Great Easter decoration: homemade? Sure, of course!
Easter decorations don't have to be expensive: you can do a lot yourself at home with little effort – with great effects and lots of "ohhh's" and "ahhh's". Great side effect: Homemade Easter decorations also leave lots of room for creativity and nice hours of handicrafts with the whole family. So you can conjure up a festive mood in no time, which fuel the anticipation for Easter.
Make Easter decorations yourself: anyone can!
Previous knowledge is usually not required for DIY Easter decorations and you already have many of the required materials at home – or you can easily buy them cheaply. Did you know, for example, that you can work real craft wonders with egg shells?
We show you a lot of creative craft ideas that will fire up your Easter table decorations, and simple instructions that you can use to create your own spring decorations.
Ready, ready – make Easter decorations!
Let's start with the classic way of coloring eggs and painting the obligatory eggs, but of course we also make the Easter wreath ourselves, decorate the Easter bouquet or Easter shrub, make Easter nests and put together a creative table decoration. Advanced crafting professionals can even sew egg warmers with our ideas. And of course the Easter decoration trends are not neglected. We took a look at Pinterest and wanted to know what was going on this Easter. For example, we noticed the trend of hand lettering for Easter eggs. This is something for advanced users, but can definitely be learned.
Craft ideas for homemade Easter decorations
Whitening: designing Easter eggs
Easter greetings! Simply stick self-adhesive letters (from the paper goods store) onto the egg shells, color the eggs in pastel colors and peel off the letters. A simple egg cardboard, painted to match the color, serves as a stylish frame. An Easter basket made of egg boxes is also very easy. Have a look here: Crafts with egg boxes.
Herbs of spring: floral decorations for festive spring decorations
After the long winter, the first flowers are real eye-catchers that decorate every Easter table. Hyacinths, tulips and daffodils collect as self-bound Easter bouquets in various old jugs, which you can find at flea markets, for example. Breathe new life into them and enjoy an Easter decoration that you have made yourself.
Highlights: Easter eggs as eye-catchers
Colorful shimmering sequins make these eggs (approx. 7.5 cm long) a striking ornament in the self-tied Easter bouquet.
Instead of place cards: Easter decorations made of flowers
Cut an egg out of sturdy paper, add two slits and insert a spring flower – the Easter table decoration is done. And those who insist on a fixed seating arrangement can paint the names with gold pencil.
Long Ears: Sew Easter Bunny
These cotton bunnies are sewn in no time.
Manual: Use a copier to enlarge and cut out the drawing to a height of 27 cm. Cut this double piece out of striped or checkered cotton fabric (lay the fabric on the right side on top of each other) with 6 mm wide seam allowance, pay attention to the thread course.
Stitch the seam all around with small stitches, leaving a slot open for turning and filling the hare. Turn the part, stuff it with cotton wool and sew the slit. Embroider a face on the rabbit with pearl yarn, the eyes in the knot stitch, the whiskers and the small nose in the instep stitch.
Acquired a taste? Then we show you more bunnies here: Sew Easter bunnies.
Bunny pillow: Fresh decoration ideas for your home
Silver look Mr. and Mrs. Hase have taken a seat here. They are sewn from linen themselves. Mother-of-pearl buttons as eyes provide an expressive look. Vase: The warehouse; rectangular cushion: Glockengiesser Collection; Chocolate eggs: Lindt.
manual Use a copier to enlarge the drawing to the desired size, the straight line for the small cushion to 27 cm, for the large one to 34 cm. Cut the rabbit out of double-layered (right to right) linen fabric in natural color or white, with 1 cm seam allowance all around, note the thread course. Reinforce all acute angles of the line to be quilted on both left sides of the fabric with iron-on fleece line (Freudenberg nonwovens).
Stitch the parts together, leaving a slot open for turning and filling. Cut the seam allowance at the acute angles up to the quilting seam. Turn the part over. Stuff the rabbit with cotton wool (department store) and sew the slit by hand. Sew two white mother-of-pearl buttons (Ø approx. 16 mm) on each rabbit's head, piercing through the head and pulling the thread a little.
Send the Easter Bunny card as an invitation
Listen up! A paper rabbit is asking to the table. You can also send Easter greetings on it or use it as a place card. Manual: You need thin construction paper in three different colors, for example in white, green and brown, as well as glue. Enlarge the drawing on a copier to a height of 16.5 cm.
Fold half of the construction paper in each color into the fold. Place the drawing on the broken line on the break. Transfer each rabbit size with copy paper to a color of construction paper and cut out each rabbit size twice with a cutter so that the paws (also the head in the case of the two larger rabbits) are connected when you fold the cut rabbits apart in a break. Now glue the three rabbits (small to large, break to break) together. Then the card z. B. label with a brunch invitation.
