Fun Easter basket gift idea (and it's not candy!)

If your kids are in the room, distract them or send them away!

Are they gone?

OK.

Shh. If you're still trying to assemble an Easter basket for your kids, here is something cool to include: the Bunnytown: Hello Bunnies! DVD. It has four fun episodes featuring these cute and clever rabbits, as well as a game and a lesson in dancing.

Bunnytown is definitely going in my son's Easter basket. Because he's only two and a half, I don't think he will care that he has already reviewed the DVD with me. ("Watch Bunnytownz?" he asked the day after we first viewed it.) Just look at the cover. It's perfect for an Easter basket! Then just add some jellybeans, chocolate, a book, something crafty or hands-on like Play-Doh or crayons, a favorite kind of toy -- and the basics are covered.

Not having been aware of Bunnytown before the nice folks at Playhouse Disney offered me the DVD to review, I was suspicious. The bunnies on the cover just seemed too cute to be nice. Surely, for all that cuteness, they must be smart-alecks, I thought. These rabbits were going to be surly and warp my child's impressionable mind. But after watching Bunnytown, I'm relieved to find they are just cute rabbits through and through, with a fun sense of humor and a great love of music. It's not a terribly educational show, but it seems like good clean fun -- and there's the music too. (Did I mention the music? Look for the Disco Pirate Bunnies.) The bunnies are puppets that live in a land designed with a cartoonish appearance, but every episode features the antics of real people: a goofy Laurel and Hardy-type duo and a sportscaster who reports on some kind of silly competition. (Chefs using cooking utensils to play golf and be the first to whack the ball into a plate of pasta? What's silly about that?)

Adding a DVD or book to an Easter basket fills up the space so there's less room for candy. And as a person who recently discovered her son's Halloween candy loot in the pantry, I think less candy is a great idea....