From the article: Going Green for Easter
Sometimes holidays and celebrations have a disposable nature and this can be one of the last places where we make changes that have already been applied in other areas of our lives. Here, share any ideas, large or small, that you're implementing to make Easter a more environmentally friendly celebration in your family. Share Your Green Tips
Greener Easter Basket
- Instead of reusing an old Easter basket or buying a new or used Easter Basket, I get my kids a cheap sand pail with the little shovel scoop from a dollar store. After Easter is over, they have a toy they can have hours of fun with outside.
- —Guest babsgiftworld
Green Easter
- I guess growing up poor was helping the environment all along. We always had the same basket. I still have mine from childhood. I do the same with my children. I wrap the basket in tulle that I reuse each year and we put puzzles, jellybeans, and a few other things the kids will use in them. I don't buy the small plastic 'stuff' because it always breaks and gets thrown away. I do buy a small chocolate bunny from local places. I also reuse the grass from year to year. I don't buy more, and we don't throw it away.
- —Guest Samantha
Go Green Easter Grass
- It was really bothering me to buy plastic Easter grass, so instead I am going to use my recycled shredded paper!
- —Guest Tina
Walmart?
- Stephanie--How about don't shop at WalMart? That's the least 'green' store I can think of! Lol! No, but really, I think this year after the hunt for fair trade / organic chocolate, non-PVC umbrellas, and organic cotton socks -- I will be taking my boys out to 'hunt' for garbage left over from the melted snow. This will teach them about cleaning up the Earth from the waste other people have made as well as how we can reduce our own.
- —Guest Veggiemomma
Going green...
- I always reuse baskets. I don't go crazy with the candy. Just a little and then I usually by them something they can use and something fun. New short sets, boxers, undies, search and find books, new video, Bible songs or whatever. The little plastic trinket toys aren't worth it! My kids set them by the front door, which makes it really easy for the Easter bunny to fill them!
- —Guest gina
Easter buckets - great for the beach
- My daughter is 2 & both years I have gotten Easter buckets. Last year it was a sort of metal bin which now holds items in her closet. This year it is a giant bucket which she is going to love bringing to the beach, filling with water & getting inside of. All the plastic eggs & paper grass I donate to the chimp sanctuary, they have an Easter egg hunt for the chimps after Easter. So at least everything gets reused.
- —Guest Mika
No basket at all
- We have done Easter baskets in the past but this year the kids are helping me make braided bread and we are having a big Easter dinner. We asked all our family and guests to bring a dish and make something sweet for the kids like cupcakes and not buy chocolate bunnies and such. The kids never eat the whole big bunny anyway but they get it all yucky with their hands and licks so we end up having to throw it away. I'm always worried about those little eggs and jelly beans that they might choke on. I think this will be a better Easter for everyone.
- —Guest mariak
