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Plastic Easter Eggs Fillers, Crafts and Money Makers! Ideas by the Basket Load.

This plastic Easter eggs post has a stream of creative ideas beginning with a handful of beads that end with a serious fund raiser.

I sat down tonight and decided to see what I could put inside a small craft egg, and see where I ended up. And I started with the idea of a craft inside a craft egg.

Handy crafts and hobbies have converged over the last couple of years and it has struck me lately, with Easter approaching, that some of the smaller crafts could sit inside of an egg. I suppose that if I were honest the thought began as I was looking at the small eggs you can get for kids with the put together toy inside them.

Now that’s great for kids, but what about adults? Don’t they deserve something too? It was then that it struck me: why not put a full beading kit inside of an egg?

Obviously you can’t put the tools in there, but you could put a length of thread in, together with some suitable plastic beads for a ‘make your own necklace/bracelet’ kind of a concept.

But then, as it does with my rather odd brain, another thought crawled across my consciousness. Would it be possible to sell little kits made up like that as a fund raiser, and if you were to do that, what other things could you put inside? So I got to thinking.

Starting with the kids of course, there are any number of small surprise gifts that you could put inside. Dinosaurs, small power bouncer balls, mini pots of playdough, go-go’s, marbles, small toy cars. The list is almost endless.

For adults, key fobs, the craft kits I have mentioned, nailclippers, mini compasses… Make sure that you put the items you choose inside a plastic or paper bag so that it’s hard to tell what is inside by rattling it around.

Perhaps you are starting to see a thread here? (oh, there’s another
one: a sewing kit!). Think of things you would find in a Christmas cracker! Just one point. If you do this plastic easter eggs idea then you surely must mark the eggs with age suitability. Imagine giving a needle to a 3 year old! That’s irresponsible.

Ok, so how can you raise funds? At your next fund raiser fayre, preferably a spring one before Easter but it’s not desperate, put all the eggs for the right ages, with their contents, all in one basket, or even in a tombola. Have people pay a fixed amount and then choose an egg at random. Want to get everyone buying eggs? The next and final idea may well clinch it.

Put a high value paper bill ($10 for example) in two or three of the eggs. Make a sign saying “will you find the treasure?” and say what you have hidden. So you could say that in some of the eggs, don’t say how many, there are ten dollar bills hidden, then charge people $2.50 to buy an egg. Put some modelling clay (again in a small sandwich bag) in the egg too to give it some weight. Mix the eggs up each time so that it is fair. Selling just 13 eggs will cover costs, less if you charge little more. And everyone will win something. And some people will win the expensive prizes and will tell their friends. You don’t have to say how many eggs have the money, so even if you lost all the money eggs early you would still have a queue of people wanting to play just in case there is something else on offer!

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