Make your own Easter basket

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Fabric Easter Basket

• one small basket or woven basket
• fabric – you pick the color and pattern
• pinking shears
• cardboard
• ball-point pen
• hot glue gun

1. Use pinking shears to cut fabric into approximately 150 3-inch squares.
2. Place a fabric square wrong-side up and put the pen in the middle of the square.
3. Use the pen to insert the fabric into a hole or opening at the base of the basket. Continue this one row at a time, moving up. (Consider changing fabric colors or patterns for each row, or alternate them.)
4. Secure the poked-through material to the inside of the basket with some hot glue.
5. Use some remaining fabric to fashion a bow which you can attach to the top of the handle.
6. Fill with Easter grass and treats to make the perfect gift for Grandma or a favorite teacher.

2-liter Bottle Easter Basket

• 2 liter plastic bottle 
• utility knife
• one long pipe cleaner
• hot glue gun
• scissors
• craft foam, ribbons and beads

1. With the utility knife, cut the bottle in half (or to whatever depth you desire) and add two slits opposite each other where you will affix the handles.
2. Insert each end of the pipe cleaner into one of the slits (from the outside in), bend them up and secure them with glue.
3. Use ribbon to cover and decorate the top edge of the basket (and hide any uneven cutting). Add a smaller piece of the ribbon to the pipe cleaner as a bow.
4. Decorate the basket with craft foam (you can find peel-and-stick Easter shapes in craft stores), beads, or other embellishments.
5. Fill with Easter grass, and you have a cute basket that's perfect for little treats and tiny hands.

These inexpensive baskets are great for parties, too. Make some in advance and fill them with tiny, tasty treats. Better yet, let your little guests can make their own!

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