21 of Our Best DIY Easter Basket Ideas You Can Use for Gifts, Centerpieces, and More (2024)

Easter Sunday brings a wealth of traditions—and among all the day's wonders, perhaps none is more beloved than the Easter basket and the treasures that fill it. From non-candy stuffers, like flowers and toys, to sweet treats galore, a basket filled with goodies is a custom to cherish.

Here, we pay tribute to springtime's riot of color with a collection of Easter basket ideas that would rival even the most vivid of rainbows. Each one is a celebration of a particular hue: green, orange, gold, yellow, blue, pink, silver, purple, and brown. The contents are also varied. Some baskets hold little bouquets or big chocolate bunnies; others, fluffy pom-pom chicks or polka-dotted eggs. They make excellent gifts and wonderful centerpieces. So, why not treat yourself to one? Remember, Easter basket ideas—these versions, anyway—are for grown-ups, too.

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Wheatgrass Basket

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An eco-friendly mindset benefits everyone: you, the recipient, and planet Earth at large. In this naturally grown garden-in-a-basket, wheatgrass springs up quick as a bunny in just 10 days. The result is a basket that is sweeter and definitely more eco-friendly than those packed with artificial fillers.

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Splatter-Painted Basket

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An Easter basket filled to the brim with coordinated candy, cookies, and eggs creates a cohesive look. The trick to decorating these speckled Easter eggs is similar to the sponge-painted technique we used to decorate the egg-shaped sugar cookies.

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Gnome Garden Basket

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Kids love magical stories and things gone miniature. In this handled basket, we turned the interior into a fairy-tale garden complete with "gnome" decorated eggs, vegetable chocolates, and diminutive-sized toy accessories (a wooden wheelbarrow and watering can).

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Basket for Babies

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Is it somebunny's first Easter? We suggest a basket stuffed with snuggly, age-appropriate goodies like plush bunnies, teething toys, and cute rabbit slippers.

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Basket for Toddlers

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What about a small child? These "treats" are better than candy (and better for your little one), from wind-up toys to musical eggs to a carrot-and-spoon fork set made special for smaller hands.

Basket for Budding Artists

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This Easter basket idea, adorned with paper-punched butterflies, will help your young artist to tap into their creativity thanks to gifts like coloring books, a make-your-own bunny set, and bunny-shaped crayons.

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Basket for Action Lovers

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For Easter, a white metal bucket is all you need to package the toys and trinkets an adventurist loves. Fill it with model planes, transforming robot toys, and more of our basket stuffer ideas.

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Easter Bunny Basket

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This sweet Easter basket idea upgrade—inspired by a vintage design former Living style assistant Jaclyn DeNardi had growing up—gives any round wicker style a hare's pair. Bend floral wire into two loops, add a center wire, stick the ends into the wicker near the handles, and secure them all with hot glue. Then work matching raffia ribbon over, under, and around the wires, from bottom to top. Poke taupe and coral raffia ribbon through the front to "stitch" on sleepy eyes and a scrunchy nose—a face so cute, it'll make any recipient believe in the Easter rabbit.

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Basket for Teens

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No one is too old for Easter, including your teenager. This year, give them a basket full of flavored beauty products, sophisticated candy, and colorful school supplies.

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Basket for Gardeners

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It's spring! And that means more time out in the garden. This Easter, give a basket (or, more appropriately, a stone urn) filled with one-of-a-kind gardening gifts, including a stone rabbit statue, custom tools, and seed bombs.

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Basket for Cooks

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If they have outgrown Easter candy, try curating this gift for a more mature palate. Fill a woven basket with adult-friendly ideas like artisanal sea salt, imported olive oil, must-have gadgets, and handmade recipe cards.

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Spa Day Basket

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Know someone special in need of a little rest and relaxation? Treat them to an Easter basket idea that packages everything they need for a spa day at home. They'll love indulging in a little "me" time with scented candles, bubbly body washes, and soft-to-the-touch towels.

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Crepe-Paper Rose Basket

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A frilly alternative to a traditional basket, this rose has humble beginnings: Beneath the folds of pink crepe paper is a plastic bucket meant for mixing paint.

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Basket of Bulbs

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Not every Easter basket idea you have requires candy: This one is just as sweet, thanks to clusters of mini daffodils planted in a bed of clump moss. Since the basket is lined with a plastic pot, the flowers can be watered so they'll blossom long past Easter. Add to the holiday tableau by resting a few eggs on the moss—and, if you have them on hand, a couple of Hotot bunnies.

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Pink Basket

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This basket certainly is pretty in pink. The anchor of the display is a little basket filled with a mix of light-pink silk flowers (just tuck pots of them into the basket). Pink satin ribbon trails from the handle to the table, guiding the eye to a collection of foil-wrapped candy and jelly beans—all in the same pastel hue. The sweetest final touch: a set of sugar cookies shaped like bunnies and sheep.

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Papier-Mâché Egg Baskets

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An oversized egg doubles as the perfect Easter basket idea, with smaller versions inside—one cracked and bearing a pom-pom chick. The shell is made with three layers of paper strips: Pink paper is revealed when the egg is cut open; two layers of plain newsprint are on top.

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Green Meadow Basket

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This fanciful green meadow vignette seems a fitting home for a chocolate bunny. His eyes (dabs of tinted royal icing) and bow tie (ribbon with a glued-on rosette) match his surroundings. To assemble, set a plastic liner inside a vintage green basket, add some soil, and then plant a bed of clover. If you can't find a green basket, give a plain one a color wash. For a basket that's deeper than about six inches, fill the bottom with crumpled-up kraft paper before putting in the plastic liner. We nestled a collection of green-dyed blown-out eggs from quails, turkeys, and chukars (a type of partridge) among the plants. Green picot-edged silk-ribbon bows drape down the basket's sides.

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Glittered Blue Basket

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Spring's pretty blue skies inspired this basket, tucked with shimmering German egg boxes. They make for an extra special family tradition—each year, every person can find a gift inside an egg. The eggs are made of sturdy cardboard, which are painted shades of blue and covered in glass glitter. Then, we added silk and paper flowers and vintage velvet leaves twined around the handle.

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Gilded Basket

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Create an Easter basket display that resembles a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Metallic eggs, covered in varying shades of gold leaf sheets, were set atop a bed of spray-painted hay in a sponge-painted basket. For an elegant finishing touch, tie metallic vintage-ribbon bows on either side of the basket.

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Chocolate Basket

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When you're in the room with this extravagant brown basket, every fragrant breath is like a moment in a chocolate shop. Set out for Easter, it would make a wonderful centerpiece—then dessert. And what a gift for anyone with a sweet tooth! First, we coated a plain basket with chocolate-brown paint to make the color richer. Then, we filled it with shredded kraft paper and dark chocolates in the shapes of eggs, bunnies, and hens. We also put foil-covered eggs in the big bunny's basket by attaching them with dots of royal icing. And we wrapped up homemade fudge in a cellophane bag and secured it with a lavender velvet ribbon. Fresh flowers, such as this pansy nosegay, should be tucked in just before the basket is given or displayed.

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Silver Basket

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This dramatic scene sets a new silver standard for Easter. There are whimsically polka-dotted and beribboned silver blown-out eggs, filigreed sterling silver "baskets," and, of course, dapper chocolate bunnies—we used white chocolate ones donning ribbons to match the dots. These eggs are decorated using dye, spray paint, and a few snips of ribbon. They're tucked into a bed of silver-plated tinsel, called lametta, more commonly seen at Christmastime. We mixed in a few solid-silver-painted eggs to break up the dots.