A wonderful way to make an Easter basket is to grow real grass in the basket. You need to start at least a week before Easter to allow the grass to grow so it will be just right for Easter. I have done this with children and it is a wonderful project. Don’t miss the opportunity to do it this year.
This grassy basket will last for several weeks if you “mow” it regularly with scissors.
Living Grass Easter Basket
Heavy piece of clear plastic, 6” larger than the inside of the basket
Indoor potting soil
Wheat seed
Line the inside of your basket with plastic and leave at least 6 inches of excess all the way around. Fill the basket to within an inch of the top with potting soil and pat the soil down firmly. Sprinkle the surface generously with seed, and cover lightly (1/4- to 1/2-inch) with potting soil. Water well, making sure all the seeds are moistened. Pull the excess plastic over the top of the soil to preserve moisture. Set the basket in a warm, sunny spot. In two to three days, the seed will start to sprout, and within a week to 10 days, you will have grass.
Decorate the basket with a bow and colored eggs. Add a Spoon Bunny (see below). The grass will grow rapidly. Trim with scissors. Use the trimmed grass in sandwiches or salads.
DIY Spoon Bunnies
Tuck these delightful bunnies into your children’s Easter baskets.
6 pastel plastic spoons
Red and black puff paints or permanent markers
1 yard heavy black thread
Glue
6 small pompons
1 (81/2 inches by 11 inches) rectangle white felt
1 (81/2 inches by 11 inches) rectangle pastel felt (same color as spoons)
6 round suckers
3 yards pastel ribbon
6 (1”) white pompons or cotton balls
Paint eyes, mouth and cheeks on the back of each spoon. Let dry. Tie three 11/2 inch strands of heavy black thread together in the middle and glue above the mouth for whiskers. Glue pink pompon nose above the whiskers. Cut ears out of the pastel felt, and cut smaller inside ears out of white felt. Glue small white ears on larger pastel ears, and glue to back of head. Place a sucker in the spoon and tie ribbon around the neck. Glue a small white pompon or cotton-ball tail on the sucker stick.
