How to Make an Easter Tree

It is almost Easter! When my daughter was one year old, my sister lived in London, England. For Easter, my sister sent a gift in the mail. After repeatedly checking the mail in the weeks leading up to Easter...we were disappointed to find that the gift did not show up. We forgot all about the expected package...until an entire year later! Reaching into my mailbox, the following April, I found a mangled, badly damaged package. I had no idea what could possibly be inside?! The package was inside a Canada Post bag, with Canada Post tape everywhere...and an apologetic note. Apologetic because the original package was all but destroyed. When I finally made my way inside all of the wrapping, I realized that this was the Easter gift from my sister...from a year earlier! What was the gift? Delicate, and mostly broken, tiny Easter tree decorations. The magical characters included birds, bunnies, mushrooms, and painted eggs. I still have some minor repair work to do on some of the lady bunnies' ears...maybe this is the year I will get to them. We were just glad to see that they made it all the way across the ocean!

I had never actually made an Easter tree before. However, Easter trees are quite common in European countries. I learned that it is believed that Easter trees began in Germany. Some people decorate their trees with religious symbols to celebrate the Easter season. Nowadays, you can find metal or wire versions of Easter trees available at many stores around the holiday. However, the girls and I enjoy heading to the park and collecting our branches to make our very own tree. And while people choose to spray paint their branches, we like ours au natural. Here is how to make an Easter tree...

How to Make an Easter Tree

branches
tall, narrow vase
rocks or marbles
easter basket grass
decorated eggs to hang
hanging Easter decorations

The first step in making an Easter tree is to find a tall, narrow vase. Add a few rocks or marbles to the bottom of the vase, just to add some extra weight so the vase won't tip over. Next, fill the vase ¾ way with easter basket grass.

Now stick the branches into the grass in a random fashion. You want to have long branches that have plenty of little spots to hang decorations from. Add more grass around the branches to provide extra support to the branches. Fill the rest of the vase up with the grass.

You now have a tree of branches and it is time to hang all of your decorations from the branches of the Easter tree.

This year I added my own felted chicks to the tree...I have posted the instructions for how-to make your own felted chicks.

You could also add hand-dyed, blown-out eggs to the tree. My daughters love our Easter tree...it truly is a magical addition to our Easter traditions. In fact, my girls also like to get into the tree decorating action.

They wanted to draw their own decorations to hang on the tree. I provided them with some construction paper and markers...and off they went. They drew all kinds of silly Easter creatures to hang from the tree. They taped a loop of string to each decoration and added them to our tree.

Have you ever made an Easter tree? What do you hang from our Easter tree?

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