Do-it-Yourself Basket
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BABY's 1st BIRTHDAY BASKET

Great assortment of items baby can use the first year.  Includes one very special gift and a small teddybear!  New parents and baby alike will love this basket which is an assortment of useful and fun items!

CHILD's BIRTHDAY BASKET

Small Toys, treats, hackey sack, baseball, small dolls for girls, rubics cube, drawing supplies (crayons, paper, markers), stickers, playdoh, puzzles, small electronics.

OLD TIMERS' NOSTALGIA BIRTHDAY BASKET

Dots, Cracker jacks, old movie videos or DVDs, paddleball, wooly magnetic game, pez dispenser, candy buttons, Pixy stix, Space Food Sticks, jacobs ladder toy, slingshot, put in a rusty garage sale lunchbox.

GRANNY BIRTHDAY BASKET

Does Grandma love to knit or crochet?  Fill a basket with lots of yarn, some pattern books, a new set of knit or crochet hooks, circular knitting needles, a pattern guage, some tea and cookies. Is Grandma a baker? New pans, some ingredients, potholders & utinsels.  Perhaps Grandma likes to watch the birds out the window - a birdfeeder, seed, binoculars. 

OVER THE HILL BIRTHDAY BASKET

Great gag gift for birthday parties! Fill an old bucket with a list of things to do, Depends adult diaper, corn pads, hemorrhoid ointment, a can of Ensure (aged nutritional supplement), denture paste, sweater, muscle rub, a bottle of Mylanta antacid-anti-gas, and a magnifying glass, bran flakes, denture cleaner, hearing aid, laxative, joint ointment, hair replacement kit,  batteries (to re-charge), doodle pad, decision maker, Polident, and Hair dye to let the recipient know they're loved and appreciated no matter how OLD they are!

PYROMANIC BIRTHDAY BASKET

For the pyromanic on your giftlist, a firestarter kit - pinecones, small kindling, matches in a wicker basket.  Add ingredients for some smores - Hershey's chocolate, Marshmellows and Graham crackers. 

BIRTHDAY SURVIVAL KIT

Money: So you'' have some to burn" Confetti- Don't go to pieces just because your another year older!
Crayon-So you can have a bright and colorful day
Candle: Remember not to burn it at both ends
Balloon - Let the air out of all your worries
Candy- May your special day be as sweet as your are!
Streamers to decorate your soul
A party horn --so you can toot your own! A party top hat--cause you're tops~!
A teensy gift that is wrapped with the "gift" poem on it
A piece of wrapping paper-so you can wrap yourself in surprises
Cake sprinkles--to shower you with a rainbow of happiness
A sugar rose-to remind you to stop and smell the roses along the way
matches -to light your birthday candle or your fire!
An ice cream cone--to savor the moment (perhaps make a satin ice cream scoop to put in it!).
A cup cake--so you can have your cake and eat it too..(make a satin cupcake, using a foil cupcake paper
doubled, and wad up some stuffing and put it in a circle of satin that is then glued into the paper cup--add some lace or trim around the edge of the satin ball where it meets the paper cup)