Seasons > Easter > Decorations for the home > Resurrection Egg Centerpieces and Place Settings
Kids will love Easter eggs filled with candy at their places. Grownups might prefer nuts in theirs. Put each egg in the center of a napkin that has been folded in the shape of a flower. You can even make them into place cards by writing guest’s names on the eggs.
View how to fold napkins in the shape of a flower (scroll down the page of Valentine centerpieces till you see pink “flower” napkins with instructions
Two vines of flowers are twisted in the middle of the table to make a spring table runner. These were purchased at a dollar store. Some craft stores carry them as well.
This centerpiece, is so quick to put together. Put a pillar candle in the middle of a pedestal bowl, and drop plastic eggs around the base of the candle. If young children will be handling the eggs, a battery powered candle will be a safer choice. Also, you may prefer to use a basket with a handle, so it can be passed around the table rather than a glass bowl.
Even if you don’t have a pedestal bowl, you can still use the idea for an Easter egg centerpiece. Here the eggs are put into a shallow wooden tray with several pastel colored pillar candles. Add an extra splash of color with a purple table runner. The walls of this dining room are pastel green. So putting a scroll work cross on the wall, makes it look a bit like a decorated Easter egg. The cross was purchased at Hobby Lobby, a craft store in the U.S.
This bright cheerful table really looks like a celebration is going on! That doesn’t mean there is no real meaning taking place. The opposite is true. The eggs in the centerpiece are not ordinary Easter eggs with a candy prize inside. They are Resurrection Eggs: each one has an item from the Easter story. For younger children, you can explain the Easter story as they open each egg. Older children who already know the story can be the ones to tell it. This can take quite a bit of time, so another way to do it is to stretch it out over several weeks, just opening one egg each day, like an advent calendar at Christmas. Then on Easter Sunday, for a grand finale, hide the empty egg that have now been filled with candy, and have an Easter egg hunt. At the dinner table, your children can retell the Easter story as the items are put back in the eggs for the next year.
