Seasons > Easter > Decorations for the home > Easter Decorations for the living room, foyer, and front door
Why decorate your house for Easter? It is the most amazing day in the history of the world! Christ is risen! So if you decorate your house for Christmas, why not decorate it for Easter, too? For example, if you hang a wreath on your mantle for Christmas, you could hang a wreath for Easter as well. Or change it up, and hang something totally different. These pastel colored plaques make a pretty change from a wreath, and emphasize the real reason for celebrating Easter. If you like decorating with greenery and holly at Christmas, why not use lots of flowers in a similar way for Easter? The basket of lavender hydrangea carry on the pastel theme. These are not fresh cut flowers--Since I like to have decorations up for a whole month before Easter, artificial flowers are a less expensive option (unless you have a whole garden of flowers that you can pick new ones when the old ones fade.) Even potted plants begin to look bad after a couple of weeks, unless they are in full sun for several hours every day, and that’s not likely to happen inside!
Where to Buy it: These verse plaques were purchased at Hobby Lobby (a craft store chain in the U.S.). They were sold separately, but the pastel colors looked pretty together so I tied them together with purple ribbon--it was hard to get them all exactly parallel, so I had to retie them several times before I got it right.
How to make it out of wood: cut 3 boards the same size and paint them in pastel colors. Paint on a verse and design with darker paint, or decoupage a printed verse.
How to make it out of cardboard: Cardboard looks awful painted. Instead, you can decoupage paper over it, then paint that (brown paper bags or even copier paper. If you use wrapping paper, you can skip the painting.) If you are nervous about making your own design, you can design it with a fancy script on the computer, print that out, and decoupage that onto the covered cardboard. Just make sure the printer ink doesn’t run with what ever medium you are coating it with : modge-podge (sold at craft stores), shellac, or varnish (sold in hardware stores).
Easter eggs and pastel colored candles are combined to make an easy inexpensive decoration for the coffee table or top of the piano. Any tray, platter or basket would work, as well.
If you have toddlers, don’t use candles so it is a no-worry decoration. It will be a decoration that doubles as a toy. They will love being allowed to carry around these brightly colored objects. You may have to pick them up off the floor a dozen times, but at least you don’t have to worry about them getting broken!
Where to buy it: Eggs and candles can both be purchased inexpensively at dollar stores or discount stores such as Walmart or Target. If you can’t find them locally, you can order plastic eggs from Oriental Trading Company. They will ship to countries outside the U.S. if you pay with a postal check.
Pillar candles are the best for this, but a mix of votive candles works, too. If you have some pastel tea lights that would disappear under the eggs, you can stack them insides clear votive candle holders, like the mint green ones shown here.
View how to make unbreakable Easter eggs from air drying clay
Easter Eggs in a basket make a nice decoration for a bookshelf. These are Resurrection Eggs, so they have objects inside that come from the Easter story--a tiny cross for when Jesus died and a flat stone for when he rose from the dead. You can use it with your kids like an advent calendar--each day they can open another egg and tell them part of the Easter story. Then display the objects on a church shaped shelf.
Where to buy it: Dollar stores and discount stores such as Walmart sell Easter baskets and plastic eggs very inexpensively. You can order Resurrection egg sets from the companies below, or follow my instructions to make your own.
View how to make Resurrection Egg sets
Link to familychristian website that sell Resurrection Egg sets
A table in your foyer can be another place to decorate for Easter. Here a purple table runner echoes the robe that Jesus wore during his trial. The cross and crown of thorns point to his death. The goblet, grapes, and matzo (unleavened bread) represent the last supper. The pastel colored flowers stand for the new life that we find in Christ.
Where to buy it: The cross was purchased at Hobby Lobby. Fake bread and grapes (shown in photo above) are sometimes sold at dollar stores and discount stores such as Walmart. Some Walmart stores also sell boxes of real Matzo (unleavened bread, shown in photo on the left) in their foreign food section. Keep your eye out for goblets in garage sales or second hand shops.
How to make it: You can bake your own Matzo by mixing flour and water, knead, roll out and bake. The crown of thorns was made by twisting a branch trimmed off of a climbing rosebush and winding it into a ring.
If you want to make a cross like this, cut a cross shape out of wood or cardboard. To make a stand on the back, bend a metal coat hanger, fasten it on with a brace that allows movement so the cross can fold flat for storage. Tie a ribbon on the bottom so the stand doesn’t slide out too far so the cross falls over. Another way to make a stand for the cross: cut a piece of wood and fasten it to the back of the cross with a hinge, similar to stands on the backs of picture frames.
Another option to decorate the foyer table is an Easter basket for each child--to be opened on Easter Sunday, of course! Sometimes you can find chocolate crosses or fish like the one shown above. This one was sold at Walmart along with all the chocolate Easter eggs and bunnies. If you can’t find ready made ones, you can buy chocolate molds and make your own.
View Easter basket ideas for preschool children
View Easter basket ideas for elementary children
View Easter basket ideas for pre-teen and teens
Link to Sugarcrafts website that sells chocolate molds
(Keep scrolling down the page--they have a lot of different cross items before you get to the chocolate molds)
These cheerful Easter decorations are perfect for your front door, whether the door is light or dark. They were purchased at Hobby Lobby craft store. You can make your own versions out of wood or cardboard, but the cut-out letters will be a lot of work!! If you use a home made “EASTER” decoration inside, you could cut the letters out of heavy paper (card stock) in 2 layers, then fasten them together with foam style double stick tape. Tie them together with colorful ribbons. You can find pastel card stock, patterned paper, ribbon, and foam style double stick tape at most craft stores, office supply stores, discount stores like Walmart, and even some dollar stores.
