Does anyone have ideas for Easter table decorations and placecard?

I am having realtives this year from my side of the family, Italian and my spouse's Greek and want to do something special for the dining room table such as name place cards and decoration for the buffet table.

Does anyone have ideas for Easter table decorations and placecard?
I would buy chocolate eggs and use frosting to write each guest's name one one. Place it in a small Easter basker with some Easter basket grass and a few jelly beans.
Reply:research the easter traditions in those countries, go to picture sites like for example www.webshots.com, print little cards out to vary for each person. if u have kids, let them blow out eggs and decorate them with crayons, stickers............ or glitterglue to write the names on them. just use a thick sewing needle to prick hole in each end of egg and then blow the egg out into a bowl. get posterboard, cut in placemat size, glue apic of each relative on it and decorate with easterstickers..... for centerpiece of table just use an easterbasket, dollarstores have a lot of cute little easteritems for in them..... gl hope that it will be a success for you
Reply:Sure!


We have made place cards from small doll hats. For the ladies we used small straw hats and added ribbon, flowers, and a small tag. The gentleman received top hats decorated with small Easter bunnies and name cards.





Decorations for the Easter table do not have to be lilies, but it would be nice to have spring flowers arranged in a pretty bowl or basket daffodils would be nice for their sunshiny color. Candles really ought to be part of the table decorations, not only because they are so festive, but because of the allusion to the Light of Christ. For centerpieces you can purchase a few glass vases and real or fake flowers. Fill the vases with colored jelly beans and fake flowers or water and real flowers in others. You can layer the jelly beans by color for a rainbow effect.





Another cute way to designate place settings is by decorating eggs to look like each guest. You can purchase doll hair at your craft store as well as tiny sunglasses, mustaches, etc. Very cute.





If you have a dessert tray (they hold multiple plates in a tree-like contraption) make cupcakes, decorate them with green colored frosting sprinkled with green shredded cocconut "grass" (just add a few drops of green food color to a tablespoon or so of water, then stir in the coconut until it is nicely dyed.) With few jelly beans (or, even better, one or two coated chocolate "bird eggs") on the top, each little cake will become a colorful Easter egg nest.





If you're still looking here is a great site with colored photos:


http://interiordec.about.com/od/springde...
Reply:Greeks have Red Hard Boiled Eggs on Easter... so..


Boil the Egg %26amp; cool to room temperature


Use wax or crayola to write each guests name on...


Then place in red food coloring until Egg is totally a deep red.


Set Egg in *cupped* orgami..





5 " square piece of paper (your choice of color %26amp; type)


fold in half then open and flod in half the opposite way


Open up and take all 4 corners and fold into center.


turn over


fold all 4 corners to center again


open up by keeping the points in the center to the inside and placing your fingers in the little *flaps that will become the legs to the stand...





you now have a *cup* to place the egg into





Center piece of daisies