100 No Candy Easter Basket Ideas
Easter is just around the corner. I love planning ahead for my kids’ Easter baskets. This gives me an opportunity to buy items to fill the basket that fit their interests, surprise them, and especially allows me not to just power buy a bunch of sweets that in the end will either end up in the trash or give them sugar crashes that fill my husband and me with regret. Listed below are 100 No Candy Easter Basket Ideas to give you tons of ideas on what to put in your children’s baskets this year.
100 No Candy Easter Basket Ideas
- Activity Books – Mad Libs are a hit for Tweens and some Teens
- Animal Books – We love “Duck and Goose, Here Comes the Easter Bunny
- Army Men – Timeless and Inexpensive
- Baby Items ( Suitable for infants, teething rings, wipes, small toys and baby-friendly books)
- Balloon Animal Kit
- Balls – Nerf Footballs are great.
- Baby Doll – A classic for all little ones.
- Baby Doll Accessories
- Barbie – Easter Barbie
- Barbie Accessories
- Barrettes
- Bath Toys
- Bathtub Crayons
- Beach Toys
- Beyblades ( Make the stadium the basket!)
- Bubbles
- Bucket and Pail
- Building Blocks
- Bunny Slippers
- Butterfly Garden
- Cards (standard deck, old maid, Go fFsh, UNO, etc)
- Cash (Seriously, My kids love cash)
- CD – or Itunes Gift Card
- Children’s Bible
- Chuck E. Cheese Tokens
- Coins in Plastic Eggs
- Colored Pencils
- Coloring Books
- Construction Paper
- Craft Kit
- Crayons
- Dollar Bills
- Drawing Pad
- DVD – So many to choose and Itunes Gift Card with a suggestion works as well.
- Earrings
- Etch-A-Sketch (small)
- Fairy Garden
- Flashlight
- Frisbee
- Fruit Snacks
- Gardener Tool Set
- Gift Cards
- Glitter Glue – Keep that glitter neat for craft projects.
- Glow Rings
- Goldfish Crackers
- Granola
- Ink Pad and Stamps (bunny, eggs, chicks, etc.)
- Jacks and a Ball
- Journal and pens
- Juice or Milk Boxes
- Jump Rope
- Kazoo
- Kite
- LeapFrog Readers or Games
- Legos (Easter)
- Legos Batman, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Star Wars
- Lip Gloss
- Magic Grow Capsules
- Magic Kit
- Magic Treasure Rocks
- Marbles
- Markers
- Matchbox Cars
- Melissa & Doug Puzzles
- Mini Water Gun
- Modeling Clay
- Movie Tickets – Find out the local Fandango theater, I usually buy Fandango
- Nail Polish
- Necklaces
- Nuts
- Ocarina ( for the music lover)
- Paint Kit
- Plastic Gardening Tools – Melissa and Doug
- Play-Doh
- Pokemon Cards (Kids still love the cards, the APP has lost it’s cool)
- Pretzels
- Punch Balloon
- Puzzles
- Raisins
- Religious gifts – Bibles, Rosaries, Prayer Cards, Stickers
- Rubberband Bracelets
- Rubik’s Cube.
- Safety Scissors
- Sidewalk Chalk
- Slime (Try making homemade slime)
- Slinky
- Socks – Cool Colorful Funky Socks or Frilly Sock ( Because I love MaryJane’s and Frilly Socks.
- Sports Cards (baseball, basketball, football, hockey)
- Stickers
- Stuffed Animal
- Sunglasses
- Teddy Grahams
- Themed (Character) Band-Aids
- Travel Games
- Two Dollar Bill – My kid chimed in Twenty Dollar Bill! LOL!
- Water Color Kit (I always got these as a kid!)
- Whistle
- Wind-up Toys I love this one.
- Yo-Yo – I love vintage toys.
- Yo- Yo Book – Because we need to improve our Yo-Yo skills.
Easter Party Gift Bags – SO CUTE! If you stuff several baskets for children these lovely gifts bags are perfect! Grab yours here!
And that is 100 ideas! I do give my kiddos a few sweet treats, but honestly, kids are overwhelmed with sugar these days. Enjoying an activity, or learning something new, reading a new book or planting a little garden are great ways to bring Easter joy to your children and create memories that will last a lifetime.
Note: This list of 100 No Candy Easter Basket Ideas are for all ages. Please take this into consideration and use your judgment and read manufacturing labels for all items you add to Easter Baskets for your family. You know best!
Enjoy your Easter shopping,
Thank you so much for sharing this! I have 6 kids and as you can imagine, the candy quantities can get a bit outrageous over here. It is always nice to have an alternative to so much sugar!
Great ideas Pam, love the alphabetizing. It looks like your list is very encompassing, it can be for children young to teenager. I am now allergic to chocolate but my boys tell me that the purchased Easter chocolate is really low quality. I get my grand daughters Lindt chocolate that’s incredibly expensive when your filling a whole basket. Great alternative ideas to put in a basket. Thanks for the list.
For people with kids that can’t have sugar or candy that is a wonderful list Pam