- Hey, everyone, welcome back to another video.
Today, I have a really fun one for you guys.
It's all about Easter baskets,
what I'm doing this year for my kids.
So I have married, solid age, teens and tweens
that I'll be shopping for.
Some ideas for you guys,
I'll show you what I'm putting in their baskets
and also show you some tips and tricks
on how to create really big, beautiful, full baskets
that are really easy coz you guys know,
if it takes more than like five minutes,
I'm not gonna do it.
Let's get to it.
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Okay, so the first thing I do for my baskets,
just so you guys know, you can see some of them behind me,
I color coordinate everything.
I don't know if you guys have a lot of kids like I do
or if you're just around cousins
or friends or other family members
that you're doing lots of Easter eggs and baskets,
but the easiest way to just kinda keep it all organized
is by color coordination.
If I have, I'm gonna grab Paisley's basket here,
she's gonna be pink this year.
And so what I'll do is I'll pop pink eggs in her basket
and on her basket, somewhere on the front,
like the day of Easter, it will have her name on it
like just in paper or something, you know,
say Paisley so that she knows this is her basket.
Now in our family, we hide the baskets.
They have to find the basket,
then they can figure out what color their eggs are
and then they get to go hunt for the eggs.
I make sure all the eggs are the same number,
so everything is fair coz you know how kids can be.
If there's one extra eggs somewhere for somebody,
you're gonna have a fight on your hand.
So we just do like Paisley would figure out
when she found her basket,
that her color was pink and then be able to go hunt
for her dozen or two dozen Easter eggs
throughout the house or the yard
or wherever you're doing it.
That's tip number one is just coordinate everything.
Pink tissue, pink basket, pink eggs,
down in the bottom, there's pink grass.
Sometimes if you can't find the exact colors
like I'll fill with like a cream or clear or white,
just to kinda substitute,
but always the eggs and the tissue
I try to pretty much coordinate.
So that's tip number one.
Let's show you what's in Paisley's basket.
Paisley is 11, tween girl and I have in here
this little ear headband, super cute.
Oh I forgot to say I personally do not love
lots of food for holidays, like treats.
I feel like my kids get so many treats
all the time at school, on the bus everywhere.
So for me, lots of sugar extra treats isn't my favorite.
Obviously I fill the eggs a little bit with some treats,
but I try to do things that my kids either need
or that I need to get them anyway,
instead of just a bunch of food,
so that's the way I go with my basket.
So yes, a little cutey, a bunny headband
to hold her hair back while she's doing her face at night.
She needs new sandals, her feet have grown,
so I popped in this cute little pair of sandals.
This that I picked up and I will link everything down below
in the description box.
I'll have all the links,
so you can find all of the same things.
She also needed, like I said,
her feet have grown, so new socks.
Definitely was a must have,
so I popped some cute socks in there.
And then just for a little more fun,
Paise loves to take baths like I do,
so I got her these really cute
little rainbow unicorn bath bombs.
I got her these little Stony Clover Lane face wash.
What are they called?
Wash cloths to wash her face with.
I love these, they're so cute.
This one says makeup,
this one has a cute little cherry on it.
Try to make face washing a little more fun.
Okay and then I also popped her some beads.
She's my arts and crafts girl, loves them like crazy.
So this whole package has letters on the backside,
then colorful beads on the front side,
plus all the string, the tweezers and scissors
and everything you would need, basically an all in one kit
to do some really fun beading.
She's going to summer camp this summer too,
so that might be something to pop in her little suitcase
when she goes to camp,
so that she has some fun things to do with her cabin mate.
And then last but not least for Paise,
she's grown a bunch, you heard me mention this already,
so I popped some swimsuits in here for the summer season.
Zara this year guys, started carrying swim for kids.
Oh my gosh, it's so cute.
I'm gonna show you the next basket
and then I'll show you how I put a basket together.
Daxton's basket, he's a teen boy.
He's turning 14 this July.
Like I said, if they don't need clothing items,
like he doesn't need as much clothing,
so I try to do lots of like summery outdoor things
that they can do without my help during the summer.
You can see I got him some little socks.
