Easter: create your decorations with imagination and by recycling the wood from pallets!
Every year as the Easter holidays approach, we prepare to leave winter behind and welcome the spring. Therefore, even the traditional decorations of this religious holiday includes elements that reflect the season in which nature returns to renew itself with the enchanting colors of new life.
The pastel shades that reflect the colors of flowers and clear skies, the animals that cannot be overlooked (such as rabbits and chicks) and, of course, the iconic colored Easter eggs: we use all these icons to decorate the house, and we can also do it by creatively recycling the wood of such objects as packing crates and pallets. Check out the ideas below:
A planter to use as a table centerpiece, filled with bulbs and spring flowers, but also colored eggs. And you can change the flowers according to the season (or even the dish being served)!
One color used for each plank of wood, cut and joined together to create any shape you want. For example, wood shaped to become a planter to be fixed to an outside wall!
Two vertical boards, painted to mimic a stylized bunny, and including a shelf to place books or other objects upon. A cute and useful Easter-themed decoration!
Join several boards together with glue, and perhaps reinforce them with a wooden strut nailed across the back; then cut out the shape you want. It is very quick and easy way to use pallets as if they were wooden boards, and create, for example, large colored Easter eggs to decorate the house and garden.
These festive eggs are also cute placed inside the flower beds, and you can paint them in any design or pattern that you want.
The same approach can be used to create silhouettes of bunnies, which you can then affix with a base so that these decorations can stand on their own and be placed just about anywhere.
If the wood you are using is still in good condition, you can sand it and treat it (with wood stainer and/or varnish) and make a panel to be painted in an Easter theme.
These decorations always have a nice rustic style, so they look beautiful even when painted with a small amount of paint that resembles the effects of age and use.
And nothing prevents you from using colors to write and design whatever illustrations you want.
Another nice idea is to cut out the wood in wedges to create stylized carrots: you can use them as knick-knacks anywhere (even as a door stop).
And what about an adorable chick poking its head out of its shell?
Happy Easter to all!
