Perfect Easter

– How to impress with your Easter table –

Christmas, Sinterklaas, weddings and Easter. I actually don't need it, but what is so much fun about it is to unpack at the table. You can showcase all your styling skills here and make it very cozy with some nice additions. You really don't have to spend a long time in the kitchen, because there's already plenty of fun to see on the table. So you have another week to prepare for the most beautiful Easter table ever. 

Flowers

Flowers immediately give the spring feeling again and that's what you want on the Easter table. Now, large bouquets are not very handy, as they just get in the way, but small vases are so cute and cozy to place among the butter and eggs. Small jam jars always work well as vases, but you can also get started with pastel-colored paint or spray cans to give the vases a soft color. Another fun idea is to spray the vases with some spray glue and then dip them in confetti. Cheerful little flowers in them, distribute, and done. By the way, don't forget the Easter branch. It doesn't have to be boring with some hangers in it, but a few branches in a vase can be enough. Think of colored pom-poms or fresh flowers that you stick in the Easter branches.

Eggs

An Easter table without eggs is not an Easter table. But how fun is that to do. Even without kids, I find it a particularly creative moment. Okay, now you are at the right place to turn all those eggs into little artworks, but I understand that you might not be the most handy. So get inspired and practice makes perfect. The first egg doesn't have to be perfect right away. Two tips; when you boil the eggs, add a little vinegar. This way, the colors of the paint will be much brighter and adhere better to the egg. Tip two; at HEMA you can buy little paper tapes and sticker letters. That's also fun to just stick on. You don't have to work with paint, you don't have to be handy for that, but this way you get a really cool graphic and cheerful effect on the eggs.

Food styling

A nice extra is to place a cookie or macaron on each plate. With a little bag around it, you already give it a special touch, but you can also quickly make an Easter bunny from a macaron with some skewers. Really, it's not that hard at all.

Easter table

I am always a big proponent of setting the table as clean as possible in the basics. So no tablecloths with prints, no napkins with flowers, just everything in white. If you go for all the extras mentioned above, it will look much nicer on the table. And the food also looks much fresher.

Fun extras

My dear colleague Daniëlle has seriously emptied HEMA with gifts for the kids for Easter, all the fun things to decorate an Easter table and “then the food still has to come”. As if that wasn't enough, I'm also always into extras. So balloons with confetti at everyone's chair, little boxes with Easter eggs for the four o'clock dip – of course with nice paper and a label around it –, and feathers that are painted. You can also buy those feathers at HEMA, to then dip them in, for example, silver paint for the necessary festive effect.

Alright, I’ll stop writing. Too much inspiration. You understand that after the above, I really need my time to get started. And you probably do too.