55 Fun Eco-friendly Easter Egg Fillers To Gift This Year
This post is all about the best eco-friendly Easter egg fillers your family and friends will be excited to get!
Who doesn’t love an Easter egg hunt?! They’re truly fun for all ages (yes, even adults).
Aside from the thrill of the scavenger hunt and maybe a bit of competition, the mini egg filler gifts make it even better.
Easter eggs and candy go hand in hand but if you want to switch things up a bit you will love this list. Unfortunately, holidays can create a ton of unnecessary waste. This list is full of fun, creative, practical, and yummy items you can fill your Easter eggs with.
Best of all, these gifts have a low impact on the plant. The Easter Bunny will thank you for that!
*At the end of the post I’ll share some ways to have a more sustainable Easter egg hunt outside of just eco-friendly Easter egg fillers!
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What do you put in fillable Easter eggs?
Filling Easter eggs with candy is a given because it’s fun and delicious but there are so many other creative things you can fill eggs with like:
- Crafts and creative gifts
- Edible treats (some candy and some more nutritious!)
- Mini toys made of natural materials
- Practical goodies
- Nature and gardening gifts
- + a fun miscellaneous section at the end of the post!
Keep reading for more specific gift ideas! These also work great to put in Easter baskets.
Best Eco-friendly Easter Egg Fillers
Crafts and creative gifts for Easter egg fillers
- Stickers: Everyone loves to add stickers to their water bottles, bikes, or toys! Try to find stickers that are made by local artists or that use recycled paper or eco-friendly adhesives.
- Homemade playdough: Have you ever made your own playdough? It’s super easy! You can put it in compostable parchment paper so that it is fresh and ready to play with.
- Colorful yarn: Pick up some pastel yarn to fill your eggs with. It’s fun to use for DIY projects like making jewelry.
- Chalk: This sidewalk chalk is in the shape of an egg! It’s non-toxic and comes in a rainbow of bright colors!
- Origami paper: Older kids or adults will love to get pretty paper with instructions for simple origami.
- Seed paper: Create your own plantable paper with embedded seeds that way they can plant their own garden. Or pick up this wildflower seed paper that is in adorable butterfly shapes!
7. Temporary tattoos: These carry the fun of stickers but last longer. You could get Easter-themed temporary tattoos or these fun glittery ones!
8. Eco-friendly glitter: it goes everywhere but it is simply so fun. It’s great for crafting and takes art projects to the next level. You could fold it up in some parchment paper so it doesn’t go everywhere.
9. Watercolor paint: Fill each egg with a different color of watercolor paint. Then at the end of the Easter egg hunt, they will have a full set.
10. Eco-friendly crayons: These crayons are non-toxic, come in pastel colors, and are made from beeswax.
11. Eco-friendly stamps: Pick up some wooden and rubber stamps for them to decorate with! These stamps have cute animal shapes on them.
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Edible Sweet Treats for Easter Egg Fillers
There will be plenty of non-candy Easter egg fillers on this list but I still wanted to include some yummy treats!
Candy wrappers can add up to a lot of waste (and money!) so instead use beeswax to wrap Easter gifts or just clean out your refillable eggs really well when stuffing your Easter eggs!
12. Fairtrade chocolate: Rather than normal chocolate, opt for fair trade chocolate. These chocolates come in Easter colors!
13. Dried fruit: Raisins, cranberries, or mango/pineapple pieces are still sweet but also nutritious.
14. Homemade cookies: Whip up some tiny cookies from scratch to throw in some of your eggs.
15. Fairtrade candies: Pick up some organic sour and sweet candies in Easter colors.
16. Trail mix: Fill some of the eggs up with good ol trail mix. They will need the energy boost as they’re running around! You can include nuts, seeds, and dried fruit.
17. Homemade granola bites: combine chocolate chip cookies and tail mix to make granola energy balls. If you make them small enough they will easily fit inside the eggs.
18. Dark chocolate-covered nuts: Make your own candy by melting some chocolate and dipping almonds, cashews, or peanuts in it.
19. Fruit leather strips or dehydrated fruit: Check out this list of foods you can dehydrate! Cut them up into small pieces so they fit into the eggs.
20. Vegan marshmallows: Adding a few drops of food coloring to your vegan marshmallows so they look like mini Easter eggs could be fun.
21. Tiny jars of local honey: Stop by your local farmer’s market to pick up some tiny mini jars of honey.
22. Popcorn balls in compostable parchment paper: Use popcorn and caramel to make popcorn balls. Then wrap them in parchment paper so they stay fresh!
