How to Create an Easter Basket for a Female College Student

Even sophisticated college students enjoy visits from the Easter bunny. Whether your favorite student will be spending the holiday at home or far away, you can put together a basket of treasures she'll enjoy long after spring has passed.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Plastic Eggs
• Egg-shaped Boxes
• Quilts
• Silver Picture Frames
• Small Photo Albums
• Wood Baskets
• Easter Candies
• Jewelry
• Concert Tickets
• Gift Certificates
• Theater Tickets

1. Think beyond Easter. Find a sturdy antique basket that can hold books in her apartment or dorm room, or a big hamper she can fill with tailgate picnic fare.
2. Line the basket with a quilt or lap throw in a pretty, springlike color.
3. Buy some decorative egg-shaped boxes, or splurge on some porcelain ones. Then fill them all with tiny gifts: jewelry, books of postage stamps, a travel clock, a small picture frame, tickets to a concert or play you know she'd like to see.
4. Build the basket around a theme. For instance, if she's a fine arts major, tuck in a sketchbook and drawing pencils, tubes of paint, and brushes or sculpture tools. If you know there's a major out-of-town museum or a blockbuster exhibit she's been dying to see, go all out and treat her to a weekend trip.
5. Pass along some family history. Write out some favorite recipes in a beautiful but kitchen-worthy book, make up a small album of old family photographs, or fill a porcelain egg with a small heirloom you've been meaning to give her.
6. Bake some of her favorite cookies and cut them into the shapes of eggs, bunnies, lambs and chicks. Then nestle them into the basket along with the handwritten recipe and a set of copper cookie cutters.

Tips & Warnings

• If your Easter basket will be traveling through the mail, save the family heirloom for her next visit home; no amount of insurance could compensate for its loss.