50 Fun and Frugal Non-Candy Easter Basket Ideas

Your kids are going to have some candy on Easter, it’s inevitable. But if you want to curb the sugar rush, here are 50 fun non-candy Easter basket ideas!

Easter basket gifts that are not candy

Put down the Peeps, peeps! As yummy (?) as those fluorescent yellow and pink marshmallow cuties are, there are better Easter basket gift ideas. My very energetic four-year-old does not need the assistance of sugar to give her energy to run and dance around the house most of the day. For her and the other naturally energetic little kids (so, all of them), here are 50 non-candy Easter basket ideas that your kids will LOVE!

My mom loved playing Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. For Easter she had fun hiding little treats for my sister and I to find.

One year my mom decided to hide brightly colored jelly beans shaped like Easter eggs. Only the candies weren’t wrapped. And my mom had just brought in a new large houseplant. And she had no idea that this plant had some tiny guests that hitched a ride in the soil.

When my sister and I woke up excited on Easter morning, we went downstairs to find a trail of ants leading from the plant to the jelly beans. At least we didn’t have to look very hard to find our candies?

Now that I have turned you off Easter candy, let’s talk about non-candy Easter basket gifts. There are so many things you can fill an Easter basket with other than candy. And these Easter basket gift ideas are fun enough that your kids won’t miss the chocolate (too much).

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50 Ideas for a non-candy Easter basket

If sugar-crazed kids isn’t your idea of fun, ask the Easter Bunny to bring some of these non-candy Easter basket ideas instead:

1. Bubbles
2. Fidget spinner
3. Egg chalk
4. Kazoo
5. Small puzzle
6. Hatchimals CollEGGtibles
7. Pajamas! (why is Christmas the only holiday where it’s customary to get pajamas?)
8. Bath toys
9. Harmonica
10. Color change cars
11. Silly putty
12. Slime
13. Play-dough
14. Easter Stickers
15. Markers
16. Temporary tattoos
17. Dolls
18. Bath bombs
19. Lip gloss
20. Cookie cutters
21. Small rolling pin
22. Toothbrush
23. Small stuffed animal
24. Pack of cards
25. Magnifying glass
26. Wind-up toys
27. Alphabet fridge magnets
28. Hair accessories
29. Stamps
30. Activity books
31. Jump rope
32. Water squirter
33. Seed packets
34. Kid’s gardening gloves
35. Small gardening tools
36. Toy construction vehicles
37. Sunglasses
38. Watering can
39. Finger puppets
40. Plus Plus (one of my daughter’s favorite toys for two years running)
41. Small Lego kits
42. Notepad
43. Bunny ears headband
44. Bunny slippers
45. Dried fruit
46. Freeze-dried fruit
47. Water bottle
48. Kinetic sand
49. Foam Alive
50. Books

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I would love to hear your ideas below for other non-candy Easter basket ideas!