Happy Easter! These DIY Decorations Bring the Joy of Spring Indoors (2024)

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How to decorate for spring and Easter? ›

Bright Tulips and Daffodils

Almost nothing says spring and Easter more than an overflowing vase of bright, colorful daffodils and tulips. This arrangement works beautifully as a centerpiece on your dining table, or an accent in your living room.

Wood Bead Bunnies

A fluffle of bunny ornaments sports neon-bright felt ears and fabric trim collars. To make them, thread twine through a trio of wood beads, using the smallest one for the bunny tail. Add felt ears and accessories, then hang your creations on a festive Easter tree.

Sticking to a simple color scheme is a great way to make your tablescape feel cohesive and intentional, and nothing says spring more than pink paired with yellow. Adding in Easter decor such as eggs and bunny statues adds an extra special touch.

Change greenery from winter greens to lighter greenery and plants. Incorporate a few florals or live plants, whether fresh greenery or fresh flowers. Add a pop of color with thrifted art or home decor accessories. Use lighter fabrics and lighten the textures and layers around your home.

One explanation for this custom is that eggs were formerly a forbidden food during Lent, so people would paint and decorate them to mark the end of the period of penance and fasting, then eat them on Easter as a celebration. Easter egg hunts and egg rolling are two popular egg-related traditions.

Easter Egg Tree

The German tradition of decorating trees for Easter dates back centuries. To make this version, fill a tea tin with floral foam and insert blooming branches (here, dogwood). Hang dyed blown or painted wooden eggs using a length of ribbon looped around the egg and held in place with a wooden craft bead.

But when to start decorating for Easter? As with other holidays and festivities, there is no precise date (or rule!), though most of us usually start decorating around two to four weeks before Easter. In 2024, this would mean decorating from the weekend of March 2nd.

When Easter is over and it's not time to decorate for summer, think about lightening up your decor and textiles. Take down all overtly Eastery items but keep using flowers such as tulips and blooming branches until you are ready to decorate for summer.

Start with a white artificial tree and white string lights. Keep the decorations simple with a few large decorative eggs and wooden turquoise ornaments. Tie a blue and white buffalo check ribbon into a classic bow and secure it to the top of the tree for the finishing touch.

Start with a chocolate Easter bunny, then add the recipients favorite candy, a few small toys, or even inexpensive jewelry. For older kids we love to fill a few eggs with money (think small bills!), drop in a few $5 gift cards (especially if it's a teenage easter basket), or even some sample-size toiletries.

How to decorate homemade Easter eggs? ›

Blow out the interiors of each egg before decorating, then hand-paint with various shades of acrylic paint. Once dry, use a liner brush to paint polka dots, swirls or other designs with glue onto painted eggs. Then sprinkle the wet glue with glitter.

Depending on when Easter lands on the calendar and if you celebrate Easter, you can usually start breakout out the pastels, bunnies, and Easter eggs 3-4 weeks before Easter Sunday.

March is a good time to welcome the season of new beginnings with changes in your home decorations. Focus on a few design elements that you can easily refresh, such as color and texture. In spring, select pastel hues for your curtains, throw pillows, rugs, and sheets.

Plants (real or faux)

I LOVE doing my planters each year. The sight of flowers and plants is everything to your Spring porch. Flowers in cheerful, pretty colors are one of my favorite Spring porch decorating ideas and will help welcome any guest to your porch.

The three main Easter colors are purple, white and gold. Purple and violet hues are typically used during the Lenten season in the lead-up to Easter. Easter Sunday's most prominent colors are usually white and gold to represent the holiness and triumph of the resurrection of Jesus.