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 Still need a few ideas for Easter Basket gifts?
Here are some gifts that you can make yourself! They are easy to do, fun to make, and your kids will love them! Each of these ideas can be packaged in plastic Easter eggs to add to your basket!
Scentsational Dough — this recipe makes a fun gift! Just mix up a batch of sweet-smelling play dough, then put the dough in plastic Easter eggs for a nice surprise!
Sugared Chalk — this recipe is very easy and makes chalk so much more fun to use! Perfect for decorating your sidewalk or driveway with spring-time designs!
Silly Putty — mix up your own silly putty and put it in a plastic Easter egg!
Bath Jelly — this recipe makes a bath jelly that is jiggly fun for your bath!
Bath Bombs — these homemade bath bombs are sure to be a hit! And they kind of look like miniature Easter eggs!
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Thinkonium – Brain Putty — Our Thinkonium Brain Putty makes a great gift for any occasion! Winner of the 2009 Dr. Toy Best Vacation Toy Award! Available in 8 different colors.
Classic Metal Jax — A childhood classic game that is fun to play! Perfect for spring-time fun!
Super String Thing — Play cats in the cradle and other fun games with the Super String Thing!
Pinky Ball — The classic Hi-Bounce Pinky Ball makes a great spring-time gift!
FingerMagic Bunny Origami — Make your own bunnies with this unique origami kit!
 Ah… Spring is nearly here, and with spring, comes Easter. We’ve put together a list of unique, fun, and educational gift ideas to fill your Easter baskets!
Easter arrives on April 4th this year – make sure you’re ready!
Click the links below for more information about each item.
Make sure to visit our store for more great gift ideas – we have over 800 gifts for under $10!!!
For the Artist:
For the Do-It-Yourselfer or Crafter:
- DIY Blank Postcards – Create your own unique Easter postcards to send to your family and friends!
- Magnetic Paper – Make your own magnets for Easter!
- Glassine Bags – Use these simple and elegant glassine bags to create party favors and to package special treats for Easter. Available in two sizes.
- Blank White Craft Box – Ditch the basket and go with a box! Keep it white or have a blast decorating this quality cigar-style box.
- DIY Playing Cards – Use this deck of blank playing cards to create small, unique Easter greetings to give to your family and friends.
- Polyshrink Film – Remember “shrinky dinks”? Now you can create your own small works of art with this polyshrink film! Create small charms to use to decorate your Easter baskets and cards. Create dozens of small Easter eggs to use as table decorations. Be creative!
- White Wire Handle Box (Chinese Take Out Box) – This box is not just for take out anymore! Use the box for party favors or for packaging small gifts. Easy to decorate, and so many possibilities!
For the Builder:
For the Thinker:
For the Nature Lover:
For the Music Lover:
For Physical Fun:
Just for Fun:
Quality Small Toys – Perfect for a Basket:
For even more small toys and fun ideas, make sure to check out our Party Favors!
 Valentine’s Day is the perfect time of year to share your love with playful gifts.
We’ve created the list below with lots of ideas for educational Valentine’s Day gifts for kids of all ages (adults love them, too)! Just click the links for more information about each item.
Make sure to visit our store for more great gift ideas – we have over 800 gifts for under $10!!!
For the Artist:
For the Do-It-Yourselfer or Crafter:
- DIY Blank Postcards – Create your own unique Valentine’s Day postcards to send to your favorite Valentine’s!
- Magnetic Paper – Make your own magnets for Valentine’s Day! Click this link to download our FREE Conversation Hearts templates and Valentine Heart templates.
- Precut Vinyl Magnets – Write all the reasons you love someone on these do-it-yourself magnets. Perfect for creating magnetic love poems for your refrigerator door!
- Glassine Bags – Use these simple and elegant glassine bags to create party favors and to package special treats for Valentine’s Day. Available in two sizes.
- Blank White Craft Box – No Valentine’s Day is complete without a special box to keep your Valentine cards in! Keep it white or have a blast decorating this quality cigar-style box.
- DIY Playing Cards – Use this deck of blank playing cards to create small, unique Valentine’s to give to your family and friends.
- Hardcover Blank Board Book – Why send just a regular Valentine’s Day card, when you can create an entire book! Fill this book with all the reasons you love someone, then seal it with a kiss and mail.
- Polyshrink Film – Remember “shrinky dinks”? Now you can create your own small works of art with this polyshrink film! Create small charms to use to decorate your Valentine’s Day cards. Create dozens of small hearts to use as table decorations. Be creative!
- White Wire Handle Box (Chinese Take Out Box) – This box is not just for take out anymore! Use the box for party favors or for packaging small gifts. Easy to decorate, and so many possibilities!
- DIY Valentine’s Day Puzzle and Gift Box Kit – “I go to pieces without you!” This is the sentiment you can convey with this unique Valentine’s Day puzzle and gift box kit! Be creative!
- DIY Valentine’s Day Puzzle and Envelope Kit – Create your own Valentine’s Day puzzle and mail it to your special Valentine!
