Lauri Ward, author of the best-selling book, Use What You Have Decorating and founder of Redecorate.com, shares her creative ideas for making inexpensive Easter baskets at home.
1. Using a small tin pail or a child’s beach pail, wrap raffia all around the circumference—the ends can be knotted or tied in bows.
2. Once the entire pail is covered in raffia, tuck in fresh, dried or silk flowers, using as few or as many as desired. Add Easter eggs.
While the traditional Easter basket has a handle, when the make-shift handle on a home-made basket isn't sturdy enough to actually carry the basket, it's safer to forego the handle altogether.
From Reader's Digest
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