How to Make a Green Easter Basket

on April 8, 2009 at 6:00 AM

As you prepare ideas for your precious bunny's Easter basket, stop and think how you can make it a greener Easter basket this year.

Some ideas for how to make a greener Easter basket:

Use naturally dyed Easter eggs.

Reuse last year's Easter basket. No matter how cute the new ones at Target.

Make an Easter basket: Make a basket out of recycled paper, newspaper, a paper bag, a berry basket, or other household items.

Repurpose an Easter basket. Roll down a canvas bag. Have the kids decorate shoe boxes. Use your child's sand bucket.

Thrift for Easter baskets: If thrift stores have nothing else, they always have a gazillion decent baskets.

Skip the Easter plastics: Use shredded paper, cloth, or even real grass or clover instead of the plastic grassy stuff. If you have plastic eggs, reuse away. If you want them, thrift for them rather than buying new.

Fill the Easter basket with handmades—things like recycled crayons, origami rabbits, DIY notebooks, or Easter cards made out of junk mail.

Use eco-goodies for Easter basket filler, like eco-friendly art supplies or natural, fair trade, and/or organic snacks and candies (sorry, Peeps!)

See? It's not hard to make a green Easter basket. And even if you take on just a few of these earth-friendly suggestions this year, that's eggcellent (sorry...couldn't resist...).

+++ What about you? What's green about your Easter basket ideas?

About the author Sheri Reed

is a writer and the Entertainment, News & Sports editor for The Stir. She loves a good film, watches lots of good TV and follows Ryan Gosling's every move because she has to -- for work.

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Comments (2)

ammaleigh

on Apr 8, 2009 at 5:34 PM

we made our son's easter basket out of a really cute, springy reusable grocery bag. and of course, no easter grass!

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tocreatefire

on Apr 9, 2009 at 12:19 PM

We use empty plastic milk jugs. cut out the side across from the handle. Leave enough to make a basket at the bottom. Use pompoms or cotton balls and white/pink scrap paper to turn it into a bunny. ( tail goes on the cut side, face on the handle side. Then use a t-shirt/ wash cloth as the bottom filler before adding in your other easter gifts.