10 ways to decorate your Easter table

Easter falls on Sunday, 31^st March this year. As the much awaited festival is celebrated worldwide, people are getting ready with myriad celebration ideas.

Easter is a Christian Holiday which commemorate Jesus Christ’s resurrection on the third day after his crucifixion in Calvary. Christians believe, according to Scripture, that Jesus was raised from the dead, three days after his death on the cross. Preceded by Lent, it is a holy occasion to celebrate the Passion of Christ. Although Easter celebrations vary across the Christian world, there are some common motifs bereft all over the globe – attending sunrise services, clipping the church and decorating Easter eggs, a symbol of the empty tomb, etc.

As it marks the end of Lent – a forty day period of prayer, penance and fasting, Easter is regarded as a festival to be celebrated. When it comes to Easter celebration, dining table decoration always assume the highest attention.

Ways to decorate table:

1. Easter always evokes the images of nest and eggs. Create a nest with paper-strips. You can take a colored scrapbook papers and shred them into tiny strips to place them on the table in the shape of a nest to keep an egg inside it.
2. You can create a welcome sign on the table by keeping red eggs glued to a silvery grape-wood wreath. Wreath being a Christian symbol, it gives the table a feeling of Easter as well.
3. Welcome the coming of spring on Easter day. Use green paper plates for the base for place setting and top it with a coloured egg and plain cloth napkin. The green will disperse spring spirit and rejuvenate your room as well as your mood.
4. Create a cheery Easter setting at your table by keeping a gold-painted wooden Easter egg atop a napkin embraced in coloured ribbon. Keep the ribbon on a flowery plate and place a tinted glass beside the plate.
5. You can create a natural Easter setting with minimal preparation. Use three colours to coat at least a dozen wooden eggs and keep them in a trifle dish. Place it atop a table and cover the surrounding with lush moss. It becomes the most naturally alluring centrepiece for Easter.
6. Make paper crepe bunnies and keep them on the table. Pink and blue are the favourite colours for these bunnies. Children would feel happy about having the bunnies at the table. You can even make bunny carts and bunny baskets and place them atop the table.
7. You can create a perfectly homely and warm feeling for the guests coming for lunch. Make some paper place cards, draw bunny faces on them and cut out ears sticking out from the cards. Now, write down the names of every guest on the cards and place them on the table.
8. A colourful centerpiece is everybody’s favourite. Place a bright golden coloured vase on top of the table and put fresh colourful flowers in it. Match it with a blue or cream white table cloth beneath and to complete the picture put some dyed Easter eggs beside the vase.
9. Easter egg can be use for decoration ideas in more than one ways. You can place cute looking white eggcup bouquets on cake stands and make a tiered bouquet stand; you can tie up plastic eggs filled with jelly beans to the anchors of the table cloth with the help of dotted golden ribbons; or you can even garland with dyed eggs the mirror over the hand basin near your dining table. You can follow the German practice by hanging hollow eggs from a cluster of branches of trees put in a basket.
10. Flowers or even grass can be a part of your Easter decoration. Place green grass on egg cups or spring flowers in egg cup vases. Your spring ambience will be complete with tulips or daffodils placed in a beautiful home made basket or vase placed on the centre of the table.

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