Beautiful Spring Table

Host Bee on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Decorating a Beautiful Spring Table

There are many opportunities to entertain in the spring! Easter, Passover, Egg Hunts, Mother’s Day and more. Here are a few unique ideas to dress up your springtime table!Many of these ideas will work for your mantle as well!

Place Cards – Make a Place Card and Favor in One

Purchase tiny clay flower pots and paint them with black chalkboard paint
Fill each pot with a spring plant such as a crocus, pansy, or primrose
Use chalk to write the name of each guest on a pot and place it at their seat at the table! You’ve created a placecard and favor in one!
As an alternative to the chalkboard paint, trim each clay pot with grosgrain or fabric ribbon and set a colorful packet of flower seeds in each

Centerpiece- Create a True Conversation Piece

At your local home improvement store, pick up one or two squares of fresh sod

Cut the squares to fit into a platter or tray that can be easily cleaned. Most likely you can use a piece that you already own.
Add an assortment of spring decorations such as bunnies, eggs (real or artificial*), or fuzzy chicks
Consider purchasing the decorations for the grass and inviting each guest to choose a little item to take home!

Additional Ideas for Table Centerpieces

Clear glass containers or vases can also make very versatile centerpieces, and you probably have several of these in your home already, or see sources below. Assemble an odd number of glass containers in different sizes and shapes. Think tall, short, wide, narrow, round and square.

Ideas for filling each container with different items all tied to the same theme:

Raffia and Speckled Eggs – Fill the bottom of each glass container with some type of colored natural raffia or straw and set artificial speckled eggs on top of the raffia.*
Polished Rocks and Ferns – Line the bottoms of the containers with polished rocks. Set small pots of flowers and ferns on top of the rocks. Try for fresh flowers or ferns, but some artificial versions look so lifelike that it’s hard to tell the difference!
Easter candy – Set a large chocolate bunny on Easter grass in one container, foil covered chocolate eggs in another, jelly beans in one, malted speckled eggs in another and peeps in the next. Containers filled this way will not only be colorful, but will also be fun to snack from while sitting around the table after dinner!
Follow Nature’s Lead – place artificial eggs in one container, a blossoming branch such as forsythia in another, a small bird’s nest in one, polished river rocks in another, and a blooming crocus in the next. For items which need a “base” within the container, I recommend pieces of green moss purchased from a craft store. Check your yard for more inspiration!

*The eggs that I am suggesting have become more prevalent each year. They are usually sold in a bag that containes a number of eggs in multiple sizes and colors. The colors are in the pastel family including robins egg blue, light pink, and seafoam green and are covered with dark speckles that really make the eggs look authentic! Try Joann Fabrics and Crafts if you have a store near you or for a variety of options, see Christmas Traditions. (You have to scroll down the page quite a bit to come to the eggs.)

Candles

Don’t forget to coordinate your candles with your centerpiece and placecards. For beautiful candles, both solid and striped, see anacandles.com. Look under their pastel section.

Sources for Glass Containers

From Art and Artifact:

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