Easter is truly a bright holiday. His approach is always exciting and long-awaited. Indeed, very often it marks the arrival of a real, warm and gentle spring. Perhaps that is why it is customary to decorate your house on the eve of this great day. Many needlewomen every year create a variety of compositions for Easter with their own hands, transforming everything around.
Easter symbolism
Among the Slavic peoples, the most common Easter symbols are Easter cakes, Easter and eggs - krashenka. They are an integral attribute of the Easter table. Another symbol is a rabbit, meaning fertility and prosperity. In some countries you can meet not only him, but also chicken, a symbol of new life, emerging from an egg at the festive table. The figures of these animals occupy a place of honor in the decoration of the festive table and at home.
An obligatory attribute of the holiday is a church candle - one that was brought from the temple after service or consecration. It is advisable that they bring her to the house lit from the church itself. According to beliefs, this contributes to the cleansing and sanctification of the home, the expulsion of ills and diseases.
Recently, it has become very common to decorate a house with an Easter wreath. It is somewhat similar to Christmas, but flowers and various Easter symbols are used to make it. Also, compositions for Easter, created by oneself on the eve, can be presented as a gift to your guests. Such a gift will carry good thoughts and a wish for well-being.
Sweet gift
Sweet surprises will certainly be an excellent table decoration or gift for guests. Do-it-yourself candy compositions for Easter will delight young children and will appeal to adults. Such a gift is very simple to make yourself. The main thing is not to forget to include obligatory symbols in it. It can be chocolate eggs or a chocolate rabbit, small wicker baskets with flowers and sweets inside.
If time is running out or there is simply no way to beautifully arrange a gift, you can supplement it with fluffy figures of chickens or porcelain figurines of hares. It is enough to show a little imagination - and compositions for Easter from sweets will certainly be in the spotlight.
Pastry treat
Most housewives bake or buy Easter cakes for Easter. This is a traditional pastry that can be found in almost every home. But if you do not dare to take up this rather difficult task, you can get out of the situation in a different way. Cookies or gingerbread cookies decorated with bright sugar glaze will be an excellent decoration of the festive table . If you make the confectionery oval, you get a real thematic baking. In addition, with the help of special molds, you can cut chickens or hares from the dough, decorating them to your taste.
Flora in a decor
The main spring holiday cannot do without bright flowers and green grass. Indeed, it is at this time of year that nature gives us the opportunity to contemplate the riot of its colors. Therefore, floral arrangements for Easter will be especially relevant in the decoration of the table and room. Collected in a bouquet, located in a basket or a transparent vase, they will certainly bring joy, harmony and comfort to the house.
It is not necessary to use fresh flowers for these purposes - although they would be the best option. You can build them yourself, for example, from corrugated paper. Yes, and the usual color is quite suitable.
Compositions of flowers can decorate any part of the interior - a table, walls, doors, chandeliers, and anything else. Vases with flowers look stylish in the interior. So, tulips, especially when they are closed, resemble an egg in their shape, and daffodils are in harmony with the yellow figures of chickens.
Bushes with hyacinths decorated with souvenir eggs look good as interior decorations. And the center of attention can be a vase-egg, in which a bright spring bouquet is put. If the house does not have one, you can use cleanly washed egg shells in which water is poured and small flowers are planted. The egg blanks themselves can be placed in special stands.
Compositions for Easter from eggs
An integral part of Easter holidays - the egg - can also be a wonderful decoration of the interior. One has only to show a little imagination, and the usual, at first glance, the shell will sparkle in a new way.
Empty eggs can be decorated with paints (gouache or acrylic), drawing on them a floral, geometric, folk ornament. Children are very fond of this occupation, since they have the opportunity to show their creativity. A basket with eggs such as without flowers and with them will look great. Painted eggs in a twisted "nest" of "seals" look stylish and unusual.
Trees with painted and painted eggs painted on them look great in the interior of the room. Elements for such an original decoration can be made independently or purchased at a gift shop. Compositions for Easter, made with your own hands from eggs, will perfectly fit into your interior and diversify the holiday.
Decor from ...
Symbols of the Easter holiday made from various improvised materials look no less luxurious:
- Using quilling paper, you can create volumetric or flat egg models.
- From white threads and glue, you can make an egg with an open front, in which it is recommended to place a fluffy chicken.
- From multi-colored threads you can crochet openwork eggs. Those who do not know the technique of knitting can tightly wrap the shell with thread, attaching them to the glue.
- Exquisite and unique look crafts from beads.
- You can decorate an ordinary shell with paints and glue various decor (for example, dried flowers) by hanging them on a string.
- Compositions for Easter with your own hands can be created from wool, using the felting technique. Such products are very cute and unusual.
Easter wreath
Recently, decorations on the door in the form of a wreath have come into fashion. They are somewhat similar to Christmas, but Easter symbols are used here.
Most often, souvenir eggs made of polystyrene or plastic are bought to create such a wreath. They are mounted on a metal wire base. Various flowers, symbolizing the arrival of spring, are interwoven there.
The wreaths created using the quilling technique look interesting. A variety of turns and a play of color give rise to incredible beauty, despite the fact that the most ordinary material is used for crafts - paper. A wreath created from multi-colored buttons of various shapes looks no less original.
In such a product you can "plant" a chicken, decorate it with eggs, flowers, willow twigs. The final result will depend on what material is used, and of course, on the flight of the author’s imagination. With very little effort, you can get charming compositions for Easter. Photos of original crafts are presented to your attention in the article, but if this is not enough, a lot of material can be found on various information resources devoted to needlework.
Very often, the craftswomen abandon the traditional round shape, choosing the one that they prefer. It can be stars, triangles, balls and other geometric shapes.
Conclusion
Preparing for Easter is not only culinary chores, but also the opportunity to give your home freshness and home comfort. After all, with the advent of spring, I want everything around to be bright, cheerful and cheerful. This will help and composition for Easter. With your own hands you can make a real masterpiece! Lovely crafts not only diversify your interior, but also cheer you up. After all, everything that is done by hands is done with great love.