An Easter Basket Exchange for Adults
About a month ago, my friend Preethi from Local Passport Family reached out and asked if I’d like to participate in an Easter Basket gift exchange for adults.
A friend of hers had coordinated one for years but wasn’t doing it this year and Preethi took over the tradition with her blessing.
I’d never participated in the previous one, but when Preethi sent me an email asking (with zero pressure) if I wanted to participate, I was all in.
The way the Easter Basket gift exchange worked was:
- Fill out a questionnaire about yourself and send it back to the organizer
- The organizer assigns you someone to prepare an Easter basket and gives you their questionnaire
- You fill a basket for them with a recommended spend of $45-50 (not including shipping) – the questionnaire gives you somewhere to start but you have free reign on what you put in with the only stipulation being that there MUST be some kind of treat in it (Preethi recommended a USPS Priority Flat Rate box, rather than trying to ship an actual basket)
- You ship it off about a week before Easter so that it’ll arrive in time for the big day!
- After Easter, send a thank you note to the person who sent YOU an Easter basket.
The Easter Basket Questionnaire looked like this:
- Name, Email and Mailing Address
- Tell a little about yourself (who you are, where you live, what your life/family are like, what you do on a daily basis, etc.)
- Complete the following statements:
- I love to…
- I wish I had more time for…
- My current obsessions are…
- I’ve always been curious about…
- I feel excited when…
- Someday I’d like to…
- I relax by…
- Please *don’t* send me…(i.e., Peeps, black jellybeans, anything pink)
- What are your favorite:
- Chocolate (brands, flavor combos, dark/milk, etc.):
- Snacks/food/other candy:
- Hobbies/interests:
- Magazines/books/genres:
- Colors:
- Scents:
- Answer Y/N:
- Are your ears pierced?
- Do you have any allergies/sensitivities?
- Anything else you would like to share?
I didn’t know the person I was assigned (or the person assigned to me!) and it was really fun to put together a basket based on her questionnaire.
She’d mentioned that her favorite colors were blue and green, and after the first couple items I picked were blue and green, I leaned hard into that. She also said she loved puzzles and reading and loved green drink powders and being outside, plus anything from Trader Joe’s and caramel.
Done and done! Here’s what I included in my box for the Easter Basket exchange for adults:
easter basket ideas for adults
- Trader Joe’s Sea Salt Butterscotch Caramels
- Read Outside Puzzle
- Mini Babe Lash Serum and Conditioner (code is JANSSEN)
- Berry Basket Nail Polish
- Geometry Tea Towel (code is JANSSEN15)
- Book Stickers from Cozi Nook
- Carrot Top Paper Shop Bookmark
- HerGreens (code is JANSSENBRADSHAW)
It was so fun! Would you be interested in putting together an Easter basket for adults and exchanging?
And if you have any other questions about it, I’d love to answer – just leave them in the comments!
So fun! I’d LOVE to do this!
So cute! I think anyone would luck out with you as their assigned gifter. Haha
Very fun! A friend does this for Valentine’s Day but I think an Easter basket theme is an even more fun twist!
I think I’ll tweak this to do a fun Mother’s Day gathering with friends nearby, everyone leaving with a fun gift basket from someone else. Thanks for all the details!
I love it! Let me know how it goes!