Easter Table Decorations

Easter Table Decorations

For those of you with a Martha Stewart personality, here are a couple ideas to decorate your Easter dinner table. You can find many more such ideas at:

www.allyou.com/budget.home/crafts/

Easter Egg Tree

For the branches you can use whatever flowering tree or bush that may be blooming at the present time such as forsythia, dogwood, apple or any blooming tree or bush with flowers on it. For those of you who may still be waiting for spring up north, you can substitute dried or cloth flowers found in any place that sells craft supplies; or if you wish, your florist may have some kind of branches you can use. I also think pussy willows would be a neat plant to use if you can find some.

To make the blown egg ornaments you’ll need:

Colored blown eggs

5” lengths of ribbon

Hot-glue gun

Hat pins

To make the egg ornaments, fold ribbon in half to form a loop and insert ends into one hole (eggs will have a hole at each end from blowing). Fold loop to side and add a dab of hot glue over hole.

Insert a hat pin into hole. Repeat with remaining eggs and hang on branches.

Blooming Easter Basket

Here’s a nice Easter gift for special guests like grandmothers. It is time consuming, so be aware. You may be able to use other faux flowers besides forsythia. Use your imagination.

YOU'LL NEED (makes 1 basket):

Faux forsythia branches (save-on-crafts.com)

Scissors

Hot-glue gun

Small, shallow plastic or metal bowl

Wire cutters

Wire coat hanger

Coffee can

20" ribbon, ½" wide

12" ribbon, ¾" wide

Remove individual flowers from branches using scissors. Glue blossoms one at a time to bowl. Continue until exterior of bowl is fully covered.

Use wire cutters to snip a 10" length of wire coat hanger. Wrap wire around coffee can or other cylindrical object to create rounded handle shape.

Glue end of ½"-wide ribbon to one end of wire. Carefully wrap ribbon around wire until wire is fully covered. Trim excess ribbon if needed and secure with hot glue. Let dry.

Position wire over bowl so ends are opposite each other. Glue one end to bowl and hold in place 1 to 2 minutes until completely dry. Repeat for other end of wire handle. (Note: Do not use the decorative handle to lift the basket.)

Tie ¾"-wide ribbon into bow. Trim ends and affix to handle using hot glue.