The Easter Bunny is on their way! Hopping through tall grass with colorful eggs leaving a trail behind from his own Easter basket, the time for egg dipping, egg hunting, and Easter baskets has arrived. When celebrating Easter a lot of families will have Easter baskets filled with candy and small gifts for kids to enjoy. Since you’re here, it’s safe to assume you also follow along with this tradition and are looking for Easter gift ideas. More specifically Easter gift ideas for your grandkids.
You’ve hopped over to the right spot as we have a list of small gift ideas that will fit perfectly in your grandchild’s Easter basket.
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An Amazon Gift Card
Amazon is the online megastore that seemingly has everything. From furniture, decor for your home, bath products, and wall art, to toys, games, clothes, jewelry, accessories, food, electronics, and much much more. If you think about it, Amazon probably has it- or at least a version of it anyway. Give your loved one the freedom of choice with an Amazon gift card. They can go through and order what they want right away or wait and use their gift card later in the year- it’s a pretty great versatile gift.
Plus if they have Amazon Prime they can get select products delivered to their door as soon as the next day! Along with TV shows, movies, and albums from their favorite artists, Amazon makes for a good gift.
You can Purchase an Amazon Gift Card here
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LEGOs
Every kid loves legos, the building blocks that come in a variety of designs from famous movies, TV shows, video games, and more. Getting your grandkid a small lego set to go along with their basket would be great Easter gift, here’s a few of our favorites:
- Potted Groot from the Guardians of the Galaxy movies is $9.99 and it’s just down right adorable.
- Let out a ferocious roar with the Red Dragon for $9.99.
- This Yoshis’ Egg-cellent Forest Expansion Set for $9.99 is right on theme for Easter.
- The LEGO Creator 3 in 1 Magical Unicorn Toy for $9.97 changes from a Unicorn to a Seahorse, and a Peacock all in one set!
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Webkinz & Stuffed Animals
The super soft and squishy stuffed animals have their own adventure in this online browser game perfect for a young kid. Here’s a couple of cute furry friends to choose from:
- The Webkinz Chimpanzee Stuffed Animal for $19.99 has a cheeky smile and cute blue accents.
- This Webkinz Cocker Spaniel for $19.99 has big floppy ears.
And if you don’t want to go the Webkinz route then you can always go with a regular stuffed animal like these ones:
- The Melissa & Doug Burrow Bunny Rabbit on sale for $12.99 is right on theme for the holiday.
- TeeTurtle – The Original Reversible Octopus Plushie on sale for $8.00 is a great sensory toy for young kids that shows off an angry and happy face that’s easily flipped around the hand.
- The Athoinsu 12” Light up Unicorn for $23.99 has colorful lights in the plush perfect for a nighttime snuggle.
Along with everyone’s favorite TV show Bluey:
- Bluey, one of the most popular kids shows on TV right now, has the Bluey & Bingo 8″ Mini Plush Bundle for $19.99. It’ll be a great gift for a young admirer of the show.
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Art Projects & Coloring Books
Can’t go wrong with a fun art project for the grandkids, especially when there’s so many options out there to choose from!
- Create and scratch beautiful rainbow art with these Rainbow Scratch Paper Art Notebooks for $9.99.
- Make your own birdhouses and paint the designs you want on them with these 4 Pack DIY Bird House Wind Chime Kits on sale for $12.99.
- Egg decorating has been an Easter activity for a while now, so get them the PAAS Friendly Egg Decorating Kit for $7.02 for a fun egg-dippy time!
- This will be a two part gift, but part one involves getting them this 4 Pack 8×10 Inch Canvases for $6.99.
Then for part two you’ll get them…
- Crayola Washable Kids Paint on sale for $4.69 and this 15Pcs Paint Brushes Value Pack for $6.99 for a big painting day! Have them create their own art and hang it up on the wall for years to come.
- And speaking of art tools, you can also get them Mr. Sketch Scented Watercolor Markers for $13.30 along with Smencils on sale for $15.99 that are created from recycled newspaper!
And you can’t forget about coloring books!
- The Crayola Epic Book of Awesome on sale for $5.88 has exactly what it says, a bunch of awesome drawings just waiting for color in 288 pages.
- This Simple & Big Coloring Book for Toddler on paperback for $5.95 is great for your younger grandkids to let their imagination roam.
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Art Projects & Coloring Books Cont.
