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Don’t go buy a bag of green plastic Easter grass this year to stuff your Easter basket. Instead, take an old magazine and shred it into tiny strips. I use my paper cutter to slice it into 1/8 inch strips and then crinkle them up the old fashion way, also known as crumbling them in my hands and then flattening them back out.

If you don’t have a paper cutter you can lay a ruler on the edge of the paper, over-lapping by 1/4 inch or so and tear off the fat end leaving a strip of paper under your ruler. Pick lots of colorful ads and photos to shred. You’ll have a recycled, free, biodegradable nest of paper to stuff into your basket. It’ll be rainbow colored, too, instead of the standard neon green.