Your Baby’s First Easter basket is such a fun and exciting gift to put together for your newborn or young toddler. It is such a low-key holiday…and spring and summer are coming. It’s a few weeks until Easter now and I couldn’t resist putting together an easter basket for him with some goodies.
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As a child, you probably had an easter basket full of chocolate eggs, marshmallow-y treats, and a solid chocolate easter bunny. They are oblivious to all the fuss about dying eggs, too little for candy…so what to get for their basket?! Check out this fun list below. It has a great mix of practical and fun for Baby’s First Easter.
Baby’s First Easter Toys
Easter Board Book: My favorite part is picking out books. I love a good story book. Check out this post here for The Ultimate list of Easter Books.
Stuffed Toys
Stuffed Animal Bunny: This Melissa & Doug Bunny features long floppy ears with extra-soft plush fur. The cuddliest gift.
Stuffed Animal Flower Bunny: This bunny has the cutest flower print in the ears. It is perfect for spring.
Melissa & Doug Rollables Safari and Farm Friends: This set includes a zebra, monkey, elephant, lion with a chime, pig, chicken, horse, and a cow with chime. These Rollables are easy for infants and toddlers to grasp, firm enough to roll, and soft enough to squeeze.
Stacking Toys
Silicone Stacking Toys: This stacking block is made of silicone. It is so much cooler then the first ones I bought our sons. It can be used as a baby toy and it can be cleaned with warm soapy water and is dishwasher safe. It includes 6 different sizes and colors. It is very helpful for children to identify colors and sizes.
Wooden Rainbow Stacking Toy: This is probably one of the prettiest toys I have ever seen. It is great for stacking and looks beautiful on the shelf.
Stacking Cups Toy: This set contains 10 labeled stacking cups with a bonus bear head shaker for added fun, and a squirting bath toy to extend the fun to bath times.
Shape Sorter Montessori Stacking Toys: How cute is this Shape Sorter? I love the colors.
Pastel Wooden Building Block Playset: This pastel wooden playset is so fun to play with. Little hands will enjoy stacking and arranging the colorful blocks. The various shapes and patterns will entertain your little ones. Cleanup will be easy with the bucket storage container it comes with. No more loose blocks scattered around the playroom.
Wooden Rainbow Abacus: Children can use the abacus to learn colors, counting, and math, and develop hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. The colors also make it look super cute to have on your shelf.
Musical Toys
Xylophone Wooden Educational Pounding and Hammer Montessori Musical Toy: This baby xylophone can be played in many ways. When the knock makes the ball jingle, children can take the ball, or they can pull out the keyboard and xylophone to play solo. This wooden musical pounding toy encourages the development and exploration of music, audio recognition and playback.
Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes Musical Toy: This toy has 10 total melodies with volume control which is great for mom and dad.
Guess How Much I Love You – Jack-in-The-Box: This is an interactive toy for infants with music and a pop up friend will bring a smile to baby. They will have their first experience with peekaboo, cause and effect.
Skip Hop Baby Rattle Toy: This toy is super fun with a flexible body that has easy-to-grasp openings that help little hands. The rattle encourages rolling, shaking and tossing, with surfaces made for teething.
Bunny Rattle: This wooden crochet teething rattle is too darn cute. It is the perfect addition to your little one’s basket.
Sensory Toys
Rock Shape Sorter: This cube comes with 12 shaped blocks in multiple color, bright colors and chunky size makes it easy for little hands to grasp. This toy is perfect to develop kids coordination abilities and creativity, hand-eye coordination, color and shape recognition and problem-solving skills.
Hide & Squeak Easter Eggs: This easter egg toy is an adorable and educational addition to their Easter basket. It contains 6 colorful squeaking Easter eggs for them to play with. They feature shells that crack open to reveal adorable colorful chicks. You can press down gently on the colored chicks’ heads to hear them chirp.
Infantino Textured Multi Ball Set: These are easy to grab, with a bright and textured design for babies to develop tactile senses.
Peter Rabbit Soft Book with Teether and Crinkle: This a fun soft fabric book featuring Peter Rabbit. It is fun and an on the go clip.
Guess How Much I Love You On-The-Go Activity Toy: This activity features a teether handle, peek-a-boo mirror, tactile ribbons, crinkle and on-the-go straps.
Easter Fidget Sensory Pop Toys: My son loves pop it toys. This set has 4. They are a green egg, orange carrot, yellow chick and pink bunny.
Melissa & Doug K’s Kids Pull-Back Vehicle Set: This set includes 4 safe, soft vehicles including a school bus, family car, fire truck, and police car. They are fun. They can just pull them back and release to see them zoom off across the floor.
Melissa & Doug Multi-Sensory Soft Taco Fill & Spill Infant Toys For Babies: How cute is this taco toy?! This soft taco play food fill-and-spill toy is a fun way for baby’s to discover textures and sounds. It includes a soft foam taco shell, 3 smooth fabric pieces, 3 textured crinkle pieces, 3 food-shaped fabric pieces and 2 attached textured pieces.
Melissa & Doug Multi-Sensory Take-Along Clip-On: You can clip this cute PB&J toy and Bubble Tea toy to strollers, diaper bags, high chairs, car seats, and more to keep the fun close at hand.
Baby’s First Easter Clothing & Accessories
Copper Pearl Beanie: These are the softest baby beanies. They are a perfect item to put in the Easter basket.
Copper Pearl Headband: This headband is super soft and really cute.
Pink Easter Bibs: Set includes coordinating bibs and headbands.
Blue Easter Bibs: Super cute blue Easter bibs.
Rabbit Style Long Dress: This might be the cutest Easter Bunny dress I have ever seen.
Bunny Kisses Blue Romper: This ‘Bunny Kisses’ Romper is really cute. I wish they had it in my size.
Hunny Bunny Short Sleeve Romper: I think this would look really cute on your little ‘Hunny Bunny’.
Newborn Baby Bunny Rabbit Knitted Crochet: This will look adorable for so many Easter pictures.
Snacks & Plateware
If your Baby is over 6 months, snacks make an easy option for filling up those baskets. Here are a few candy – alternative snacks you may want to include:
Baby puffs, yogurt melts, crisps, teething biscuits, fruit bars, and fruit pouches.
You can also fill Baby’s Easter Basket with some essential feeding supplies you already intend to stock up on.
Ducky Toddler Plate: These come in so many fun colors. They are made of silicone and suctions securely to any hard, flat surface.
Munchkin Fresh Food Feeder: These are great and safe for giving your little one fresh fruit.
Munchkin Trainer Cup: These are great for learning how to drink out of a big kid cup without spilling all over.
Munchkin Snack Catcher: These are great for storing snacks without them dumping them all over the floor.
Munchkin Suction Bowls: These are great for putting their food in and keeping them stuck to the tray.
Baby’s First Easter Practical Items
Pink Banana Toothbrush: This is such a really cute toothbrush.
Carrot Teething Toy: This teether is the right size for little hands, with built-in handles. It has the perfect textures to help with developmental growth while satisfying the baby’s need to soothe tender gums.
No matter how you choose to celebrate this holiday, you might find some items from this list that could be helpful to you. Let me know in the comments if you got anything from this list.