12 Unique & Pretty Easter Decorations You Can Make Yourself (PHOTOS)

Easter is all about color, and this ombre table runner tutorial from Jamie at JamieDanno.com will help you make a gorgeously colored dining room. Use any two colors that you like!

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I love fabric banners, but this one, made from colorful cardstock and chalkboard paint, seems easier to make! A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts has all the instructions.

This pretty and easy-to-make project is from Sarah Desjardins of BecomingMartha.com. You can personalize your own Baker's Twine Spring Wreath with any pretty Easter decorations.

From the book "A Year in Crafts" by Clare Youngs (CICO Books, November 2014), this project requires a little time, but is fairly simple to do -- and it will last for years! Modeling clay is cut into dove and egg shapes, then embossed with stamps or found objects to create pretty patterns before they're baked. The decorations are then connected with colored cord and can be hung to create a beautiful Easter display.

Writes Clare in her beautiful book: I have some pretty wooden printing blocks from India, which make lovely embossed patterns when pressed into modeling clay. You could use rubber stamps or experiment with objects found around the house. This is a great project to get the kids involved in. I like the simplicity of white decorations, but they would also look pretty painted in different pastel colors and tied with ribbon. Hang them from twigs and spring blossom for a gorgeous Easter display.

Click to the next slide for a template and the full instructions.

To make the pretty display on the previous slide, follow these instructions, adapted from "A Year in Crafts" by Clare Youngs.

You will need:
Tracing paper
Pencil
Scissors
Cutting mat
Soft and light oven-bake clay
Rolling pin
Craft knife
Knitting needle
Something to press into the clay to make a pattern (like a wooden stamp)
Colored string or cord

1. Create templates out of tracing paper for the shapes of the bird and the eggs (you can use the image featured here for the bird -- just trace it right from your computer screen!).
2. On a cutting mat, roll out some clay until it is approximately 1/16 in. (3 mm) thick. Place the templates on the clay and cut around them carefully using a craft knife.
3. Using a knitting needle or something similar, make a hole at the top and bottom of the bird and the two larger eggs. On the smallest egg, just make a hole at the top. On the bird, make a hole for the eye.
4. Press into the shapes to make an indented pattern. Follow the instructions on the modeling clay packet
to bake the clay.
5. Use colored cord or string to tie the eggs together, from the largest to the smallest. Then attach the bird
at the top of the row of eggs.
6. Thread a length of the cord through the hole at the top of the bird for hanging.

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These Ribbon Eggs, designed by ILovetoCreate for A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts, are so pretty, aren't they? Several hanging in a doorway or window would be beautiful; you could also add them to Easter wreaths or an Easter tree.

How pretty for the Easter table! These dyed egg vases from the crafters at Wayfair.com are made by dying blown-out eggs and placing them in little egg cups. They should keep for years if you pack them away carefully.

This bright and exuberant Easter wreath, designed by Pattie Donham Wilkinson for ILovetoCreate.com, will welcome the Easter Bunny to your door in style.

These Place Setting Nests from Wayfair.com are SO EASY to create, yet they really add a pretty punch to a table setting! All you need is paper confetti and chocolate eggs.

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This is one of the easiest things to do, and you probably don't even have to buy any of the supplies! Just find some big glass containers and fill them with Easter eggs. Obviously, using real eggs is not recommended, unless they're blown eggs. But any other kind would work, from the festive colored plastic ones, to any of your prettier decorative eggs.

I love Easter trees! There are so many pretty ideas (check out Pinterest). However, this DIY Paskris Easter Tree, by the fabulous "Peaches" of AuntPeaches.com and based on a Scandinavian paskris tree, is one of the most vibrant and colorful I've ever seen.

Cute! Check out this Sequined Egg Tutorial from Kelly over at StudioDIY.com to make your own glitzy welcome to the holiday.

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