Alternative Easter Gift Guide 2020

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As a family, Easter is one of our absolute favourite times of year. We dress up, the girls decorate Easter bonnets, we have Easter egg trails in the fresh outdoors, eat a LOT of chocolate, but most importantly we spend some real quality time together. I will be totally honest here that at the time of planning my Easter gift guide for the blog, things in the world were a whole lot different! As a blogger, we plan our content way way in advance, so in January, creating a low down of the best chocolate alternative gifts for Easter seemed like a really good idea at the time!

Due to the fact that many of the shops are now closed, getting hold of some of these items may be a bit tricky – however, fear not! Some of the lovely brands I have worked with for this post have offered a prize for a giveaway so that one lucky reader can still get their hands on one. Whilst granted delivery may be slower than normal, these would make great gifts for a child who’s Easter (or birthday!) hasn’t ended up being quite the way they planned it! I hope that goes someway at least to helping us bring back a bit of normality in an otherwise crazy time.

Haribo Easter Sweet Boxes 

Like most youngsters, my girls love a bit of chocolate, but as there seems to be a whole host of chocolate based treats in the shops at Easter, sometimes its nice to have a sweet alternative! The girls’ faces below mean that not many words are necessary to explain how much of a hit these were!! This Easter, Haribo have launches a fab range of Easter sweet boxes including Bunny and Friends and Chick N Mix filled with lots of yummy Harino sweets – including my favourite kind of egg! With most supermarkets still having decent Easter stock – you should still be able to get your hands on some of these!

Peter Rabbit Toys 

The Peter Rabbit 2 movie may have been delayed, but when it comes to an Easter gift, you can’t get much better than this adorable bunny and his pals. For soft and cuddly Beatrix Potter toys, from Peter Rabbit to Benjamin Bunny, Flopsy, Gemima Puddle Duck and Mrs Tiggy Winkle, Enesco is the best place to start, who sell a fab range of super soft plush Beatrix Potter Characters from GUND.

At then point of publication, they are sadly closed due to the government lockdown, but have very kindly offered a Peter Rabbit plush and moneybox to giveaway to one lucky winner!

CLICK here to ENTER for your chance to win a Peter Rabbit Prize Bundle! (giveaway at the bottom of the page)

Ravensburger Rabbit Selfie XXL Jigsaw

A great activity for the Easter holidays, this Ravensburger rabbit selfie jigsaw has 100 extra large pieces and is ideal for children aged 6 and above. With an adorable scene full of bunnies, hamsters, gerbils and field mice, all in a beautiful floral scene this jigsaw is a traditional Easter gift, with thick sturdy pieces – a fun alternative easter activity, without the E numbers!

Yolkie Egg Surprise

For slime surprises with a difference, Yolkies combine sugar free, edible slime and collectible surprise toys encased in mystery eggs! Capturing the popular slime, surprise reveal, and collectibles trends, each egg contains edible slime/gummy yolk, and a secret compartment with one of 12 collectible ‘foodie’ egg characters.

Yolkies retail at £4.99 at Tesco and Ocado.

Rainbocorn Sequin Surprise 

For those who love a big surprise reveal, these Rainbocorn Sequin Surprise eggs are a great Easter alternative!

Inside this giant brightly coloured egg (with its very own sparkly unicorn horn!) children will find one of 13 sweet scented characters to collect from six different animal species – the Pandacorns, Flamingocorns, Llamacorns, Unicorns, Lioncorns, and Owlcorns, as well as an ULTRA RARE golden Flamingocorn! You can’t tell what you’re going to get inside until they’re hatched which really enhances the surprise element and makes them lots of fun to collect and swap with friends.

As well as the surprise animal inside, each egg has lots more surprises inside including Rainbocorn poop, character accessories, stickers and over 40 new collectible baby Boo-Boocorn characters, which come in their very own little egg!

We have one Rainbocorn Surprise Egg to giveaway – click here to enter! (giveaway at the bottom of the page)

Smashers Dino Epic Smash Egg

On a similar theme, an an ideal option for someone who is less into sparkle and more into prehistoric, is this huge Smasher Dino Epic Smash Egg!

Slime, fizz and SMASH your way through over 25 different surprises inside to build the exclusive Smash-o-saur Dino! Use the Scratch Map to excavate the Dino Egg to unearth compounds like the Fizzy Lava Bomb and Ice Age putty with hidden Smash-o-saur bones. Collect all the bones to start building one of 3 exclusive Smash-o-saurs! Inside each Epic Dino Egg, you’ll discover more surprises like Smash Eggs, digging tools and a rebuilder!

Thanks to the team at Zuru we have one to giveaway!

Click here for your chance to win a Smashers Dino Epic Smash Egg! (giveaway at the bottom of the page)

7 ate 9 Game

With the schools shut for the foreseeable future, what better time to get the games out! Games are a great way to bring in some subtle education with far less resistance! 7 ate 9 with its egg shaped box makes the perfect Easter gift!

Get rid of your cards as fast as you can, by quickly adding or subtracting to see which number needs to be dealt next! Lots of fun, and a handy carry case for travel too. Quick fire play with the added benefit of addition and subtraction, 7 ate 9 is a fun Easter activity for ages 7 and above.

We have one 7 ate 9 game set to giveaway. See the giveaway at the bottom of the page for details on how to enter!

Chocolate Lollipop Making Kit

For a chocolate gift with a difference, The Chocolate Lolly Maker (SSP £17.99) lets children shape and make their own yummy chocolate lollies – melt, mould and wrap! The innovative chocolate workshop comes with  four different moulds and messages to stamp into your creations. Just add chocolate to melt, mould, add a stick and leave to cool, before wrapping in a bag and tying with the ribbon provided.

A great Easter activity for chocolate lovers young and old, and great for making home made gifts to share with loved ones!

For your chance to win a Chocolate Lollipop Making Kit see our giveaway below.

Fancy winning a choc lollipop maker and 7 ate 9 game?

One lucky winner will get there hands-on a fab easter activity bundle including the chocolate lollipop maker AND the 7 ate 9 game as featured above. Please enter using the Gleam app below.

John Adams Easter Activity Bundle Giveaway

PLEASE NOTE – With the current unprecedented situation across the globe at the point of writing, things are changing rapidly from one day to the next. For that reason I have updated my Terms and Conditions to include longer lead times. You can read the full terms of entry here. By entering this give-away you are deemed to have accepted these revised terms.

Giveaway opens on 2nd April 2020 and closes at 11.59pm on Sunday 26th April 2020, UK entries only. GOOD LUCK!