Creative ideas for unique Easter gift baskets

Easter is a special holiday and a great chance to come up with your own unique Easter gift basket ideas. Why not skip the traditional store-bought ones with plastic grass and opt to create your own Easter gift basket for you and your family. Here are a few one-of-a-kind ideas.

Mason jars are cute and cheap little containers you can use to store all kinds of Easter treats.

• Buy a few and fill them up with chocolate eggs or other Easter candies that have pretty colours.
• Add some confetti or extra decor to the lid to make a pretty basket. Add a bow for extra flourish.

If anyone in your family has a green thumb, they will love a gardening Easter basket.

• Just get a wooden box or a wine crate and paint it a pretty colour.
• Then fill it up with seed packets, tiny plants and small gardening tools.
• This is a great idea for both kids and adults.

Most Easter baskets get filled up with candy and toys, but why not make a nutritious breakfast basket this year?

• Get a wicker basket and fill it up with delicious breakfast foods like hard-boiled eggs, muffins and jams, fruit and cereal.
• You could include a cookbook, too, and maybe throw in a colourful kitchen tea towel!

Instead of going for the cellophane grass that comes in bags, plan ahead and grow real grass in your Easter basket.

• Use plastic to line the bottom of the basket and add soil and grass seeds.
• Leave it in the sun, and it should start to grow in about a week.
• Then lay colourfully dyed Easter eggs on top to create a beautiful basket.

Instead of getting a traditional wicker basket, try a bath caddy.

• You can fill it with bath and body products like colourful soaps, bath beads, loofahs and more.

It's a great way to turn an Easter basket into a practical gift for your son, daughter, or significant other.

Spring is a great time to start focusing on fitness goals.

• Get a medium-sized wooden or cardboard box. Decorate it with an Easter theme. Then fill it up with hand weights, gym socks, exercise videos and other accessories that will help your family get excited about becoming more active.

You can celebrate Easter in any way that you like. Try being creative with your Easter baskets this year with any one of these six unique ideas, or stretch your imagination and see where it takes you.