Mini toys for Easter egg stuffers
*This section includes small items so be mindful if your Easter egg hunt includes babies and toddlers.
23. Bubbles: It’s the gift that keeps on giving!
24. Wooden beads: These are perfect for crafting, jewelry, and making DIY decorations. You could even paint them in Easter colors.
25. Puzzle pieces: Put a piece in each egg and at the end, they can do the puzzle!
26. Small animal toys: Carve or buy some animal shapes out of wood or recycled materials.
27. Wooden spinning tops, wooden yoyos, and wooden whistles: many newer toys are made out of plastic but the classic toys are still fun and come in less wasteful packaging.
28. Silicone water balloons: reusable water balloons are great because they don’t leave your yard filled with tons of plastic.
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Miscellaneous
29. Magnetic letters: These can be homemade from air-dry clay and some stick-on magnet backings.
30. Bracelets: They’re the perfect size to fit into Easter eggs.
40. Coins $: It’s always fun getting a little cash in your Easter egg!
41. Finger puppets: Kids love to make up little stories and shows with finger puppets. These animal ones will be a fun surprise when they open up their eggs.
42. Scavenger hunt in eggs: leave clues in each egg to find the next one!
43. Coupons & tokens: Create little tokens using paper for fun activities (trip to the zoo, ice cream outing, pizza party etc.). If you don’t feel like making them these wooden tokens are premade and will fit perfectly in Easter eggs.
44. Bath bombs: These pastel bath bombs make bath time special and fun. I love that they’re vegan and gluten-free too!
Practical Goodies
45. Reusable straws: Check out these straws that are silicone and fold. They will fit in Easter eggs, come in fun colors, and can be reused.
46. Mini erasers: Small erasers in fun colors, characters, animals and shapes are always exciting to receive. Here are some Easter chick erasers to place inside your eggs.
47. Plant-based lip balm: Small tubs of natural lip balm are a nice self-care treat. These vegan lip balms are perfectly egg-shaped.
48. Mini soaps: Buy or make handmade soap in pastel colors. You may need to cut it so it fits in the eggs. Use a cookie cutter to create cool shapes.
49. DIY keychains: create mini keychains out of beads or polymer clay. You can customize them with their name or initials on them too.
Nature and gardening egg stuffer ideas
50. Tiny succulent cuttings: succulents are super beginner-friendly and can easily be replanted and thrive.
51. Tiny flower pots: Mini terracotta pots are perfect for seed starting.
52. Seed packets: Flowers, herbs, or veggies for planting in the garden.
53. Acorns or pinecones: You can paint them or decorate them later with your kids. Even simple treasures like this can be exciting for kids.
54. Small plant markers: These can be added to their garden or can be a fun garden craft to decorate later.
55. Compostable wildflower seed bombs: These are so fun to watch grow in your yard! Rather than planting each seed one by one, you can chuck a seed ball in your yard and the seeds will naturally disperse.
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Eco-friendly fillable easter eggs
The most sustainable Easter eggs are the ones you already have. Yes, even those bright neon plastic ones! It’s better to use what you have rather than trash those and pick up sustainably made Easter eggs.
You can also get Easter eggs from the thrift store or yard sales! They will most likely be pretty cheap.
How to have an eco-friendly Easter egg hunt? (and Easter celebration)
- Reusable plastic eggs (you can find these at the thrift store!)
- Paper eggs rather than plastic eggs
- Wooden eggs to decorate
- Try fabric eggs or paper mache eggs.
- Try felt eggs! These are Easter-themed felt eggs and these are plain colored felt eggs.
- Eco-friendly egg fillers of course!
- Thrift Easter baskets and decorate them at home
- Compost your egg shells if you’re painting real eggs
- Buy egg fillers from local shops, artists, and bakeries to support your community.
- Use leftover wrapping paper as filling in Easter baskets. You can use a paper shredder to get that grass look.
- Use real grass rather than plastic grass as filling for Easter baskets.
- Use natural dyes for Easter egg decorating.
- Check out your local thrift store for Easter home decor.
- Try to use a reusable Easter basket rather than plastic bags
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DIY Eco-friendly easter egg fillers
The hunts over! I hope this list gave you plenty of Easter egg filler ideas to choose from when putting together your Easter egg baskets and Easter egg hunt.
The most eco-friendly gift is generally the one that the recipient will get the most use out of.
Even small choices like making our holidays a bit more sustainable can make a big impact. Happy Easter!
Have any other eco-friendly Easter egg filler ideas? Let us know in the comments below! I’m sure others in the community would love to learn from you as well.
Stay well,
Maggie
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