Easy Easter Decorating Ideas You Can Achieve By The Weekend

16 easy ways to upgrade your Easter celebration

Easter weekend is just around the corner, and there is no finer opportunity this side of Christmas to bake, decorate and gather together. Easter is thankfully less demanding as far as the home is concerned, and we're perfectly content to gather some branches and blossoms and the odd bunny decoration for an informal celebration.

This year, we're taking a hopeful punt on fine weather to get outside for an Easter lunch, baking some deceptively simple showstoppers and revelling in the last of the daffodils. (Read our roundup of the best Easter wreaths here.)

Read on for 16 Easter ideas, from table decorating to DIY hanging garlands, that are achievable by this weekend.

Daffodils do wonderfully well in containers and can be used in abundance on the Easter table. We are fast approaching the end of the blooming season, so make the most of them this weekend. We love the sweet gingham napkins that add a quaint decorative touch.

Take a hopeful punt on good weather and set up your Easter lunch outdoors. This lovely table setting from Sophie Allport uses simple crockery with flourishes of spring bouquets and a swathe of plain fabric hung to frame the scene.

Pictured: Table linen and crockery, all at Sophie Allport

Create your own Easter hamper by filling a picnic basket with flowers and chocolate eggs. This could even become a DIY centrepiece of an Easter display.

Pictured: Pastel Egg Fairy Lights and Outdoor LED Candles at Lights4fun

As the outdoors start to flourish, the cocooning textures and colours of a home dressed for the winter months can begin to feel heavy. We are huge proponents of decorating with the seasons and introducing hopeful pops of colour that reflect the outdoors.

Pictured: Country Living Whitstable kitchen at Homebase

Hanging garlands are most often made with pliable branches like pussy willows, and decorated with foliage, spring blooms, and pastel-coloured eggs. There are plenty of pre-made Easter garlands (like this example from Lights4fun,) for those who don't fancy any last-minute DIY.

Pictured: Garland, Micro Fairy Lights and Easter Baubles, all at Lights4fun

Easter Sunday calls for staples like hot cross buns or a fragrant simnel cake. For the baking-averse, there are still wonderful options available from the Easter Bakery at Daylesford.

Pictured: Products from the Easter bakery at Daylesford

If you don't want to buy Easter tableware that will likely sit in a cupboard for the rest of the year, rely on springtime colours instead. A trail of wild flowers and bright and hopeful shades of pink, purple and yellow will do the job.

Pictured: Joy of Print x Tori Murphy table linen

Simplicity itself, but a treat for the Easter table nonetheless, pick some simple cotton napkins like these beautiful Sophie Allport examples and tie them around an egg – hard boiled to avoid mishaps, or wooden decorations would work too – to create sweet bunny ears.

Pictured: Boxing Hares Napkins at Sophie Allport

Weather dependent, you can use your summerhouses or arbours or outdoor dining sets as a sweet backdrop for an Easter tea party. Some simple festoon lights, an Easter wreath, and an abundance of colourful eggs would work wonders.

Pictured: Festoon Lights, Solar Lanterns and Truglow® Candles at Lights4fun

For those who wince at the sight of primary colours and sugary bunting, your Easter decoration can be as simple as adding a handful of spring branches to a bud vase.

Pictured: House Beautiful Naomi Mushroom Blinds at Hillarys

Some Christmas tradition have fresher and more optimistic iterations come Easter, and a wreath is a great example. This one is festooned with daffodils for a bright yellow display.

Pictured: Chalk Paint In Tilton at Annie Sloan

Easter decorating is for grown ups, too. This sophisticated Easter table uses a simple centrepiece of green branches, frothy yellow Mimosa and hanging paper eggs sat on a linen runner. Look closely for some sweet ceramic bunnies (more on them below.)

Pictured: Table setting at Layered Lounge

There are those among us who have neither the skill nor inclination to tackle Easter recipes at home, so why not have the pros do it for you. Cutter and Squidge have a huge variety of spectacular cakes with delivery nationwide.

Pictured: Easter Simnel Cake at Cutter & Squidge

A gentle nod towards Easter is really all you need. Whilst your crockery and table linen can remain the same year round, a hint of springtime blooms and something playful like these sweet ceramic bunnies do the job.

Pictured: Table setting at Layered Lounge

This Easter-themed wrapping paper has been made with a DIY print blocking set from Cambridge Imprint. A brilliant gifting alternative to chocolate too.

Pictured: Easter Print Blocking Set at Cambridge Imprint

Take a stab at this deceptively easy mini egg cake. A simple sponge and buttercream icing forms the base for a rainbow of mini eggs. One for the little ones.

Get the recipe: Martha's Mini Egg Cake at Waitrose

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