Easter Trees and Egg Decorations
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Adopt a Decorated Easter Tree as New Holiday Tradition this Year
Decorated Easter trees have become a tradition in the United States less than two centuries ago however, many European countries used to decorate trees on Easter time for a long time. For example, Germany and Austria used to decorate Easter trees with painted Easter eggs for both indoor and outdoor use. In some other European areas, we used to decorate an Easter tree that we place in our home, just like we do with our Christmas tree.
Naturally, while some certainly decorate evergreen trees with painted Easter eggs, we generally use branches with buds, like Forsythia branches - remember, Easter is celebrated in the spring - as it's a symbol of the renewal of the nature. Some stores even sell such trees in pots especially for Easter time.
While Germans decorate their Easter trees with natural decorated eggs, you can hang all sorts of decorations on your Easter tree: rabbits, trains, chicks, and so on. Would you want to start this lovely tradition in your own family? Then, you have come to the right place.
Easter Tree and Egg Decorating Contents at a Glance
How to Make an Easter Tree with Natural Elements
Homemade Easter trees are always the best!
Photo: Green Earth Accents Curly Willow 4 Feet Tall, Package of 10 - Burnt Oak
Making your own Easter tree is really easy to do in that a tree on Easter time just requires a few materials that you certainly have on hand and it's also a fun project to make with the kids as it involves a short walk in the nature.
Here's how to create your very own outstanding Easter tree at home.
- Since making an Easter tree will require some branches, go for a walk in the park or the forest with the kids and find natural budding branches (or bare branches)
- Choose the height of your future Easter tree and cut branches to the length you wish
- If you want to create a colored Easter tree, spray the branches with acrylic pastel paintings otherwise leave them as they are
- Place the branches in a vase or a container depending which can carry their size and weight
- Decorate your container with an Easter theme (use spring-y paintings, stickers and ribbons)
- Hang tiny Easter eggs, bunnies, chicks and other symbols on the branches
- If you wish, add a pastel string LED light to your new Easter tree
Personally, I gathered natural small branches which I place in a vase on the center of the dining table and decorate with tiny crystal eggs, wooden bunnies and chicks. If my Easter tree is only 20 inches tall it is mostly because the room is quite small, but if you have a big room, you're not limited in the size of your Easter tree and may want to make a tall one.
Lighted Willow Branches
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If you do not wish to go all out searching for natural branches, online stores provide you with a wonderful alternative: lighted Easter branches. Get a pack of such LED lit branches, arrange them in a container and decorate with tiny Easter ornaments.
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How to Make an Easter Egg to Decorate your Easter Tree
Homemade Easter eggs will decorate your tree with perfection!
Although Easter eggs are the favorite decorating items to decorate an Easter tree, as said earlier, people hang many different types of decorations on their Easter trees. For example, in addition to hand blown glass Easter eggs (which I got from a wonderful American friend), I hang miniature trains, rabbits, chicks on my Easter branches. But you can go further and use any type of decoration as long as they're Easter and spring related and small enough to not cause the tree to fall over..
How to make a natural ornamental Easter egg?
Making a natural Easter egg isn't as hard as it might look.
Here's the materials you need:
- Some fresh eggs
- A sewing needle
- Colorful paints
- Paint brushes
- Tissue paper
- Colorful ribbon
- Transparent thread
- Craft glue
Directions to make easter ornamental eggs:
- Clean the eggs - with the sewing needle, gently pin the top and bottom of the eggs in order to create two tiny holes
- Breath in one hole to blow the white and yolk out of the the other hole
- Use craft glue to close the tiny holes
- Gently paint the egg shell - remember eggs are extremely fragile
- When eggs have dried, stick a ribbon on top of each egg with some craft glue
That's it! You now have a nice collection of natural ornamental Easter eggs to use year after year if you keep them in a safe place after Easter time.
Photo: Pack of 2 Decorative Spring Pastel Easter Egg Potted Wire Trees 18"
But What if you Can't Make Homemade Easter Tree Decorations?
Get a pre-made Easter tree kit if you don't have time to make your own
If you don't want to make your Easter tree decorations yourself, then getting a nice Easter tree kit on which you just have to hang on Easter ornaments, is a good option.
I like tiny Easter trees because they allow me to place one of them in each room of the house so that they bring the Easter spirit everywhere I go.
From tiny Easter trees to larger ones, you can find a wide range of different Easter trees in stores, whether online stores or your local supermarket (on Easter time).
Easter Egg Tree Small-Lavender
Pack of 4 Pastel Potted Easter Egg Tree Table Accents 10"
Easter Egg Tree + 12 Hand Painted Solid Wood Miniature Easter Eggs
Pack of 4 Potted Artificial Egg/Bird Nest Spring Easter Topiary Tree 14.5"
How About Placing a Cute Easter Music and Lights Tree in the Living Room?
