Like many different holiday celebrations, our holiday crafts and decorations can become a little bit stale and boring.\u00a0 When Easter comes along, we all buy cartons of eggs and hard boil them, then dye them in various shades of pastel yellow and blue and green and red.\u00a0 But why not change things up this particular Easter season?\u00a0 There are a number of different things that you can do to bring something different and fun to your Easter decorations this year.\u00a0 In addition, this particular Easter craft will bring a touch of culture to your Easter decorations, as you bring some Old World Easter traditions into your home by creating your own Easter egg tree.<\/p>\n
For centuries, it has been traditional in Germany and Austria to celebrate the Easter season by hanging hollow eggs from the branches of trees both inside and outside the home.\u00a0 Now you can create this own tradition in your home by creating your own indoor Easter egg tree.\u00a0 This particular Easter egg tree will be the perfect place for you to display your own decorated Easter eggs, whether you create your own blown and decorated Easter eggs or you purchase them from somebody else.<\/p>\n
How to make your own Easter egg tree<\/strong><\/p>\n Materials needed:<\/em><\/p>\n 1 ice bucket (or a vase) Steps for making your own Easter egg tree<\/strong><\/p>\n Begin creating your own Easter egg tree by filling an ice bucket with water.\u00a0 Then place floral foam in the ice bucket.\u00a0 Arrange your grass and pussy willow branches in the floral foam.\u00a0 Another way that you can create an Easter egg tree is by filling a vase with water and with pebbles.\u00a0 Then arrange any fresh cut and flowering branchs in the vase.\u00a0 Some good choices for these branches include flowering quince, cherry blossom, forsythia, and\/or magnolia.<\/p>\n Next you need to thread the ribbon onto your decorated Easter eggs.\u00a0 Take a length of ribbon and center a slip not on it.\u00a0 Then thread the ends of the ribbon through a large eyed needle.\u00a0 If you do not have a large eyed needle, then you can take a 12-inch length of 27-gauge wire in half and then thread the ribbon through the loop end.\u00a0 Then very carefully thread the needle through the holes that are on each end of any blown and decorated egg.\u00a0 Pull ribbon through the egg.\u00a0 Make sure that you remember that the hole from which the ends of the ribbon come out will be the top of your egg.\u00a0 Double knot the ribbon both below and above the Easter egg.\u00a0 Tie the loose ends of the egg to the \u201ctree\u201d with a bow.<\/p>\n A nice idea would be to create a number of different Easter egg trees.\u00a0 Use a different type of flowering branch for each one.\u00a0 Then place the trees around your house.\u00a0 You can hang eggs with matching color shades on each tree: for example, use blown and decorated Easter eggs with a pink shade of color on them for your flowering quince Easter egg tree.<\/p>\n While your Easter egg tree can\u2019t last year after year after year, your blown and decorated Easter eggs will, along with their ribbons.\u00a0 Thus you can create a new Easter egg tree each year based on the types of flowering branches that are readily available at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nfloral foam (or pebbles)
\ngrass and pussy willow branches \/ any fresh cut branches (flowering quince, forsythia, cherry blossom, or magnolia)
\nblown and decorated Easter eggs
\nribbon
\nneedle<\/p>\n