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Bubbles, chalk, play doh, clay, books, note cards, paintbrush set, a big flower pot with gardening tools and seed packets, a bucket with sand box tools, swim googles, bathing suit, towel, sun hat, board game, craft kits, new movie, scrap fabric with some thread/needle/buttons, tool box filled with scrap wood pieces with a small hammer/nails, summer shorts outfit or sundress, bubble bath, Lip gloss, hair clips, flashlight, rubber band shooter, snacks that aren't candy (mine love a can of black olives lol), stamps and an ink pad, a bug catcher/net and magnifying glass, fishbowl with gravel/decorations/food and certificate for a pet fish, tackle box and fishing pole, homemade coupon book for fun things to do-ice cream date, manicure date, movie date, ect.

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In our baskets this year: tiny Easter snow globes (my children are fools for these--I found them at the thrift store for 50 cents each and they are darling), one queen/prince figurine each (Papo, from amazon), an Easter book (mousekins, used from half.com or somewhere similar), and a little bit of candy.  Oh! And a few other items I never buy them but that they will love: princess band-aids for my daughter, for instance. Interesting toothbrushes.  That kind of thing.

 

last year I think they each got a playmobil toy--my son got a stagecoach and my daughter got a princess' carriage.  Hours of play have come from those! And they were relatively inexpensive.

 

One year I gave my son the hardback Complete Beatrix Potter books.....we have loved those over and over again......

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Basket right, not eggs?

 

We do mostly books. We usually include a new Bible for each kid. Maybe pack of socks. A few squeezee food pouches, which yes even the big boy likes. We have never done candy, we have occasionally put a toy in.

 

One year I gave D stretchy thread in basket and then in the Easter eggs I hid different kinds of beads :)

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Our five year old is getting:

 

1. 3 of those little lego friends bags

2. a stuffed Audubon bird (a chickadee, her younger sister is getting the American Robin)

3. a cup of caterpillars (the insect lore ones). I have the home for when they become butterflies. 

 

I was also thinking of some of the Steve Spangler test tubes but I think I've already exceeded what an Easter basket should cost.

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