Gifts For The Easter Holidays - An Alternative Guide To Chocolate!

*AD-gifted

Easter is much more than chocolate! Am I right or wrong? The kids, (or adults) cannot eat chocolate for the whole of the Easter holidays, well my daughter could but it’s not healthy, right! So how about some non-chocolate gifts for the Easter holidays and things to do over the Easter period. I have some great ideas in this post to keep everyone busy!

Gifts For The Easter Holidays - An Alternative Guide To Chocolate

Alternative Easter Gifts

You may wonder what you can buy instead of chocolate for Easter, well I have a few ideas of non-chocolate gifts right here, from eggs to games, Easter hunts and a tipple for the adults!

HARIBO Easter Sweets

HARIBO Chick ‘n’ Mix

HARIBO Chick ‘n’ Mix is a cute gift box filled with TangfastChicks, Starmix’s favourite Fried Egg, Jelly Bunnies and Spring Time Friends. It’s the perfect alternative to the traditional chocolate Easter Egg – tweet, tweet!

HARIBO Eggs Galore (Multipack)

HARIBO Eggs Galore is fun, themed and delicious!

Featuring a multicoloured mix of Easter Egg shaped jelly pieces, alongside everyone’s favourite Fried Egg, it’s the perfect sweet for Easter hunting.

Featuring a mix of 10* mini bags, the Eggs Galore multipack is the ideal choice to get Easter hunts underway this Spring. You’ll have bags of fun hiding these sweets in and around the home and garden!

Ryan’s World Mystery Egg

Have some Easter fun with a Ryan’s World Mystery Egg! It contains a Ryan Mystery Figure, Micro Figure, Mystery Sand and Stickers! The Mini Mystery Egg is constructed of four pieces; enabling Ryan’s World fans to recreate the exciting unboxing process again and again! A great alternative to a chocolate egg! Available now from Smyths.

Gifts for the adults from Enesco

If you are looking for a gift for your mum, aunt or nan, I’m pretty sure they would love a gift from the Beatrix Potter Gifts by Enesco collection. The one below is the adorable Jemima Puddleduck. Anyone who loves Easter would love this cute chick with a basket by Jim Shore! There are so many perfect non-chocolate gifts at the Enesco gift shop to explore.

Fruit Bowl Dino Eggs

Dino Yogurt Eggs from Fruit Bowl are made with real fruit and excavated in Britain, made with juicy raisins covered in a creamy yogurt shell, with red, green and blue speckled yogurt dinosaur eggshells made using all natural colours.

Wrapped in individual bags, making them perfect for outdoor Easter Egg hunts, each bag comes with T-Rex, Pterodactyl, Velociraptor or Triceratops characters on the front with the outer packaging featuring dinosaur footprints & dinosaur egg speckle.

Dino Yogurt Eggs are available to purchase from Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrisons and Tesco stores nationwide, as well as online at Ocado and Fruit Bowl’s website for RRP £2.00.

HARUMIKA

Harumika is an Arts and Crafts kit from Bandai that inspires the fashionista within to get creative and style their imagination. Kids can design and create chic styles influenced by top global fashion trends! No gluing, no sewing, no cutting! Available to buy from *Amazon

Miraculous Figures

Miraculous is all about the tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. You can follow the adventures of two seemingly typical teens with secret identities, Marinette and Adrien, who transform into superheroes! These figures are so cute and perfect for Miraculous fans! Available to buy at selected retailers.

BrainBolt® – Electronic Memory Game

This one is perfect for keeping older kids entertained during the holidays. It’s also the ideal size to take on holiday and car trips!

Challenge your brain by memorising the light sequence and following along for as long as you can without breaking the pattern. Sound easy? Not so fast! Take the challenge and see why BrainBolt® is an addicting electronic memory game to play until you win! Available to buy from Learning Resources.

Happy Floppy’s Happy Hunt game

This cute bunny-themed game for 2-4 players is a great Easter game for kids! Perfect for their Easter Box!

