Easter Basket Crafts - Made With Recycled Household Materials

Want to make your own Easter Basket this year? Kids love to make crafts and will enjoy creating their own Easter basket for the Easter Bunny to fill especially for them.

Milk Carton Easter Basket

Get a half gallon milk carton and some pastel colored construction paper for this cute craft. Cut the milk carton in half. Make a handle with the leftover part of the milk carton. The handle should be about one inch wide. Decorate the basket and handle with construction paper. Glue the handle to the basket. Cut out some bunny or egg shapes and glue them onto the basket!

Popsicle Stick Easter Basket

You will need poster board, popsicle sticks, cardboard, and plastic grass to make this basket. Cut two rectangle shapes, identical, from poster board. Make tabs ¼ inch long and as wide as your popsicle stick apart into the short ends of each rectangle. Every other tab will need to be folded back. Make the other two sides of the basket by using a dab of glue to attach one end of a craft stick to each folded tab of one rectangle. Glue the other end of each stick to the folded tabs on the other rectangle. Use some cardboard to make the bottom of the basket and tape it in place. Make a handle with posterboard and add some plastic grass to the bottom of your basket.

Egg Carton Basket

Recycle an old egg carton to make this basket. You'll also need some construction paper and a pipe cleaner. To make the bottom of the basket, cut off the two ends of an old egg carton and glue them together, in an overlapping fashion. Make some decorative flowers for your basket with two egg cups from the carton. Make two holes opposite each other in both cups and add some greenery from construction paper. Poke a hole through the middle of each leaf. Make the handle with a pipe cleaner. Poke holes into the sides of your basket and thread the ends through. Decorate the outside of your basket with fun egg or bunny shapes.

Berry Basket

Use an old fruit basket that once held strawberries or blueberries for this cute basket. You'll also need some ribbon, cotton balls, buttons, pipe cleaners, and plastic grass. First, cut some strips of colored ribbon (pastel colors are best)! Weave the ribbon through the slats of the berry basket and tape or glue the ends down. Use a cotton ball for the tail on one side of the basket. Use white and pink construction paper to make some bunny ears, and tape them inside the basket on the side opposite the tail. Use some black buttons for the eyes, and a red button for the nose. A paper mouth works well. Use a pipe cleaner to make the handle and fill your basket with plastic grass.