When choosing a child gift basket, there are a wide variety of choices you have - whether you are purchasing one or making it yourself. If you choose to make your own, you can do this relatively inexpensively by shopping at your local dollar store for the smaller items. When selecting your gift basket you'll want to keep in mind the age, gender, and interests of the child.

Some ideas for a child gift basket include themed baskets such as sports, a favorite movie or cartoon, video game, or music. For a sports gift basket you can include trading cards, a poster of their favorite player or team, and sports action figure.

For movie and television baskets you can include things like a video, popcorn, movie posters, cartoon themed books, and cartoon characters. For video game baskets, controllers, skins, and accessories for their favorite game are all great ideas. You can also choose from a variety of educational or creativity baskets which can include puzzles, building blocks, books, crayons, coloring books, and stickers.

Some different types of containers for a child gift basket, other than the traditional plastic or wicker basket, are a  sand pail, toy wagon, tote bag, large popcorn bucket, backpack, or  toy dump truck. For gift baskets that include food, you may want to select from a variety of healthier options instead of the traditional candy such as, fruit, multi grain bars, natural and organic snacks.