Easter basket ideas for all ages: DIY decorations, gifts and more 

What you’ll need: 

• Orange or peach-colored tissue paper 
• Green tissue paper 
• Twine or string
• Scissors 
• Toddler-approved snack (we chose some oat-o’s) 
• Tape 

1. Start by cutting a square of tissue. Make a cone by bringing down the top left corner toward the center of the square and rolling up the tissue. 

2. Cut off excess paper. Once you have a cone that’s a good size for your toddler’s Easter basket, trim off the remainder of the tissue paper. 

3. Tape down the bottom of the cone. Put another piece of tape wherever you feel it needs to stay secure. 

4. Pour in your toddler snack. About a half cup worked for the size of cone we created. 

5. Tie it up. Gather the tissue paper at the top and using a piece of twine or string tie it closed really tight. Adjust the tissue or smooth it out where needed, then secure the string with a knot. Cut off the excess tissue paper above the knot, leaving about half an inch for securing the carrot top to. 

6. Make the carrot top. Stack two or three smaller squares of green tissue, and cut some fringe along one edge. Feel free to make your cuts varying thicknesses. 

7. Add the carrot top to the carrot. Tape down one end of the non-fringed edge at the top of the carrot. Wrap it around and tape it down to finish.  

8. Pop your DIY carrot treat into the basket. They look especially cute nestled into Easter grass.

What you’ll need:

• Crayola® Model Magic 
• Ribbon or twine 
• Rolling pin 
• Scissors 
• Crayola Take Note Marker 
• Bunny cookie cutter 
• Metal straw or something to make a small hole 

1. Roll out the modeling clay. We rolled our Model Magic to about 1/4” thick. This makes it thick enough to work as a tag but not so thick that it takes forever to dry. 

2. Cut out your bunnies. Using a cookie cutter, cut out as many bunnies as needed. These make cute place cards or food markers, too, so feel free to make extra. 

3. Punch out a small hole. Use a metal straw to make a hole to thread ribbon or string through.  

4. Let the tags dry overnight. Tags should be completely dried out by morning. Placing them on a wire rack may speed up the process a bit, as it allows for more air circulation.  

5. Add your kid’s name. Once the tags are fully dried, write the name of your child on the bunny with a permanent marker. 

6. Add some ribbon. Thread the ribbon or twine through the hole in your dried bunny tag. 

7. Tie the tag to your child’s Easter basket or gift. You can use these to keep track of whose Easter basket is whose, or use them as a gift topper. 

What you’ll need: 

• Yarn (we used three colors and they all had different weights) 
• Scissors 
• Keychain 
• Piece of cardboard 

1. Make a DIY pom-pom form. To make it, cut a cardboard rectangle about 3” x 6”. Then make a slit 1/4” wide in the middle of the short end, stopping about halfway through the piece of cardboard. 

2. Start wrapping. Wrap your primary color around the cardboard pom-pom form, covering the slit you made.  

3. Switch up the colors. To make a spicy pom-pom, add more colors! No need to tie anything off—just cut off your first color and start wrapping your next. We did this pretty randomly. 

4. Tie off your pom-pom. Thread a separate piece of yarn about 12” long into the slit at the center of the cardboard form. Tie it loosely around all the yarn you’ve wrapped onto the form and make a loose knot. 

5. Release the yarn. Slide all the yarn off the cardboard, then tighten and tie the knot so it’s super secure.  

6. Cut and fluff. Use scissors to cut all the loops in the yarn, then fluff it out.

7. Shape the pom-pom. Trim the ends of the yarn so the pom-pom looks like a nice, round sphere. 

8. Tie to a keychain. Using the extra length from the piece of yarn you used to tie everything together, tie your pom-pom to the keychain. 

9. Attach to an Easter basket. You can tie it to the handle, or if you go the route of this adorable bunny bag, attach it to one of the handles.