Make your own printed napkins with rabbit motifs
Clear line The fine rabbit motif is simply stamped onto napkins with textile paint. To order: A 45 x 45 cm white linen napkin costs 9.50 euros, Studio 39 – Butzer. The approx. 10 x 14 cm rabbit stamp costs 16.90 euros, stamp type; Salt and pepper shakers: Villeroy & Boch; Egg cup: Mahafaly; Plate: Wedgwood.
Manual: You need white linen napkins, a stamp with a rabbit motif and textile paint (marabou) in green or brown. Spread the ink on plastic foil with a brush, press the stamp on the stamp pad and moisten the stamp surface evenly. Print the stamp in a corner of the napkin and wash the color according to the instructions.
Sew the egg warmer with rabbit ears yourself
So that the breakfast eggs don't get cold so quickly, they are put on hats. Egg cup (from left): Rosenthal (2), Fürstenberg, Arzberg; Tray: Villeroy & Boch.
Manual: Use a copier to enlarge the drawing to a height of 26 cm. Then all the cut pieces for the three different egg warmers (chicken = green line, with tip = brown line, with ears = orange-red line) are the right size. Lay the felt twice for the chicken in a desired color, record the cut with tailor's copy paper (light for dark felt and vice versa) and stitch the double felt inside the chicken just next to the line.
The straight cutting edge remains open. Cut out the chicken on the line and sew a small bead as an eye on both sides of the head. For the model with lace, cut the cut part out of felt in any desired color 3 times without seam allowance and stitch the parts together on the curved edges. For the ear-warmer, cut the cut twice with a 5 mm seam allowance (note the thread run) and iron on volume fleece (Freudenberg nonwovens) that can be ironed on the left side of the fabric. If necessary, stitch the individual parts according to a fabric pattern or your own imagination, then lay them on top of each other on the right and stitch all around. Leave a slot open on the large curve for turning. Turn the part, sew the slit by hand and put the wide curve inside into the egg warmer up to the dashed line (shown in section).
You don't have enough yet? Then continue here with instructions for Easter crafts.
Make Easter decoration yourself: More ideas
It's good that there are so many chic DIY Easter ideas on Pinterest. We show you the most beautiful ones here:
Make bunny garland for Easter yourself
Thanks to detailed instructions from Danielle (Dandee Designs) for hellobee.com, everyone can make this adorable bunny garland!
Crochet Easter bunnies yourself
For all crochet rabbits among the Easter fans: the applications are crocheted in no time and can be further processed into brooches, patches or simply as glass decorations. On weaverbirdie.blogspot.com.es you can learn how to crochet the rabbits.
Make Easter pendants yourself
The vintage Easter pendants from wingsofwhimsy.wordpress.com are super easy to tinker: Simply choose a picture and print it on photo paper, stick it on cardboard (e.g. cornflakes boxes) and punch out the holes. You can hang the cute pictures anywhere at home!
Homemade Easter garland
What you can conjure up with an old book and some patterned craft paper! For example, this great Easter pennant garland from simpleasthatblog.com
Creative coloring of Easter eggs
Multi-faceted: Why not color the Easter eggs in just one color and in different shades? "Country Living" tried it out.
Home-made rabbit cups
The animal cups are quickly made and fit perfectly to any children's party with an Easter theme! Anna from "The Imagination Tree" explains on her blog how to make bunny cups out of simple cups.
Sew stuffed animals from leftovers yourself
Thanks to this cute cuddly toy, the scraps of fabric that have been kept in the closet for the past few years are still good for something! Kim from "Seven Thirty Three" came up with this idea and shows you here how it works: Instructions.
Pimping Easter Eggs: Creative Ideas
Whether with lace, blackboard paint or embroidery thread: This list shows 40 more creative ways to style eggs. To the list of Brit + Co.
Easter pictures for homemade Easter gifts
Blogger Kristyn from "Lil 'Luna" has put together 40 printable pictures that can be used as posters or for packaging and gifts.
Sew fabric carrots yourself
The carrots made of fabric from "Fine Craft Guild" look beautiful on a laid Easter table! You can also fill them with sweets and give them away.
Crafts for Easter with Martha Stewart
A classic Easter decoration with blown out eggs, which were filled into a glass container by Martha Stewart.
Sew the Easter backpack yourself
Hungry bunny: Ashley Hackshaw has conjured up such a cool backpack from great patterned fabrics and a zipper. Not only suitable for children!