Learn how to make a spring Easter tree with step-by-step DIY instructions and decoration ideas!
An Easter egg tree, or Ostereierbaum, is a fun spring tradition originating in Germany that has gained popularity worldwide. Today, making and decorating a homemade Easter tree has become a favorite Easter activity for many people around the world. Families in the United States of America, Canada, England (UK), Australia, and several other countries enjoy this simple Easter Tradition. People worldwide decorate these beautiful symbols for Easter in the spring to add to their home decor and Easter celebrations.
When the Easter tree tradition began in Germany, a large outdoor tree or bush was chosen for decorating with hollowed-out eggs. Today, these spring or Easter trees (Osterbaums) are made (and decorated) inside or outside of the home, community center, or place of worship with Easter eggs and many other creative types of Easter ornaments and spring symbols. Easter trees can range from small and quaint to larger-than-life, especially when decorated as a community or neighborhood project outside the home.

Easter Tree Ideas:
Use the quick, easy Easter egg tree ideas in the following sections to create an Easter Tree for your home, classroom, community center, place of worship, business, or workplace. The step-by-step Easter tree instructions and tree-decorating ideas can also be used to create a simple spring tree for the equinox or another spring holiday just as easily. For more Easter ideas, please visit this list of traditional and modern Easter traditions you can try.
First published in March 2015 as “How to Make an Easter Tree.” This post is regularly updated to improve the step-by-step DIY Easter Tree tutorial. Originally, it taught how to make an Easter Tree with bare branches. Today, it begins with step-by-step instructions for making an Easter tree with bare branches or a small tree to add to your DIY Easter decor. Next, it shares tips for decorating a tree, including how to hang different types of ornaments. Finally, it offers 12 creative Easter tree decoration ideas.
It concludes with more information about the Easter Tree tradition and its origins. Scroll all the way to the bottom of this informative guide to get answers to several FAQs (frequently asked questions) about making and setting up these seasonal Easter-themed trees, including the current world record holder. Each of these elements, when combined, makes it easy to create a custom spring tree that fits your needs or the space you have available. You might also enjoy this list of fun things to do on Easter.

Making and Decorating Easter Egg Trees:
In my many years as a caregiver and now as a parent. I’ve noticed that children and adults alike enjoy decorating Easter trees as much as they do Christmas trees. Toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, grade school students, teens, and adults enjoy making and decorating a tree with eggs and other seasonal ornaments. This makes decorating a spring tree with homemade or store-bought ornaments a fun Easter tradition for the whole family.
Use the wide variety of decorating ideas below the step-by-step tutorial to make your tree reflect your beliefs, culture, and values, and decorate it with spring or Easter symbols that are meaningful to you and your family or housemates, using the excellent Easter tree ideas and tips below. Scroll down for step-by-step instructions on how to make an Easter Tree. An extensive list of Easter tree decorating ideas follows the simple how-to directions. For more spring ideas, look at this list of spring activities with a printable bucket list.