Hoppy Floppy’s Happy Hunt Game™ is the adorable bunny-themed fine motor game for preschoolers that teaches strategic thinking, matching, colour recognition, and more. The rabbit-themed plastic squeezer helps build a young child’s hand strength and pre-handwriting skills. Because there’s no reading needed, this is an ideal beginner board game for young children aged 3+. Available to buy from Learning Resources.

Ryman Egg decorating stationery

Everyone loves to craft at Easter, there are many things you can decorate and make to celebrate at this time of year. We are loving the affordable Easter craft activities at Ryman. As you know we have our own chickens so we have unlimited eggs to decorate and the Easter Egg Stencil Set is perfect! These three items are eggcellent value for money!!

Easter Paint Your Own Egg Set, £0.99
Easter Stamper Set, £0.99
Easter Sticker Roll Pack of 200, £0.99

Fuzzy-Felt Farm Animals

Let your little ones create their own Spring-themed adventures this Easter with the Fuzzy-Felt Farm Animals Drawer set! Complete with over 200 assorted felt pieces and two playboards, the simplicity and creativity of these products has inspired generations of children. As one of Britain’s best-loved toys of all time, Fuzzy-Felt continues to inspire children (and parents!)
today; encouraging the development of co-ordination, recognition, counting, sorting and storytelling skills. Available now from all good toy retailers and online.

The Batman Batcycle RC

Race Batman into action with this DC Comics The Batman Batcycle RC with Batman Rider Action Figure. The remote control Batcycle with a fixed Batman figure features an easy to drive remote control, authentic The Batman Movie styling, and incredible details that bring your Batcycle to life. The Batman Batcycle is ideal for keeping children busy this Easter! Available to buy from Smyths.

PAW PATROL Sparks the Dragon

Get geared up for Rescue Knights medieval missions in Barkingburg with PAW Patrol Sparks the Dragon and Claw this Easter!

This set of action figures comes with an exclusive figure of Claw the pup, a large-scale Sparks the Dragon figure with his super wings, two projectiles and a saddle for Claw to ride on. Available to buy from Smyths.

Dantoy – Blue Marine Toys

Dantoy Launch Brand New Toy Line – Created from Recycled Maritime Materials! Blue Marine toys is the new and fascinating line produced from waste maritime materials, including fishing nets, ropes and trawls. At their factory in Hobro, Denmark, it then turned into sand and water play toys, all in bright and appealing shades. The colours and the surface of the products will be different from what we are used to, but this is international, to symbolize to retailers, parents, and children that the toys are 100% unique and fully sustainable.

Perfect for playing at the beach or in the sandpit at home this Easter holidays!

For more information visit dantoy.dk

Easter Bunny 7 Letter NEWS bundle

All kids love an Easter Egg hunt, but to add a little more fun and magic to the experience you can get an Easter Bunny 7 letter bundle from the International Elf Service! There are 7 personalised and handcrafted eco-friendly letters written by the eccentric Easter Bunny. You will get fabulous adventures filled with incredible inventions, sticky situations, sugar emergencies and even a recipe the kids can make themselves!

Roll your letters into a scroll before delivering them around the house, tucking the last one in amongst the Magical Egg Delivery!

Included: 7 Personalised Lengths of natural jute twine from the Enchanted Woodland, with official International Elf Service gift tags.

Use code RB15 for 15% off! You can get yours here!

*£1 from each Easter Bunny Letter bundle will be donated to the British Red Cross to support Ukraine.

Shaken Other and Shaken Udder Milkshakes

We all know over the school holiday kids love snacks and shakes. What better to give them than these from Shaken Udder! I must say they are yummy! I don’t normally go for non-dairy milkshakes but the Shaken Other strawberry and Chocolate are divine! Perfect for a hot April day!

One For The Adults!

Warninks Advocaat

Warninks Advocaat is not just for your snowballs at Christmas! The creamy deliciousness of Advocaat is perfect to enjoy with a hot cross bun this Easter. And a few chocolate mini eggs!! They have this perfect cocktail that is easy to make:

#MixUpTradition

This delectable blend of Advocaat, ginger ale, lime and chocolate is just what the Easter bunny ordered. Pair with a hot cross bun for an ultimate Easter treat!

Warninks Easter Fizz Cocktail