Baseball Easter Basket: The Perfect Gift for Baseball Lovers

Put together a baseball Easter basket for an aspiring MLB player? Sure – always up to the challenge.

Sometimes, I’m that mom who waits until the last minute to get everything organized for a holiday or celebration. This year is no different EXCEPT I also decided to blog about it as I tried to find or put together baseball themed Easter baskets.

Truth be told, I kind of forgot that Easter was approaching. Well, not really. I knew it was coming up. But I sorta kinda forgot that in preparation of Jesus’ weekend, I also needed to go out and find all the proper fillings for a certain child’s Easter basket. #momfail

Thank you, son, for casually mentioning the other night in passing that you were excited to hunt for eggs this weekend.

So yesterday I made my weekly Target run and found all the Easter essentials. With my kids being a little older, I try and find items that I know they’ll actually like AND use. I avoided anything overly-Eastery – meaning no Easter themed books this year. I also tried to stay away from excessive sugar and lean more towards fruit bars and granola bars.

That’s right – in the this household, we’re *trying* to be low sugar with the Easter baskets. Ish. I may have thrown in a couple of his faves. Everything in moderation, right?!

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Baseball Gift Basket: Baseball Easter Basket

Instead of purchasing chocolate covered everything, we’re opting instead this year to fill his eggs with a little bit of money and a few pieces of candy. I even found a larger egg that will house baseball cards!

Since we are absolutely obsessed with all-things-baseball, I tried to find the essentials that I knew my son would love in his baseball Easter Basket, with a couple treats and other goodies along the way.

Party City had a ton of Cubs gear; a bucket serving for his basket this year (I truthfully wish it were a little bigger, but given that I waited until the last minute to shop, I’m just thankful I found something local). They also had super cute little chocolate balls wrapped in baseball paper. I chose 7, since that’s his number, and Cubs pencils, since you can never have enough pencils around the house.

I couldn’t find a similar bucket on Amazon but I did find this baseball basket, which would work really well to help store stuff in their bedroom or game room:

Great for storing baseball memorabilia, toys, clothes, backpacks/bags (because we somehow have a huge collection), socks, books, ANYTHING.

Drawstring Baseball Backpacks

These are a fun, practical addition. They come in a variety of colors so you can match your child’s personal or favorite team.

Baseball Rope Necklaces

Simple and cheap, these are always a popular choice and easy to throw in the Easter basket.

After that I was on a roll. Being a huge Cubs fan, I planned to find a book about the franchise and buy a W flag.

But.. I decided to not put pressure on myself to create the perfect basket. Instead, I focused on the things that I knew he would love. So I grabbed a few of his favorite snacks, a track jacket in his favorite color, a new water bottle because he just broke his main one this week, (there’s also this fun Baseball water bottle on Amazon), the Sandlot 2 . It won’t live up the standards of the first, but it was only $5. And of course a few books – because this child inherited his love of reading from his mama.

I also threw in some Big League Chew, Jerky, and seeds to complete things.

Shop More Baseball Gift Ideas

Here are a few other ideas for the last minutes shoppers like me 🙂

I’m curious to know what goodies you like to fill your kids’ Easter Baskets with! Drop some of your favorite items below so I can start a collection of ideas for next year and hopefully get an earlier start! 😉