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Spring has sprung, which means blooming flowers, baseball games, Easter holiday and warm-weather shenanigans. Take advantage of spring’s characteristics to send your service member a bit of fun in your next care package.

Here are some ideas and items to consider:

Baseball

The Major League Baseball season officially begins March 28 and what better way to spread the American tradition to your service member than by filling a package full of baseball-themed items.

• For some movie fun, send classic baseball favorites such as Bull Durham, Major League, the Sandlot and A League of Their Own 
• There are plenty of baseball-themed books such as The Seventh Babe, Shoeless Joe, The Natural and more
  
• Sunflower seeds, peanuts and Cracker Jacks are baseball staples and travel-friendly snacks
• Send some baseballs, gloves and/or wiffle ball sets for some free-time fun
  

  Have fun and get creative with the treats you send in your Spring care package.

Easter Care Packages

An Easter basket can take on a theme of its own, especially when stores like Wal-Mart sell camouflage plastic eggs to fill with candy and surprises. Here are some options:

• Fill plastic eggs with love notes or your favorite memories for your service member. You can mix the messages with eggs filled with pictures and candies.
• Send silly Easter decorations with pastel-colored bunnies, eggs and flowers to your service member to decorate and share with his or her peers.
• Send Easter-themed baked goods, but be sure to follow guidelines for shipping.
• Marshmallow candies travel well, but if you want to send chocolate bunnies, package carefully.
• Take and send pictures of you and/or your family wearing bunny ears

Spring Weather Fun

Spring often brings about the first warm months of the year, so take some childhood inspiration and send water fight supplies in a care package. Service members can play with water balloons and squirt guns (small or Super Soaker style) and have some refreshing fun in the heat.

Arbor Day

Chances are you won’t have much luck sending your service member a tree to plant on Arbor Day (April 27), but that doesn’t mean you can’t help him or her celebrate. Add a tree theme to your care package by sending snacks that come from trees. Consider:

• Obvious fruits like apples, oranges and bananas. The fruit can be raw, dried, baked or a flavor in some other treat.
• Send walnuts, pecans and other nuts that grow on trees (peanuts are technically legumes and do not come from trees, but you can send them if you really want).
• Snacks like Twinkies, frosted cookies, syrup and other thickened foods use cellulose, which comes from tress. Do some research and not only surprise you service member with goodies, but your tree knowledge as well.

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