Easter Decorations

As Easter becomes more of a festivity, more party shops are stocking Easter decorations.  You can now buy a large range of Easter merchandise to decorate your home or party venue. As with any event, preparation is the key to a successful party and decorations can be prepared, made or purchased in advance. UK-Entertainers has created this article to make your choice as easy as possible. To accompany your decorations, UK-Entertainers have also produced complimentary articles ‘Easter Party Games’ and ‘Easter Party Foods’ to help make your party planning as easy as possible.

Easter Tree

An Easter Tree can be as simple as collecting some twigs from the garden, arranging them in a vase and then decorating with patterned wooden eggs.  Many gift shops and boutiques now sell 2-3cm, 5cm and larger eggs specifically for Easter Trees.  A small tree can be an attractive addition to a window sill or make an interesting centre piece for your table.  If you have a bigger space you can use larger twigs or branches to display 5cm decorative eggs.

Children can also be involved in decorating eggs for the Easter tree.  Blown eggs (see Handmade Easter Decorations section) provide a delicate addition to any tree, and will all be unique and personal to your family.  Easter trees can be given the finishing touches by adding small soft toys of chicks or rabbits sitting at the base of the vase.  (Discount pound shops often have a box of chicks).

Decorating your Easter Tree can become a family tradition much like decorating the Christmas tree in December. 

Easter Banners

If you are holding a child’s Easter Party, banners can make a colourful addition to any room.  These could be homemade for the personal touch or purchased from a party store for a timesaving display. Homemade banners can involve all the family, and can be as easy as cutting out large egg shapes for the children to paint or colour and then threading or taping onto string.  For the more adventurous there are many, many clip art pictures of eggs, rabbits, chickens, flowers etc that can be printed out to cut and decorate.

Balloons and Inflatable Decorations

Balloons are generally recognised as a symbol of a party, so why should Easter be any different?  Most supermarkets stock balloons and the standard balloons are egg shaped. These can again be decorated with permanent pens (with adult supervision), or glitter, sequins attached with glue. You can buy specifically manufactured balloons for Easter with ‘Easter’ printed on them or helium foil balloons of chicks, rabbits or other Easter characters.

In some party shops you can buy large inflatable bunnies, chicks, large eggs and other Easter emblems that can be displayed in the corner of rooms.

Room Decorations  

There are many choices when decorating a room for Easter. You can choose hanging decorations similar to mobiles or use larger cut out shapes and pictures to cover wall spaces.

Hanging decorations are available to purchase but can be easily made from string or packing ribbon and attaching pictures of rabbits, chicks, eggs etc at intervals down the string.  If you are feeling artistic these can be drawn or cut out from pictures printed from a clip art package. 

Similarly a quick way to add a splash of Easter colour to a room is to use spring or Easter related pictures cut out and stuck on the walls. If you are holding a children’s party you could supply the children with an outline picture and allow them to colour in the picture and then display it. This will give the children a real sense of involvement in the party.

Piñatas

Piñatas are becoming a more familiar addition for parties.  Unless you have A LOT of spare time, and space to make a papier-mâché piñata and decorate it, then we would recommend that if you would like one for your Easter party then purchasing one may be the best option. There are a huge range of piñatas available including chicks and bunnies for an Easter party. 

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