Setting the Table for Easter Is Easy with These 40 Gorgeous Ideas

Easter-Egg Place Setting

Create a chic Easter table setting with a dyed egg and seasonal flowers. To make the placeholders, use a permanent marker to write your guest's name on a dyed Easter egg. Place the egg in a small nest and accent it with a few bright blooms.

Burlap Easter Table Runner

A homemade Easter table runner is the star of this confetti-inspired spring setting. To make it, simply add multicolor painted dots to an inexpensive burlap table runner ($6, Target). Everything's ready in minutes and can be customized to fit your color scheme. Create a few decorated Easter eggs, add fresh flowers, and your spring tablescape is ready.

Natural Table Setting

This arrangement upends the idea of ferns as bouquet fillers. Instead, the mass of fronds is the main event, with only a few tulips as an accent. The fronds also lend their silhouettes to a runner (made with stencils and fabric paint in a few shades of green) and stamped cards on leather napkin ties.

Easter Bunny Centerpiece

This DIY Easter centerpiece tray is all about the assembly. Create a stunning spring centerpiece using a few accessories and a simple white round tray ($17, Crate & Barrel). Accent purchased robin eggs with a hand-painted gold Easter bunny and chocolate candy.

Woven Place Setting

Get inspired by the woven pattern of your favorite Easter basket. Make a stamp and use fabric paint or dye to craft a set of crosshatch-patterned napkins to display on your Easter Sunday table.

Iris-Inspired Spring Table

This colorful spring table stars our favorite seasonal bloom—the delicate iris. Highlight its simple beauty by displaying each flower in an individual vase. To get the look, clip the stems into varying heights and place them in narrow white vases, which are arranged down the center of the table.

Ombré Easter Brunch

When the holiday arrives later in the spring, it can coincide with the first hydrangea blooms, which make a showstopping Easter centerpiece, either on their own, or paired with other spring flowers. For an added pop of pastel color, make your own ombré tablecloth.

Marbleized Pots with Daffodils

An easy spray-paint technique transforms basic terra-cotta pots ($2, Walmart) into Easter table decorations worthy of your best crop of daffodils. The dry paint can continue to have a strong smell for a few days, so we recommend painting at least a week in advance.

Bold Easter Place Setting

Set a stylish Easter table with pops of the season's signature color—pink. To get the look, layer a striped tablecloth with plain white plates and colorful napkins. Finish with an Easter floral centerpiece of fresh tulips and fun lettuce-inspired plates.

Fresh Flower Centerpiece

Skip the pricey floral arrangement and decorate with just a few cut spring blooms. This spring centerpiece is all about the beauty of pansies. Simply cut and arrange a few fresh pansies in low wooden vases. Display the bouquets on a wood board, and if you're feeling extra-festive, tuck in a few decorated Easter eggs.

Outdoor Easter Table

If the spring weather allows, host an alfresco Easter dinner. This stunning table is decorated with our favorite spring produce. Get the look by filling Mason jars with colorful Swiss chard and placing them in a line down the center of a burlap runner. Finish each place setting with young vegetables, like carrots, radishes, and beets.

Easter Flowers

This dramatic, romantic Easter table starts with flowers. Bright blue cut-glass compotes contrast with the soft arrangements of ranunculus, hellebores, poppies, and Juliet garden roses. A grid of florists tape over the top of each compote holds the stems in place.

Spring Green Easter Table Setting

Give your Easter soiree a healthy dose of spring fever in season-appropriate colors and motifs. Combine vibrant greens and clean whites with the beige-browns found in light woods and leather. Fern-motif stamps make it easy to add a detailed frond to tags and napkins. A bouquet of pretty posies under a glass cloche makes an easy centerpiece.

Paper-Strip Nest Place Setting

Create a lovely Easter place setting with a simple paper-strip nest. Take colored scrapbooking papers and shred them into tiny strips (a paper shredder works best). Form the strips into nests, and place a dyed Easter egg decorated with a pretty place-card monogram sticker in the center of each nest.

