If you've been here any time at all, you know we LOVE a good excuse to do something fun for our neighbors.

This week, my kids were wanting to make "Easter baskets". I'd already been considering making something to celebrate summer for the neighbor kids around us who are almost out for break. With summer for school-aged kids still over a month away, we thought we'd try to do both mixed together.

Contents we used:

from the Dollar Tree

• bucket and shovel
• germX {pack of 3 Christmas themed- I pulled off the winter-esk sticker}
• jump rope
• sunglasses

from home {originally mostly from Wal-Mart}

• sidewalk chalk in a large box
• little bubbles that came in a pack of 8
• assorted Easter grass
• See Jane Work labels {on wicked sale at Office Depot}
• blank note cards
• post card invites to your Church's Easter service
• pipe cleaners and rubber bands {we used the rubber bands to told the 7 pieces of chalk together in the shape of a flower and then made lil leaves around it}

How-to Make:

1. collect bucket and gift items
2. add grass to the bottom making it about 1/2 full
3. place larger items in 1st
4. mix in smaller items {dividing like colors from one another}
5. *we color coordinated each bucket using ~2 colors for fun
   green and pink and purple and yellow for the neighbor girls and orange/red and blue for the boy
6. create label {print our FREE LABEL here} using Avery Label Template 5450 in Word
   
7. color in lettering for extra fun {sharpies worked the best without smearing the print}
8. cover original cheap sticker on the bucket that wouldn't com off with new label
9. write a cute little note about Easter linking items in the bucket {or print our cheesy FREE NOTE here}
   
   I wrote out the note in yellow marker in a card and let my almost 6-year-old trace it {so it would all fit in the little cards we had}
10. throw in a postcard invite to your church's Easter service hand-deliver with smiles 😀

Happy Easter!!!