Spring is here and so is Easter! Mark the season by giving your house a whimsical touch with these unique Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Easter Tree decorations. These miniature trees are like pieces of blank paper, ready to be filled with your personal ideas.

What makes DIY Easter tree decorations so attractive is their versatility. They can be done by anyone regardless of their level of creativity or financial status hence they are perfect for individuals, families or even classrooms. This blog post explores 12 different ways of decorating them for inspiration while creating a festive centerpiece that brings out the essence of Easter!

 

Traditional Treats: All-Time Favorites Made Easy

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Egg Painting Extravaganza: Show your inner artist with this timeless classic! Paint white plastic eggs pink, blue, green, yellow, mix and match bright colors together or use edgy lines, polka dots, checks and cute rabbit faces on them. When it dries up put colorful ribbons or strings around them and hang on branches stuck in a flower vase holding floral foam.

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Natural Classy Tree: Give it an earthy look using gnarled manzanita branches or driftwood as a foundation. Insert them into plant pots then cover the base using mosses or raffia shreds. Fix bird nests (real/artificial) on the branches and adorn them with quail eggs, little wooden eggs or feathers.

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The Cupcake Liner Carousel: Forget the cliché projects! Try out an elegant line of Easter egg garland that involves enameling eggs, using feathers, lace or a little glimmer. You may link them together to bring in a touch of Easter joy as well as to make a rustic chic basket arrangement with such things as woven basket, fabric liner, natural fillers, faux spring flowers and decorative eggs. For minimalists list make a simple moss wreath with grapevine base, sheet moss and few painted or decoupaged wooden eggs.

Creative Twists on Tradition

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Ombre Egg Odyssey: Take your Easter egg game up a notch by trying out the trendy Ombre effect! Do what you normally do when dying an egg but instead create stunning colors in gradient. Just start by applying dark shade of your chosen color at the bottom of the egg and gradually lighten it up moving upward to get beautiful color transitions.

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Pom-Pom Paradise Tree: Convert Styrofoam cone or branches into a playful Easter tree by covering it with twine or yarn. So let’s get started! Make colored pom-poms in all sizes either using pom-pom maker or your fingers and stick them all over the base with hot glue until you have achieved fluffy and fun-looking Easter tree decoration.

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Crafts That Are Eco-Friendly and Budget Friendly: The Greatness of DIY Paper Mache: Make a paper Mache cone from recycled paper and flour paste, leave it to dry then paint or decoupage the cone with patterned paper. Embellish with buttons, sequins or dried flowers.

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A Masterpiece from Natural Material: Go outside and collect twigs, pinecones, and colored leaves. Put them in a vase filled with pebbles or sand. For an Easter Tree decorations that has a rural look on it use natural materials such as painted nutshells, dried flowers or little feathers gotten from birds.

Looking for Luxury? Gilded Glories

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The Gilded Egg Extravaganza: Add some luxury to your Easter Tree Decorations. Would you consider pre-dyed metallic Easter eggs or using gold/silver spray paints to decorate plastic eggs? Pearls, rhinestones or glitter glue could be used to make the egg more attractive. These can be hung on black branches placed in a vase for a stylish and glamorous Easter Tree Decorations.

Bonus Tip

Make your Easter Tree Decorations more special by adding something personal. You can attach photos, small baskets filled with candy for Easter or write messages onto the branches.

 

Flamboyant Birds and Yeasty Delicacies: Style Your Easter Tree

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Feathers and Art: Is there a little bit of creativity in you that needs to be unleashed? Here is your chance with some bright feathers. Cardboard or foam board are your best buddies here, so grab some and cut out egg shapes. And now for the exciting part: stick feathers on them. Be outrageous; combine different materials to make unusual fun designs that are sophisticated as well. After finishing with the feathered forms hang them on your Easter tree to complete your Easter Tree Decoration.

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Salt Surprise: Dough-licious Easter Fun! Remember that amazing salt dough recipe you found online? Dust off the recipe book because you are about to do some Easter baking! It’s really easy and child-friendly(with a bit of adult assistance).  Roll out the dough and get out your cookie cutters. Bunnies, chicks, carrots, eggs—what will it be? Bake these until they harden then get ready for another artistic session! Paint these things into beautiful colored sculptures. After they’re dry completely hang them up and showcase them on your Easter tree proudly.

Going Green: Crafty and Eco-Friendly Easter Fun

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Seed Paper Bunnies: Bunnies that Bloom!  Celebrate Earth Day with adorable seed paper bunnies. Whether you make them yourself using recycled paper and wildflower seeds or buy them online, these bunnies are so cool. Do you know how to cut out bunny shapes? You can decorate them in your own special way and hang them on your Easter tree. In spring, plant those rabbits in the ground and wait for their flowering stage – a present that is also future giving.

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Recycled Chic: Convert ordinary plastic bottles into cute Easter chicks! Here’s the deal – take the clean plastic bottle and cut off its bottom third then paint it happy yellow. Cute eyes are possible as well as beak from paint or markers. Put cotton balls or shredded paper inside the bottle to form a fuzzy chick head in its top part. Here is where it gets interesting; get an orange painted popsicle stick which will act as legs and glue one end of it to the bottom of your chick while securing another end on a branch of your Easter tree. That’s all there is to it! This not only makes use of empty plastic bottles but also adds some eco-friendly touch into your Easter tree decorations at home.