20 DIY Easter Decorations and Favors for Your Tablescape (2024)

Napkin Rings

These napkin rings are just the botanical bling your spring table needs. And they come together with ease and elegance, thanks to two unexpected resources: inexpensive Czech glass, which is commonly used to make ornate chandeliers, and good old crafts-store glass beads. Use gold wire to shape rings, then twist on the "leaves" and "berries."

Nest Place Setting

Adding a whimsical touch to a springtime tablescape is as easy as scooping up store-bought Easter basket staples and making a thoughtful arrangement. Handfuls of candy eggs and paper grass look like a bird's nest when perched atop each guest's plate, as pictured here.

Easter Bunny Basket

There's perhaps no better way to pay homage to Easter than by utilizing two of its biggest motifs on your table: bunnies and eggs. To make this adorable display (which you can use as your table's centerpiece), all you need to do is attach bunny ears made out of raffia ribbon and floral wire to a wicker basket. Use thread to make eyes and a nose for extra personality.

Pastel Rainbow Easter Egg Centerpiece

Spring, more so than anytime of year, boasts colors of the rainbow. Paint an assortment of various sized eggs in pretty pastels and line your table with them as the perfect seasonally-inspired centerpiece.

Sugar Eggs

Inspired by the Victorian era's ornate panorama sugar eggs, this palette of pretty pastels—created with drops of ordinary food coloring—is sweet but not cloying, and the eggs can be left solid as decorations or hollowed out to become containers for treats.

Tulip Basket

A brunch gets a splash of orange with baskets of French tulips—when closed, the flowers are reminiscent of eggs. Playing on that theme, we added dishes of jelly beans, also egg shaped. Marzipan carrots might entice the Easter bunny to the table. To make a tulip arrangement, place a plastic liner inside a basket, and bank clumps of wheatgrass (with a bit of soil still attached) around the edges. Cut tulip stems to about 2 inches, and nestle them in the center; pour water into the liner. Replenish water regularly, and the display should last up to a week.

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Crepe Paper Carrots

Surprise little bunnies (and your guests) with a basket of carrots on Easter. To begin, loosely wrap orange streamer to form a carrot shape, making it thicker at the top. Press the end of the paper down into top opening. Fold green crepe paper in half across its grain. Download the leaf template and trace onto folded paper. Cut out and bunch up. Tuck the leaves into the carrot top and secure with dab of hot glue.

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Flower Arrangements in Eggshells

Dyed eggs are so pretty, they deserve to be put on display. Individually or grouped together in a centerpiece, these tiny arrangements make a wonderful addition to the place settings at your table. To make, break an egg at the top of its shell, drain the contents, and carefully rinse out the inside. Next, fill the empty shell with room-temperature water and place it in an eggcup for stability. Finally, insert small cuttings of your favorite blossoms (we used lilacs, lily of the valley, and violas).

Spring Flower Bowls

Craft a field of daffodil-shaped candy dishes for a fanciful table display. All you need is in the kitchen: coffee filters, scissors, and food coloring. Pour water with a few drops of food coloring into bowls. Dye a few filters green. Dip the open end of a larger stack in yellow. Remove, and let dry while stacked upside down. (Note: Coffee filters hold their shape best when dyed in a stack.) Paint cups with food coloring mixture. Do some interiors, some exteriors, and some both. Separate dyed filters when dry. Fold one in half, and snip into fluted part every few inches. Trim snips into rounded petals. Unfold. Cut green filters into leaf shapes. Glue cup to center of filter. Glue green leaves to underside of filter.

Dresden Egg Boxes

Embossed-foil decorations known as Dresdens make the most elegant toppers for these gift boxes. Pass them out to guests as favors, filled with wrapped candy.

Start by printing large and small egg templates. Cut a piece of watercolor paper large enough to fit the lid template twice. Mount colored paper to both sides of watercolor paper with spray adhesive. Trace lid twice and cut out with craft knife. Cut a piece of watercolor paper large enough to fit each of the inset egg templates. Mount colored paper to one side of watercolor paper with spray adhesive. Trace eggs and cut out with craft knife. Sand edges of all cut eggs. Cut two strips of watercolor paper. Paint edges and one side, and let dry. Repeat for other side.

