Each year I approach Easter with excitement and fear. Excitement about spending time with family and friends and fear of my tornadoes and I falling into a chocolate induced coma.
Taking into account gifts from family, friends and friendly strangers dressed up as the Easter Bunny at Bunnings, my tornadoes are exposed to way too much chocolate. I have nothing against giving chocolate. Sometimes it’s just nice to think outside the box and give something different (but appreciated just as much).
From beautiful baby gifts to kid’s craft, books, clothes, accessories and other goodies, here is a bumper selection of Easter gift ideas. I’ve tried to keep gifts affordable and practical. It can be all too easy to overlook the true meaning and spirit of Easter so there’s no need to go overboard.
You may notice there are no soft and fluffy cuddly bunnies or chicks in this list. I always hesitate giving stuffed toys as gifts – most kids are inundated with them. They may look cute but usually end up sitting on a shelf gathering dust. Too many stuffed toys is the reason I started this blog!
CRAFT
Keep kids busy with some crafty gifts this Easter.
Colour-in Easter-time tablecloth
Smiggle Easter Egg Erasers – contains 6 different scented 3d and puzzle erasers
Cardboard bunny masks 5 pack – add some elastic, sequins, glitter, feathers, cotton wool, coloured paper or other decorations to this to make a fun and crafty gift pack
Usborne Easter Story Sticker Book
GIFTS FOR BABY
Something special to celebrate baby’s first Easter.
Little Bonbon Baby Blanket – Bunny Pink
Little Bonbon Baby Blanket – Bunny Blue
Charlie and Jae bunny wall hook (available in Standard wall hook or Removable wall hook)
FASHION AND ACCESSORIES
Clothes, socks, tote bags and jewellery that will be worn and used well after Easter celebrations have finished.
Snugglebum Sweet Heart Bunny long sleeved pyjamas
Snugglebum Hunter Stripe Racer long sleeved pyjamas
Snugglebum Daisy Floral long sleeved pyjamas
Seed Heritage Spotty Bunny Tights
Seed Heritage Peek A Boo Bunny Socks
Seed Heritage Bunny Love Socks
Seed Heritage new season girlswear
Jambo Mtoto St. Jude’s Rabbit – 100% of necklace proceeds go to projects that will make a sustainable and long term difference and help improve the lives of children dramatically affected by poverty in Africa.
Clay & Clasp bunny stud earrings
Cotton On Foundation $2 tote gift bags
BOOKS
Don’t forget books! Always a favourite gift of mine to give, you can’t go wrong with a book.
That’s Not My Bunny – fantastic board book with touch and feel pages for stubby little fingers to explore.
Ruby Red Shoes – a beautiful book that promotes kindness to all living things. Perfect for kids 4 and over.
Peter Rabbit Easter Egg Hunt – lots of lift the flap fun with a pop-up surprise.
Mr Impossible and the Easter Egg Hunt – a new Mr Men title just released. Mr Impossible is organising an Easter egg hunt for all the Mr Men and Little Misses and he is hiding the eggs in the most impossible places!
For even more Easter book ideas, check out the Top 20 Easter Books blog post from the fantastic Megan over at Children’s Books Daily.
Phew! That’s a lot of gift ideas for one blog post. With just over two weeks to go until Easter, you’d better hop to it!
What’s your favourite thing about Easter?
Do you like to give gifts other than chocolate at Easter?
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Tash! I want one of everything thanks, especially those Easter bunny earrings. Super cute! I’m the same as you. I prefer to give something other than chocolate at Easter. Last year I bought Smiley a Peter Rabbit pop up book and Curly-locks the Usborne Easter sticker book. They loved them. Oh, I almost forgot. I bought the DVD Hop at Coles the other day. I’m not really sure what it’s about, but there’s a bunny on the cover and it’s animated, so I thought it would be the perfect Easter present for the girls 🙂 #teamIBOT
We have ‘Hop’ Renee – it’s a cute family film that’s a mix of animation and live action. There’s enough songs and things happening to keep Miss T interested – she loves it. Perfect for Easter 🙂
I used to give gifts when the kids were little, but now they mostly just want chocolate. 🙂
I love the idea of the colour in table cloth though. Not just for easter, but for general use. You could cover it in plastic and keep it for ages 🙂
I just want chocolate too Jess. I usually end up eating some of the kids’ stash as they get way too much (not according to them but according to me!). I love the idea of the tablecloth – something to keep the kids entertained. I’m sure I wouldn’t be able to stop myself from having a go at colouring-in too. It’s strangely therapeutic.
