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Ideas for Decorating Your Home for Easter

Just a few more days and Easter - the Great Day, the spring equinox - will be here. I am convinced that the festive feeling can be created not only by the anticipated days off, which can be spent with family or loved ones, but also by sprucing up one's surroundings, so to speak, dressing them up for the occasion. Here are some ideas for how to decorate the home.

Of course, the main attributes are eggs (both natural and dyed in the most imaginable shades and patterns), lush green freshly sprouted grass, rabbits, daffodils or tulips, branches with or without budded leaves, various coloured ribbons as accents, a simple transparent or vintage container for arranging the items listed. The main thing to remember is that spring is the time of nature's awakening, so the colours should be bright, light, joyful, or even a little naive and childlike. Celebrating life and vitality, triumph over dreary greyness - the brighter the better.

Easter Tree.

What you need: wooden or shrub branches (lightly budding ones work well, as do pussy willow branches), blown and cheerfully coloured eggshells through which narrow coloured ribbons have been threaded and secured, a container (a plain vase or a flower pot with sprouted grass). If you don't want to bother making decorative eggs yourself, you can now buy whole egg sets in various colour ranges and from various materials at the shops for very little. Then all that's left is to hang them on the branches and your Easter décor is ready. I must say, this is the most familiar decoration in our home, as it is not time-consuming - it can be put together in just a few minutes, and gathering the branches is a good reason for a walk on a sunny spring day at the weekend.

Life in a Vase.

The first spring flowers - tulips or daffodils - in the yellow of sunlight. Flowers are best placed in a plain and simple glass container, as the vase's splendour should not overshadow the singular beauty of the flowers. The glass container can be filled with greyish pebbles or small multi-coloured stones.

However, the first delicate little spring blooms on short stems can also be placed in simple white eggshells, which will serve as quirky little vases. Eggshell vases can be not only a pretty decoration, but also practical little containers - for example, for fresh, just-sprouted herbs on the kitchen windowsill, or for Easter candles.

Bunny Silhouettes.

At Easter, hares can be blue, pink, purple, and any other colour too. Bunny silhouettes can be cut into paper garlands, used to decorate serviettes, drawn or pasted onto gift or sweet wrappers.

I found an interesting serviette fold online (see image below) that resembles a little white bunny.

Easter Bunny's Nest.

It can be woven from flexible pussy willow branches, with hay (natural or artificially coloured fibre) woven between them. In the nest, children will find dyed eggs and various sweets on Easter morning.

Since no one has ever seen the Easter bunny and its nest with their own eyes, it can take many and varied forms. For example, a mat of sprouted grass decorated with dyed eggs or yellow daffodil blooms. Such a nest can stand in the place of honour in the centre of the table.