Easter Decorating Ideas For Mantels

Pair Peeps + Posies

Greet the season by dangling a festive floral wreath on your front door. This darling design is sure to steal your heart, mixing delicate dogwoods with textured branches and a pair of petite love birds, front and center.

Get the How-To: Craft a Sunburst-Style Dogwood Wreath for Spring

Create an Adorable Egg Countdown

Create excitement for the season by creating an Easter Sunday countdown calendar out of colorful, plastic eggs. Upcycle a wicker basket from the back of your closet, and lay down faux moss as your base. Add twelve, numbered eggs to the moss and sweeten the deal by adding a small candy treat to enjoy with the passing of each day.

Get the How-To: Count Down to Easter With a DIY Advent Calendar

Cotton-Bottom Curb Appeal

It doesn't get much sweeter than this. Create a cute, cotton-bottomed door hanger using two embroidery hoops, pastel fabric and ribbon, and polish it off with pretty, faux pearl embellishments.

Watch the Video: DIY Embroidery Hoop Bunny Wreath

Bring Out the Bunny Vase

Pro tip: Keep your eye out year-round for unique finds that you can style for the spring and summer holiday season. This funky, bunny bookend is sold as a set for kids' rooms but works overtime as a whimsical vase that would look amazing as part of a Sunday centerpiece.

Layer on the Pastels

Invite light into your home by layering preppy prints, pastel hues and gauzy fabrics. It's easy for us to envision hosting Easter in this blue and white living room. The airy space sports its Sunday best with lush hydrangea arrangements, pale pink throws and Chinoiserie porcelain, galore.

Tinker With Antique Treasures

Take out your treasured spring and summer tchotchkes, and style them with colorful, fresh-cut blooms. We adore the way this vibrant display features a pair of pretty, vintage birds, glossy white pitchers and an antique milk glass vase.

Take a Modern Approach

Skip the pastels and stick to a sea of neutral hues, instead. We're obsessed with the earthy tones used to create this mossy, modern centerpiece. Opting for muted or neutral colors will give your display more of an elevated, adult quality and ensures it will coordinate with your existing and future seasonal decor.

Style With Spring Staples

Nothing says springtime like sunny yellow tulips and a nest full of robin's eggs. Set the scene for the season and recreate this festive, Easter wreath for your front door using faux tulips and supplies from your local craft store.

See More Photos: Spring It On: 17 DIY Wreaths to Freshen Up Your Front Door for Spring

Wow With Whimsical Details

Infuse your coffee table or kitchen counter with Easter spirit with a fresh floral display. We're obsessed with this hydrangea arrangement that features a rustic wire basket and pastel egg base. The cute cake-stand-turned-bunny terrarium comes in at a close second.

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Play Up Pastels

Play up the airy, Easter color palette by swapping out your staple terra-cotta or rattan planters with their colorful counterparts. This prickly pack dresses up the otherwise white mantel with a wash of pretty pastel color.

Try a Sunny Bunny Tablescape

Celebrate the season of sunshine by recreating this sunny bunny table display. A crisp yellow and white lattice tablecloth serves as the perfect backdrop to vintage serveware, miniature egg baskets and a handsome bunny figurine.

Brighten Your Bedside Table

Begin Easter season with fresh perspective and renewed ambition. One way to get there is by refreshing your bedroom design for spring. Toss any dark or bulky bedside accessories, and deck out your nightstand with crisp accents like this chic, white-on-white lamp and dreamy, fresh iris arrangement.

Hardcore Hardware

Ready to really commit to the season? Swap out simple hardware with some refined, rabbit alternatives like the brackets seen here. Trust us, all those small and subtle details add up to big style results and create a space sure to stand out from the rest.

Float Your Florals

Fill the floating shelves in your kitchen with a bounty of overflowing blooms from your garden. Create an organic and elegant display by arranging the fresh-cuts in varied vases and unique, vintage pitchers. Take note from interior designer Leann Ford and pair soft, periwinkle posies with vibrant turquoise accents to create a chic Easter appeal.

Start Nesting

Head to the nearest craft store to recreate this darling, dangling Easter nest, ASAP. Use ribbon or twine to hang your nest from door handles, drawer knobs or wall hooks in your mudroom. We love this project because it's easy to customize to your personal style and current Easter decor, whether it's bright and cheery or subtle and sophisticated with pastels.