We got him like this,
it's kinda like a Rubik's cube sort of,
but it makes all these different shapes
like 70 different shapes, which you know,
if you know Daxton, all this is right up his alley,
he loves all these logic puzzles and things like that.
His color is obviously blue.
He also needed some little swimsuits.
This one's from Old Navy,
but I did pick him up a couple from Zara too.
You guys know that Dax is on the autism spectrum.
One of the little things like they have their little things
that they're just really sensitive to and for some reason,
Daxton won't swim without a swim top,
so I picked up an extra little swim shirt,
a little rash guard for him for the summer.
I also found this is so cute,
I was in love with this one.
Look at this little Mandalorian, baby Yoda pop it.
I don't know why of the rage right now,
but Dax will be so excited about this one,
'cause it's Star Wars too.
I found this little throwing motion kinda like boomerang.
It's like a, like you chuck it,
it has all these cool tricks you can try to do,
there's directions on the back.
And then we have like a little Nerf toss football
for the pool.
One of Daxton's favorite things since he was probably four,
I've talked about this 100 times are these plus plus,
so we just got some little new pieces and especially
coz you know, they tend to get lost over time,
so these are little replacement fillers for him.
Last but not least, some little rocket.
You set it up, it has kinda like an air pump on it
and you stomp on the air pump
and it blows the rocket off sky
and then they have to chase the rockets
and reset 'em and do it again.
Lots of outdoor, playtime, summer mode things for Dax,
which is perfect I feel like for a teen boy.
Okay, Rylan's basket.
Rylan is she just turned 17,
so definitely full tween mode, sorority and female,
so that's where we're going with this basket.
I started out by actually getting her
the same cute little bunny head wrap,
but I popped in some car air fresheners for her.
A little lipstick,
this is one of her favorite little lipsticks,
so we popped that in as well.
A little key chain, check out how cute this one is,
little rainbow key chain.
This is from Lash Next Door.
And then we decided to do this JBL speaker.
It like clamps and latches onto bikes or her car
or her backpack, luggage even.
So this one's fun,
it's kinda an outdoorsy version of a speaker.
She's obsessed with the Heritage dry shampoo,
so I popped in a new fresh bottle that.
One of my latest newest tools, the 2-in-1.
She's been eyeballing because she tested this
when I did my photo shoot a few months ago,
but we haven't been able to get our hands on one
until just recently when they launched,
so she wanted one of these,
so I popped one in for her, 2-in-1 styler
Okay, these darling little fuzzy slippers
and a little car garbage bag.
So while I have her basket undone,
I'm gonna show you what I normally do.
So I just get a basket.
I don't keep them every year,
so I usually just get cheapy baskets.
You can see the grass in the bottom.
You can do paper or plastic,
whatever you're most comfortable with.
I kinda make sure it's nice and fluffy.
Then, then I start looking for like
what are the tallest biggest items and I start layering.
So this guy might put in the back.
The shoes are obviously taller,
so I'm gonna try to tuck them off to one side like this.
The 2-in-1 styler is also very tall,
trying to keep it open just so you can see
a little pop of the bag right there.
The JBL speaker can go in there too
and then with all of the littler stuff.
This guy's a little bit taller,
so I might pop him in the middle.
Then with all the little stuff,
I just kinda fill the basket.
It's always just kinda like a play around with it
until it works kinda thing.
Again, I only need one or two eggs in the basket
because basically just telling them like,
"Hey this is your egg color,
the rest of the eggs are hidden."
And then just to take it and keep it
from looking a little bit flat, I take tissue paper.
Normally the sheets are like this right there.
You literally just pop your hand in the middle like this,
(paper ruffling) (upbeat music)
kinda just make like a almost like a,
there's literally no rhymeries and you can't do it wrong,
but just grab the middle section like this
and then I tuck.
Okay, so just tuck it.
It usually requires three or four pieces of tissue paper.
Some of 'em, if they're tall like this,
you may not even see all of the back ones,
but to what you're gonna notice
is just it peeking out here or there
and that just really fluffs up their basket.
Look a little more fun and a little more giant
even though it's not, oh, flying eggs.
Hey, moving on to the next basket.
We have Camry, 19 going on 20, so college age.
So instead of a weaker basket,
I got this little reusable ency metal,
this is from Magnolia.
