Crepe Paper Carrots
Photo: Kate Mathis
Get ready for Easter this year with touches of spring around the home. From a garden-fresh palette to colorful eggs, this cheery decor is a welcome change from winter hues.
Made of wrapped paper streamers, these adorable little bundles are a twist on the crepe-paper surprise ball. As you unwind the paper, you find the trinkets -- jewelry, a novelty, a toy. Display a basketful as a centerpiece or leave them by the door as favors.
Make daffodils from baking cups and flower cutouts for your Easter or spring table. To use these as place cards, write names on the petals.
Bring a touch of spring into your home with a flock of colorful paper birds perched above coconut-fiber nests.
A whimsical flowering branch is a natural perch for these handmade baby birds. We wrapped a fallen oak branch with ivory perle cotton thread, and then glued on fabric millinery flowers. To make a centerpiece, bunch several branches, nestling chicks among the buds.
Bring the beauty of spring into your home with this speckled eggs-and-nest display.
This oversize nest cradles an exuberant mix of blooms from spring-flowering bulbs -- the botanical counterpart to newly hatched birds.
Jump-start spring by forcing branches of early-flowering trees and shrubs and displaying them in a lush arrangement.
Give a gentle nod to the season with this fresh take on a pastel Easter palette. Fragrant white hyacinths and buttery-yellow double tulips and carnations shimmer against green-and-white pittosporum foliage. A porcelain vase sets off the textures and tones of the flowers, as well as the variegated leaves. We began by grouping stems of pittosporum to shape a framework and establish height. The rest was filled in with hyacinths, then tulips and carnations, to create a mounded form. If arrangements could smile, this one would.
Try a twist on Easter baskets, and make a paper basket bouquet for every place setting.
A wreath covered with catkins from a pussy-willow branch makes a lovely Easter or spring decoration.
Creating a spring bulb arrangement is a beautiful way to make the season come alive indoors.
Make a distinctive needle-felted bird's nest for your Easter table.
Make this lovely pussy willow arrangement for Easter, and when the holiday is over, remove the eggs and display with your spring decorations.
Deck arrangements of flowering branches with personalized pendants.
This delicate tabletop arrangement will be a great addition to an Easter brunch or dinner party.
Add a charming touch to your Easter decor by crafting one of these adorable needle-felted chicks.
No special flower-arranging skills are needed to make these brunch-table centerpieces -- just a few hallmarks of spring: blades of grass, muscari blooms, and a cache of pretty eggs.
Complete your Easter decor with a parade of fabric cut-out chicks and bunnies.
Inspired by the jeweled treasures crafted by Peter Carl Faberge around the turn of the twentieth century, this "egg" is decorated with spring-blooming hyacinths and pearl-headed pins.
Selected flower- and bird-themed artwork can transform a variety of eggs -- from naturally deep-green emu eggs to tinted and undyed ostrich eggs to painted wooden orbs -- into instant collectibles.
Why should eggs have all the fun? For one-stop decorating, dye the basket -- and everything inside it -- at once. A nice bonus: The pretty monochrome nests highlight subtle variations among the eggs.
The branches of our feathered tree feature egg and carrot ornaments hanging from loops of silver thread, as well as pipe-cleaner baskets filled with Easter creatures and more eggs.
To create a great Easter display without a great deal of effort, limit your palette to one spring-inspired color, such as yellow.
Cover a vase with pussy-willow branches to form a pretty seasonal basket arrangement.
Every passerby, including a wayfaring rabbit, stops to admire this weeping cherry tree. With bright marbleized eggs suspended on yellow ribbons and a ring of golden pot marigolds around the base, it sets the stage for a lively egg hunt or leisurely spring brunch.
They may look like porcelain, but these beautiful eggs, from from five to 12 inches tall, are made with papier-mache.
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