Assembled by me,always have been.I love picking out the goodies to go in them.My 15 yr old son still expects an easter basket.I will continue to make him one as long as I am still able.LOL

Shelley

I always assembled my own. My baby will be 23 next month and none of my boys expect baskets. I did buy some cute things for the twins and put them into neat bunny gift bags along with some grass. I'll be going out to their house late this afternoon.

Me too! I buy stuff thoughout the year to put in baskets. The kids really liked the Spongebob sea monkey tanks I found at Walgreens a couple of days ago! Lots of odds and ends. BTW Walgreens has a Wii Jeep game that is unmarked that scans for $5.19. My teenagers is still asleep, but mentioned she hopes the Easter Bunny puts a comfy bike seat in her basket!

I make baskets or some kind of containers each year for my daughter, SIL, and all of my grandkids. This year they also got birds nests with eggs in them.....chow mein noodles and chocolate formed the nests, then foil wrapped chocolate eggs were put in the nests. These were then put in round fluted edged coffee filters and wrapped in white lace, then tied shut with a ribbon. Everything I make has to be mailable. Daughter got an egg carton filled with plastic eggs that had goodies inside each egg. She loved it.

When DD was in college, I would buy her a new purse and use it as the Easter basket for the goodies I assembled.

I neve buy the premade ones...I like doing my own too. I try to do a theme every year now that they have grown up. They are not into sweets so much anymore. This is what I did for my 2 married son's and DIL's this year. For my un-married son I got him a basket and filled it with gum, beef jerkey, etc....all his favorites.

Vicky THATS A GREAT BASKET for your grown children,I would love that myself as well.Very nice.

Shelley

Assembled by me. I picked some forsythias for a bouquet, fed the pets, made two Easter baskets for my daughters (19 and 20) , made some breakfast-coffee, scrambled eggs, bacon and sausage, then settled back to relax for the day. DH is taking me out for dinner later today. I'm sick of cooking.

I don't have kids...but I made and filled 9 of these,various colors.'Course they had eyes and noses added...

Still have my son's first Easter basket, which is 42 years old.

Bought it from a specialty five and dime. I bought all the cute little Easter toys and candy from the store. They then wrapped it, beautifully with colored cellophane wrap and a beautiful bow for the Easter bunny to leave at the door.

After that I filled it each year.

I only have one DD, so it was much cheaper to get her a Russell Stover already made basket than to buy packages of peeps, jelly beans, some trinkets, chocolate bunny, etc. I ended up throwing a LOT of candy out the one year I did it myself. The RS had a stuffed animal and less candy--worked for me.

I put the kids together. Woke up this morning in a hurry to finish them up. Dh was to buy some prewrapped lifesavers for some plastic eggs. He bought pepper mint, which they like but not what I was thinking he would buy for them. We stuffed the eggs and I teased him. Sure enough the kids teased him too. Oh, breath mints? These are DAD's favorites, etc. He sure catches heck somedays.
If he buys what he likes he will get lots of leftovers.

Got 2 small containers at Hobby Lobby like you carry either cleaning supplies or craft supplies and put some clothing and books. No candy and their mom was really happy. Put stickers and names on each. But then they are only 2 & 1 years old. They like to carry things around.