22 Beautiful Easter and Spring Centerpieces

If there's ever a season for arranging your own centerpieces, it's spring. You can create a show-stopping tablescape by gathering just a few in-season flowers and displaying them in a pretty vessel. Creating a lush setting for your Easter celebration is effortlessly simple when you have the pick of some of spring's most vibrant pastels, including lilac, hyacinths, tulips, daffodils, and other colorful& varieties. The centerpiece can act as inspiration for all of your table settings, including place cards and other floral arrangements on display in your dining room.

Many of our best centerpiece ideas don't require you to go out and buy a new vase—utilizing the fine china, serveware, and even craft materials in your home will help you create an eye-catching arrangement. Spring centerpieces call for fresh flowers, which means you can feel good about using earthy elements to fashion your seasonal centerpiece including moss, willow branches, stone, and grass.

If you're preparing a special centerpiece just for your Easter table, you can lean into the egg motif. There are plenty of ways to create egg-themed centerpieces with our crafts, including an egg tree, eggshell votives, and crepe-paper flower egg holders. These wonderful crafts are kid-friendly, meaning everyone can get in on the fun this Easter. Whether you choose to go the floral route or opt for a more personalized DIY project, we're sharing our best ideas to create vivid spring centerpieces for any tablescape. These stunning examples will surely help you hatch a new idea to surprise and delight your guests.

Hollowed-out eggshells make naturally beautiful vases for tiny flower arrangements. While these centerpieces look complex, achieve the look by simply breaking the egg's upper shell and rinsing out the inside.

This nest cradles an exuberant mix of blooms from spring-flowering bulbs—the botanical counterpart to newly hatched birds. Birch branches circle an ordinary wooden basket, giving the nest its ethereal, light-as-a-cloud appearance.

Brilliant violet Muscari latifolium and tight blooms of ranunculus get a boost in a lush, dense display. The flowers look equally fetching in a smaller-scale display as part of any Easter tablescape.

Lilacs' subtle color variations are perfect for creating painterly, layered arrangements. Gather blooms in two or more hues, and group them by color gradation in a heavy vase.

Bring the whimsy of scherenschnitte, the German art of paper cutting, to your tabletop décor. Blown-out eggs, dyed and adorned with seasonal silhouettes, dangle from a cluster of quince branches to make this centerpiece. 

No special flower-arranging skills are needed to make these centerpieces—just a few hallmarks of spring: blades of grass, muscari blooms, and a cache of pretty eggs.

Adorn your Easter or spring party table with a mother-hen centerpiece, which you'll fill with pretty hyacinths and chick candy boxes. You can download our free paper-chicken template to streamline the process.

Pastel-hued rabbits in various shapes, sizes, and colors are very whimsical, and you can whip up extras to give to children or other guets. Silver egg cups hold hard-cooked eggs, and silver julep cups are filled with plump tulips.

Exuberant egg-and-crepe-paper daffodils and tulips are a breeze to make—and you don't have to worry about the arrangement wilting.

Faux-chocolate rabbits stand guard over nests of candy eggs; the rabbits are made of acrylic and can be displayed year after year. While you can use elements from your backyard to create your nests, colored mohair yarn could work in a pinch.

Enliven your next buffet with an arrangement of eggcup bouquets displayed on cake stands. Choose small-budded flowers in similar hues, such as tulips, lily of the valley, paperwhites, and daffodils. Place a small round metal floral frog in each eggcup to help shape and weight the arrangements. Water daily for a long-lasting centerpiece.

Embellishing pillar candles with blades of grass highlights a plant that's rarely appreciated up close—and the idea can be used to unify an assortment of candles.

A few of these simple arrangements makes a wonderful nature-inspired scene, perfect for the table.

Mingle dainty Spanish bluebells with fluffy chive blossoms for a textured centerpiece.

This bird-themed Easter centerpiece, inspired by a dinner at Martha's Bedford home, can be used for any season, swapping in the appropriate plants and embellishments.

Take a cue from spring foragers and bring the lush woodland carpet to the table this season.

This time of year, birds instinctively put the materials at hand to good use. Here, the downy, gray catkins of pussy-willow branches soften a densely woven nest, while dried grasses inside cushion fragile decorated eggs.