Make Your Own Personalized Easter Basket For Less Than You Can Buy Regular Ones For

I've been wanting my kids to have something other than the Easter Baskets you can buy at any store, but I didn't want to spend an arm and a leg on something they'll use for a few days out of the year.  I searched online and found that many people are selling hand painted buckets.  I thought they were really cute and as I always do, I dove into the project thinking that it couldn't be that hard.  Sure enough, it wasn't.  I'm no artist(obviously), but they didn't turn out that bad!

I bought these buckets for $3.99 each at Tractor Supply(this is not sponsored - just sharing a great price), and spray painted the girls' buckets white.

I left Evan's silver.  To make them more special, I put their hand prints on the bottom.  Does anyone know of anything I can put on top of it so they don't scrape off?  Maybe acrylic paint or modge podge?

I let the older kids paint on the inside.  They aren't done yet, I took these while waiting for their first colors to dry before they kept going.

I put their names on the back of the buckets, and then I was done.

I had all of the paints on hand from previous projects, so I only paid the $3.99 per bucket!  If you have to buy paint, it wouldn't cost more than a couple dollars more than that. The paints are often on sale at craft stores for about 30 cents per tube, and I used the $1 can of spray paint for the girls buckets that I also had on hand.