Easter does not have to be expensive. You can celebrate Easter on budget with careful planning and money-saving tips.
This article will give 15 ideas to celebrate Easter with your family and most importantly, seniors.
Easter means new life and the start of a new beginning. There is a significance of Easter Eggs, in that they are the representation of our world, the fertility – life continuity. There was never so much commercialization of Easter in the past. But since the dawn of globalization, all the cheap toys and plastic easter decor has taken over our land.
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It has only been a couple of days since we celebrated Valentine’s Day, and the stores have started displaying EASTER decor. Give yourself a break from worrying about another holiday. Follow the tips mentioned here from now, so that come Easter, you will use the time in prayers and for creating beautiful memories with your loved ones.
Easter on Budget- 15 Simple Tips
1. Plan simple easter activities on a budget
When it comes to Easter, children are only looking for fun and sweet treats. Why not include some frugal fun activities and bake healthy sweets with children this year? I have included this handy checklist for you to save money and plan your budget.
Select 3 areas where you tend to spend the most during Easter. If it is on food, plan to prepare a few frugal recipes this year. If it is the decor, cut down on unnecessary decor and choose to do minimalist DIY decor.
2. Form your own family’s frugal easter traditions
Every family has its own Easter traditions. On the national level, people travel to Washington to celebrate the Easter egg hunt at the white house. This year, I am not sure if anyone would like to travel there.
It is a good time to revisit what your family – your grandparents used to do to celebrate a frugal yet memorable Easter. They can give you a lot of good suggestions if you call and invite them over. Let this year’s Easter be different than all others.
I know so many friends and families are hurting, and missing their grandparents due to nursing home disasters. It is time to let go of the anger and forgive the culprits who will be shown mercy by our creator when the time comes. Use this time to remember your loved ones and create traditions that will keep their memories alive for years to come.
Until then, celebrate with everyone in your family, especially seniors. And guard them, and their health care. Arm them and yourself with the knowledge necessary to safeguard their interests. Do not let this Easter pass by when seniors are alone in their elderly living facilities.
Our Cherishing Memories Journal has lots of prompts and areas where you can include your loved one’s special memories and favorite items. This journal is not just for Easter but all festivities of life.
3. Shop frugal foods with the list for Easter on a Budget
Most Easter Meals need specialty ingredients for baking and for candies. Shop for them in advance and make use of coupons to get the best deals. If you have food allergies in your home, you will prefer to cook most menu items at home. Plan for that in your weekly or monthly grocery list.
Our handy-dandy menu plans are customers’ favorites. They will help you save money all year.
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4. Prepare a few frugal recipes on a budget for Easter beforehand
About a month before Easter, schedule cooking some recipes. Test them so that you will know the exact method and ingredients amount needed for perfect consistency and texture.
If you keep the cooking for the last and do not like the recipes, you may end up getting a take-out. It will just create additional work for you.
Our Easter Activities printables also have a template where you can collect your favorite baking recipes
5. Choose selected healthy Easter Candies on Budget
There are a lot of options for candies and treats for Easter celebrations. But be mindful of shopping for them at once. Look into the ingredients if you have kids with allergies.
We have to be extra-careful trying any new brand of food and snacks in this household. Some of the candies we trust to use in Easter baskets are:
- YumEarth Organic Fruit Flavored Gummy Bears. We always use their Vitamin C option during winters. It is immune boosting and healthy, just like these gummy bears.
- Sugar-free candies are excellent for children and seniors who have to regular their bloog glucose levels
- This mix goodie box is great when you’re in a hurry and can not shop for gluten-free snacks and candies.
6. Frugal Easter Decor on a Budget
Repurpose and reuse what you have used in the past easter decorations. If you are running short of decor supplies, use nature to collect natural supplies like grass, twigs, and even flowers.
In a pinch, the dollar store has a good collection of easter decor. Plan to visit it a month before the ester. Because by the time Easter comes, they might run low on supplies
Make DIY Easter bunting banners. You can use Canva for designing them. They are perfect to print and decorate your home or entryway.
Lilies are a wonderful addition to Easter Decor. They signify the pure new life that comes from the resurrection of Christ. Shop for the Lilies a little earlier. Pick them up when only a few Lilly buds are open and the rest are closed. Once you bring them, to keep them fresher until and even after Easter, wait until the flower opens up. Then snip out the yellow anthers.
