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March 31, 2015 By: amyswandering2 Comments

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Large Family Easter Baskets

March 26, 2015 By: amyswanderingcomment

This post contains affiliate links for some our favorite basket fillers.

A Large Family Easter Basket

Our Easter celebrations have very little to do with the Easter Bunny these days, but my kids still enjoy getting a basket filled with goodies. I realized several years ago, when we only had 4 littles, that I could not keep up with the expense & sheer quantity of little junky trinkets that went along with filling traditional baskets.

I decided to switch to one family basket instead. I think our first one was in a wicker laundry basket. (And yes, I had to dump the laundry out to use it!) The beauty of this is that I can fill the basket with larger items for the entire group. I usually try to stick with things that can be played with outside. Last year, I bought a big colorful tub for our Easter basket that we then used on the patio to store the outdoor toys.

Outside Play Ideas:

  • jump ropes
  • bubbles
  • bubble machine
  • kites
  • sidewalk chalk
  • Crayola Sidewalk paint
  • water guns
  • Nerf Firevision football
  • frisbees
  • balls

Some years we go with nature-themed items like a backyard bug vacuum. And we still talk about the year we got a live butterfly garden. Check Dollar Tree (or probably any dollar store) for bug houses, butterfly nets, magnifiers, and more.

Large Family Easter Basket

All these toys were from the Target toy clearance sale!

More Dollar Store Ideas for the Family:

  • jacks
  • play dough
  • glow sticks
  • silly putty
  • hula hoops
  • pool toys
  • gardening tools
  • stickers
  • puzzles
  • coloring books

Each child also gets a chocolate cross or bunny, then I add a few other candies like Peeps and their favorite jelly beans. In addition, I try to pick up a couple of things in the after-Christmas clearance sales. Stocking stuffers work great for Easter baskets if you take them out of the packaging.

On years when we have some extra $$, I throw in a movie or game. A dig through the $5 bin at Walmart can turn up some classics.

A Few of Our Favorite Movies:

  • The Princess Bride
  • Ever After
  • Despicable Me
  • Meet the Robinsons

Games We Love:

  • Settlers of Catan
  • Apples to Apples Junior
  • In A Pickle
  • Jenga

I can put together a large basket for under $25 and my kiddos love it. That is less than $5 per child, which wouldn’t go very far in an individual basket.

My favorite thing about changing to one basket is that it emphasizes something very important to our family –> that we share with each other and enjoy life together!

Do you have an Easter basket for each child, or one for the whole family?

What do you typically put in yours?

 

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FREE Gardening eBooks for Kindle

March 25, 2015 By: amyswanderingcomment

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It’s time for our weekly seasonal ebook roundup.  Let’s get that garden growing! These ebooks were free at the time of posting but that could change at any moment. As always, check before you click!!

Read on most devices with the FREE Kindle Reading App.

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Homesteading for Beginners

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Mini Farming

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Indoor Gardening

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Aquaponics for Beginners

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Growing Organic Berries

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Growing Fruit Trees

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Square Foot Gardening

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Organic Gardening

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Gardening 101: Friendship Gardens

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My affiliate links were used in this post. There is no cost to you to download the free ebooks. I appreciate any shopping you might do while visiting Amazon! I have not read most of these ebooks and am not endorsing the contents. Please use your own judgement when choosing reading materials for yourself and your family.

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Homeschool Freebies & Sales {3/24}

March 24, 2015 By: amyswanderingcomment

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It’s time for this week’s Homeschool Freebies & Sales! 

GoodFridayNature Walk
FREE Good Friday Nature Walk @ The Unlikely Homeschool

easter file folder games
FREE Easter File Folder Games @ Itsy Bitsy Fun

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FREE Bird Record Book @ Buggy and Buddy

easter cross math
FREE Crosses Mystery Math Pictures @ Real Life at Home

Big Spring Sale at What’s In the Bible?:

WitB Spring Sale

Amazon has some deeply discounted building sets that your family might enjoy:

(Prices can quickly change, so check before you buy!)

picasso tiles
Picasso Tiles – 60 pc.  $99.99  $51.79

tinkertoys
Tinkertoy 100 pc. Essentials Set  $34.99  $19.99

nanoblock
Nanoblock Easter Island  $19.99  $8.84

knex coaster
K’NEX Star Shooter Roller Coaster  $32.99  $21.99

citiblocs
CitiBlocs 200 pc. Cool-colored Blocks  $49.99  $25.38

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Funschool: Eggs

March 23, 2015 By: amyswanderingcomment

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Funschool Eggs

Welcome to Funschool, a weekly list of FREE educational lesson plans and printables built around a seasonal theme!

This week’s theme is Eggs.

The Good Egg Project

EGGucation Resources

4-H Embryology

An Egg Is Quiet

An Egg Is Quiet Activity Guide

EggMath

Egg Fun Activities

Egg Natures Perfect Package

Science of Eggs

40 Easter Egg Experiments

Egg-speriments

The Pinkish Purplish Bluish Egg

Exploratorium: Eggs

Egg Education Posters

Embryology in the Classroom

Rechenkas Eggs

Rechenka’s Eggs Unit Study

E is for Egg

Egg Worksheets

An Extraordinary Egg

Martha Stewart’s Cooking School: Eggs

Types of Eggs Fact Sheet

Eggimals

The Talking Eggs

Egg Geodes

Egg Grab ‘N’ Grade Game

Eggville Escapades

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