Book basket 2026

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Another year, Another book basket!

This year i have done it a little differently, I have done them separate ones, mainly with the same things in but with the age gap sometimes I have to think about what they are actually going to use. 

In Lilly's I put in an activity book. A glow stick necklace, a chocolate lolly, a fidget and a face mark. In Olivia she had the same apart from instead of a face mask she had a foil art book instead. There were two things for them to share, a hello kitty tattoo set and a pass the parcel head. 

The total for both of the baskets combined came to under £10.

The girls loves these and I love creating them, nothing to crazy but it gives them bits to do during half term.

Victoria x

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