40 Easy Easter Basket Crafts for Kids and Adults
Get creative with one of these egg-straordinary ideas.
Easter is filled with time-honored traditions, from dyeing eggs to hosting festive dinners. Among those most cherished rituals is the exchange of Easter baskets—colorful bundles brimming with jelly beans, chocolate bunnies, and candy-coated eggs—just the kind of fuel needed for an afternoon of egg hunting.
While the treats may be the highlight for some, the Easter baskets themselves offer a chance to get creative. Making your own adds a personal, handcrafted element to the holiday and allows you to put extra craft supplies to good use. These DIY ideas bring charm and character to your celebration and can be enjoyed year after year. Here are just a few of our favorites to inspire your spring basket.
Felt Flower Basket
Dress up a standard woven basket with flowers made from felt and hot glue. Get creative by making a range of florals, starting with roses and ranunculus. Accent with felt leaves to top it all off.
Terracotta Easter Basket
Think "outside the basket" this year by turning a flower pot into a reusable Easter basket. Look for a pot that's at least six inches big. Load it with shredded paper filler and small presents—sticking to the garden theme is optional!
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Fabric-Wrapped Basket
Fasten a bright dish towel or scarf around a traditional basket for a five-minute look that’s Easter Bunny-ready.
Steps:
- Depending on the size of your basket, cut a large square of fabric (like a cloth napkin, dish towel, or scarf).
- Lay the fabric diagonally and place your basket in the center. Take opposite corners and tie a knot at the top of the basket handle. Tuck the extra fabric into the basket.
- Tie a knot on each side of the basket handle to secure and define it.
Brown Paper Bag Basket
If you're making baskets for lots of kiddos, opt for this one made from brown paper bags. Cut the bags to create ears, fill them with sweets, tie the ears into a knot, and finish with a ribbon bow. Glue a pom-pom to the bag's center for a button tail.
Bunny Treat Box
The phrase "Easter basket" is flexible. Use a Cricut to cut your materials in this Easter box craft, then assemble! This palm-sized box is great for small sweets, such as Hershey's Kisses, Cadbury Mini Eggs, or Reese's Chocolate Eggs.
Upcycled Berry Basket
For a zero-waste basket idea, raid your recycling bin for a cardboard berry carton. Give it a fresh coat of paint (we chose a dark green shade), and you're all set!
Craft Stick Easter Basket
Add personality to a basic woven basket by decorating the exterior with large wooden craft sticks. We painted these craft sticks with white acrylic paint, but you can choose any shade.
Materials:
- Large craft sticks
- Screw hole punch
- Hot glue
- Top of a round take-out container (ours was about a 4” circle)
- White acrylic paint
- Craft brush
- Burlap or fabric scrap (for the inside)
- Burlap ribbon
Steps:
- Make a template craft stick with a hole about half an inch down from the top, in the center. Using your 'template,' mark 18 (or more) craft sticks with where you need to make the hole, and punch it out.
- Paint each craft stick white, and let it dry. Hot-glue the bottom of your craft sticks (without the hole) to the round container until the entire plastic base is covered.
- Cut a piece of burlap or fabric, and attach it to the inside of the basket with a few dots of hot glue to make a nicer finish.
- Finish the basket with a strip of burlap ribbon along the bottom of the basket.
Mason Jar Basket
Repurpose an old glass jar in this stencil-and-paint craft. Add as many stencil designs as you'd like, incorporating Easter symbols such as bunnies, chicks, eggs, and more! Feel free to personalize the "basket" with the giftee's name.
Jute Basket
If your approach to Easter is more minimalistic, craft your own jute basket using the following tutorial. You can use the basket year-round by filling it with seasonal decor—eggs for spring, fruit for summer, ornaments for the holidays, etc.
Reusable Easter Tote
Before you buy expensive Easter baskets, take stock of what you already own. If you can spare a tote bag, secure a felt carrot to the handle using ribbon for a festive touch, then fill it just as you would a basket.
Rope Easter Basket
Gather the essentials: cotton rope, liquid fabric dye, hot glue, and a craft paintbrush to DIY this sweet blue-colored basket. Bonus: Sewing isn't required!
Steps:
- Spiral the rope into a circle and apply hot glue as you attach the rope together. Continue wrapping until you make a circle large enough to act as the base of your basket.
- Start stacking the rope on top of itself to create the sides of the basket, using the same hot-glue technique as before.
- Continue step two and make sure to keep everything straight until you've achieved your desired height.
- Trim the rope's end and hot-glue it inside the basket to prevent it from fraying or getting loose.
- Water down some of the fabric dye and brush it onto the sides of the basket to color. Once it's dry, your basket is ready to use!
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Edible Rice Cereal Basket
This adorable basket is almost entirely edible, made with a rice cereal bowl and a handle made of PEEPS Marshmallow. Use a big bowl to shape the crispy treat basket. Cover it with an even layer of melted chocolate, then fill with edible grass and marshmallow bunnies.
Coffee Filter Easter Basket
Kids will have a blast recreating these floral Easter baskets. Each one requires just four coffee filters, a few watercolor paints of your choice, and green pipe cleaners for the handle.
Yarn-Wrapped Basket
Weave fluffy yarn through a simple wire basket to add softness and color. Create a striped effect by alternating two colors of yarn—one darker and one lighter. Simply knot the yarn at the back of the basket to secure it.
Painted Baskets
All this craft requires is a wooden basket and acrylic paints. Pick a color, and paint each wood strip a different shade, then gift your charming ombré creation to the Easter Sunday host.
Plastic Bunny Basket
Plastic serving bowls from Dollar Tree can easily become a cheerful bunny basket. Two large bowls (11.25 inches in diameter) act as the body, and two fluted bowls (8 inches in diameter) as the face. Everything is secured with clear tape, so it's easy to get inside—and you can reuse the bowls after Easter Sunday.
Plastic Canvas Baskets
These festive baskets are made from plastic canvas and multi-colored yarn. The result is guaranteed to be adorable, whether you craft a cute bunny or a magical unicorn.
Patchwork Basket
Enhance any simple basket with an embellished bow. In this case, we cut 3 in of wired blue ribbon to create the large accessory, then decorated it with iron-on patches. Use fabric glue to attach decals, including flowers, bunnies, and carrots.
Rainbow Easter Basket
Create your own Easter basket using felt sheets and gold deco foil (sewing machine optional). For a springtime feel, swap traditional colors for pastel shades like pink, mint, and lavender.
Paper Easter Basket
Create a checkerboard pattern using cardstock, scissors, a hot glue gun, and this blogger's easy-to-follow template. Stick to spring colors or go rogue with your favorites.
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