Easter DIY: 4 easy decorating ideas
For me, Easter symbolizes the return of fine weather, a good meal with the family, lots of chocolate and little sugar eggs and, of course, pretty decorations! Here are a few ideas to enhance your table or simply for the pleasure of creating.
1. Folded rabbit towel
For this simple fold, you'll need a square napkin, which you'll first fold into a triangle. Then, starting from the main vertex of your triangle, roll the towel into a long coil. Then fold the boudin in half and tie the string, leaving room for an egg. Finally, decorate with gypsophila or a flower of your choice.
2. Spring egg wreath
To make this wreath, you'll need 6 eggs, a glue gun and a few flowers for decoration.
1. Start by gently cracking your eggs, as you would a soft-boiled egg. Empty them and store them in a cool place for later cooking. If you don't eat eggs, you can buy empty shells in the shops.
2. Carefully cut around the shells to the desired height, slightly higher than half the shell. Rinse the inside of the eggs with hot water to clean them.
3. Use a glue gun to assemble your eggs, placing a small dab of glue on the side of each egg and forming a circle.
4. Decorate the wreath as you wish, adding fresh or dried flowers. Don't forget to add a little water to the eggs if you're using fresh flowers.
3. The Easter tree
This German tradition involves decorating tree branches and arranging them in a vase. I used cherry branches and green stems from a plant called spirea. The Easter tree is decorated in much the same way as a Christmas tree, replacing the baubles with eggs. They come in all shapes and sizes, but here I've opted for paper eggs.
4. Decorated eggs
For fans of hard-boiled eggs, you can decorate the eggs you'll be enjoying at your Easter brunch. Simply plunge room-temperature eggs into boiling water and cook for 10 minutes. Then leave to cool. To decorate them, let your imagination run wild: you can paint them, draw designs on them with a felt-tip pen, or create a little crown for them, as shown below.
