How to Easily Decorate a Table for Easter
When your Easter meal preparation requires a lot of effort, put together simple table decorations that speak to the season without requiring too much of your time and attention. Surround guests at your dinner table with the colors, shapes and motifs of Easter. Include crisp, pastel colors in your Easter table decorations to create a light and festive atmosphere. Incorporate egg shapes in a few areas of your decorations to tie the elements together into a unified look. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Table runner
- Flowers
- Small vase
- Large clear vase
- Small Easter candies
- Spanish moss
- Decorative paper
- Hole punch
- Cloth napkins
- Ribbon
Instructions
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Spread a table runner over the length of the table. It should be in a spring color, such as light pink, light purple, bright orange or bright yellow.
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Cut a few flowers from your garden, or purchase a spring bouquet from a store. Arrange the flowers in a small, narrow vase.
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Place the narrow vase inside a larger clear vase or container.
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Fill the space between the container and the vase with Easter candies, such as jelly beans or pastel-colored Jordan almonds.
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Form a handful of Spanish moss into a disc shape. Pull some moss away from the center so it looks like a nest. Place a few candies in the nest. Make one for each guest, and slip a piece of paper with the guest's name into each nest to serve as place cards.
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Cut egg shapes approximately the size of regular chicken eggs from decorative papers. Punch a hole in the top of each egg.
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Roll cloth napkins into tubes. Slip an egg shape onto a piece of ribbon, and tie a ribbon around each napkin to secure it.
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