Non-Chocolate Easter Gift Ideas

What can you give for Easter instead of chocolate?

 Non-Chocolate Easter Gifts For Younger Children

Babies and Toddlers Easter Gifts

Chicco 2 in 1 Transform-a-Ball

Recommended for ages 12 to 36 months this toy from Chicco’s Eco+ range is made from 80% recycled plastic. The white centre piece comes with 10 plastic pieces that easily slot on to it making a colourful ball shape, but you can also slot them together in a variety of different ways and make different shapes. The pieces are super chunky and make a great gift for a 2 year old to help with cognitive and fine motor skills. In fact I’m pretty sure that parents will enjoy seeing what shapes they can create themselves including cars and animals. Available from Kiddies Kingdom, Amazon and other toy shops.

A chunky construction toy for toddlers made from 80% recycled plastic

TOMY Toomies Jurassic World Spin & Hatch Dino Eggs

Suitable from 12 months this toy takes the success of Toomies Hide and Squeak eggs and combines it with dinosaurs in a Universal Studios Jurassic World collaboration. Inside each of the 5 coloured eggs are baby dinosaurs which are fixed in the bottom half of the eggs. The eggs can be placed in the incubator and if you push down the yellow plunger on the top they spin round. Spin the eggs round without the clear lid on and the eggs will all fly out and hatch. Each egg makes a different rattly noise if you shake it.

Stockists include: Amazon, Argos, The Entertainer, John Lewis, Next Online, The Range, Selfridges, Very.co.uk, Toymaster, Tesco, The Works and other independents.

Hatch little dinosaurs with your toddler this Easter

Preschool and Early Years Easter Gift Ideas

Orchard Toys Egg Surprise Mini Game

Egg Surprise is recommended for ages 3 to 6 and 2 to 4 players. In this simple Easter themed game you spin the carrot spinner and pick up a rabbit card with the matching number of spots. Play moves on to the next player and the game continues until all the cards have been collected. You then get to turn all of your cards over and count the eggs you have collected. Each of the rabbit cards have either 0, 1, 2 or 3 Easter eggs on their reverse side. Whoever has collected the most eggs across all their cards wins. Buy direct from Orchard Toys or from toy shops.

A cute Easter themed game for young children

Bobbie The Bunny Jigsaw

This beautiful children's jigsaw is one to treasure. The 12 chunky wooden pieces are all irregular shapes and go together to make Bobbie The Bunny and his basket of Easter eggs. Presented in an organza bag inside a cute box this jigsaw makes a lovely chocolate free Easter gift for children. Check it out in Wentworth Puzzles range of jigsaw puzzles for children.

Bobbie The Bunny jigsaw puzzle makes a great alternative Easter gift

Margot and the Magical Plant by Jane Rhodes

It's the perfect time of year to start growing plants so why not gift this book and maybe some seeds too? In Margot And The Magical Plant, Margot receives some mystery seeds from her Nanny and rushes out to plant them. As she waits, day by day, the plant grows and keeps changing until eventually it has red tomatoes. The plant isn't really magic, it's just the continuously changing nature of the tomato plant. This is a sweet book which will get children excited about growing their own plants. You can buy it direct from the author Jane Rhodes here.

Easter is a great time to plant seeds and this book will encourage children to grow their own

Easter Craft Kits from Ryman

Keep children entertained this Easter even if the weather isn't great with these Easter craft activities from Ryman. There are suncatcher Easter Eggs to paint in several different designs. Or you could paint real eggs with the Easter Egg Stencil Kit. I love this idea because you could either hard boil an egg for your children to paint or, if they can be gentle enough, blow an egg so you can cook with the inside of the egg (maybe for Easter biscuits) and keep the painted shell on display. The set contains a paint brush, 4 colour paints and 3 stencils. Another idea is the A4 Easter colouring and sticker book which is perfect for taking away on Easter holidays. 

If you are having an Easter Egg hunt at home then the Easter Egg Hunt Kit includes: little paper bags signs, stickers and even maps so you can you can plot where all the eggs are.  Don’t feel that your eggs have to be chocolate though. Any of the treats from this guide would work, or use reusable plastic eggs and write a message or activity on a piece of paper to go in each one.  

Easter crafts make a good Easter gift and will keep children entertained over the Easter holidays

Easter Gifts for Tweens and Teens 

Funko Disney Kingdomania

Kingdomania is an expandable game and collectable toy combined with Disney characters by Funko. Each game ball includes 2 mystery Disney characters (in a Funko style) and everything you need to play the game. I love that this is a combination of collectable figures (there are 40 to collect) and a game you can play straight away, but which is also expandable with each game ball you get. The figures are the game pieces as well. If you want to jump start the game there is a super game pack (equivalent to 3 balls) but that’s less egg like so I haven't included in the Easter guide. Recommended for age 6 plus and available to buy from Tesco or Amazon. 

