas for an Eco-Friendly Basket

 

10 Ideas for a Natural, Organic Child’s Easter Basket

Happy Spring, Friends!

Since Easter is only a few weeks away, this week I share some ideas on creating an all-natural Easter basket for children filled with eco-friendly, reusable treasures that will continue to be enjoyed year-round.

Click above to view this week’s video and discover many alternatives to a basket filled with sweets and candy.

All products mentioned in this video can be found at Bella Luna Toys under the category Seasonal Toys.

Here are the specific products mentioned in the video:

  1. Swing Bolga Basket
  2. Grow-Your-Own Easter Grass Kit
  3. Play Silks
  4. eco-eggs® Natural Egg Dying Kit
  5. Kid’s Ukrainian Easter Eggs Kit
  6. Felted Spring Eggs Kit
  7. Felted Chicks Kit
  8. Ostheimer Wooden Toy Figures
  9. Beeswax Candles
  10. Rabbit and Bird in Tree Wooden Puzzle

Have other ideas for special Easter basket additions? Please share them here!

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9 Comments

  • Reply Melissa April 6, 2014 at 8:12 pm

    Last year we did books, rabbit and spring themed, and some wooden play foods for our toddler.

    • Reply Sarah Baldwin April 7, 2014 at 4:20 pm

      Great ideas, Melissa! Our little board book Spring would be a great gift for a toddler’s baset. A wooden toy carrot makes a addition for an older child’s basket that can later be used in a play kitchen.

  • Reply Childwanderer April 7, 2014 at 11:27 am

    I remember the year my Easter basket was lined with green wool batting. That was wonderful! I was just discovering needle-felting, and that gave me the material I needed to explore the art for myself! It was eco-friendly and my brothers and sisters and I liked it very much.

    • Reply Sarah Baldwin April 7, 2014 at 3:59 pm

      Yes, Childwanderer, green wool roving is another great alternative to use in an Easter Basket instead of plastic grass!

  • Reply Amy April 8, 2014 at 6:58 pm

    Just wondering who is the artist that made the beautiful Spring print on your wall? I’m secretly hoping they did an Autumn version!

    • Reply Sarah Baldwin April 12, 2014 at 4:36 pm

      The artist is Mary Azarian, Amy, and I am a huge fan of her work! There is an Autumn version. She is also the illustrator of several children’s books, including A Farmer’s Alphabet, A Gardener’s Alphabet and Snowflake Bentley (a Caldecott Award winner). Hey, I think I need to carry these at Bella Luna Toys!

      Her prints and books are available to order from her website: http://www.maryazarian.com

  • Reply jacy April 19, 2014 at 5:42 am

    Nice beautiful ideas. Love the Felted Spring Eggs Kit. I am sure my kids would too love it. Happy easter

  • Reply Arlie March 9, 2015 at 11:41 am

    Hi Sarah,
    Our family frequently drives along I-70 to and from Indianapolis/St. Louis. Along that road there is a store called Driftstone Pueblo. They sell so many beautiful natural items like rocks, arrowheads, feathers, etc. They also have beautiful stone eggs. I am hoping to stop and get some of these for the basket this year. They will make a beautiful addition to the nature corner long after Easter. Perhaps I’ll also grab a few geodes. Kids always love those.

    • Reply Sarah Baldwin March 22, 2015 at 12:37 pm

      Hi Arlie,

      These sound like great additions to a child’s Easter basket. Also, wonderful gifts from the tooth fairy! (Who, in our house, never left money, but always treasures.)

      Happy Easter!

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