easter grass

If your peat moss is anything like the peat moss I was shoveling yesterday, I wouldn't do it. It goes EVERYWHERE.

I dyed playsilks for DS last week, so I'm using them in his basket also. I did six of them, so his basket may not be big enough for those and the eggs-with-trains-in-them. I'm sure he won't mind an overflow.

I'm also using green playsilks over here. If you don't have playsilks, see what other fabric you have around the house - pillowcases, baby blankets, some pretty/soft garment that can be folded to line the basket, etc.

If you have a paper shredder you could take some of your recycled paper and make "grass", but it would probably be messy.

Well, dd will get 2 baskets this year. I Spring! We did one basket for Ostara, which is the pagan root of easter & for that I used a hand-dyed playsilk... but we just started soaking some kamut berries last night to sprout them so we can have real grass for our Easter basket! You can do it w/wheat or spelt berries, too... but you'd really need to start them today.

I agree with the fabric idea. My nearly 9 year old step-daughter loves to sew, so we bought her a couple of yards of fabric (a lovely purple oriental dragon brocade - lucky girl ) for the bottom of her basket.

what incredible ideas!!! thanks so much.

better go get started and see which ones I might be able to do......