Simple Painted-Eggs Centerpiece

This rustic Easter centerpiece comes together quickly with a trifle dish, wooden eggs, a bit of paint, and some moss. Using three colors, give the wooden eggs a coat of paint in a single color. Once they're dried, add them to a glass trifle dish ($17, Target), and set it on the table or on a wooden serving platter. Surround the dish with bits of moss and extra eggs.

Easter-Egg Place Mat

Set an Easter table everyone will love. Have the kids create place mats made from free printable Easter coloring pages. Simply print oval outlines and set out crayons. The children can decorate their eggs any way they like. Don't forget to add a platter of bunny-shape rolls to the meal.

Ferns and Egg Display

This Easter table decoration couldn't be easier: Trim bird's nest fern fronds from your yard (or buy a dozen from the local florist) and display them in a wide-mouth glass vase. Beside it, set a bowl of pastel dyed eggs. Simple and stunning.

Ornate Easter Centerpiece

A shiny gold vase is the perfect home for bright yellow and orange flowers on your table. Set the vase atop a light blue tablecloth for a pretty color combination. For a fresh look, tuck in a sprig of green herbs. Gold-painted eggs (use hard-boiled or wooden) add to the elegant Easter theme.

Kid-Friendly Easter Table

Not all Easter decor is pastel—create a few bold and bright decorations and you're ready to party. Guests of all ages will love gathering around this festive brunch table.

Cheery Easter Place Setting

Keep your Easter place settings simple and cheery with this pretty idea. Set a flowery plate atop a solid-color place mat. We used coral to match the flowers, but you can get creative. Include tinted glassware and loosely tie a ribbon around a cloth napkin. For the finishing touch, add a wooden Easter egg painted gold.

Easter Tulip Centerpiece

Transform a plain glass hurricane vase into a chic spring centerpiece with a bouquet of fresh tulips. Simply trim the ends of the fresh flowers and place them inside the vase. This easy centerpiece can be made in under five minutes.

Carrot Bouquet

This centerpiece plays up the sunny colors of carrots. You'll need them with their greens still attached and a clear vase to show off the roots. Pair the carrots with yellow and orange ranunculus, tulips, or other spring flowers in similar tones. Wash the carrots thoroughly (but don't peel them) so that the water in the vase stays clear.

Spring Flowers and Candles Centerpiece

Celebrate the natural beauty of spring with a homemade Easter centerpiece that stars the season's prettiest flowers. Fill a glass canister partway with sand, then insert the flowers and candles. For longer-lasting blooms, use floral picks, or moisten the sand.

Tiered Easter-Egg Centerpiece

A two-tier dish with nests of Easter eggs creates a pretty (and easy to make) centerpiece. Complement the bold colors of the eggs with single-color name cards and napkins decorated in an Easter-egg pattern.

Floral Centerpiece with Branches

A few stems of your favorite flower arranged with oversize spring branches makes for a conversation-starter at any Easter party. You might also hang decorated eggs from the branches.

Vintage Easter Table Setting

This vintage Easter place setting incorporates everything you love about spring. Vintage floral salad plates sit atop dinner plates with a larger, simpler pattern. (They don't have to match, just go for similar colors.) A cloth napkin tied in a loose knot is an easy flourish.

Pastel Flower Bouquet with Eggs

Bring Easter to your table with this dazzling centerpiece of flowers and eggs. Place a clear drinking glass or thin vase into the center of a large-mouth jar or canister and stack Easter eggs around the glass—in just six minutes, you can dye a dozen at a time in your Instant Pot ($90, Target). Fill the glass with water and arrange the flowers (we used roses, gerbera daisies, tulips, hyacinth, and bells of Ireland).

Red and Blue Easter Table Setting

This Easter table setting in red and blue works well when a red-dyed egg and red tulip decorate each place. A solid blue plate between two patterned red ones makes the colors pop. You can swap the more traditional place card for a monogrammed hard-boiled egg.

