We’ve killed a few Easter baskets over the years, or I got angry at them for taking up too much space in my already-tight-quarters house. So, I made up my own thing. Not like that’s new around here, I make things up as I go and mangle them to suit my fancy. We got new string bags this Easter, that actually perfectly coordinate with the kids’ colors. 10yo is red, 7yo is blue, 5yo is pink/magenta, 4yo is green. What, you don’t color code your kids? Better get on that, you’re missing out.
So here are the ‘baskets’ all stuffed for the morning. With some card games, a few small treats (think like two Hershey Kisses and some Goldfish), glowsticks, and a few other little things from Grandma. Yup, we go *way* overboard here. There’s also one sample egg in each one as an indicator of what color they get to hunt for this year.

Here are the eggs the bunny will hide for them. Yup, again, color coded. 10yo gets to hunt for yellow, 7yo for blue, 5yo for pink/purple, 4yo for green. The orange and gold are a free-for-all, any child can grab those. In the individual colors, are all the bits for a complete Lego set for each child. In the family ones, are little coupons for things like stay-up-past-bedtime and make-a-batch-of-cookies and movie night for the kids to cash in. The special golden egg has two dollars, some mombucks, and a little candy. This way, they get something cool, have a blast, are quiet the rest of the day (assembling their Legos!), and there’s minimal candy involved. Or markers. Markers with my younger two tend to result in bad things happening. Drives me batty.
