I’m not a huge fan of candy so when my son’s preschool teacher asked this homeroom mom if we would consider doing Easter Egg fillers WITHOUT CANDY for the class egg hunt, I was thrilled!
50 of the best non-candy Easter egg fillers (For regular sized and jumbo Easter eggs)
2. Stickers
4. Mini stamps
5. Spinning tops
6. Mini cars
8. Mini rubber duckies
9. Friendship rope bracelets
10. Mini mustache clip ons
11. Finger puppets from the Easter story (Great for family hunts. At the end of the hunt the kids can get together and narrate the Easter story using their puppets)
12. Mini bouncing balls
13. Mini Easter jigsaw puzzles
14. Magnifying glasses
15. Mini Easter plush toys
16. Porcupine characters (We love these!)
18. Mini slinkies
19. Mini bendable toys
20. Mini yo-yos
22. Whistles
23. Fun bands
24. Mini water squirt toys
25. Glitter putty.
26. Accessories to dress up the given Easter egg and make an egg-animal!
27. Easter maze puzzles
28. Sticky bunnies (My son never tires of playing with these!)
29. Mini toy cameras (If the kit doesn’t fit into the egg and you don’t want to roll it up to stuff a jumbo egg, create a “Camera redeem” coupon and place that in the egg. )
30. Mini paratroopers (You can even find Easter paratrooper bunnies!)
31.Mini key-chains
32. Pencil sharpeners
33. Mini prisms/kaleidoscopes
34. Rings for boys and girls (The wiggle eye ones are the most fun.)
35. Slap on bracelets
36. Easter craft kits (If the kit doesn’t fit into the egg and you don’t want to roll it up to stuff a jumbo egg, create a “Craft Kit redeem” coupon and place that in the egg. )
37. Mini wind-up toys
38. Jewels to accessorize the given egg , a book/folder, a pencil holder, odds and ends mini pail or even lunch-box.
39. Bead necklaces
40. Stretchable/stretchy flying toys.
41. Play dough
42. Glow in the dark bouncing putty.
44. Mini plastic animals/ sea creatures.dinosaurs.
45. Mini dinosaur grabbers
47. Blowouts
48. Mini flashlights
49. Pencil toppers
50. Easter bookmarks (These can be rolled up and put into each egg as they retain shape when they’re unrolled)
Do you have any non-candy filler ideas to add to this list?
Laura J says
Oh such wonderful ideas! I love how you decorated the eggs into the animals! So cute!
LauraOinAK says
I love all those ideas to avoid the sugar overload. Those finger puppets are adorable.
Amber Edwards says
Those are all fantastic ideas! My boys would love the whistles and bouncy balls!
Jenn says
Awesome list of ideas! My kids get enough sugar.
Beeb Ashcroft says
What cute ideas! I always loved getting little toys or stickers in my Easter basket when I was a kid. 🙂
Crystal says
Great ideas! I try to go as light on the candy as possible, though I do still add some in. Little toys and trinkets are so much better, though. Love those animal eggs!
Krista says
These are some really creative and cute ideas!
Jen Temcio @dapperhouse says
Mind if I steal these ideas for my kids? I am going to make those animal eggs too! So cute – thank you 🙂
Amy Desrosiers says
I would use erasers, loom band elastics, necklaces, and maybe Little Critters babies.
Jennifer Soltys says
Such cute ideas!! I love those little finger puppets!
Keikilani says
I really like this list! I do not like giving my kids so much candy. I usually end up throwing so much away!
Stacey Werner says
So many awesome ideas! I like the puzzle idea – maybe put a few pieces in each egg and then put the puzzle together at the end!
Pam says
Great ideas! I always try to make a mostly non-candy basket so this will come in handy.
Sarah @ Must Have Mom says
I love those little finger puppets! Great ideas
Mindy Grant says
Thanks for the great ideas! My daughter will be 11 months on Easter, so I definitely need to find things other than candy to fill her basket this year.
Donna says
I love the idea of filling baskets with non-candy items.
Catherine L. says
These are some fun ideas listed here. We always try to fill up Easter baskets with items like the ones you listed. Now I have some more ideas on what to add to my nieces basket.
Shauna says
Oh my goodness, you sound just like me. I always fill the baskets with fun things that do not include candy. We also like to include coloring books, new crayons (since they tend to break the ones they have) and colored pencils…
Michelle says
I plan on doing very little candy in the basket this year!
Tonya {The Traveling Praters} says
Those finger puppets are awesome! I love those!
Mama to 5 BLessings says
LOVE the Easter story puppets. I tend not to go overboard at Easter because the real meaning of Easter gets water down and that ‘s not what it’s all about. We do Easter eggs too but like you I find fun things and less candy!
Greta says
Lots of fun,non-candy ideas. Things tat I would have never thought of.
Kira says
Thanks for this, Lord knows the kids are still on a sugar high from Valentine’s Day.
Jennifer @ My Sweet Sanity says
This is a great list of candy free ideas to cut out some of the sugar.
Stefani says
I love all of your ideas. I normally probably put too much candy and love all these non-candy ideas.
Ellen Christian says
These are great ideas. We’ve always tried not to include too much candy in their baskets.
Jennifer @ Mom Spotted says
Great list! I’ve also bought the slightly larger eggs to fit matchbox cars in.
Sandra VanHoey says
You just gave me lots of ideas, thank you. Fun to fill for my nephew to take to his kindergarten class
Kerri says
Great ideas! Too much candy is a bad idea for all involved. Love the different options.
Cat Davis says
I love these ideas! Our kids already get way too much candy in the basket, no need for them to be in the eggs too.
Chelle @ oh just stop already says
Such great ideas. One year we were REALLY poor and we did a scavenger hunt with penny filled eggs. The kids LOVED it.
Raijean says
Great ideas, I was looking for some fun things to do with the boychild.
Barbara A Ramirez says
Really, really like those “mini-pails!”