Editor's Tip: To dye your Easter eggs a bright shade of red, use a few ingredients to make your own natural dye. Roughly chop about 3/4 of a pound of beets and combine them in a saucepan with a quart of water, a tablespoon of vinegar, and a tablespoon of salt. Bring the ingredients to a boil, cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Strain and reserve the liquid for your dye.

Easter Grass and Eggs Centerpiece

Create a beautiful Easter centerpiece in minutes with a footed bowl filled with dried grass, dyed eggs, and egg-shape candy. The pastels will give your table a soft spring look.

Mini-Bouquet Napkin Rings

Elegantly wrapped napkins dress up your Easter dinner table. To make the corsage collars, gather posies of flowers and herbs and secure the stems with ribbon. Cut a strip of paper about seven inches long, notch the ends, and cut two slits about an inch from each end. Slip the posy stems through the slits.

Flower Centerpiece with Asparagus

Create a fresh spring bouquet by bundling asparagus stalks around a vase full of pink roses. Place the bouquet on a white dish and you've got an easy centerpiece. For place card holders, add a bundle of four asparagus stalks to each place setting.

Green and Pink Spring Table Setting

Sprinkle cheery pastels across your Easter table with a festive garden-inspired centerpiece. Hot-glue scrapbooking paper leaves to floral wire, attach the wires to the stems of tulips and ranunculus, and nestle the blooms in a planter of wheatgrass. Use more wire and paper leaves to make napkin rings and pair them with a light pink tablecloth. Set out bowls of candy eggs in corresponding colors.

Easter-Egg Table Garland

Skip the expected table runner and create this pretty blue and green Easter-egg garland. To blow out an egg, use a pushpin to make a hole in each end. Gently push a wooden skewer through one end to enlarge the hole and break the yolk. Blow into the smaller hole to push out all the raw egg, then use a beading needle threaded with a narrow ribbon to create the garland.

Daisy Tablecloth and Table Setting

There are two things that make this Easter table setting a true standout: the creative floral arrangements and the tablecloth border. To make the bouquets, place a few yellow roses in the centers of beds of fresh lettuce. To make the border, hot-glue scrapbooking paper daisies along the tablecloth's edges.

Stylish Easter Place Setting

In place of traditional Easter bunnies, give your table a stylish bird theme. Light blue plates complement pink gingham place mats. Break up the color palette with white lace napkins. A nest of dried moss inside a birdcage becomes an easy centerpiece—accent it with pink blossoms (in florist's water tubes) and gingham ribbon to match the place setting.

Splattered Easter-Egg Place Card Holders

A flat-bottom wooden egg makes the perfect place card holder for Easter dinner. If the egg won't stand upright, sand the bottom flat until it does. With a fine saw, cut a slit in the top of each egg. Use light blue acrylic paint to color the eggs, then, once they're dry, dip an old toothbrush into white acrylic paint and run your thumb across the bristles to spray flecks across the blue background. Finish with a clear top coat.

Easy Spring-Theme Place Setting

Celebrate the first signs of spring on your Easter table with pretty green paper plates topped in plain white cloth napkins and a dyed egg. The star of the show is the napkin ring, featuring a small twig wreath wrapped with blue ribbon and adorned with a fresh-cut flower and a faux bird.

Pretty Spring Table Setting

This pastel Easter table showcases pink, blue, and white paper butterflies (found at crafts supply stores). You can use other symbols of spring, such as birds, or eggs. Fill small dishes with pink jelly beans and arrange pink napkins on blue plates. A vase of pink hydrangeas and another of spring branches become the centerpiece.

White and Yellow Floral Centerpieces

Decorative take-out boxes (available at crafts supply stores) serve as the bases of these floral spring decorations. Yellow tulips and a mass of white narcissus come together in an easy, yet elegant, Easter display.

Easter Daffodil Place Setting

To make this pretty place setting, fold a napkin into quarters and pinch the center to form a point. Put the pointed end into a glass and set a yellow daffodil (in a florist's tube) inside the napkin. Pull the napkin's corners down to look like leaves.