Filling up an Easter basket is crazy fun. Choosing each person’s favorite candy is the easy part. Easter is the second largest candy-buying holiday, and there are plenty of choices to suit everyone’s tastes. But overfilling a basket with candy means you’ll still have some left until Halloween (the largest candy holiday!). Try these Non-Candy Easter Basket Ideas for Tweens and Teens to fill out the basket with other things.
Easter basket fillers for tweens and teens take a little more thought than those for younger kids. They’re just not impressed with themed, plastic, “disposable” toys. So for this sometimes hard-to-please age group, finding that sweet spot of useful, entertaining, and reasonably-priced is the challenge.
How to Personalize Gifts for Easter
Adding an Easter or spring packaging to year-round-usable gifts is an easy way to theme your basket for the holiday. I added a bunny shaped display card to these DIY hair scrunchies. I hand-cut the ear shapes into a 3″ wide strip of white mat board, and added the pink centers with marker.
Poof! Instant Easter basket filler that will actually get used!
Adding Easter-themed printable decorations to homemade bath and body products, or using acrylic paint pens to paint spring designs on packaging are also easy ways to personalize your basket fillers.
Non-Candy Easter Basket Stuffers
I’ve compiled a list of non-candy Easter basket ideas for teens and tweens so Mr. E. Bunny can surprise them with a super stash on the holiday morning. The list includes DIY and buy ideas, so you have the most Easter basket filler options.
Gifts they'll love, made by you. Pick your favorite DIY scrunchie-making method, and whip up a batch of colorful hair ties. Cut a bunny shape from framing mat for an adorable Easter-themed presentation (Shown above) Playdough is not just for kids! Teens and tweens will also love smooshing and squishing the dough. Mix up a batch or two and give a container of nostalgic fun. These fizzy bath salts are just like a bath bomb, without having to use a mold or wait for it to dissolve. Make this unicorn version, or change the colors for a different look. Great for sensitive skin, this homemade aftershave lotion has soothing, calming properties that will make them feel great. A quick sewing project using only scrap leather. Perfect for a gift card and some cash when they're out with friends. Make cute earrings using simple jewelry findings, shrink plastic, and your cutting machine. Whipped body butter has a luxurious feel without the hefty price tag. They'll enjoy the pampering of moisturized soft skin. Personalize this beard balm with their favorite scents to make a grooming product they'll love to wear every day. Easy to make from a leather (or faux leather) strip and the keychain hardware, this easy leather keychain only needs one quick line of stitching. Make it in under 15 minutes. This grown-up version of dough relies on herbs and essential oils for fragrance. Use lavender for relaxation or switch them up for different scents and purposes. Fill out the rest of your teen's basket with these purchased games, activities, and more. A game for tweens through adults, each unicorn has a superpower you can use against your friends. Our family's favorite game. One of my favorite creative gifts for teens and tweens is the book that tells you how to destroy it. Part journal and part art project, they'll love finding their own interpretation of the creative prompts. A reusable straw that folds down to a compact size, perfect for clipping to backpacks. Ok, you may need a bigger basket for this one. But who wouldn't love pelting family members with squishy burritos? Pick up a few colors of ready-to-pour acrylic paint and your teen will be ready to make some cool poured paint art. No extra ingredients or mixing required.DIY Easter Basket Gifts to Make
How to Make Hair Scrunchies
Easy Classic Homemade Cooked Playdough Recipe
Unicorn Fizzy Bath Salts
Homemade Soothing Aftershave Lotion
DIY Slim Leather Wallet
DIY Disney Earrings
DIY Whipped Body Butter
DIY Beard Balm
Easy Leather Keychain
Lavender Aromatherapy Dough
Easter Basket Stuffers to Buy
Unstable Unicorns Card Game
Wreck This Journal: in Color
Reusable Silicone Collapsible Straws
Throw Throw Burrito by Exploding Kittens
DecoArt FluidArt Ready-to-Pour Paint
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