I couldn't find this specific blue,
so I just used white, like kinda silvery grass
in the bottom of hers.
She also has some car fresheners.
For Camry, I did an in shower speaker,
so this one actually like suction cups
to the wall of the shower.
She can play her phone by Bluetooth onto this
and listen to her music.
I got her a new little pajama set, PJ bottoms and a top.
These look like peeps, they're dog toys.
Those are so cute
(toy squeaking)
for Hiccup.
Then because she's a college kid,
I got this little cookbook that's like basically
a five ingredient food prep for college kids,
so it gives her great ideas of things to eat.
She also has a cute little Bite lipstick.
Got Camry one of the Lulu Lemon belt bags
that everyone is obsessed with right now,
Camry loves a good cross body, tolder bag, belt bag,
so she will love that.
And last but not least, this fun little game.
It's called "Pop Darts" and it's basically like darts,
but you throw 'em at glass and they stick
instead of puncturing a hole, they just stick to it.
She will have a good time playing this with her roommate
and that's it for Camry.
Okay, next up we have Brooklyn's basket.
She is 22.
She is currently living in Utah,
but will actually think be home for Easter this year.
If not, she's moving home just a couple weeks later,
though I'll probably just hang on hers.
You can see again the Bite lipstick
that Brooklyn is obsessed with.
She also got the dog toys.
The only person that didn't get the dog toys was me.
They're so fun.
Okay, she also got the JBL speaker in a different color.
Camry and Brooklyn are my most likely to Jeep it
in the mountains or go cruising on the beach
or carry a speaker somewhere outside,
so they will love that a lot.
I got her fun game to play with her friends,
my kids all love to play games with their friends
and we got "Cover Your Assets".
If you've never played this it's really fun.
She also got pajamas and then the cookbook, easy peasy.
Last but not least, we have Bailey's basket.
This is the first year, I should say,
let me back up Bailey and Asa's basket.
This is first year I have a married couple
coming to Easter officially and so I changed it up a little.
Felt funny to me personally to not do something for them
just because they were married
when I'm doing it for all my other kids,
so I just did a smaller, more simple basket
for like the newly married theme for them.
Sorry, Asa, is purple.
Usually Camry's purple, that's really gonna throw everyone.
I did a gift card for them to their favorite restaurants,
they can go out for a date night to BJs.
And then of course the dog treats for sweet little Willow
and Jack Jack.
And then just a game for these two
and this is called the "Ultimate Game for Couples".
So I thought that that would be fun for them to play
with some of their newly married friends
or they're college friends that are couples
and it's simple and easy.
Their grass was kinda laying a little low,
it wasn't super fluffy,
so I actually just took some tissue paper
and see where it's white in the bottom,
you could do it with purple too
and just stuffed it down at the bottom.
Normally I would look grass down more,
so it was covering up all of the white tissue paper better.
There's also a great way,
like when I get asked to do gift baskets for school
or an auction item or things like that,
using the same general concept as stuffing things,
elevating 'em, taking tissue paper,
wrapping it in cellophane with a big bow
is gonna give you a really big, beautiful presentation
for whatever you're taking.
One fun little tradition my parents did when we got older
and we started morphing from we're at home
and we get Easter baskets to more of we're adults
or we're at college or we're married,
they switched from baskets to golden eggs.
And my parents would take these eggs
and hide 20 of them around the house
and they would put money in them.
It might be as simple as a $1 bill, a $5 bill,
but there would always be at least one
that had like something good in it like a $50 bill
or $100 bill.
And it was always kinda like a 3, 2, 1,
everyone run and claws would come out guys
coz we all wanted the good eggs.
It was running around and finding the golden eggs.
So if you have adult children and you still want
something fun to do with on Easter,
you don't have to stuff it with money
if that's not your thing or not within your budget,
you can try just fun treats or $5 gift cards, whatever.
So there you go, new idea.
Thanks for tagging along with me,
while I showed you my Easter baskets for the year.
Honestly, the best part of making this entire video
is that I'm done with Easter two weeks early.
That was fantastic.
I hope you guys have a great time.
I hope some of the ideas help you guys
and we will see you next time.
Bye, y'all.
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