Sing along Easter songs with Easter bunny and Spring duck
Fun, fun, fun, musical lighted musical Easter tree will wow your guests on Easter Sunday! Although fun and joyful at the same time, decorating the house for Easter (or any holiday) can quickly take a lot of time and for this reason, getting a few ready-to-use Easter decorating trees can work wonders.
For example, this spring bloom lighted and musical Easter tree, featuring an Easter bunny and a Spring duck under an Easter egg tree will do the job!
The ready-to-use pre-lit and musical Easter tree plays Easter music and has changing lights made out of multicolor fiber optic. The 7"L x 17"H x 6"W Easter tree set is powered by 3 AA batteries (to be purchased separately) and you can choose to just light the tree or light and play music at the same time.
Get a Bunch of Different Easter Eggs to Decorate your Wonderful Easter Tree!
Glass and porcelain Easter eggs, bunnies, chicks, the more ornaments you hang on your Easter tree, the best it is!
When it comes to Easter tree decorations, there is a wide range of models and themes available in stores: eggs are supplied in the largest quantities and the most wide range of different themes and types.
From colored transparent glass Easter eggs to gem decorated Easter eggs to rabbit ornaments or even Easter dove hanging decoration, and even Faberge styled Easer egg ornaments, you're always sure to find the decorative eggs that meet your needs.
And if you want to provide your Easter tree a fancier look, just add some pastel colored ribbons. Add the finishing touches to your Easter tree with a few baskets filled with chocolate eggs and placed around the bottom of the tree.
Club Pack of 16 Vibrantly Colored Transparent Glass Easter Egg Ornaments 5"
Club Pack of 30 Glass Easter Egg Ornaments with White Dots 3"
Pack of 10 Pastel Easter Egg Ornaments with Gems Hung on Ribbon 5"
Pack of 36 Moss Green & Yellow Forsythia Easter Egg Ornaments 4"
Club Pack of 16 Crackle-Finished Glass Easter Egg Ornaments 5"
Set of 4 Easter Rabbits Jingle Buddies Ornaments
Sprintime Bonnets 1997 Easter Ornament 5th in series QEO8672
Set of 3 Vintage Style Easter Bag Ornaments ~ Great Easter Gifts!
Easter Dove - Bird Art - 3 Inch Snowflake Porcelain Ornament
PEANUTS SNOOPY 1995 Easter Collection QEO8257
Bring Easter in the Yard and Decorate your Outdoor Trees and Plants this Easter
Outdoor Easter decorating ideas
Chickens, roosters, egg baskets, bunnies, etc. make fantastic decorations for your Easter tree, just like I said above. You can even create your own personalized Easter decorating items; for example, crochet or knit some Easter egg ornaments, they'll definitely provide your Easter tree with a personalized look.
But there's more... Transform the trees in your yard into Easter trees. Doing this is quite easy and will make Easter time even more fun: just hang some decorations onto the trees, add a few garlands made out of pastel painted macaroni or pop corn, some pastel colored ribbons, a few painted Easter eggs, some white lilies, a few bells and, in no time, you'll have a marvelous Easter display in the garden or in the front yard.
You're not limited in decorating trees for Easter as you can even decorate your patio plants with Easter ornaments. In reality, when it comes to Easter trees, the sky's the limit. Happy Easter!
Photo: Egg Tree Bunny Mini Flag, sold on Amazon.com
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MelonyVaughan
Apr 1, 2012 @ 9:53 pm | delete
- Great lens and full of wonderful ideas!
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daria369
Apr 1, 2012 @ 8:48 pm | delete
- These look beautiful, thank you for sharing this Easter tradition! :)
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Mamaboo Mar 30, 2012 @ 7:17 pm | delete
- Nice...thanks for sharing and I think these are wonderful party ideas for Easter Day... thanks and be blessed!
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SRitchieable
Mar 28, 2012 @ 8:55 pm | delete
- I love your lens - I've just featured it on mine: http://www.squidoo.com/easter-gifts-easter-angels-and-easter-babies. Thanks for sharing!
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celebrate
Jul 13, 2011 @ 9:29 am | delete
- These trees are so cute! I imagine that you can do the same with Christmas ornaments.
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vallain Apr 26, 2011 @ 10:23 am | delete
- I don't decorate much for Easter, but these look so cute that I'm tempted.
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Blessedmombygrace
Apr 20, 2011 @ 6:31 pm | delete
- We had an Easter Tree growing up (1960's). I remember loving seeing the beautiful decorated eggs my mother made. Neat lens.
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Tipi
Apr 14, 2011 @ 9:13 am | delete
- There is cuteness written all over this lens. I love these Easter Egg Trees.
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Sylvestermouse
Apr 12, 2011 @ 2:26 pm | delete
- Oh, everything is just so cute and fabulous! Makes me want a Easter tree! I love you instructions for making your own decorated Easter egg and tree. As pretty as the little wire trees are, I think I just might prefer the natural branches myself. Most Excellent!
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Mickie_G
Apr 1, 2011 @ 3:27 pm | delete
- I think that these Easter decorations would look wonderful on a "Gift Money Tree" --lensrolled!
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