Happy Easter! Make your family celebration egg-stra special with unique Easter gifts. Elevate your Easter egg hunt with colorful baskets full of spring flowers, gardening tools, bird feeders, and more! Gift your favorite gardener with a meaningful creation that they can enjoy through spring and beyond.
The great thing about these colorful gifts is that after the holiday, they can remove the extra items and add in their favorite spring blooms.
Enhance your Easter decorations and pair your traditional baskets with extra flowers and foliage for an easy family gardening activity after the holiday. Simply, hang them around the gift baskets for a colorful celebration!
Let’s get hoppin’ on a new Easter tradition and create personalized baskets for your family and friends. Here are 3 fun Easter basket ideas for your inspiration!
Easy DIY Easter Baskets for the Whole Family
Take your Easter egg hunt to the next level using outdoor Easter hanging baskets with moss or coco liners. Design with a theme in mind for gardeners of all ages and create an easy gift that will keep on giving.
1: SPRING FLOWER EASTER BASKETS FOR MOM
Treat mom to an Easter Bunny-inspired hanging basket. This colorful creation is stocked full of fresh spring flowers in bright shades of pink and additional goodies that she will love.
First, find the right hanging basket for your creation. Choose one that is large enough for your plant selections and gifts. At Calloway’s and Cornelius, we have a vast collection of hanging baskets in a variety of sizes and styles. Fill it with Calloway’s Premium Container Potting Soil, leaving room for the plants.
Next, start adding colorful blooms and select options that range from trailing and dynamic to compact and full. Try Supertunia® Daybreak Charm for its vibrant yellow and pink spring flowers. This long-blooming Petunia hybrid is heat and drought-tolerant with cascading growth.
It comes ready to plant in Proven Winners® Eco+Grande™ compostable pots. These sustainable products look and perform like plastic, except they are made from renewable plants with plant nutrients built right into the walls of the container.
Place the additional spring flowers throughout the hanging basket, leaving extra room for gifts. Pair the petite Supertunia® blooms with Petunias for an abundance of gorgeous color. The long flowering period and bold trumpet-like blooms will add a dynamic pop of color to your DIY Easter hanging basket design.
Alyssum is another great choice to add fullness and beauty to your colorful baskets. The clusters of white and purple flowers provide a delightful fragrance that Mom will love.
Once the spring flowers are planted, top the potting soil with decorative moss. Use SuperMoss® Reindeer Moss for a bright, grassy-green touch. Apply enough to cover all the soil and around the plants. Experiment with a variety of mosses for extra texture or color.
Take your DIY Easter Baskets to the next level with garden gifts. On top of the moss and in an empty area of your hanging basket, add a small potted plant. Try a festive Easter bunny planter and pair it with Kalanchoe for bright and cheery blooms.
You can also use a Bloem® Terra Planter. This universal plastic pot is lightweight, durable, fade-resistant, and great for both indoor and outdoor gardening. Use Celosia for its bold spikes of feathery color.
Finally, complete your DIY Easter Basket with a few essential gardening tools. Gift Mom with new and stylish gardening gloves in her favorite colors. Stuff the gloves with a sheet of tissue paper to help them maintain their shape and tape them to a few popsicle sticks. The sticks will be inserted into the potting soil to help the gloves stand upright for the ultimate display.
Top off this festive Easter basket with a Calloway’s Gift Card so Mom can enjoy some quiet time, shopping, and discovering our wide selection of spring plants and tools. Don’t forget a few decorative Easter eggs and fill them with more of Mom’s favorite treats!
Once everything is ready to go, hang it outside for your Easter celebration.
2: OUTDOOR EASTER HANGING BASKETS FOR DAD
Create a meaningful Easter Basket for that special Dad in your life filled with herb plants and gardening tools. Support his favorite spring hobby with an Easter-themed grow-your-own-herb kit, spending time outdoors and grilling delicious meals for you and your family.
First, fill the coco-lined hanging basket with Calloway’s Organic Container Potting Soil. It is crafted with the utmost care and the highest quality organic ingredients to promote rapid root growth.
Next, plant his favorite springtime herbs. Try Blue Label Organic Rosemary. Great for grilling, this fragrant foliage smells as good as it tastes. It has an upright form to create a dynamic look and the straight stems make for excellent BBQ skewers.
Place the herb plants in various locations within the hanging basket, leaving room for Dad’s Easter gifts. Use a flowing herb such as Organic Onion Chives to trail over the edge and add extra fullness and texture with Thyme.
Cover the soil with décor pebbles and stones for a natural Easter basket design. Place the stones around the plants in an even layer.
Once everything is planted, add the finishing touches and gift items. Plant a smaller herb such as Blue Label Greek Oregano in a Bloem® Terra Planter for Dad to use in his kitchen or he can re-plant it into his Easter Hanging Basket after the holiday.
Complete his personalized basket with new gardening tools. Protect his hands with new gardening gloves, help him dig easier with Corona® hand tools, and keep him safe from mosquitoes and other pests with Zone Protects Insect Repellent.
Add a few more Easter decorations and hang this festive basket outdoors for your family gathering.
3: FUN EASTER BASKETS FOR KIDS
Plant egg-cellent Easter fun with educational Easter baskets for budding learners. Make a pollinator-themed gift with creative activities that everyone will enjoy.
Use a decorative hanging basket with a playful design and fill it with Calloway’s Potting Soil.
Next, plant spring flowers that attract pollinators like Marigolds and Zinnias. These bright and bold blooms are low maintenance, love the sun, and are a favorite to beneficial bees and butterflies.
Angelonia is another great choice for attracting pollinators. This carefree bloomer thrives in warmer temperatures and humidity and shines through the summer with snapdragon-shaped flowers that bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds love.
Once everything is planted, cover the soil with SuperMoss® Orchid Bark for a clean look. Add festive gifts for the kids such as Bird Feeders to help them learn and grow from nature.
Fill a few plastic Easter eggs with Calloway’s Premium Bird Seed or hummingbird nectar packs for extra flair.
Tape pollinator-friendly seed packets into popsicle sticks and place them into the hanging basket. They will encourage kids to learn more about growing plants from seeds. For more fun ideas on how to grow seeds, visit our blog here: Sow The Seeds of Victory: Gardening Tips & Activities with Seeds
Complete this sustainable gift with colorful Easter eggs full of fun treats and display them outdoors for your festivities.
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Happy Easter! At Calloway’s and Cornelius, we are here to help with all your spring gardening activities! Visit us today and explore our stunning collection of vibrant blooms, stately trees and shrubs, stylish pottery, lush indoor plants, and so much more! Shop any of our 28 neighborhood stores, where we have served our loyal customers for over 35 years.
We will be closed on Easter Sunday, March 31st to allow our team time to spend with their loved ones. Ready to grow? Our online store is always open! Online orders will be fulfilled when we re-open at 9:0am on Monday, April 1st when we will be back to our extended spring hours – Monday through Friday 9am – 7pm and Saturday and Sunday 9am – 6pm.
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