Then there’s art project best for outside:
- Keep in theme and get them this Chalk City Sidewalk Egg Chalk which comes in a carton of 6 variety colors of your choice for $8.99.
- Made By Me Ultimate Sand Art Kit for $19.99 may get a bit messy but the cool creations to come out of it will definitely be worth it.
- Ever wanted to tye dye? Or maybe you’re ready to introduce the young ones to the tye dye world- either way you can get them this Tye Dye Party Kit for Kids & Adults on sale for $32.99. It comes with 36 bottles in 12 colors.
Mold and squish slime and Play Doh:
- Slime’s all good and fun, but glow in the dark slime is even better- (especially when you want to find any potentially missing slime that flies awry). Kickco Glow in The Dark Slime for $14.99 comes in six assorted colors.
- Play Doh Modeling Compound for $7.99 comes in 10 small containers perfect to make and create different creations.
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Fun Trinkets & Games
A fun unexpected toy or game is definitely a nice thing to receive in your Easter basket.
- Metker has 1500 patterns and 120 sheets of small temporary tattoos which can be used all throughout the year. You can get the Kids Waterproof Temporary Tattoos for $6.99.
- Nail art is fun for any kid and what’s even better is adding nail stickers! IHUKEIT Cute Nail Stickers for Kids for $8.99 has animals, flowers, hearts, stars, and more!
- Go outside when the weather gets warm and play around with OleOletOy Giant Bubble Wand Set for $16.99.
- Potentially a messy gift but a fun one for sure, this Dino Eggs Dig Kit on sale for $14.98 has a 12 pack of dino eggs to excavate with colorful dinos inside!
- Klever Kits Bath Bomb set is a fun “Soap Making Kit for Kids” and it is on sale for $24.99. There’s two scents, over 70 pieces, and 8 molds to choose from.
- With parental supervision the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Break Open 10 Premium Geodes for $29.99 could be super fun for the kids and the adults! Discover cool reflective crystals and unique designs when you break apart each geode.
- Jenga is a classic “board game” that can lead to a lot of laughs and fun strategy building techniques. You can get the Jenga Game for $15.99.
- Bop it! Twist it! Pull it! It’s the Bop It! Game which can lead to fine tuning motor skills and fun challenge runs programmed onto the electronic game. It retails for $15.99.
- This game is for free if you have a printer at home and it’s Easter Mad Libs for Kids free on Homan at Home! Print out the sheets and fill out the mad libs with your grandkids on the day for a silly time.
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Our “Miscellaneous” Category
We weren’t entirely sure what category to put the rest of these gifts on our list, that’s why we created a “miscellaneous” category for all the extra gift ideas we wanted to share but didn’t have a category.
Candy! Of course we gotta add candy onto the list, it’s Easter! The time for cheap chocolate bunnies, Peeps, and M&M’s has arrived.
- We don’t have specific links for these candies but you can normally find these at your local grocery store or retailer, but here’s a few candies we’d like in our Easter basket:
- M&M’s Milk Chocolate or Peanut Butter- (as long as they aren’t allergic)
- Hershey Kisses
- Peeps Easter Marshmallows are a classic for a reason
- Twizzlers- (Twizzlers are better than Red Vines and we will stand on the tallest hill proclaiming it)
- Sour Patch Kids
- Gummy Bears
- Chocolate Bunnies (which you’d normally find when you’re out and about Easter shopping)
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
- Ring Pops
- Movie Tickets. Can’t go wrong with a pair of tickets to give to the grandkids on a grandparent’s day out. Go see a movie, get snacks, and watch their faces light up at the big screen,
- Pajamas! Growing kids are always going to need a new set of pajamas and what better than to get them an Easter themed set from one of the many sold on Hanna Andersson.
- And finally we will round out the list with one more Easter-centric gift, and this time it’s a book: Biscuit’s Pet & Play Easter: A Touch & Feel Book: An Easter and Springtime Book for Kids which you can get as a Hardcover for $5.39 and as a Board book “like new” for $4.99 at thriftbooks. A fun interactive book about the loveable golden retriever puppy Biscuit on an Easter adventure.
These Easter gift ideas for grandkids are definitely ones to keep with you as you go out shopping for some of your favorite family members. Between the craft activities and lego building, it’s sure to be a fun-filled day!
This article originally appeared on Giftya.com and was syndicated by MediaFeed.org.
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