Howdy! And Hoppy Easter!

I’ll cut to the chase. Sugar makes my kids angry. Yep. And red dye makes them ballistic.

Sweetest kids ever just can’t handle any more sugar in their little sweet bellies. We also have to avoid dairy, eggs (ha!), and gluten so the whole Easter egg thing needed some creativity. I also don’t love collecting just junk in my house. I wanted things that I knew my kids would actually use and enjoy. 

So what do I do?

I say a prayer.

Here are some ideas the Lord gave me. Enjoy!

50 Non-Sweet Easter Treats!

1. Buttons! 

2. Mini Bubbles

3. Pennies

4. Silly puddy

5. Musical egg shaker

6. Chalk in shape of eggs

7. Hair clips, hair ties, hair bows

8. Silly bands

9. Hatchanimals

10. Tiny cars

11. Little yo-yo’s

12. Mini Slinkies

13. Necklaces and Bracelets

14. Lego people

15. Mini puzzle pieces (to collect and put together after the hunt)

16. Marbles

17. Balloons

18. Rings

19. Pompoms (the tiny fuzzy things in craft aisle)

20. Stickers (we LOVE stickers!!)

21. Seeds to plant in the garden (how perfect?!? That was the Holy Spirit’s idea for sure!)

22. Miniature Nail Polish bottles

23. Pecans and walnuts in shells to crack

24. Confetti

25. Foam Stickers (hearts, stars, letters!)

26. Tiny Playdough

27. Notes folded in football shapes and paper airplanes

28. Oragami cranes

29. Lima Beans with faces doodled on them in Sharpie

30. Gem stones

31. Beads (they can use what they collect and make a bracelet!)

32. Colorful embroidery floss (always good for something!)

33. Cool rocks

34. Magnets

35. Little pearls, just loose on their own is a treasure!

36. Toy dinosaurs

37. Tiny soldiers

38. Crayons melted into little shapes like hearts or bunnies

39. Bottle caps  (my girls love these and use beads to turn them into mini pies for their dolls)

40. Little stamps and Tiny Ink pads

41. Scriptures written on notes

42. Calico Critters or Mini Cabbage Patch Dolls or any tiny character your kids are into

43. Cool shaped erasers

44. Miniature animals (they make bugs, sea creatures, flowers, all kinds of incredible miniatures

45. Miniatures for a little garden terrarium

46. Lip balm

47. Post-its (the small rectangle kind. My kids LOVE those??)

48. Tiny roll of ribbon (they make all kinds of super cute ones!)

49. Small Lego set (broken up into several eggs)

50. A really BIG button!

The winner last year: Buttons! I found some pastel buttons and the girls still tote them in purses, jars, containers, pretend jars of peas. I find them everywhere and they are just little bits of sunshine to the girls. Buttons. Thank you, Lord.