With paint pen, edge sides of two egg lids. Working a few inches at a time, squeeze glue along edge of one inset egg, and bend corresponding-side strip to attach. Ends will overlap by about a 3/4 inch. Secure with a binder clip as it dries. Repeat with other inset egg and side strips, and let dry. Remove clips. Glue egg lids to inset eggs, creating top and bottom of box.

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Moss Eggs

Bring the outdoors in! For a larger-than-life centerpiece, bring bright color and soft texture to the table by molding eggs in a variety of sizes from sheet moss. Finish the design with blown-out bird eggs and branches of quince blossoms.

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Easter Bunny Napkins

Adults and kids alike will adore this charming napkin display. The linen napkin is wrapped around a hard-boiled egg (decorated with a cute bunny smiley face) and held together with a tie. The loose ends of the napkin are folded to resemble bunny ears.

Speckled Butterfly Egg Boxes

Give egg-shaped boxes a natural touch with speckled paint, butterflies, and a rabbit cut from decorative paper. To begin, cover work surface with scrap paper. Paint exterior of an egg-shaped papier-mache box with acrylic craft paint as desired. Mix equal parts of a contrasting-color paint and water in a bowl. Dip a toothbrush into thinned paint; shake off excess. With bristles facedown over box, draw the handle of a small brush across bristles to spray dots of paint. (Practice on scrap paper first.) Let dry.

Cut out butterflies from decorative paper using small scissors. Attach a flat butterfly by coating the back of the cut-out with Mod Podge using brush. Apply cutout to box and smooth using tip of brush handle. Let dry.

Candy Nests

Dishes for sweets become well suited to spring when they're disguised as fuzzy birds' nests. Cover the outside of a bowl with double-sided tape. Wind a ball of yarn (we used mohair) around the bowl until its exterior is hidden. To finish, securely tuck the loose end behind the wrapped yarn.

Decoupaged Egg Favors

Brighten a clutch of un-dyed eggs with stylized patterns from paper napkins, then tuck them into chipboard baskets to give as Easter favors.

Miniature Easter Candy Basket

What's the saying? A-tisket, a-tasket, a green and yellow basket. This one is filled with jelly bean candies, which makes it a place setting, party favor, and part of the décor all in one.

Bunny Carts

Who's that hopping down the bunny trail? It's the Easter Bunny! And behind him, he's toting a small painted berry basket of candy and treats. Cut one piece of dowel 4 1/2 inches for axle. Cut two pieces 8 inches for harness. Stick shorter piece (axle) into hole of one wheel; glue if needed. Paint wheel and axle, leaving 1 inch exposed at free end. Paint longer dowels (harness), wheel, and exterior of basket. Snip straw 2 inches to slightly shorter than width of basket.

Glue to underside of basket. Slide axle through straw (slit straw lengthwise if axle won't fit), and cap with free wheel. Slide other dowels into basket, and secure with hot glue. (If larger opening is needed, cut with craft knife.) Cut crepe paper along the grain to fit top edges of basket. Fold in half lengthwise, and tape to basket. Measure, cut, fold, and glue a piece for harness.

Origami Easter Egg Cup

When folded in a series of simple steps, thin paper can become sturdy enough to hold an egg in place. The cups can double as fun place-card holders for Easter—just write a guest's name on each egg with a colored marker.

Paper Eggshell Dishes

As a centerpiece for the table, these whimsical eggs are made with papier-mâché. The "cracked" tops make pretty dishes for foil-wrapped chocolates and candy eggs.

Paper Easter Bunny Favor Bags and Cupcake Toppers

These cheerful paper bunnies multiply quickly, thanks to their simple construction. Start by downloading and printing the bunny template. Trace onto vellum and cut out the bunny shape. Punch two holes in the head and thread with yarn. Repeat as desired.

Cut an 11 by 2 1/2 half inch strip of vellum. Position upright template so ears fall two-and-one-half inches below the top edge. Trace and cut out. Fill 2 1/2 by 1 by 6 inch cellophane bags with favors. Wrap vellum around bag, fold top edges together, and punch two holes for ribbon tie. Trace template onto vellum; cut out. Repeat.

Coat back of one rabbit and top 1/2 inch of a 6 inch bamboo skewer with a glue stick. Sandwich the stick between two rabbits. Dry between the pages of a magazine for 30 minutes.

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