Vegan Easter Basket Ideas and Easter Egg Hunt
Easter Basket
I can’t believe that Easter is already upon us! I don’t feel prepared at all, but we do still have a few weeks to come up with some fun, family ideas to make the weekend special.
In our house Easter means lots of time with loved ones (limited to our immediate family this year due to the pandemic) and a good dose of bunny themed decorations and chocolate – we all love bunnies and chocolate in this family!
A question we often get asked is how do we manage to celebrate Easter as vegans with zero waste and minimalist goals? Well, the vegan part we find much easier these days as vegan chocolates are now easily available in pretty much all supermarkets. We personally choose to use MooFree; we love this brand as not only is their chocolate delicious, but they are also an excellent UK based company. They have organic options for their products, use recycled materials that you can then easily recycle once finished with, which we love, and they go out of their way to be fair in all aspects of their business; they employ many individuals with autism, seeing them as capable of doing the job, and the CEO and Finance Director are both women. On top of all of this they also donate to various charities. We absolutely love using this company and if you want to find out more information about them or look at their full chocolate range you can find them here!
We choose to get all adults and children an Easter egg each and a packet of buttons. We put the children’s into their Easter basket along with one or two other bits. Last year, as well as their Easter eggs they got a puppet each, a book, some bunny ears and a set of animal stamps. These gifts were very well loved and the puppets, books and stamps are still played with regularly a year on, a sign that we made good choices.
This year as well as their Easter eggs we are getting them each some sticker books. We are aware that sticker books are not a particularly sustainable choice, however there aren’t any environmentally friendly options available at the moment (that we could find anyway, please feel free to let us know of any we are unaware of). Our children love stickers, and we choose to opt for books as the pages tend to have a shiny coating meaning the children can move the stickers around a bit and get lots of use out of them, and it also keeps the stickers confined to one place; when they had stickers they could stick anywhere they put them on paper which then couldn’t be recycled, so we find that sticker books are the best option to a bad situation. We know that the perfect solution would be no stickers and no sticker books however we do make concessions for Christmas and Easter. We are simply doing our best to make good choices and learn as we go. Extra bonus this year is that I managed to find them second-hand from someone on Facebook. It’s hard to find unused sticker books but if you keep an eye out throughout the year they do turn up.
We were also going to get them some more stamps like last year but when I stopped and thought about it they already have the sticker books, and Granny got them little Easter gnomes to play with as well as some reusable window stickers, so we didn’t think it necessary.
I will bulk out the table decorations with things we already own, I was surprised by how many things came to mind when planning the table in my head; we have stuffed bunnies, some books and even a few ornaments – doing this the frugal way really was a great reminder to shop your home first. Hopefully by setting everything up in a fun and creative way, old books and toys that we all forgot about will get a new lease of life.
Easter Basket Ideas:
- Chocolate Egg
- Chocolate buttons/bar
- Easter/Spring themed books
- Puppets
- Stamps
- Dressing up outfits or accessories
- Sticker books
- Toys
- Games and puzzles
*Don’t forget to use what you’ve already got! Society loves to tell us that things need to be new in order to be exciting, but this is just not the truth. Children often forget about what they have, so I like to bring out all their bunny teddies, Easter and Spring books we already own and assemble all their relevant toys on the table along with the Easter basket. This way we buy a lot less, things we already own get used and played with again and my children have a wonderful Easter morning playing and using their imaginations.
Reusable Easter Egg Hunt:
We are doing our first Easter Egg Hunt this year, it will only be in our back garden but I am one very excited Mama! I have bought some reusable plastic egg-shaped containers which we can then fill with treats; we have decided on vegan chocolate coins for this year’s filler.
The eggs are made of plastic, but we will be reusing them every year and as I said we will be able fill them with our choice of items, meaning our Easter Egg Hunt can grow with our children and still be relevant year after year.
We hope you have gotten a few ideas from this post and feel confident knowing that it is possible to have a wonderful, vegan, frugal, more sustainable Easter.
Wishing you all the best,
Livvy and Summer
