by Carol Gioia

Created on: January 23, 2010

When you are decorating your home for Spring, think about incorporating an indoor Easter tree into the scheme. An Easter tree is easy to make and will be a fun addition to the festive atmosphere on Easter Sunday, when your friends and family gather to celebrate the season. If you have children or grandchildren, they can help you decorate the Easter tree.

If you want to make a big production, use a full-sized potted plant, such as a Fiscus. Put tiny white lights and your decorative items on it. Colored cellophane Easter grass at the base and strategically placed stuffed bunnies will complete a scene to delight both young and old.

If you want a coffee table display, choose a branch from a tree that has not yet begun to bud spring leaves. The branch should be fairly straight, with reasonably well-balanced off-shooting limbs. Spray the branch white, allow it to dry, and place it in a basket, or other container of choice. Fix you “tree” in place with plaster of Paris, or small rocks at the bottom of the container. Cover the base with cellophane grass. Now you are ready for the decorations.

There are several options for decorating your Easter tree:

* Hollow and color real eggs

With a pin, carefully prick a hole in both ends of the eggshell. Blow the insides of the egg into a dish, and set aside to be used later in cooking. Color the hollowed shells in soft pastels of green, pink, yellow and purple. Hang them from the tree with fishing line, thread, or narrow satin ribbon.

* Plastic eggs

Purchase different sizes of the colored plastic Easter eggs. Place a treat or coins inside of each one and hang from your tree with thread. This is an especially fun option with grandchildren.

* Craft eggs

Purchase Styrofoam eggs from the local craft store and glue gun bits of ribbon, artificial flowers or any other trinkets or colorful items to cover the Styrofoam. If you want to glue material to the egg first, pastel ginghams, polka dot and stripe patterns are good choices.

* Ready-made Easter decorations

Craft stores, retail outlets and party shops sell ready made decorations specifically designed for an Easter tree. Colorfully painted wooden eggs, bunnies, lambs, ducks, carrots, crosses, daffodils and tulips are just a few of the ornaments to choose from.

* Edible Easter tree

If you are fashioning an Easter tree to use as a centerpiece on your dining table or buffet, think about making it an edible affair. Look over the selection of Easter candy and use variations of bunnies, eggs and jelly bean birds nests. You can use frosting for glue to attach them directly from the tree or to affix thread for hanging.

Hopefully, some of these suggestions for making an Easter tree will sound good to you, or spark your imagination to come up with some ideas of your own.

Whatever the method or materials you decide upon, making an Easter tree will guarantee to be a hit at your Easter celebration, and might potentially become a treasured family tradition.

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