Easter is almost here. We try to stay away from throw away toys and stick with the longer lasting options for our Easter Basket. Check out the guides below for the Easter essentials. These are toys that I’ve actually played with and recommend.
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Stimulating for the Mind
- Easter Egg Puzzle
- First Orchard Board Game: great for cooperative play
- Gravity Maze: My 5 year old plays with this for hours. He enjoys the challenge of each card.
- Marble Run: with unlimited amount of paths and mazes to create. And it can be on the window or refrigerator making it easy to play all around the house
- Easter Bunny Lego: We love these, helps with hand eye coordination, following directions and the end result is pretty enough to keep up.
- We are Tetris LOVERS in this house: the endless game and this version allows Sterling to take his time and focus on the pattern,
Easter Ideas for the Outdoor Kiddo
- Collapsable Outdoor buckets: for sand or rocks. My son prefers the latter.
- Butterfly Cather: this was good for my older one. He is gentle and was able to see the butterflies up close but also release.
- Gardening basket: perfect tote that is machine washable. Easy for digging up all the bugs!
- Outside Chalk: Perfect for spring days coming up, imagination and unlimited play.
- Reusable Water Balloons: we are two summer in on our water balloons. Not only can we use them for water balloon fights, we use them in the splash pad and water table. Multifaceted water balloons, plus a lot better for the environment.
- Backyard Bugs is a cute book to familiarize kids with bugs outdoor and allows for touching without endangering the outdoor bugs
- Bubble blowers: these are life savors at our house, for both the dogs and kids. Love chasing them! Plus, bubble mix is cheap to make at home with soap.
Easter Essentials For the little Girl
- You’re my Little Sunshine hard cover book
- 13 Piece Kitchen Set: perfect for littles to learn how to help out, boys or girls. We all need to learn to be cook.
- VTech KidiZoom Smart Watch: Yes, it’s ridiculous to think your young child needs a smartwatch, however, it has some serious learning tools and activity games my five year old loves! It was a great gift for him
- Stacking Blocks to help with imagination play, hand eye coordination, and critical thinking skills (what fits where?)
- Dental Kit: this set of toys is great to familiarize children with dental tools and the mouth. It helped to allow my children to play with this before we had our annual visit to get them comfortable with what would be happening. They also support imaginary play, win win.
- Instant Print Camera: it’s the year, 2025. We are going back to print cameras, phones are fun but having something to hold is better. These are inexpensive and so is the refillable paper!
- Water Pets: lots of fun, for both 2 year old and 5 year old. The color combos promote creativity and when they take them out they also have fun putting them on windows etc. They are messy though.
Easter Essentials for the little Boy
- Green Toys Dump Truck: Made in the USA with 100% recycled plastic materials. These have lasted us years of hard play.
- Book of Why: We love ending the night with books we can learn from, it gives my son something to think about as he is falling asleep
- 13 Piece Kitchen Set: perfect for littles to learn how to help out, boys or girls. We all need to learn to be cook.
- VTech KidiZoom Smart Watch: Yes, it’s ridiculous to think your young child needs a smartwatch, however, it has some serious learning tools and activity games my five year old loves! It was a great gift for him
- Dental Kit: this set of toys is great to familiarize children with dental tools and the mouth. It helped to allow my children to play with this before we had our annual visit to get them comfortable with what would be happening. They also support imaginary play, win win.
- Instant Print Camera: its the year, 2025. We are going back to print cameras, phones are fun but having something to hold is better. These are inexpensive and so is the refillable paper!
- Water Pets: lots of fun, for both 2 year old and 5 year old. The color combos promote creativity and when they take them out they also have fun putting them on windows etc. They are messy though.
Easter Basket Stuffers for Fun in the Bath
- Unlimited maze games
- Boat with helicopter from Green Toys: honestly, the best bath toys. They have never molded or broken, we’ve had two sets of these for over five years. The brand is 100% recycled material and made in the USA!
- Water Pipes: Where will the water go?! My 2 year old loves playing with this, just enough possibilities for him to manage
- Bath Fizzies: You have to love a consumable Easter Gift, these are perfect!
- This is for the parents… Bath Toy Scoop: easily framed for the kids if you put some toys in it. HA! I love it for keepings toys dry on the day to day and easily scoop up at the end of the night, when you’re already exhausted.
- Bath Whisk: weird toy, but good for fine motor skills and make fun waves for the boat toys
- Basketball: good for hand eye coordination and basketball is always fun
Easter Basket Stuffers For the Teens
- Instant print cameras are always great for keeping memories. And something about having a photo to hold is special.
- Stanley Cup: forever going to be in style, good for hot and cold drinks and a great price!
- Large print coloring book: perfect to end the evening and take a deep breath after all thats going on in the world.
- Dual Marker Brush Pens: great pair for the coloring book
- AirPods Pro 2: I use mine everyday, they are a game changer and hold a charge for DAYS.
- Kindle: I use mine nightly, the battery lasts, the color is pretty and makes for comfortable reading in bed
Easter Dresses
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