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Easter Potted Egg Centerpiece

A Colorful Addition to Your Easter Table

Easter Potted Egg Centerpiece

You’ve heard of potted plants? Well here are instructions for making some darling potted Easter eggs.

The instructions make a perfect small size centerpiece for your Easter dinner table, if it will be laden with all the traditional foods of the season leaving little room look for decorations.

However you can make it larger, if you desire. Simply use bigger pots and decorate larger Styrofoam eggs with ribbon or glued-on seasonal appliqués instead of the painted wooden eggs pictured here.

If you have a very large gathering and the dinner table is long, make the centerpiece rectangular with a flower arrangement on each end.

Use the larger potted eggs and draw a letter on each side of every egg (E and R, A and E, S and T, T and S, E and A, and R and E).

That way, guests on both sides of the table will clearly see the word of the day!

If you have kids or grandkids, let them write the letters on the eggs and assemble the pots.

Wouldn’t these be cute with the different handwritings reflecting the different ages?

At the end of the day, the kids can each take the potted egg they made with them. Or, since the centerpiece easily dissembles, pack it away for another year.

Easter Potted Egg Centerpiece Supplies

• 6 clay pots 2 inches wide by 1 ½ inches tall
• 6 wooden eggs 2 inches wide by 2 ½ inches tall – these came painted white
• Pearl acrylic craft paints in pink, teal, gold, purple, copper, yellow, blue and white
• Tulip Dimensional Fabric Paint in liquid pearl
• Acrylic paints in lavender, yellow, pale blue, teal, pink, light green and white
• 6 flower stickers of your choice
• Flower vase 5 to 6 inches tall with a narrow base
• Purchased Easter basket grass or green tissue paper cut in thin strips
• 8-inch clear glass plate or a pastel colored plate
• Aleene’s Clear Gel Tacky Glue
• Paper plate
• Paper towels

Easter Potted Egg Centerpiece Instructions

Prepare the pots

1. Paint each pot in a different color with the acrylic paint. You will need to do two or three coats so let them dry completely between coats. You can use a hair dryer to speed the process.

2. After all the coats are done do two coats of white along the outside rim.

3. Place a flower sticker on the front of each pot.

Prepare the eggs.

1. If the eggs are not white, paint them completely with two coats of white paint. The colors will come out much nicer if this is done first.

Dry completely.

If they are already painted prepare your pearl paints.

2. Lay a paper towel over the paper plate. Choose one or two colors of pearl paint and drop a few drops around the middle of the paper towel.

3. Roll an egg around in the colors.

Pick up the egg with your thumb and forefinger on the top and bottom.

Pick up the paper towel with the paint on it and dab it around on the egg.

You will end up with a pretty pearl marble effect.

4. Set the egg down on a flat protected surface and lightly dab the top of the egg as well.

Set aside to dry.

5. Repeat with the other eggs using a different color combination for each.

6. Let dry for about two hours.

7. Draw one letter of the word “EASTER” on each egg with Scribbles Paint.

You can freehand them or use a stencil. These were done freehand.

8. Set aside to dry for several hours.

Assemble the Potted Eggs

1. Run a rim of Tacky Glue around the inside of the top of each pot.

Dab a small amount of the grass around to cover the glue allowing some of the grass to stick out of the pot.

2. Set the pots aside to dry.

3. When the letters of “EASTER” dry completely place glue all around the bottom third of each egg and glue it into a pot being sure to line up the letter with the flower sticker on the pot

Complete the Centerpiece

1. Spread more Easter grass on the glass plate.

2. Arrange real or artificial flowers in the vase.

3. Set the vase in the center of the plate.

4. Arrange the potted eggs in order around the vase.

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