Best $10 You Can Spend To Fill an Easter Basket at Dollar Tree

You’ve got an Easter basket and are ready to fill it up, but would like to save as much money as possible. What should you buy from Dollar Tree to appease kids of all ages while staying within a $10 spend limit?

GOBankingRates shopped Dollar Tree’s online inventory and chose seven items for $1.25 each to fill up an Easter basket. Our total spend came out to $8.75 with a little extra wiggle room to help cover sales tax. 

While most of these picks are pretty traditional (every Easter basket needs candy!), we do have one or two wild cards like slime (yes, slime) that made it into the mix. Just trust us on these affordable buys to fill up this year’s Easter basket.

• Price: $1.25

Anyone who loves chocolate deserves Reese’s peanut butter eggs added to their Easter basket. Inside every package are four milk chocolate and peanut butter eggs in the perfect snack sizes.

• Price: $1.25

Sour gummy enthusiasts will be thrilled to get a box of Sour Patch Kids. These limited-edition gummies are shaped like bunnies with the same sour then sweet taste inside every generously sized 3.1-ounce box.

• Price: $1.25

These Easter-themed jump ropes can be used year-round at the playground and in the backyard. 

Choose from handles designed to look like blue or pink bunnies or carrots. For the price, you might even consider adding in an extra jump rope for double dutch play.

• Price: $1.25

These sweet treat slimes were one of the toys recommended by Dollar Tree in their Easter shop to add into Easter baskets. 

The rave reviews and the cheap price guaranteed inclusion on this list. With a wide variety of scents to choose from, like sprinkled doughnut and disco fever, your kiddo will delight in spending hours stretching and squishing this fluffy slime. 

• Price: $1.25

Unwind from a hectic Easter egg hunt with an Easter-themed coloring craft kit. 

Each set comes with two wooden crafts and markets to color in. Break them up to add to multiple Easter baskets or give as a set to anyone who loves coloring to relax. Please note this item is suitable for ages three and up.

• Price: $1.25

Enjoy hours of playful fun spent blowing bubbles with Easter bubble wands. These come in a pack of four, which can easily be split up and added into several Easter baskets to save on costs.

• Price: $1.25

One of the reasons we added these plush Easter animals to this roundup is because there are all sorts of animals to pick from. (The inexpensive price tag was also a bonus.) Choose from lambs, bunnies and ducks in an assortment of pretty pastels.

Editor’s note: Prices and availability are accurate as of Apr. 4, 2025, and are subject to change.