The Best $20 You Can Spend at Dollar Tree This Easter

A $20 bill goes the distance when you’re shopping at Dollar Tree, especially if you’re buying Easter essentials. Shoppers can pick up plastic eggs, baskets, candy and a lot more all while saving more money than if they chose to shop at a big-box retailer.

Using a $20 spend limit, GOBankingRates window shopped the Dollar Tree website and found 10 items worth buying ahead of Easter. Our total came out to $18.50, leaving a bit of sales tax wiggle room. Easter items are selling out quickly, so don’t miss your chance to stock up and save on these buys

• Price: $1.25

These jumbo-size Easter baskets are must-haves if you’re making up Easter baskets to surprise the kiddos or need larger baskets for Easter egg hunts. 

These footed baskets have feet on the bottom to ensure they won’t tip over and come with handles for carrying ease. Choose from bunny or chick designs.

• Price: $1.25

Add a few bags of plastic Easter patterned eggs to your Dollar Tree shopping cart before they’re sold out. 

Each bag contains 12 plastic eggs, which can be opened up and filled with tiny surprises and treats ahead of the Easter egg hunt.

• Price: $3.50

Fill up plastic Easter eggs or Easter baskets with a kid-approved favorite: Sour Patch Kids Bunnies candy! Each bag comes stuffed with several individually-portioned treat size bags of the sour then sweet candy shaped like bunnies.

• Price: $5

Slip a sleeve of Cadbury creme eggs into an Easter basket this year or divide the four egg candies up across several baskets. Dollar Tree shoppers only pay about $1.25 per Cadbury creme egg in each four-count package.

• Price: $1.25

Packing up baked goods for Easter baskets or sending along some surprises for a classroom spring-themed party? 

Shop the 20-piece set of Easter patterned treat bags. Choose from several assorted designs and fill with small candies, cookies or brownies or tiny treats like stampers or erasers.

• Price: $1.25

Protect tables from splatters as you dye eggs or food and drink served during Easter brunch or dinner with plastic Easter table covers. 

Pick from pastel rabbit or egg designs or buy both if you’re anticipating hosting a few Easter-themed events at your home and want to protect surfaces ahead of time.

• Price: $1.25

Is it cheaper to shop for egg decorating kits at Dollar Tree or Five Below? 

While both discount retailers offer great deals on these kits, the winner is Dollar Tree, where the Dudley Deluxe egg dye kit only costs $1.25 each. The PAAS brand, by comparison, is $3 per kit at Five Below.

• Price: $1.25

It’s a win-win to shop these Easter bubble wands while they’re still in stock. 

Each set includes four sets of bubble solution and wands to blow up bubbles of varying sizes. Stock up on a few packages to add to Easter baskets or pass out in the classroom at school as fun springtime favors.

• Price: $1.25

Add an adorable floppy plush animal into the kids’ Easter baskets without spending tons of money. Pick from bunnies in four different pastels (green, pink, blue and purple), lambs or ducks while supplies last at your local Dollar Tree.

• Price: $1.25

Unwind after a busy Easter spent joining egg hunts with an Easter-themed craft kit. Each kit comes with two sets of images to color in and a four-count pack of markers in pretty springtime colors.

Editor’s note: Prices and availability are accurate as of March 24, 2025, and are subject to change.