Instead, you might opt to store the goods away until next year. If you are highly organized this might seem like the best option, but for most of us, once Easter rolls around next year, we’ll have long forgotten all those supplies we saved. Instead, with a little creativity, Easter decorations can be reused year around. Here are several things you can do with your leftover Easter supplies.

Reuse Fake Grass As Packing Cushion
Fake grass makes for a perfect infill when shipping fragile items. You can use your leftover Easter grass to cushion bottles, fragile decorations, or antiques. Since the grass is relatively light, compressible, and takes up a lot of space, it can help keep your items safe from damage during the often perilous shipping process.

Leftover Baskets Have Many Uses
Leftover Easter baskets can be reused in so many ways, you are truly only limited by your imagination. They can make a great bathroom decorating accessory, when filled with seashells or toilet paper, or they can be used as a baby doll bed for your little girl. They can even help you organize your home office, or your crafts closet!

With a little creative thinking, you should have no problem making use of all of your leftover Easter supplies!

1. Condiment Cups
If you enjoy the challenge of starting your flowers and vegetables from seed, you can save a ton in gardening costs by making use of cheap food containers to get your seeds started right, making them easy to transplant into your garden later. Condiment cups filled with a few ounces of soil make for a great seed starter cup. There is just enough room in the cup for the roots to develop, and then simply remove the cup and transplant to your flower beds.

2. Shipping Paper
If you don’t have a dedicated outdoor space to do your gardening prep, securing shipping paper on your kitchen or garage counters and tables with masking tape makes for easy clean up. For transplanting or filling pots with soil, shipping paper can be removed, any detritus wrapped up inside, and easily thrown away.

3. Corrugated Cardboard
For container gardens, corrugated cardboard is perfect for a decomposable weed-stopper. After you have built your container frames, fill the bottom with corrugated cardboard and then place soil on top. This will help keep your container vegetable and flower gardens weed-free.

4. Envelopes
For any leftover seeds you want to save for next year or for the fall growing season, simply place them in a shipping envelope, affix a custom shipping label to identify the seeds, and place it in your freezer for long term storage.

1. Beautiful Eggs
When you think Easter, you think eggs. You can make your decorated eggs pop this year by stepping up your dying process with inexpensive, easy to find online shipping and crafting supplies. Use lace to add intricate patterns to your dying process, or use stencils, stickers, ribbon, felt, fabric, rubber stamps, and crepe paper to make your eggs really shine.

2. Place Settings
No Easter brunch or dinner is complete without personalized place cards and settings to direct guests to their seats. You can use shipping tags to use as napkin rings, or create custom designed place cards made from cardstock and stencils, or simply printed custom labels applied to cardstock.

3. Pretty Party Favors
Paper bags filled with fresh flowers are the quintessential Easter party favor. Your guests will be delighted to take home paper bags of tulips and lilies straight from your garden.

Any or all of these tips will make your Easter celebration the social highlight of the spring season. Not only will these delight your guests, but serve as a great way to spend some quality crafting time with your kids.

1. Baskets
Baskets are the age-old standard for Easter, and definitely a hit with the kids. Crafting custom Easter baskets can be a great activity for your little ones. They will love getting to design and create their Easter basket to their exact preferences, and you can even design some to help you deliver gifts to your friends and family. You can use rubber stamps, acrylic paints, and especially gift bows and ribbons. Finally, with a little plastic gift basket wrap, you can make sure the contents are secure and fresh inside the basket.

2. Nests
Nests are another way to present Easter treats, particularly baked goods. You can find decorative nests at your local craft store, and with a little fake grass, tissue paper, and some plastic food wrap, have a beautifully presented lemon bread, cake, or other baked treat.

3. Decorated Boxes
Gift and cake boxes are perfect for mail-ready Easter baskets. After you have decorated the box with ribbons, stamps, and fake grass, you can simply attach a custom shipping label and postage and deposit it in the mail.

4. Paper Mache
Finally, we get to paper mache, a versatile tool in crafting. With strips of paper, a homemade paste, and the right mold, you can make a paper mache sculpture of nearly anything. Paper Mache Eggs, rabbits, and chickens, all make for great centerpiece decorations.