For the Builder:
- 3D Heart Shaped Puzzleball – Learn to say I Love You in various languages as you build this 3D heart puzzle! Don’t forget to hide a special trinket inside the heart!
- DIY Drinking Strawz Construction Set – This crazy, wacky straw set is fun to build, and even more fun to use to share a special Valentine’s beverage!
For the Thinker:
For the Game Player:
- Photo-Opoly – Relive favorite Valentine moments and make your own Monopoly-style game!
For the Scientist:
For the Nature Lover:
For the Music Lover:
For Physical Fun:
- The Top – Show your kids you think they’re “tops” with this incredible spinning play top!
- Heart Silk Streamer – Dance, twirl, run – have fun!
Just for Fun:
 “Stocking Stuffer” gifts are so much fun! It’s exciting to reach into a stocking on Christmas morning and pull out unique small gifts.
We’ve created the list below with lots of ideas for educational stocking stuffer gifts for kids of all ages (adults love them, too)! The lists are conveniently organized so you can find what you are looking for quickly. Just click the links for more information about each item.
Make sure to visit our store for more great gift ideas – we have over 795 gifts for under $10!!!
Stuffed Stocking™ Stocking Stuffer Gifts
For the Artist:
For the Builder:
- LaQ Mono – This cool little building set inspires creativity and is so much fun to play with (makes a great gift for adults, too)!
- Tabletop Catapult Kit – This wooden building kit allows you to easily create a working catapult!
- ZOOB Building Set – ZOOB building sets spark imaginations and are fun for kids of all ages!
- ZOOB Tube – ZOOB building pieces in a tube – fits perfectly in most stockings!
- Puzzle Calendar – Build your own calendar with these cool LEGO-like blocks!
- Made By Me Set – This set allows young builders to create their own wooden vehicles!
- DIY Construction Drinking Strawz – This is one of the most unique stocking stuffer gifts! Kids and adults love them – available in four different colors!
- Pocket Flyers – Build your own paper airplanes with this fun pocket book!
For the Thinker:
For the Game Player:
For the Scientist:
For the Nature Lover:
For the Music Lover:
For Physical Fun:
For Imaginative Play:
Just for Fun:
Kids of all ages enjoy Halloween! Sure… Halloween Candy is sweet, but FUN (and educational) Halloween Party Favors are even sweeter!
We’ve listed our favorite party favors, unique gift ideas and Halloween decorations – as well as some of our fun ideas below. Make sure to visit our Halloween Shop for even more fun items!
Happy Halloween!
HALLOWEEN PARTY FAVORS
Spooky Noggin Bops – Makes fun favors and spooky surprise gifts! Bop along with Drac, The Count; Mummy, The Wrapper; Jack-o-Bop, The Pumpkin; Skully, The Skeleton; Frankenhead, The Monster; and Cackle, The Witch. Click this link to watch the video!
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Pumpkin Nyokki Pet Plant – Grow a pet just in time for Halloween; a fun project for kids leading up to Halloween! Easy to grow, contains everything you need. This is a limited edition Nyokki, and quantities are limited – get yours today!
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HALLOWEEN GAMES
Boooo-opoly – It’s creepy, and ghoulish! It’s a scream! This is a fun game to play at Halloween parties – or on the days leading up to Halloween! Buy your favorite Halloween properties, collected Haunted Houses and trade them for Full Moons!
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Monster-Opoly – A fun game for little ghouls to play! Perfect for Halloween parties! Don’t be afraid of monsters – sit down and play a game to get to know them!
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Jenga, Halloween Edition – Set this Halloween Jenga game out on your Halloween party table and let your guests have fun! A classic game, with a Halloween twist!
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HALLOWEEN COSTUMES
HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS
Halloween Stickers Box (Vintage Halloween Labels) – Create your own Halloween party invitations and decorations with this set of vintage stickers! Fun for kids and adults!
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Human Skeleton Model (34 inches tall) – Not only is this life-like model educational, it’s great fun as a Halloween dinner guest!
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Ice Dessert Mold – Use this easy-to-make mold to create creepy lights for your Halloween dining table! Freeze candy corns, gummy worms, or other fun surprises in the ice for a ghastly lantern! Of, if you prefer, make an ice dessert mold and serve green ice cream!
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Glow Sticks – Not only are glow sticks fun for trick-or-treaters to use while outside at night, they make fun and spooky Halloween decorations, too! Place an activated glow stick in a test tube or beaker for eerie lights for a Halloween party. They look cool inside pumpkins, too!
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Laser Stars – Light up the outside of your house with this cool light display of thousands and thousands of tiny stars! Fun for welcoming Halloween party guests – it will look like they are being sucked into a black hole as they enter your house!
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Jack-O-Lantern Table Sprinkles, Black Bat Table Sprinkles, and Spider Table Sprinkles – Sprinkle a handful on a party table, or use as gifts in a treat bag.
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HALLOWEEN DRINKWARE
Glass Beaker (50 ml) and Glass Beaker (150 ml) – Serve your favorite beverages in a “mad scientist” beaker! Buuuhaaahaaahaaa….
