Easy gifting: The gift basket featured in the photo above is part of a project by Girl Scouts in Akron, Ohio. The scouts are spreading the organizations message in honor of the movement's 95th anniversary. Juliette Gordon Low, who founded Girl Scouting in Savannah, Ga., on March 12, 1912, believed that girls can grow to be leaders with lessons they learn in the program.

The girls and their leaders will use the baskets for babies born on that day to introduce potential new members and their parents to Girl Scouting. More than 20 troops have participated by making items to fill the baskets and soliciting donations from individual and corporate sponsors. Each baby will receive bibs, as well as blankets with an embroidered announcement welcoming her as a "Future Girl Scout."

Here's how to do the baskets; you can fill yours with whatever you'd like.

Supplies you will need:

• One basket

• Cellophane wrap

• Plastic grocery bags

• Easter grass

• Double-sided tape

• Curling ribbon and bow

• Scissors

Collect the items you want to put in the basket.

Cut the wrap long enough so that you can bring it up over the items in the basket. Turn it so that one corner is facing you and one is directly opposite you. Place it under the basket.

Put a few plastic grocery bags in the center of the basket to give the contents lift. Cover them with Easter grass.

Begin filling the basket by placing your tallest items in the back and working toward the front with the smallest items.

Attach small, easy-to-lose items (such as tickets) to larger items with double-sided tape.

Gather the top and bottom points of the wrapping above the basket, and fold in the side pieces. You might need an extra pair of hands. Use tape, if necessary.

Secure at the top with several pieces of curling ribbon.

Tie a large bow on top, proportionate to the size of the basket.

- McClatchy-Tribune News