Edible Easter Baskets (Easy Easter Craft)
If you’re looking for a creative DIY Easter basket, check out these fun edible Easter baskets. They can be made with your favorite candy and are a fun activity to do with your kiddos.
For this craft you’ll need:
- Glue Gun & Glue Sticks
- 4 Candy Boxes
- Cardboard for the bottom of basket
- Scissors
- Craft foam for handle (or use Nerds Candy Ropes!)
- Ribbon for embellishments if desired
Directions:
- Use a hot glue gun to glue the corners of candy boxes together.
- Cut a piece of cardboard to fit the bottom and hot glue that to secure bottom.
- Cut a long piece of craft foam about 1.5 inches wide by 16 inches long (or use a Nerds Candy Rope).
- Glue to the inside of the boxes.
- Make sure to use a good amount of glue so when it dries you’ll be able to use handle.
- Embellish further with ribbon if desired or even a hair bow Fill with grass and Easter goodies. 🙂
This is such an easy and adorable craft! If you’d prefer crackers or other snack foods, try looking for similar shaped boxes! It can also be used as a small gift basket idea for other occasions and holidays. How cute would the candy basket be to present a movie gift card? Or possibly a teacher end of the year gift? If you have any other ideas, leave them in the comments. 🙂
Very creative and cute!!
Cute!
I always use pails or sand castle molds as their ‘baskets’. It helps get everyone fired up for the approaching warm weather and something to look forward to.
I am going to use the” movie box candies” for the basket and add a gift card to our local movie theatre for my grown kids
Easter Baskets. I get kidded for still making baskets for my 29 and 31 year old but they will always be kids to me!
Thank you for the Basket idea! I love it!
I love that idea!! I love that you still make them baskets! My mom does not do baskets anymore but always gets a small gift for me on holidays as well as my kids. She says the same ” you will always be a kid to me”.
I make a basket for my 21 year old son AND my husband! LOL They BOTH love it.
I’m 35 and my husband is 36, brother is 30 and sil is 35. We all LOVE that my mom gives us Easter baskets!!! She puts cute lip glosses and candy we like for the girls and beef jerky and some money and shaving stuff for the guys. She gets really creative and we all enjoy the fun!! She always says we are her kids no matter how old we get 😊 and of course she does the same for her 2 grandbabies too😉
Until my mom passed she got my husband and I baskets every year as well as my kids. My husband’s was a mop bucket filled with car cleaning supplies and sponges. He loved it every year.
That’s so sweet. 💜
I did this just with clear packing tape and it was easy peasy, held together fine. Just FYI for those who might want to make it even easier. My four teenagers loved them!
Thank you! They lost me at “hot glue.” Not very crafty. Lol
i saw this post last year and made them for my kids who are teenagers!! They loved them!!
Made some with mini boxed candies with snack size twizzlers for my sons class they came out so cute wish I could post pics thanx Collin 👍
Wonderful idea — I will certainly use it.
This looks like so much fun to assemble! Thank you for sharing, I can’t wait to get the supplies and get started! 🙂
So cool and creative:)
I really love this idea! Thanks for sharing!!
Super cute! Thanks!
I saw these baskets on Pinterest last year and made them for my college age son and his girlfriend. Filled them with small items like gift cards, DVDs, jewelry etc. So hard to buy for at that age, and they both loved them!
The Dollar Tree had candy boxes with an Easter theme – Mike and Ike and M&M. I just finished making two for my kids. They came out great and are so colorful. I didn’t even bother with a handle. Love the way they came out.