Being the oldest child in my family, my mom gave me her wooden Easter basket she used as a child. I'm not a very sentimental person but this basket is just precious to me! It even has her name written on the bottom of the basket in crayon - something I'm sure she did to make sure her other 5 siblings knew whose basket this belonged to!
The basket has a solid wood bottom with rows of weaved basket fibers in tan and dark purple around it. The handles are wooden and attached with bent nails to the basket frame (I'm sure this is a "fix" my grandpa made to the basket years ago!)
I used this basket every year and my parents had a tradition of hiding our baskets somewhere in the house for us kids to find on Easter morning. They kept up this tradition well into my college years!
Now that I have my own kids we have tweaked our Easter tradition but we still love including the baskets in our celebration. Instead of hiding their baskets I hide plastic eggs throughout our house - in Michigan you can never be to sure if the weather will allow for an outside Easter egg hunt.
Each hidden egg has a Bible verse reference inside. Once all the eggs are found we gather together as a family and the kids begin looking up each verse in their Bible and reading it out loud.
Once we are done reading I fill their baskets with candy and small gifts to remind them of the gift Jesus gave to us by dying on the cross to pay for our sin and His resurrection. I love this tradition and so do my kids!
I found a wonderful collection of beautiful and unique Easter baskets I just had to share with you. There is a variety of baskets appropriate a variety of ages as well as some great table scape baskets!
I'd love to hear what your Easter traditions are and if you have a special Easter basket - share below in the comments!!!
*this post contains affiliate links. see my disclosure page for more information!
No comments:
Post a Comment
Your comments are appreciated! Thanks for your suggestions, questions and feedback.