Celebrating Easter and decorating for the holiday is a lot of fun.
Popular customs include coloring eggs, wearing new clothing, exchanging Easter baskets filled with chocolates and other goodies, an Easter egg hunt, the Easter bunny, and an Easter parade. Gone is wearing your “Easter bonnet with all the frills upon it.” Too bad . . . it was such a lovely tradition.
Another tradition is the Easter meal and setting a beautiful table for the occasion.
Setting a beautiful table for Easter
This sophisticated spring-green palette is offset by a brown-and-white floral print salad plate, brown eggs, and chocolate bunnies. Note the ribbon around the stemware—nice!
Simple, easy-to-make centerpiece—planted daffodils with green moss . . . brown and heirloom blue eggs . . . everything in white cereal bowls with a single daffodil at each place setting. (Photo: Jenny Steffens Hobick)
A clear cookie jar is filled with a fat bouquet of spring flowers and a mix of white, brown, and pink-dyed eggs. To achieve the effect, put a smaller vase inside the jar for the flowers; then fill around the vase with eggs. (Photo: Better Homes and Gardens)
Bunny napkins, easily made from spray-starched square napkins, offer simple decor. (Photo: Delish)
Decoupaged with paper napkins, eggs are placed among pansies in a basket. Ribbon wrapped around the handle is a nice touch.
Dyed eggs, covered with glitter-glue spray, shine when displayed on crystal candlesticks among lit candles.
Birdcages, at each place setting, are filled with Easter treats for guests.
Egg Candles
Hard-boil, dye, and dry eggs. Break shell crown of egg by gently tapping with spoon. Discard and remove egg contents with small spoon. Pour colored dye inside egg shell, drain, and place shell upside down on a paper towel to dry.
To make candle, first melt candle wax (from craft store) in a double boiler. Next, using a glue gun, place a small drop of glue inside egg, on bottom. Put a wick in the glue spot; it should reach above the eggshell. Wind wick around a toothpick three times, and gently place toothpick across the egg opening. Using a small ladle, spoon, or funnel, pour wax into egg. Fill 7/8 of the egg with wax, making sure to evenly surround the wick. Allow wax to harden, remove toothpick, and cut wick to size.
Place egg candles in eggcups.
(Source: Good Housekeeping)
For edible place cards, twist two or three black-licorice laces together to create a cup. Soften in microwave for 20 seconds. Reshape. Let cool, then nestle candy eggs inside. (Photo: Delish)
An heirloom blue egg rests on a nest of green moss and twigs.
Simply-colored eggs in a bowl and a pitcher of flowers on the table provides country-casual elegance. Love this for breakfast!
A cheerful place setting incorporates an egg name card, Easter candy, and artificial grass with a bright blue plate and rickrack-edged napkin on top of a yellow gingham tablecloth. Wheatgrass would work well, too. (Photo: Better Homes and Gardens)
Assorted tulips and wheatgrass in baskets compliment the apricot tablecloth for a formal look. Jelly beans in orange, yellow, and green add a bit of fun. (Photo: Martha Stewart)
Wheatgrass tied with a spring ribbon surrounded by pretty pastel eggs. (Photo: Home BNC)
An ultra-sophisticated Easter tablescape has an all-white palette—white eggs and white tulips in glass jars on raised cake dishes . . . candles in floral votives . . . hollowed-out white eggs hold a single tulip on each dinner plate. (Photo: Decor Pad)
For a pretty spring nest: Start with dampened moss in a medium-size bowl and tuck small flowers around the edge. Next, place a smaller bowl filled with speckled candy eggs in the center, making sure the rim of the bowl is well camouflaged with moss and flowers.
(Photo: Country Living)
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