Easter Ideas 75 Great Options for Recipes, Crafts and Decor (2024)

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In 2024, the farmhouse chic style will be all the rage, with its rustic textures and warm brown tones. Our easy Easter table decor idea to bring freshness and stay true to your eco-friendly values is to use handcrafted items like wicker baskets and woven placemats.

Mix Easter Eggs With Florals

Infuse your coffee table or kitchen counter with Easter spirit with a fresh floral display. We're obsessed with this hydrangea arrangement that features a rustic wire basket and pastel egg base. The cute cake-stand-turned-bunny terrarium comes in at a close second.

Mint green, soft yellow, pale pink and baby blue are the colours you will see in the colour palette for Easter in 2024. These colours bring spring into the kitchen and onto the festive table. From tasty cupcakes with softly coloured cupcake tins a creamy filling to pink macarons with the perfect bite.

But when to start decorating for Easter? As with other holidays and festivities, there is no precise date (or rule!), though most of us usually start decorating around two to four weeks before Easter. In 2024, this would mean decorating from the weekend of March 2nd.

Easter Bunny Bags

Cut paper bags to make bunny-ear shapes, then draw on a bunny face with a black marker and finish it off with a pom-pom tail. Fill it with all of their chocolates, candies and other holiday treats as you would a normal basket!

There are no hard rules when it comes to crafting an adult Easter basket, but the most thoughtful baskets are made with food and small gifts that appeal to the recipient's interests and hobbies. If they're a fashion lover, then consider incorporating a piece of jewelry, such as a watch.

Easter is associated with spring, which is why decorations in the shape of flowers, eggs and bunnies usually dominate, symbolising nature's rebirth to life after winter. Eggs are one of the most important symbols of this time.

Bunny Easter Basket

To make: Cut bunny ears from white and pink craft paper; attaching the two with craft glue. Attach the ears to the inside of the basket with hot glue. Attach two black buttons for eyes. Use pink twine, thin ribbon, or leather strips to create whiskers, attaching it with hot glue.

Traditional Easter gifts usually consists of jelly beans, marshmallow candies and chocolates in an adorable basket. You can also add small gifts such as music books or classic Easter stories. Some parents like to fill plastic eggs with sweet treats within the basket, or you can keep the eggs for the Easter egg hunt.

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