13 Toddler Easter Egg Filler Ideas
If your toddler is anything like my little guy, they LOVE candy. However, a lot of Easter candies are choking hazards or just way too much sugar for them. Here are some ideas for safe candies and other items to put inside your toddler’s Easter eggs this year!
- Cheerios
- Mini M&M’s (mixed in with the Cheerios if you like)
- Lucky Charms (especially the marshmallows, my little guy goes crazy for the chocolate ones and the marshmallow bits are hard and small enough that he doesn’t choke).
- Bite- size Milky way bars – soft & no peanuts!
- Stickers – always a favorite around here.
- Fruity Cheerios – brightly colored so it looks more like candy
. - Hot Wheels cars (without any detachable parts)
- Hair barrettes/bows for girls
- Mini jelly beans cut in half – while my little guy would eat regular jelly beans all day, they are a big choking issue. So I get the mini ones and just slice them in half (or bite them, but for inside the eggs, a sharp knife works better ).
- Alphabet magnets (the larger ones such as Leapfrog’s).
- Little squirt toys for the bath – Target has bags full of fish and other creatures that squirt water & are small enough to fit in a larger Easter egg.
- Animal crackers
- Teddy Grahams – the chocolate ones are regarded as a great treat in our house.
You also might want to read our Easter basket ideas for toddlers… and see our Photo Easter Card designs to showcase your adorable little ones!
Great ideas!
That are great trats, so the kids won’t be going crazy, or get sick from eating all that chocolate…
Teddy Grahams! MMMM! I’d eat them all before they got into the eggs
Selena
Smarties also work well and they don’t make a mess.
Great list!
Good idea!! They don’t choke on Smarties??
I am going to use some of these great ideas for filling the plastic eggs!
Thanks!
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Sounds great, mine are 3 1/2 and 1 and I didn’t want to give them candy or chocolate. Great list! Happy TT, mines up.
Sounds great, mine are 3 1/2 and 1 and I didn’t want to give them candy or chocolate. Great list! Happy TT! mine’s up.
I got away with cheerios for years, but Little O is four and the fake tattoos are a big hit right now!
I like yolks inside my easter eggs
Mmmmmmmm…..now I’m hungry. I just love Cheerios—always have.
It’s been so long since I had to think of those things! My kids liked gummy bears – do they even have those anymore?
We have made the mistake of filling them with chocolate candies…which don’t last very long on a lawn in Miami on a scorching Easter Sunday!
wonderful ideas! My TT is also posted.
Now that my kids are older, we do coins and there is one that has a $5 bill.
It is hard to find little toys for little boys, great ideas.
Sounds like some great treats. My kids favorite was cheerios and candy corn.
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Some great ideas – and Snickers are ALWAYS a good idea…anytime.
I’ve a 2 year old that I don’t want to ’sugar’ up come Easter and he’s seriously fond of anything chocolate. These are EXCELLENT alternatives!
Cool, thank you! My kids are older, but they still love the little “mini-toys.”
My children are teens now, but this is a post that I’ll be sure to pass along.
I need ideas for a child with food alergies to artifical coloring and flavours so has to be all natural.
My husband came home with a box of Lucky Charms and I was mortified. No way am I feeding that much sugar to our little chicken . . . Your post gave me a good idea of HOW to feed them to our toddler, as a treat in an easter egg. Great post as always.
I’m all about beards this time round!
Great list! Band Aids are always a successful egg-stuffer for little ones too.
Great ideas. Those toys with detachable part should really be avoided, even toys that don’t have detachable part must be checked regularly. we can’t be too sure of things. Toys break, and shattered remains may choke children.
Great ideas! My kids are a little older, but we’re always looking for better ideas for inside the eggs. My kids love money — pennies and nickels, with an occasional quarter to spice things up. Only once they’re past the “put everything in the mouth” stage, though!
I enjoyed reading your Thirteen. I just have to make a basket for my husband….and I have no idea what I am going to put in it.
Good list! Unfortuantely, no toddlers here – but I am hiding eggs for a friend of mine as an easter surprise! Happy TT!
Great list! have something for the 13-18’s also..?
I LIVED off Lucky Charms in college. Yum.
LOL Carmen, I ate a lot of Lucky Charms in college too, something to do with it being the only edible cereal in the dining hall…
I don’t celebrate easter, but if I did, I’d totally be using your ideas. As it is, I’m rather hungry now.
Great TT.
Money, that’s all my pre-teen wants anymore.
But little bit is getting a few of your ideas in her eggs this year!
What fun great ideas!
cute ideas!
I love your list . I have a new son that is only going to be 7 months old this easter so he will not be able to have any candy, but I forwarded this list to my friend for her sunday school class.I have my 13 up also.
Ahhh…some good ideas to plan for Easter for our 15 month old! Thanks….
Very inventive ideas! Balloons are good too, depending on the age of the child.
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Nancy, funny you say that because I had balloons on the original list, but took them off because of the choking thing. Inflated, my little guy loves them (under supervision of course)
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What great ideas!! I have never thought of a lot of these.. Like the cereal and the stickers.. Thanks!!
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Those are great ideas. My grandson will be one on Palm Sunday so I’m stealing some of your ideas.
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Great advice for anyone with little ones to fix Easter baskets for.
My T13 is up.
Interesting list – my SIL just had a baby girl, Alyssa, who’s a 5 pound premie baby girl.
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Great TT! I definitely will use those ideas with my 3 year old and 13 month old!
Those are great ideas! I do a lot of cute little toys and hair stuff and such in place of a ton of candy.
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All great ideas! Alas, I think we had our last egg hunt last year. No more babies, no more toddlers…
Great ideas. For kids a little older, I would add folded $1 bills, those little sponge animals that swell up in water,and “get out of trouble” coupons.
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Love the list!
I always got nickels, it made the plastic eggs fun to shake!
I have 3 little ones under age 5 and
they love scratching off lottery tickets & winning money for their banks. So I fill up some eggs with Easter lottery tickets.
These are great suggestions. I had ideas for toys, but wasn’t sure to do about the candy. I bought little people and cars to put in big eggs for an easter egg hunt. I got a toddler Mr potato head to go in the basket with a chocolate bunny, but needed more treat ideas..Thanks! Target had lots of great toys for toddlers this year.
Little pretzel sticks work as well!