Collectable Disney figures, a game and it's kinda egg shaped too

Ginger Fox Card Games 

Ginger Fox has a great range of card games and the choices below are all suitable for children age 8 plus. The compact size of these games makes them great for taking on holiday and they don't take up much shelf space, but they are lots of fun to play. In It Takes Two To Mango players have to pull the faces on their cards and if you suspect some one has the same card as you do shout "mango". A great game for children who like to pull faces and no one in the family will be able to keep a straight face. In Yes, Yes Yeti you basically have a whole board game in a tiny box. You create the path with cards and have to race the other players to get to the Yeti first. The small pack contains everything you need to play including playing pieces. Taskmaster on the other hand requires a huge amount of extra items to play. In the card game version each card has a challenge and everyone (other than the Taskmaster) has to compete against each other to complete the challenge best. It's basically a travel size version of the TV Show, but you can also get a board game version of Taskmaster complete with playing pieces and even a winner's trophy. Yes, Yes Yeti is for 3 to 6 players and the other card games are for 3 players plus, but it's a case of the more the merrier (or more chaotic) so great for all the family to play.

These little card games from Ginger Fox contain lots of fun

Tamagotchi by Bandai

A Tamagotchi makes a fun Easter gift where you get to hatch your own egg.  Inside is your very own virtual reality pet for you to look after and play with. Don’t worry they can be put on mute while children are at school and they sleep at night. One day is equal to about one year for your Tamagotchi character and it will change appearance several times before it reaches its adult form. The behaviour and personality of the character depends on how well you look after it. Really cute and a great way to encourage responsibility.
To turn the sound off on a Tamagotchi eg at school press and hold the first button then the third button. It will beep and then go silent. Repeat to turn the sound back on.  The Bandai toy comes in a range of designs and is recommended for age 8 plus. Available from Smyths.

Hatch a virtual pet from an egg with this Easter gift

Easter Plus Plus

Plus Plus is a Danish brand that's new to the UK. Their big and small bunnies and chick make great Easter presents. The standard range is suitable for children age 5 to 12 and they have chunkier ("BIG") sets for younger children. Each tube comes with 100 pieces and instructions on how to make the featured character, but you don’t have to limit yourself and even after you make it there are plenty of pieces left over to build whatever you want. The pieces are all the same shape and easily slot together. The more sets you get the more you can build.

Build an Easter bunny with this Bunny tube from Plus Plus

Chocolate Free Easter Gifts for Adults

While the Ginger Fox games are great fun for all, the rest of the selection below are definitely best suited to older kids and adults. 

A Sweet Smelling Candle

A scented candle will allow you to enjoy the sensory experience of chocolate without actually eating it. This Oriental Vanilla candle from The Copenhagen Company's Signature Collection smells amazing. The vanilla has hints of saffron, cardamon & nutmeg. The small candle comes in a glass jar with a metal lid. It has a burn time of approximately 40 hours and they do larger sizes too. Copenhagen Candle Company products are vegan and cruelty free. They also sell divine smelling reed diffusers. 

Make your home smell of Spring or Easter with a scented candle

Mason Cash Serving Platter

This serving platter is beautiful and practical

Japanese Stationery

Pastel spring coloured stationery makes for a fun Easter gift

Crystal Suncatcher

A crystal suncatcher with raw quartz and a prism to reflect light into your home

Wentworth Mini Puzzles

I love the larger Wentworth Puzzles, but their mini puzzles make a perfect gift when you don't want to splash out on the bigger sizes. It's your last chance to buy the Easter Cottage design (below right), but their new Spring range has a number of 40 piece designs like Bittersweet Chocolates which would make a good chocolate free chocolatey gift.  The Colourful Meadow design (below right) is from the Mini Mindful collection and despite being only 40 pieces is truly challenging and took me ages to complete.

Two 40 piece mini jigsaw puzzles, but very different levels of difficulty

I Heart Wines

Perfect egg shaped bubbles, ok maybe they are round like a normal bubble

Easter Decor

A Easter wreath makes a great centrepiece and this one can be used year after year

Jewellery

They'll shine as bright as a star with this Easter gift

Hair care

FFS Hair Care will nourish their hair and it's vegan friendly

Other Easter Gift Ideas