Who doesn’t love making baskets at Easter? Especially when you can fill them with chocolate eggs.

Here are 20 DIY baskets kids can make ranging from printable paper baskets through to up-cycling ideas.

Easter baskets are such fun to make!

The best thing about them is that you can make a basket out of almost anything – milk bottles, tissue boxes, paper cups, you name it. If it’s a container of some sort all you need to do is add a handle and ta-da – you now have a basket to take on your next egg hunt or fill with treats for somebody special. 

These adorable recycled paper roll baskets were one of the very early crafts we shared on here on The Craft Train. How cute is three year old Miss K (now 9 and a half) with one of the baskets we made together?

Here are 20 more great basket ideas from our archives and also from bloggers around the world….

20 Easter Basket ideas kids can make

Upcycled Baskets

• Upcycled egg carton baskets by Fun A Day
• Paper Mache Animal baskets by Red Ted Art
• Candy Box Baskets by Natural Beach Living
• Recycled paper roll baskets
• Yoghurt Pot Basket

• Mini recycled Easter baskets by Preschool Tool Kit
• Berry box Easter basket by Preschool Tool Kit
• Plastic bottle Ester basket by Messy Little Monster
• Shoe box chick basket by Artsy Momma
• Milk bottle baskets by Kids Craft Room

Baskets made from paper

• Printable paper bunny baskets in pastel or colour-your-own
• Printable chick basket
• Printable woven basket by Fun A Day
• Paper carrot baskets by Kids Craft Room

Simple Woven Baskets

• Milk carton woven basket by Red Ted Art
• Mini craft stick basket craft by I Heart Crafty Things
• Woven Easter Baskets by Pink Stripey Socks

Flower basket ideas

• Home grown gift basket with dried herbs and flowers
• Cute and easy Easter basket by The Joy of Sharing
• Cupcake liner flower baskets 

Now, which one will you be making?

More Easter crafts for kids:

• Make some paper roll bunnies using our printable template
• These cute yarn bunnies are also made from a paper roll
• Create some colourful Easter Egg scratch art using our printable template
• Here are the cutest bunny and chick Easter hats made from paper cups
• This Easter Bunny pom pom popper is so much fun!