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Easter nest for children
Filling Easter nests and Easter baskets: A colorful spring greeting
Every spring, it's that time of year again: Easter is just around the corner, and with it comes the exciting question for all children: What did the Easter Bunny put in the Easter basket? 🐰 Easter nests are one of the most beautiful traditions of Easter: Brightly colored eggs, chocolate Easter bunnies, and the like make children's eyes light up. But where does the tradition of Easter nests actually come from, and what creative Easter gifts can you fill the Easter nest with? You'll find the answers in this article!
The story of Easter nests
The tradition of Easter nests has its roots in ancient spring customs in which people left offerings for fertility goddesses. With the spread of Christianity, this custom was integrated into Easter, and the nests served as hiding places for eggs and small gifts, symbolizing the joy of Jesus' resurrection. In the 17th century, the story of the Easter Bunny secretly filling the nests originated in Germany. This story gradually spread to many other countries.
While real nests used to be made of straw or moss, today small Easter baskets filled with chocolate and colorfully dyed eggs are more common. Brick-shaped nests also make perfect sustainable Easter nests – they can be used for storage or decorative purposes after Easter. Easter nests are now an integral part of Easter celebrations and bring great joy, especially to children.
Filling Easter nests or Easter baskets: Sustainable and creative ideas for Easter
In the weeks leading up to Easter, supermarket shelves fill up with classic Easter gifts: colorfully dyed eggs, chocolate Easter bunnies, nougat eggs, and the like are all popular items in Easter baskets. If you're looking for unique and sustainable ideas for your Easter basket, we've put together a few ideas that are guaranteed to make your Easter basket sparkle.
6 colorful flower marbles in an egg carton
Easter eggs with a twist: These 6 colorful flower marbles in a mini egg carton not only add color to your Easter basket, but also ensure vibrant blooms in your garden or on your balcony. Simply toss the small, colorful seed balls onto loose soil, keep them moist, and soon you'll be able to enjoy colorful wildflowers! 💐 This way, the joy of Easter will last for a long time.
Carrots from the cup
What's more fitting for Easter than the Easter Bunny's favorite treat? 🥕 With this cute growing kit, you can easily grow small snack carrots. Everything you need is included: organic carrot seeds, a germination tablet, and instructions. A great gift for any Easter basket!
Easter nest: Colorful Easter grass confetti
Our Easter nest for your Easter nest. This colorful Easter grass confetti contains a colorful mix of Easter grass seeds and Easter wildflower seed paper shapes. Simply sow them in a bed or flowerpot, water well, and soon Easter grass and colorful wildflowers will grow! 🌸
Flower marbles in a bag for the Easter basket
This small but exquisite Easter gift will bring joy to any Easter basket. Inside the little bag with a little Easter greeting are five colorful seed balls filled with wildflower seeds. Simply toss the flower balls onto loose soil, press them down lightly, and with a little water and care, they'll soon sprout into colorful wildflowers. 💐
Organic Seed Set Children's Garden
With this Easter gift, you'll inspire even the youngest ones to garden. This set contains six simple and exciting organic seeds, including sunflowers, radishes, and small tomatoes – ideal for small hands and big successes, and for playfully discovering nature together. 🌻
A ready-made Easter set for children in a brick shape
This set includes the Easter basket! We've included four special gift ideas for children in the brick shape: a seed greeting, colorful flower marbles, bee-welfare seed balls, and tomato seeds. This beautiful brick shape, made from recycled fruit tree wood, is not only an eye-catcher as an Easter nest, but can also be used after Easter to store toys, pens, and other items.
Creative Easter nest hiding: The best hiding places for the Easter nest
Once the Easter nest is filled, it's time to find the perfect hiding place for the little Easter surprise. First, consider whether you want to hide the entire Easter nest or just individual eggs. Especially for younger children, it's recommended to hide only one nest—this way, they don't have to search for too long. Older children often enjoy it more when the surprises are scattered individually. 🤩
If the weather is good at Easter, searching for Easter surprises outside is the most fun. When hiding, make sure the eggs or Easter nest are at children's eye level and not too difficult to spot. Suitable hiding places are under bushes, behind garden furniture, in the sandbox, or among flowers.
If the weather isn't cooperating, you can of course simply move the egg hunt indoors. Whether you use the entire apartment or house, or limit the hide-and-seek game to one room, depends on the children's age. Good hiding places include under pillows or blankets, behind curtains, under the sofa, or in larger houseplants.
Filling Easter nests and Easter baskets: It doesn't always have to be the chocolate Easter bunny
Easter nests are a wonderful tradition that delights children (and some adults too). 🐰 In addition to classics like chocolate Easter bunnies and painted Easter eggs, there are many creative and sustainable gift ideas that make the Easter nest something truly special. This makes Easter an experience full of surprises and joy.
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Sustainable Easter greetings – what could be more fun?