How to Make an Easter Tree:
To make or decorate an Easter tree, hang Easter eggs, Easter ornaments, and simple spring or Easter decorations on trees and bushes outside. Or use the step-by-step instructions below to make an Easter tree to hang ornaments in your home.
To do so, start by collecting natural bare branches, sticks, and large twigs to make an Easter egg tree similar to the Easter trees in the photographs. You can also buy natural or artificial branches, or an artificial tree, such as a small twig tree, or any other small lit tree you can turn into a lovely Easter tree. You can even use an artificial Christmas tree!
Please read the step-by-step instructions in the following section before gathering the remaining materials you need from the recommendations below. This will help you make a more informed decision about the materials and supplies you want to use to make an Easter Tree.
Easter Egg Tree Craft Supplies:
- Branches or a standing tree: Collect or purchase natural bare branches, or purchase willow branches, a small twig tree, or a small tree with lights.
- The step-by-step DIY instructions below include a few additional types of branches you can purchase, as well as several tabletop and standing-tree options.
- Container to hold branches (if needed): To make an Easter egg tree with branches, rather than a standing tree, you will also need a vase, a large mason jar, or another large recycled canister or bottle to hold them in place.
- These Easter tree supplies are unnecessary if you purchase one of the trees recommended above or
- Vase filler (if needed): Constructing an Easter tree with branches requires sand, pebbles, white rocks, or flat-backed marbles to fill the vase and weight the contents down so it does not become unbalanced and tip over. These supplies will not be needed if you purchase one of the pre-made Easter Tree options.
- Easter Ornaments and Other Easter Tree Decorations: Make DIY Easter tree ornaments or purchase ornaments and decorations you can use to decorate the tree. The step-by-step Easter tree craft tutorial in the next section includes Several Easter ornaments and decoration ideas you can DIY or buy. Additionally, there are even more decoration ideas with simple directions below the Easter egg tree tutorial. Please read to the bottom of the post to look through each of the Easter decoration ideas you can use to make your egg tree unique!
Step-By-Step DIY Easter Tree Instructions:
Scroll down for step-by-step instructions on how to make or set up an Easter tree. In other words, follow the step-by-step DIY instructions below to learn how to create an Easter tree out of branches, sticks, and twigs, or set one up and decorate it with a pre-made tree.
Learn how to create an Easter egg tree with bare branches and sticks, or buy a tabletop or standing, lit or unlit twig tree with the quick, easy step-by-step setup instructions below. You can also scroll past the instructions for creating an Easter tree to see several more Easter tree decoration ideas you can make or buy to make your spring tree stand out.
1. Gather (or purchase) bare branches or a small White tree:
- Go on a nature hunt to collect an assortment of fallen twigs, sticks, branches, and small tree limbs. (Children of all ages love this spring activity.)
- Collect branches that will easily fit in a vase and work to make an Easter Tree.
- Small, thin sticks and tree limbs that are two to four feet long work best.
- Alternatively, purchase natural bare branches, lit branches, or a standing or tabletop tree with or without lights. You can even use a lighted artificial white Christmas tree! Here are a few of our favorite recommendations if you want to buy them:
- Natural bare branches
- Lighted white branches for a vase
- White tabletop tree with hanging glass candle holder globes
- Tabletop tree with lights
- Standing white birch trees with lights
- Skip to step four if you buy tree limbs or branches, or six if you purchase a small tree.
2. Trim tree limbs and branches (optional):
- Use pruning shears to trim the excess foliage from the tree limb or branch.
- Trim each bare branch to the desired shape and size.
- Once again, skip the next few steps and scroll down to steps 6 or 7 if you purchase branches or have a small tree, like those mentioned in the last step, to use as an Easter tree.
3. Paint branches white or leave them natural (optional):
- Leave branches and twigs natural, or use spray paint to create a white tree, as shown in the photographs for this tutorial.
- If you paint the small tree limbs and branches white, please allow them to dry before moving on to the next step.
4. Place twigs and branches in the vase or Mason Jar (optional):
- Place the sticks, bare branches, or twigs one by one into a medium to large-sized vase, mason jar, or another container.
- The idea is to arrange the Easter tree branches like a vase of fresh flowers. Think of this part of the construction process like flower arranging with sticks.
- Continue turning and moving them until the tree forms a nice shape.
5. Add vase filler of choice:
- Add white sand, pebbles, rocks, flat-backed marbles, or other vase filler to stabilize and beautify the spaces between the Easter egg tree branches.
- You can even fill the vase with jelly beans for fun, but I wouldn’t recommend allowing anyone to eat them, which might be difficult if you have toddlers around.
- Using vase filler to fill the spaces between lit or unlit bare branches gives the homemade Easter tree a more appealing look and provides the weight needed to keep it standing.
6. Glue pom-poms, greenery, or Flowers onto the branches of the DIY Easter egg Tree (optional):
- To add whimsy and a touch of colorful festive decor to your Easter tree, glue pom-poms to the tree limbs with hot glue, tacky glue pen, or glue dots before decorating it.
- Alternatively, you can add vernal green wool roving to look like fresh leaves on the spring tree, faux flowers, felt flowers, or other fresh or faux leaves or greenery onto its branches.
- We did this on our Thankful Tree. Please visit the post for further instructions if you want to try this option.
- Please scroll down to the next section for more decoration ideas, suggestions, and links to my family’s favorite Easter tree ideas.
7. Add a string of lights or an Easter garland to the tree (optional).
- Add a string of twinkling lights, a simple garland with pastel-colored wooden beads, a paper egg garland, or another spring or Easter-themed garland.
- The following section includes several more fun, easy Easter tree-decorating ideas. Please scroll down to see them all!
8. Hang Ornaments and Decorate the Easter tree:
- Once your tree is ready, whether made or purchased, it’s time to hang Easter eggs and other ornaments from its branches.
- Decorate your Easter tree with your favorite DIY or ready-made decorations, garlands, and ornament ideas. The instructions below this craft tutorial include recommendations and instructions for several Easter ornaments and decorating a spring-themed tree.
- How to hang ornaments on an Easter Tree:
- To hang each Easter ornament on the tree, use cut pieces of monofilament line (fishing string), pastel-colored ribbons, yarn, twine, or even metal ornament hooks.
- Most store-bought Easter ornaments come with hangers.
- To hang each Easter ornament on the tree, use cut pieces of monofilament line (fishing string), pastel-colored ribbons, yarn, twine, or even metal ornament hooks.
- How to tie an Easter egg to a tree:
- To hang an egg, cut a section of ribbon 15 to 25 inches long.
- Place the bottom of the egg in the middle of the ribbon, then attach it with hot glue.
- Wrap the ribbon around the egg and attach it to the top with hot glue.
- Add additional glue under the ribbon at a few points if needed
- Once the glue is dry, tie the ribbons with eggs attached to the branches of the Easter tree.
- Alternatively, you can make a loop with 4-8 inches of ribbon, hot-glue the center to the tip of the egg, and tie it to the tree.
- This method only works for light plastic or hollowed-out eggs.
- Or, fashion eggs into a ring-shaped egg wreath similar to those made by the world record holders for the largest Easter egg tree, as shown in the video on Facebook.
- Scroll down for more suggestions with step-by-step instructions and an excellent list with several more Easter tree decoration ideas!