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Mix Veggie Garden Bounty + Spring Blooms

When it comes to creating your Easter centerpiece this year, we encourage you to arrange outside the (flower) box. Bring together aromatic roses and fluffy peonies with an equally dazzling cabbage or kale bloom. These unexpected, veggie accents are ideal for Easter arrangements because they bring unique texture to the display and make a subtle nod towards rabbits and their vegetable garden stomping grounds.

Force Bulbs in Chalkboard Pots

Add a cheery pop of spring color to your foyer, living room, kitchen — or anywhere. Chalkboard spray paint and inexpensive terra cotta pots are all you need. Once the bulbs have finished blooming indoors, plant them in your garden so you can enjoy their flowers for many springs to come.

Get the How-To: How to Make Spring Chalkboard Pots

Get Your Glitter On

Shimmering eggs in a bed of moss make a lovely (and easy!) Easter centerpiece. To create them, paint wooden, cardboard or blown-out eggs in soft pastel shades. Once the paint has dried, apply glue dots in a random pattern then sprinkle glitter over the eggs for a sparkling polka dot effect.

Bring the Indoors Out

Why stay cooped up inside when dining outdoors in the spring is such a treat? Weather permitting, carry the dining table outside and enjoy your Easter dinner in the sunshine surrounded by trees, bushes and flowers just breaking into bloom.

Pretty Place Settings

Seriously, how sweet are these little chicks? HGTV fan Decorating Ideas Made Easy proves that creatively showing guests their seat needn't be hard work. She simply printed guests' names onto small strips of card stock then topped each plate with a pair of fluffy chicks and candy eggs.

Make-Over the Mantel

Your fireplace mantel is a great place to showcase seasonal displays — especially if it's the first area guests see when entering your home. To spring-ify her mantel, designer Layla Palmer put her creamware collection to good use by filling pitchers with fresh-cut greenery. Pale green dyed eggs, wicker chargers and small faux bird's nests add an organic touch.

Old is New Again

Designer Brian Patrick Flynn takes advanatage of warming spring days by moving his Easter get-together outdoors. For a quick-and-easy centerpiece, he pairs weathered watering cans, filled with tulips, with vintage chick lawn ornaments.

Freshen Up Your Front Door

Brighten up your home's entry with a colorful Easter wreath. Use hot glue to attach layers of faux spring branches to a pussywillow wreath form. Twine-and-raffia carrots and mini egg-filled nests (both from the craft store) add the perfect finishing touch. Design by HGTV fan Decorating Ideas Made Easy.

Print Out Our (Free!) Banner

Welcome family and friends to your Easter celebration with this colorful banner. Just print this PDF onto card stock, cut out the pennants, then add to string to display.

Embellish Your Old Vases

Look in your own home for inspiration when decorating for Easter. Take ordinary vases and jars, and wrap them with spring-inspired wrapping paper. Mix and match patterns, and fill vases with bold flowers to create an eye-catching centerpiece. Photo courtesy of Kim Foren

Monogrammed Egg Place Cards

HGTV fan nyclq spraypainted plastic eggs a mellow antique gold before applying lettered stickers she found in the scrapbooking aisle of her local craft store. Fill the eggs with chocolates to make each place card a sweet party favor.

Add a Little Zest

Halved oranges and lemons will add a fragrant, colorful pop to your Easter centerpiece. For maximum freshness, cut the fruit then skewer the halves on floral picks or dowels and slide these into the arrangement right before guests arrive.

Make a Moss Monogram

Add a personal touch to your spring decor with this easy-to-craft initial — just glue moss and artificial buds to a chipboard or wooden letter.

Get the How-To: How to Make a Moss Monogram

Keep the Eggs in the Carton

Create an appealing, low centerpiece using eggs, flowers and an egg carton. To make this, pierce the top of a raw egg with a pin, then gently poke the hole with your finger to widen it. Empty the whites and yolk carefully through the hole, and rinse the shell with water. Fill with delicate flowers like sweet pea and mimosa. Place the eggs in a carton or individually in eggcups.

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Let Mother Nature Set the Scene

A wisteria-covered lattice in HGTV fan kitgo's backyard creates a romantic setting for her family's Easter brunch.

Craft a Faux Bird's Nest With Robin's Eggs

In under an hour, you can turn aluminum foil (yes, aluminum foil), Spanish moss, tree bark and sphagnum moss into a realistic bird's nest you can fill with painted robin's eggs or Easter treats.

