How to Create a Sensational Easter Table Setting

Before I even get to the menu, I start planning my Easter table setting. I love to set the table to reflect a particular season or occasion and Easter means bunnies, chicks, and colored eggs.

How Food Sets the Mood

A festive dessert can add sparkle to your Easter table if you can make it the centerpiece.

Decorate a Tart with Peeps

Nothing says “Easter” like Peeps–especially the original yellow chicks. So, I baked a Lemon Tart from Bon Appétit magazine and topped it with a circle of Peeps and small candy eggs. You can do the same with a purchased tart or cake.

A Nest with Edible Easter Grass

Last year, I saw edible Easter grass at World Market; I had to incorporate it into my Easter table. First, I made Meghan Markle’s Lemon Honey Layer Cake from the Netflix video, With Love, Meghan.

Then I formed a bunch of the Easter grass into a nest shape and add speckled malted milk eggs. No time to bake? Start with a bakery cake.

Make Bunny Cupcakes

To make these cupcakes, tint sweetened flaked coconut with green gel color for the grass. For the bunny, use kitchen shears to snip “V” cuts on the side of the marshmallow to form ears.

Dip a toothpick into brown gel color to make the face or use food coloring markers. Add jelly beans for Easter eggs.

To serve, group the cupcakes on a cake plate for a table centerpiece, or set a cupcake at each place.

Place Cards for the Table

We’ve been putting place cards on the table for family dinners since the grandkids, at three years old, learned to set the table. The child who sets the table gets to determine where everyone will sit.

For a festive occasion like Easter, I like to do special place cards, often incorporating the decorative Easter table elements, as you’ll see below.

Easter Table Setting Ideas

Little Easter Egg Vases

For this table, I made mini vases from plastic Easter eggs for each place. Here are step-by-step instructions.

Easter Bunny Napkin Rings

For this table setting, the grandkids and I made bunnies from toilet paper rolls that I turned into napkin rings. By writing the name of each guest, the bunnies did double duty as place cards.

To the left of each place, I tucked a cellophane bag with Easter chocolates.

In small ceramic bunnies from Trader Joe’s (about $5 or $6) I added candy eggs for the table. Hopefully, they’ll be available again this year. Actually these are planters so remove and repot the plant and wash out the bunny first.

Finally, I added Easter baskets made from throwaway berry baskets and cardstock scraps. Here are step-by-step instructions.

Flower Table Setting

With good weather, I set the table outdoors. The centerpiece is a rose from our garden, with cascarones, Mexican confetti eggs, surrounding the vase. The napkin rings are artificial flowers on plastic rings, bought years ago.

You can make similar napkin rings by hot-gluing a large artificial flower to an inexpensive napkin ring. Be sure the ring is wide enough to stabilize the flower.

The place card is a bunny cut from a Cricut pattern. There is candy inside.

The cascarones are both a fun activity for kids to make, then to break over each other’s heads. Here are step-by-step instructions.

Egg Place Cards

Here, real Easter eggs with stick-on foam letters make the place cards. Each guest has a homemade chocolate Easter egg nest filled with candy eggs on their plate. The cheerful tablecloths are from Provence, featuring typical South of France motifs and colors.

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