Easter is one of my favorite Holiday’s. With all the fresh spring feeling of new things, like flowers and fresh food and hopefully some good weather. Because of the COVID pandemic, we will celebrate Easter at home, the 5 of us with a nice brunch and an Easter Egg Hunt. Find out which ideas I came up with to have a wonderful Sunday family time together.
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Easter in the Netherlands
We used to go to church for Easter celebrations. In our small town of 5,000 residents in the south of the Netherlands, we had 1 church, a Roman Catholic church. In our current town of 10,000 people in the USA, I think we have about 30 churches.
At our school in the Netherlands, each child made a big wooden cross (almost the size of ourselves) and decorated it with ribbons, and Easter bread from our local bakery, honey and other goodies. Right before the Easter weekend, we brought each cross to a person in town who was sick or disabled. It was nice to do something like this for other people.
In the Netherlands we celebrate Easter for two days, Easter Sunday and Monday. Of course one of the most fun things was the yummy food at our Easter brunch and the Easter Egg Hunt.
Sometimes these Egg Hunts were outside if the weather was good, sometimes inside. And then it was time to enjoy a festive brunch with our family. My brother and I dyed the eggs the day before Easter and we made Easter bread from the white bread dough my mom made. Like little braids or bunnies.
If the weather was nice, we would take a walk or a bike ride in the afternoon.
How we celebrate Easter now in the USA.
Me, being a Dutch mom now, I always wanted to keep our traditions. Easter is one of them.
As I mentioned before, I love the fact that the weather is getting better and we are able to spent some time outside again after a long winter here in Iowa. So, instead of doing an Indoor Treasure Hunt, like the ones we do for Sinterklaas, now we can do some cool Egg Hunts outside! Some of them are great for teenagers too.
A lot of times our kids are up early and want to find the eggs immediately, so we end up doing that first and THEN have our Easter Brunch. To make the table fun and festive, here you can find some great decoration ideas.
Easter Brunch decorations
1. Chocolate Easter Egg tree
Last year, I made this tree for our Easter Brunch table. I bought 2 bags of chocolate eggs and I had a foam ball in my craft room. The ball got a little top heavy after I hot glued the eggs on, so I used 3 wooden chopsticks for the stem, instead of just one! A wooden dowel will do too. In a glass or terra cotta pot I put some rocks and aluminum foil. It looked so bright and fun. The week following Easter, the chocolate eggs slowly disappeared. Uhm…I wonder how!
2. Table Runner with bunnies
Sorry for the not so ironed table runner.
Someone actually gave me this one, but I can see how you can easily make it yourself, using a piece of fabric or burlap for a rustic feel. A matching ribbon for around the table runner and applique bunnies with a cute pompom for the tail.
3. Egg Shell Candles, the perfect center piece.
This super cute center piece idea, I found on a German website through Pinterest. I’m going to try to make it myself this year. From another candle project I have some beeswax pieces left and I’ll glue some pieces of macramé yarn for the wick on the bottom of the shells. Hopefully that’ll work. I’ll let you know! Add a few small feathers and hopefully some small flowers like lilacs and you’re ready!
Update: I made this myself too. Be sure to crack the eggs NOT in the middle but try to crack more of the top, so there will be more room for the wax.
4. Use Fresh tulips in decorations.
If you think of Dutch flowers, you probably think of tulips. Last year I turned an old wooden CD case (who is using CD’s these days?) into a rectangle succulent box. The box got a beautiful pale blue color with my left over bathroom paint. Now I can take the paper succulents out and put low glasses with tulips, long twigs, maybe some ribbons and more green in the box.
5. Cute Easter Napkin Idea
This is such an adorable idea. Instead of having the Easter eggs in a simple basket, add them to your napkin. I might ask my 7-year old to make a bunny face on the egg.
6. Vase with fresh cut branches and decorated eggs
Here is a great idea from another Crafty Dutch Girl! Thank you for this wonderful project.
This was a broken vase, but it didn’t fell totally apart. With glue and rustic twine, this vase is ready to be used again. Instead of filling the vase up directly with water, a cup with water was placed inside the vase. Cut some beautiful forsythia, curly willow or lilac branches and organize them in the vase.
Something I totally forgot about was the art of blowing out eggs and decorate them. My friend brought this to another level by creating an “ornament egg” for each child every single year. After Easter she stores them carefully away in egg cartons. Hang them in your curly willow twigs.
How is your Easter Brunch Table going to look like? Any fun and creative ideas?
And don’t forget to check out some delicious Easter Brunch recipe ideas!
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