Never place the Lilly plants in direct sunlight.
7. DIY Frugal Gifts for Easter
Make easy easter cards with your kids. Use our simple greeting cards template like this to make positive affirmations cards and add them to the Easter Basket.
Make simple crafts with the supplies you already have in hand. This holiday is about celebrating Jesus Christ and sharing kindness. It is also about fasting to experience what he sacrificed for us. So Gifts do not matter as much as the kindness with which you all live together.
8. Color Easter Eggs at Home
It is quite easy to color the eggs at home. All you need is to boil them well. When coloring your egg, you can buy a coloring kit or make your own with food coloring. It depends on how adventurous you are and how much time you have.
Material needed:
- Eggs
- Boiling water
- Paint or DIY food coloring. This gel food coloring is an excellent set too.
- Paintbrush
- Mesh cookie rack for placing the eggs to dry in between paint layers
- Stickers, glitter, glue ( optional)
- Paper towels and rubber gloves (optional)
How to Paint Eggs at home for Easter on Budget.
Painting Easter Eggs at home is easy. Follow these easy-peasy instructions and celebrate Easter on Budget this year.
Materials
- Paintbrush
- Mesh cookie rack for placing the eggs to dry in between paint layers
- Stickers, glitter, glue ( optional)
- Paper towels and rubber gloves (optional)
- Eggs
- Paint or DIY food coloring. This gel food coloring is an excellent set too.
Instructions
- First, cover the table with plastic or paper so the dyes don't stain the table.
- Get one cup for each color, extra if you are planning on mixing colors together.
- Paint the first coat and let it dry for several hours. Use a mesh cookie rack so that eggs can dry from all sides.
- Add a second coat of color. At this stage, you can also add a design if you wish so.
- Let the kids and seniors enjoy hours of painting together. Help them if required but for the most part, let me bring their creativity to the project. When it comes to EASTER, the colors matter, perfection doesn't. So let them use whatever supplies they want to decore the eggs.
- Then, let the final designs dry for several hours.
- Don't forget to capture the memories of this crafting activity. These pictures will come in handy when you design an EASTER Memories Collage wall art, mentioned below.
- After the eggs are completely dried, hide them for an Easter Egg Scavenger hunt,
Notes
Carefully stored eggs can last year after year.
- For the elderly seniors and little children, make the drawings on the eggshells first. So that it will be easier for them to fill the drawing with their chosen colors.
1) First, cover the table with plastic or paper so the dyes don’t stain the table
2) Get one cup for each color, extra if you are planning on mixing colors together.
3) Paint the first coat and let it dry for several hours. Use a mesh cookie rack so that eggs can dry from all sides.
4) Add a second coat of color. At this stage, you can also add a design if you wish so.
For the elderly seniors and little children, make the drawings on the eggshells first. So that it will be easier for them to fill the drawing with their chosen colors.
5) Let the kids and seniors enjoy hours of painting together. Help them if required but for the most part, let me bring their creativity to the project. When it comes to EASTER, the colors matter, perfection doesn’t. So let them use whatever supplies they want to decore the eggs
6) Then, let the final designs dry for several hours.
7) Don’t forget to capture the memories of this crafting activity. These pictures will come in handy when you design an EASTER Memories Collage wall art, mentioned below.
8) After the eggs are completely dried, hide them for an Easter Egg Scavenger hunt,
Carefully stored eggs can last year after year.
9. Frugal Easter Basket Gift Ideas
Once you have the eggs colored and ready for Easter, it is only a matter of arranging them in the Easter Basket. There are a lot of varieties in the market for it. But it does not have to be fancy. You can use the mesh basket as well and fill it with ribbons, grass, paper to create a protective bottom layer.
Select a bag appropriate for the age group. This one is handmade and made with Canvas in America. It will last for years.
Next, decide what do you want to add to each Easter Basket. There are multiple options and they come at a nice price tag. So take your budget sheet out, take stock of your pantry snacks and make a list. If you already have some of the gifts ideas mentioned below, start from there.
- Books – Add the favorite book, coloring activity sheets, or even a novel, a small bible is an excellent addition to the basket as well.
