Hoppy Easter!

Do you celebrate Easter? Is it one of your favorite holidays? If you’ve answered yes, to any of the questions I can relate. Easter is easily one of my favorite holidays (maybe my favorite) and with it being a little more than a week and a half away it’s at the forefront of my thoughts. We’re traveling for the holiday this year but that doesn’t mean I’m not filling our suitcases with loads of Easter goodies! I’m trying to scale down with plans to pick up some items on vacation but I love Easter baskets more than I love Christmas stockings and that’s saying something. Perhaps it’s related to my love of bunnies..seriously, I can’t resist them. One of my first pets was a bunny and The Country Bunny is one of my favorite books from childhood so clearly, in my mind an Easter basket isn’t complete with a bunny or two. Read on for my TAKE on ideas for this years Easter basket goodies.

In order to successfully pack for our trip I’m limiting Easter goodies to one suitcase. I’m trying to stick to around 3-4 items per kid and limiting sweets along with our collapsible Bunny baskets from Paper Source, that will certainly fit the bill in the space saving category. I figure I can always pick up a last minute chocolate bunny and find some last minute crowd pleasing bubbles to top the baskets off!

Here are some of the items that made the cut this year (as pictured above): LEGO Brick Headz Easter Bunny Building Kit, Mad Mattr Modeling Dough, Bunny Pencils (Flying Tiger Copenhagen), freeze dried Astronaut Ice Cream Sandwiches (a little unconventional but fun), TWEE Unicorn Horns Sidewalk Chalk, Meri Meri Surprise Heirloom Carrots, a new book (Duck! Rabbit!), a sand toy (HABA Sand Brick Maker Set), Plus Plus Construction Building Toys Tube Sets (Dinosaur + Unicorn versions), and an often requested USPS Mail Truck to add to our ever growing collection of cars.

I may or may not have scooped up a handful of the flocked Easter bunnies (pictured above) to use in the baskets and/or as part of centerpiece for Easter dinner. I couldn’t resist them and they come in up to 10 colors and in various sizes. I’ve seen them in a few shops around Chicago (Hazel, Four Sided) but haven’t been able to find them online. I will be sure to update once I do.

P.S. If you’re looking for some more Easter ideas, last year the kids Easter baskets were seriously EXTRA and I documented them in a detailed post here. Plus some of my favorite Easter books to help build up the coming holiday can be found here!

Hope y’all have a Happy Easter!