Don't underestimate kid things for this age My 31 year old sort-of-daughter has been discovering she is old enough to be nostalgic about her childhood. She loves things from when she was a kid and teenager that she hasn't seen or eaten "in years!" Bake anything that is a family recipe that they might not have had in a while. Candy necklaces. Candy from when they were kids. This all goes over big with her.

PS - I'm Jewish and have never made an Easter Basket so feel free to ignore this advice!

Referring to any Christmas stocking ideas would be helpful. I am impressed you individualize your baskets! My favorite stuffer are sweedish wash cloths for the kitchen. They are found so many places now, usually in packages of three so I can get quite a bang for my buck and I just love the graphics as well as their usefulness. Another thing I do to bounce off Kendrah is slip in a project. Last year we made lego flowers that turned into our Easter Table bouquet. My 27 yr old daughter was more than thrilled to get to take the bouquet home with her. This year we maybe painting tiny greenware birdhouses. Yes even my 30 something year old son and DH enjoy our projects. Some families have a puzzle to gather them, inspire conversation--we do a tiny project left over from the way I spent time with them as children. Back to the baskets one year I found these tiny pots painted like animals that had grass seed in them. Each basket got a different animal. They had great fun sending text pics as their grass grew. It became a series of little contests--whose was first/whose got the longest/ whose got the longest before flopping over etc. Always the expected chocolate Easter Bunny. World Market is the only place I've seen the pretty floral wrapped bunnies--but I need dk chocolate for a few so pretty is out. This won't help but DH is a woodworker so lately has been carving things for me, eggs/egg cups last year he actually lasered a real egg we blew out and dyed. Earrings maybe...why are women so much easier!!

Plastic Easter eggs containing money!

One year for my grown step children, I made small baskets using dollar bills as the grass. The bills didn’t look very ”grassy” so I folded them to have all of the corners up and stapled them to hold the shape. My step son later told me that getting all of those staples out was almost more effort than the money was worth. I never thought of what a PITA it would be to undo what I’d done. 😁

What about fun socks? Lottery tickets?

It wasn’t inexpensive, but last year we did candy and gift certificates for a car detail.

Nail polish. Saffron spice. Little brass rabbit.

Uber gift cards!

Ahh plastic eggs containing $$ is a good one! Maybe I’ll make them do an egg hunt! Or a small project like Arcy mentioned would work. My oldest still likes making a gingerbread house at Christmas. Pretty sure I have seen easter cookie decorating kits.

Uber, spices, lottery tix, ”retro” candy all good ideas!

See's Bordeaux eggs!

My ”girls” (daughter and grandaughters) always looked forward to a new cheap pair of Old Navy flip flops in their basket. Oldest GD commented….. ” a new clean, crisp pair of white ON flip flops means SPRING!“ Of course they don't stay white long, they are practically disposable, and Podiatrists hate them😜.

I actually did a Spring/Summer theme one year with the flip flops, new beach towel,

good sun screen, chap stick, and sun visor. They loved it. And a new summery OPI nail polish.

As mentioned above, guys are not as easy.

This has lived on my fridge for years, but it must have come from an Easter basket or card from my mom. It’s a buck.

Aw, bet they would love baskets. Lots of good ideas below.

Arcy, the little grass pots sound adorable! And the Lego flowers, my boys were Lego maniacs. One year I received a Christmas gift of a puzzle vase. It took five of us to put it together while Brunch was being prepared, then I tucked in some picks I had. It’s still holding together.

We have gotten away from the baskets with the boys in their 20s and (gulp) 30, but a little spring bag with candy, cookies, maybe a little something for the home like a little rabbit (maybe from my own accumulation!). If someone has a trip or a project planned, I might add a little something for that.

My oldest son loved, loved Legos. I still get him a small kit in his christmas stockings. This past Christmas, he got ME a kit! It was a poinsettia. It is still displayed in the dining room.

I am tempted to get the Lego bunny for myself.

Thank you to all who mentioned Legos. I bought three different bunny kits to take as a hostess gift to an Easter get-together. The boys are all teenagers so they may roll their eyes, but I think I might make it a competition to see who puts theirs together fastest with a cash prize. Cash usually gets their attention.

Bbstx, that is one of my favorite Easter bunny images! The other is this: how the bunny came to be associated with Easter:

Here's a list of 15 gag gifts from the NYT 2 weeks ago:

pickle bandages

Dracula garlic crusher

a literary insult chart (my favorite)

design your very own Funko head in your own image - or someone else's

(here I confess to not knowing what a Funko head is............)

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/gag-gifts/?searchResultPosition=1

Ha, DS did custom Legos for himself and his GF.

I actually had looked at those Funko heads at Christmas.

One year we had an adult Easter egg hunt where we put those chocolate liquor bottles in plastic Easter eggs. It was a lot of fun.

These look like fun. Wipes for glasses or sunglasses.

Sorry I can’t seem to copy the lnk.

I was saving this for stocking stuffers.

Mini hot sauce kit

I have Jinkies glasses cleaning cloth. I really like them! Recently, they had some on sale for less than $10.

Kudos to the Lego marketing who have kept these building blocks alive. I wasn’t aware of the Lego flowers. My DH is a HUGE Beatle fan and my DS gave him this Yellow Submarine kit a few years ago. It was a big hit!

Ok, just ordered a bunch of Jinkies! Fun!

Side note, saw this and thought it would be cute for Easter pre-dinner. Or any spring event!

One of the favorites from my young adult Easter basket is a snack sized bag of Mother's Iced Circus Animal Cookies. They come in a multi pack. Had to laugh, I just threw these in at the last minute as filler and they were a huge hit.

Some years I do theme baskets - book, beach/pool, or travel with lots of travel size products. Always include a few of our favorite candies. Going to look into Lego this year, all my "kids" love Lego.

We usually traveled for Easter so Junior's Easter basket was full of keep-busy items for the car/plane/train. If any of yours are traveling this might be an idea: gum for takeoff/landing, a book to read, a travel pillow, etc.

Or, are any of yours in their living situation away from home? You can get bright-colored toolsto put in their baskets!

Love that veggie platter Sue!

Have any of your adult kids started asking for family recipes? Our college-graduate grandkids seem to have started to want family recipes in the last few years. Last Christmas I took a few that were in my mother’s or my handwriting, stains and all, copied them on our color printer to fit an inexpensive 5x7 frame. One was a colorful magazine ad from the 70’s of the ’original’ Chex Mix which we always make during the holidays.

Outside, you’ve overestimated my cooking skills. One time not long ago, we were all at some gathering and someone asked my kids what my ”specialty” was. They all looked at him blankly. LOL

We do have a ”family cookbook” from my dad’s side of the family. All my aunts and cousins sent me (mostly handwritten) family recipes, and I made a photobook from Shutterfly with them. The kids have their own copies of that (I gave the books to the aunts and cousins for christmas one year). The only recipe any of us really cared about was my grandmother’s legendary molasses cookies.

I still have recipe cards handwritten by my mom, who died when I was 29. She was a great cook. I should frame one of those, for myself.

Some of these posts have reminded me that I often put beach stuff in the baskets when my kids were little, especially if Easter fell before school vacation in April and we were going somewhere warm. DD especially loved getting a new swimsuit and flipflops. And five minutes later I am putting prosecco in her basket? Sigh…

Outside, how fun! (And homemade Chexmix is my absolute favorite snack.)