- Fuzzy Socks and Booties, preferably with cute bunnies on them. You can find them in the local thrift store or a Dollar Store
- Candy – Add healthy easter candies. There are better varieties available in all health food stores. This is one area where I would not mind spending a little more as conventional candies are loaded with unnecessary artificial ingredients and high-fructose corn syrup. Don’t forget to include at least one chocolate rabbit.
- Craft supplies- The sky is the limit here. So, ask what seniors or your kids like first before ordering everything on Amazon with one click.
- Healthy teas-Easter is a good time for detox teas. Stock your bags with healthy ginger tea and immune-boosting tea from Traditional Medicinals.
- Healthy personal care items- My Personal favorite is EOS lip balms in the egg-shaped container. I get mine in bulk from the Warehouse store and gift it to all my besties.
- For first-aid cuts, burns, and other skin conditions, this cream by Th All Natural Face is the best. It is our staple in the family’s first aid box. For anxiety and seasonal affective disorders, consider getting calendula in oil format.
- As with everything, always check with your healthcare practitioner. Mine approves them and doesn’t complain if I don’t visit the clinic for years. Now that is very very hard to find in the US. If you’re aware of the medical system here, you’ll know what I mean.
- Special custom-made or DIY gift- something that they will cherish and use for at least a year. These days kids do not appreciate all gifts. There are too many festivities parents celebrate and everything is available;e the next day or same day. So the novelty of gifts has gone out of the window. Therefore, make unique gifts with your kids and senior members of the family. These gifts will certainly attract the kids and help them appreciate the time they have with their grandparents.
- Some of the examples can be DIY greeting cards, posters, cute vision boards, knitted scarves, bookmarks, or even handmade jewelry.
Related article- 5 Steps to create an effective vision board.
You can use a FREE or Paid Canva account to make your vision boards with easy drag-and-drop images.
10. Organize a frugal egg hunt party for Easter on a budget
If you have got our Easter Activities Planner Printable, you will get the list of things to do a month before, a few weeks before, and one day before the party. Use this time to your advantage and plan a frugal egg scavenger hunt party.
Inform your friends, families, and kids about the venue, the timing, and the food details in advance. Arrange a place to gather all easter baskets, snacks, tables where kids can craft items, and also the palace where you will take the pictures. Follow the budget you set out for yourself at every step of the way. If there are multiple people helping you with your party organization, share this planner with them. The more organized you are before Easter, the less chaotic and hence less expensive it will be.
11. Repurpose Easter costumes from last year
Easter costumes can range from a couple of dollars to a few hundred dollars if you have more kids and family members wanting the costume for a few hours of celebrations. You rarely take them out again for a year unless you plan to be a bunny during Happy Halloween. So, save yourself some money and repurpose the costumes from last year. Add a few ribbons or easter specific items and enjoy this season.
12. Write handwritten letters for your loved ones
There is no better way to express your love than by writing a few kind words in your own handwriting. Use a cute Easter Theme stationary and write personalized letters to your loved ones. You can also do this with seniors and kids together. The kids will learn the lost art of letter writing from grandparents and you will be able to enjoy a couple of hours of quiet and peace after a whole day of Easter Activities.
13. Make Easter Egg Wall Memories collage
Everyone has heard about a time capsule. But use your Easter Pictures to create a big Family Collage and put it on display. Make this a centerpiece of your Easter Decorations for every year. This will give you more chances to connect over Easter meals and reminisce over your family’s Easter Traditions.
14. Spend 40 days of acts of random kindness
Use this time to celebrate 40 days of kindness towards others. You can also volunteer together at a local charity organization. Helping others out creates a sense of bonding that is so unique and a lifelong memory.
15. Celebrate the countdown to easter
And finally, make the last few days leading up to Easter extra fun by creating a DIY countdown Advent Calendar. You can add the eggs for each day and write what you would like to do that day.
Final thoughts on enjoying Easter on Budget
You really do not need to spend a bunch of money on Easter Celebrations. Be mindful of the purpose of this holiday and choose a couple of activities that bring joy to you and your loved ones.
Share your tips and fun suggestions to celebrate Easter with family and loved ones. Let us bring more joy to the world as we start enjoying normalcy in the world once again.
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