Cool list Tash! As I’m supposed to be quitting sugar (again, and again, and again) this is a great idea to get Little E away from the sugar-overload as well. I’m loving the egg-chalk and the Mr Impossible book.
Quitting sugar at Easter? Wishing you lots of luck with that David. I can highly recommend the egg chalk – my tornadoes love it and have created some great masterpieces on our driveway!
What a great list for inspiration to steer me away from oodles of chocolate for the kids!
Happy to help Caroline! I have first hand experience of seeing my tornadoes comedown after a chocolate bender – it’s not pretty. Always good to have a few different gift ideas up my sleeve!
How great is that Micador Egg Chalk?! My kids would love that!
The egg chalk is fantastic Tina – my tornadoes love it. A great first chalk for little hands to grip. Just not for eating!
I won’t be doing chocolate eggs at all because my daughter has a dairy + soy allergy (amongst other things) so I’m going with non edible gifts. I did a gift guide on my blog too lol. My favourite thing I found for her was the Sophie & Lily doll thats got bunny shoes. We have a bunny night light too.
Those little bunny shoes are so cute! Some fab finds in your gift guide Toni – I particularly like the egg maracas and Hape eggspressions.
These are all sooo gorgeous! I try and avoid giving my kids all chocolate at Easter. I like the PJ idea and because we’re usually camping, something that creates an activity for them. Boyo, I do love the Smiggle eraser eggs and the little Clay earrings. Cuuute!
My tornadoes eyes light up any time we go into a Smiggle store. If you ever want to see overexcited kiddies then that’s the place to go! My Mum started a tradition of giving PJs to her grandkids back when my first niece was born. Little did she realise she would be buying 6 pairs of PJs all these years later. She commented last year that chocolate eggs would have been easier (and cheaper!). PJs are so practical and perfect for camping. I imagine you don’t want kids hyped up on chocolate around the campsite Vicki 🙂
Some really awesome ideas here. I love the egg chalk, my little one will be getting that for sure! Thanks!
Thanks Amy! The egg chalk is a big fave in our house too (lots of the items from the early stART range make great first art gifts for 2 year olds – it’s one of my go-to gift ideas!).
ooh I love these, particularly the tote bags. I need to get the Mr Impossible book.
For $2 they would be handy for stashing all the chocolate eggs after a big hunt! The designs are pretty cute too and I’d be happy to use one again during the year. Happy Easter Christine!
Do you know that I have to put my hand up and say I give my kids chocolate because it’s the only time of year I let them eat it without boundaries… and they adore it. My parents give them books and stuff but as a kid I LOVED that I got chocolate!
I used to love getting chocolate too as a kid Em – I’d lay all the eggs out on my bedroom floor and count them. I’d also have to make sure I hid them well so my Dad didn’t come and steal any. Now I’m the one doing the chocolate stealing from my kids. I think at Easter it’s fine – let them enjoy it! I just know that my tornadoes receive eggs from so many different people so it’s up to me to provide a few different things for them. This Easter we’ll be on a short cruise with my extended family. I’ve been told there’s a chocolate shop on board. I think the kids will just live there for 4 days 🙂
Dave’s Mum gives the girls new winter pyjamas for Easter each year, a carry on from when she used to do the same for her kids (which started because her eldest can’t have chocolate so she was looking for an alternative). We do an easter egg hunt at Mum’s and our place, but I limit it so they don’t get too many of the little eggs, and just get one or two large bunnies each. Zee was too small to have chocolate last year, but I think I’m going to be hard pressed to stop her getting in to it this year, for her 2nd easter! I also like to get them one gift too, mostly for Punky, who’s birthday is at the end of November, so it’s a long time between gifts for her with birthday & Christmas within a month of each other, so I take the opportunity to get her something she’s been asking for as an Easter gift. Plus its a good bribery tactic, just like Santa!
Sounds like you have some great Easter celebrations Kylie. PJs are an annual gift my Mum gives the grandkids too. I have to find some good hiding spots for all the chocolate the tornadoes get otherwise they will gobble the lot at once. It’s hard to stop the younger siblings when they see their brothers and sisters eating chocolate – I have the same problem with Mr TT. The Easter Bunny is certainly a good bribery tactic – not sure what I’ll do once the tornadoes start questioning me about him, Santa and the Tooth Fairy!