Holidays > Easter > Decorations for the home > Flower Basket Easter Centerpieces and Wall Decorations
Turn a cereal box into a flower basket with just scissors, glue stick and 3 sheets of colored paper!
The daisies in the photo are artificial flowers bought at a dollar store. It doesn’t get any cheaper than that, especially since you can use them year after year. If you want to use real flowers, put a jar of water in the basket to put the flowers in. Another option would be to line the basket with plastic sheets, then put in oasis (green foam used for flower arranging) that has soaked in water for at least 30 minutes. Less than that, and chances are there will be dry spots, and the flowers will die quickly. Poke the stems of the fresh flowers into the wet oasis. If fresh flowers are too expensive, make daisies out of paper.
Cut out a strip of purple paper and a pink strip one third the width of the purple strip. Cut out a flower shape for each strip (see link below). Daisies need 2 layers. Cut out a yellow circle for the center of each flower. Use a pen cap or small round object to draw a pattern for the circle.
Glue the pink strip to the purple strip. Glue the 2 layers of daisy together. Glue the flower in the middle of the pink strip. Glue the yellow circle to the middle of the daisy
If you intend to make the strip into a napkin ring, glue the ends together as soon as possible--as soon as you glue the strips together. If you wait until the glue dries on the two strips, the paper will warp and wrinkle.
This 3-D cross is actually made out of 4 sheets of paper. Download the pattern, cut out the 2 shapes, glue them into 2 tubes, then squeeze them together. It is light weight, so easy to hang on a wall or bulletin board.
This banner proclaims the good news that tells why Easter is the most important day in all of history. Other options for words might be “Jesus is alive!” or “Hallelujah ,“ or even “Happy Day!”
This paper decoration can be used in several ways. It can simply be a decoration for the plates, or write names on them to make them into name cards. Another option is to glue a verse on the back of each one, then each person can read their verse aloud during the meal. Or leave the back blank, and everyone can write why they are grateful for Easter. Don’t forget to provide pens or pencils.
See instructions below.
Another way to use the strips is to make the them into napkin rings by gluing the ends together to form rings.
They make cute little candy cups, too. Just add a handle and bottom. They are pretty flimsy, so don’t add candy until the cups are on the plates, or you may end up tearing all your hard work.
To make a bottom, you can glue or staple a muffin liner inside this sleeve. If you don’t have muffin liners, cut a circle out of paper, and cut slits around the edge every quarter inch (1 cm.). Fold these flaps up, and glue them to the inside sides of the purple ring.
These are all paper decorations that you can make yourself. They are really cheap, and don’t take too long to make, so it is easy to make Easter special. Why purple? It is the color for royalty, and since Easter is celebrating the resurrection of the King of Kings, it seems like a good color to use.