Get the How-To: How to Craft a Faux Bird's Nest With Robin's Eggs

Make a Colorful Egg Garland

Blown-out pastel eggs are strung together to create this colorful garland. It's sure to add a colorful, springy touch when hung above a vignette or on a banister, mantel or Easter tree.

Get the How-To: How to Make a Hand-Painted Easter Egg Garland

Group Egg Vases Together

To make the ultimate centerpiece, group egg vases together in faux nests or an Easter basket. Dye some of the eggs to add more color to the table. Photo courtesy of Kim Foren

Freshen Up Your Front Porch

Just a few pots filled with blooming plants will add a lot of impact for very little time, money or effort. HGTV fan nyclq keeps the same black painted pots on her porch year-round and switches out their contents to reflect the season.

Add a Little Drama

Tall manzanita branches hung with paper butterflies create an architectural centerpiece for this sun-washed spring table setting by thrify diva Kate Riley. Vintage plates, pale blue dyed eggs and fluffy white hydrangeas work together to create an icy, eye-catching color palette.

Bring Spring to the Table

Creating a memorable place setting can easily be done with only a few steps. Dye eggs, and use a hole punch to cut circles from adhesive white label paper. Peel the backing off each dot and place on the egg in your pattern of choice. Place the decorated egg in a faux bird's nest, and add napkins in coordinating spring colors. Photo courtesy of HGTV Magazine

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Small But Mighty

To make these delicate vases, carefully open the top of each egg using a pin. Clean the inside, and fill with small grasses and delicate flowers. Fill the shells halfway with water and display as a centerpiece or as place settings. Photo courtesy of Kim Foren

Colorful Pick-Me-Up

Dogwood branches add a happy pop of spring color to HGTV fan nyclq's contemporary living room. Like forsythia and cherry, dogwood branches can be cut before blooms appear and forced indoors by simply placing the cut ends in water. Better still, dogwoods are slow bloomers so the flowering branches will put on a colorful show for several weeks.

Mix It Up

The key to mixing patterns is to use them in complementary colors. Use floral, polka dot and stripe patterns in spring-inspired colors to tie the whole look together. Photo courtesy of Kim Foren

Don't Forget the Bathroom

Small vases filled with fresh flowers are sure to brighten up rooms where Easter guests may linger — like the bathroom.

Make Tissue Paper Pom-Poms

Requiring just four steps, crafting these fluffy paper decorations is easier than you may think. Hung above your dining room table, these colorful flowers act as a floating centerpiece.

Get the How-To: How to Make Tissue Pom-Poms

Make a Bold Statement

Add some bright wildflowers to your arrangement to create a standout focal point. Place them in a hollow log or other rustic container to place at the center of your table or in various areas of your home. Photo courtesy of flickr user hello-julie

Spell It Out

Chalkboard crafts have been popular for quite a while and are still going strong. HGTV fan nyclq filled in the center of a decorative wall plaque with chalkboard paint so she could easily change out its message with the seasons.

Pretty Up the Porch

Spring tulips tucked into a handmade stoneware vase add a sweet pop of color to flickr user hello-julie's front porch. Once cut, tulips last for just a few days so, for best results, make your arrangements the day before guests arrive.

Trim the (Easter) Tree

An Easter tree is a favorite tradition for many families. HGTV fan Love2DandD places hers in her small foyer surrounded by pastel colors and traditional Easter touches.

Add Some Chicks

If you're going for easy and budget-friendly, then this wreath is for you. All you need to do is tie 8-inch pieces of grosgrain ribbon around a wire wreath form until filled. Attach baby yellow chenille chicks around the circle with hot glue. Photo courtesy of HGTV Magazine

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Go Green

Go eco-friendly this year by dyeing your eggs using household items. Yellow onions, beets and turmeric make great dyes. It's non-toxic, beautiful and easy to do! Photo courtesy of Kim Foren

Skip the Pastels

Forget the traditional pastel colors and opt for a brighter option. Place bold flowers like grape hyacinth, tulips and fuchsia phlox in an equally bold ceramic urn to make a powerful statement. Photo courtesy of flickr user hello-julie

Get Fancy Without the Cost

Incorporate tall glass cake pedestals in varying heights in your Easter tablescape. Place moss on the pedestals, and add ironstone pitchers filled with your desired flower arrangements.

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Give a Little Gift

Use leftover moss from your centerpiece to make party favors for family and friends. Fill miniature baskets with moss and speckled candy eggs, and attach a name tag with each guest's name on each basket. The baskets serve double duty as favors and place cards.