Many craft stores have small replicas made from lightweight wood and or straw. Just a few of these that you may come across in your shopping adventures and decide to use:

Wheelbarrow
Car (convertible)
Purse
Tool Box
Carriage
Tackle Box
Popcorn Tub
Great Ideas for gift basket 'filling':
The basket filling doesn't all have to be exotic, eye-appealing, and expensive. Use crumpled up newspaper to fill the bottom of the container and give it a more 'stuffed' look. Then, you can top the newspaper with something more exotic an colorful, like:

Cellophane 'grass'
Shredded paper (in any/many colors)
Wood shavings
Tissue paper
Towels
Small blanket
Baby - diapers
Fabric
Sponges
Candy kisses
Deflated mylar balloon(s)
Popcorn (unbuttered)
Flower petals

Real, rose petals for the romantic, or silk flower petals


Or fill it to the rim with
curlicued wrapping ribbon
Seasonal items:
Christmas
Tinsel
Plastic snowflakes
Pine needles
Easter
Foam eggs
Foil-covered candy eggs
Tiny chicks
St. Patricks
Silk 4 leaf-clovers
Thanksgiving
Silk fall leaves
Feathers
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