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Glass Test Tubes and Glass Beaker (800 ml) – Place ice cubes at the bottom of the large beaker, place test tubes into the ice in the beaker, and use the test tubes to serve a spooktacular beverage this Halloween! The ice in the beaker keeps your drink cold.
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Glass Erlenmeyer Flask – Add a straw and serve your favorite “potion” in this “mad scientist” beaker! Kids absolutely love drinking out of these flasks!
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Glass Petri Dish (with Cover) – Serve your party treats in these large glass petri dishes! Mad science fun!
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Make sure to check out our Halloween Fun with Test Tubes article, as well as our Creative Ideas for Using Petri Dishes article for even more fun ideas!
HALLOWEEN BOOKS
Have a Happy Halloween!!!
Marshmallow peeps and chocolate eggs are yummy at Easter, but… are you looking for FUN (and educational) Easter Basket Gits? We have a great selection of items that are perfect for girls and boys (and even for the adults in your life)!
Here is a list of our favorites:
Super String Thing – Remember Cats in the Cradle and all the other fun games we played as kids? Share them with your kids!
Chinese Jump Rope – Get active and have fun with this jump rope! What games can you remember?
Touchable Bubbles in a Test Tube – Who can resist bubbles? Especially bubbles that last and last and last and last and last and last…
Rainbow Silk Streamer – Add to active Spring play with this streamer! Your kids will be dancing in no time!
Classic Pinky Ball – Wall Ball, Four Square, Mimsies – ah…. the games of childhood! Get your kids active and outdoors with our Pinky Ball! We even have a link to our favorite Pinky Ball games – visit our website and print our games!
Marbles – They may not be in the shape of an egg, but they sure are fun! Introduce your kids to the fine art of marbles! We have dozens and dozens of marbles available – a design sure to please everyone on your Easter gift list! When you are looking at the marbles on our website, make sure to check out the link at the bottom of the page for classic marble games!
Rocket Balloons – 3…2…1…blast off! Rocket balloons are a gas! Kids of all ages love the sound of a rocket balloon when it launches! Don’t miss out on the fun!
Made By Me Kits – Add a classic wooden “Made By Me” kit to your childs Easter Basket! See how creative they are when decorating and building their vehicle! Six different vehicles to choose from!
Thinkonium – Our own Thinkonium makes a PERFECT Easter gift for children (and adults)! Get your brain in gear as you ponder all the possibilities of creative play!
Morse Code Flasher – What a fun way to learn Morse Code! An Easter gift that will be remembered…
DIY Strawz – Beverages have never tasted so good!
Want even more ideas???? Visit us online at Escapade Direct Easter Shop – we are sure you will find the perfect Easter gift for your child!
Looking for Stocking Stuffer Gift Ideas? Here are some ideas that are perfect for children of all ages (adults love them, too):
For the Artist:
For the Builder:
- Catapult Kit — Build a wooden catapult replica that really works!
- UberPult — Use UberStix to build a catapult and other cool contraptions.
- Mini GeoFix — Learn about geometry while building imaginative creations with GeoFix shapes.
- Q-BA-MAZE — Create a unique interlocking marble run with colorful translucent cubes.
For the Thinker:
- Ball of Whacks — How many different ways can the Ball of Whacks be assembled? Put thinking skills to work, while playing.
- Set — The (very addicting) game of visual perception.
For the Gamer:
- Ruckus — This fast-paced game is sure to cause a ruckus!
- Bananagrams — They’ll go bananas over this game of words!
- Top Speed — A high velocity card game for improving hand-eye coordination and visual perception. Zoom! Zoom!
- AC/DC — An exciting electric circuit game!
- Labyrinth Card Game — Find your way through the labyrinth with this strategic, always-changing card game.
- Dead Man’s Dice — Ahoy! A favorite game for swashbucklers everywhere.
- Cowboy Up — Go west! And don’t forget this fun game of chance.
- Morgan’s Revenge — Yo-ho Maties! Gather your dabloons and play Morgan’s Revenge!
- Think-ets — Create your own game with the trinkets in Think-ets!
- IZZI — A fun tanagram game for one or more players.
For the Music Lover:
For the Scientist:
Just for Fun:
- EarthBall — Give them the world! Let’s you hold NASA satellite images of Earth in your hands.
- American Revolution Coin Replicas — Give them a unique piece of history.
- Deck of Knots — Anyone can learn to tie great knots with these informative cards.
- Gumby — He’s back! This Gumby figure is a retro favorite! Don’t forget his pal Pokey!
- Strawz — This set of DIY drinking straws is a sure HIT!
- Faucet Light — Washing hands will become a favorite activity! Bathe your sink in cool blue light.
- Jar of Stars — Glow-in-the-dark stars to create brilliant constellations.
- Chinese Jump Rope — Get them hopping with this classic jump rope!
- Mini Touchabubbles — A test tube of bubbles for fun all year!
From all of us at Escapade Direct – we wish you the Happiest of Holiday’s!
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