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How to Decorate an Easter Tree:
Traditionally, real hollowed eggs were used to decorate Easter trees, commonly called Easter egg trees. But today, eggs of all kinds, including real hollowed-out eggs, paper, plastic, salt dough, wood, clay, glass, etc., make fantastic Easter tree ornaments. Several creative and festive Easter ornament options are available to DIY or buy.
Put the DIY Easter tree in a central location, and invite family, extended relatives, friends, students, or co-workers to decorate it. Start by gluing pom-poms onto the bare branches (like we did on our DIY Thankful Tree) if desired. As the step-by-step instructions above mention, add an optional string of twinkling lights or a simple spring garland. Then, decorate the Easter egg tree with Easter eggs, homemade Easter ornament crafts, and/or store-bought ornaments.
For example, you can make or buy wooden eggs, plastic eggs, glass eggs, crepe paper eggs, blown hollowed-out eggs, wooden egg ornaments, etc., to use as Easter tree ornaments. You can also decorate an Easter tree with birdhouse ornaments and other homemade Easter decorations, such as pom-pom chicks, faux carrots, or these cute Easter bunnies. Visit this guide for several fantastic homemade Easter tree ornament ideas.
Alternatively, decorate your spring tree with toys and everyday household items, such as construction paper cut into egg shapes or ribbons tied onto the ends of branches. Add your favorite pastel decor to complete your tree, including colorful ribbons, other wooden Easter-themed ornaments, fabric flowers, or rose petals. The list below includes several more Easter ornaments and ideas to add to an Easter tree and make it truly special.

How to Decorate a Tree for Easter:
When decorating an Easter tree, the key is to balance the elements so the tree looks festive without being overcrowded. Choose a color scheme or theme to guide your decor choices and create a cohesive look.
Decorate your Easter tree with a creative mishmash of store-bought and homemade ornaments, like ours, or keep it simple with just one type. The photographs for this tutorial show a few of the Easter trees my family has decorated over the years.
An Easter tree can be as simple or elaborate as you wish, making it a perfect expression of your family’s Easter celebrations or another spring holiday. Scroll down for a list of gorgeous, ready-made Easter egg tree decorations you can try.
Ideas for Decorating an Easter Tree:
Decorating an Easter tree offers an excellent opportunity to unleash your creativity and celebrate the season with style and flair. Just as there are many ways to make an Easter Tree, there are several fun ways to decorate one because there are so many different types of Easter ornaments you can make with children (or buy). Look through the ideas below to see several more creative options.
12 Easter Tree Ornaments and Decoration Ideas:
Easter trees can transform ordinary spaces into a vibrant celebration of spring. Decorating them with Easter ornaments, ranging from intricately painted hollowed-out eggs to whimsical figures of bunnies, chicks, and lambs, offers endless opportunities for creativity and personal expression.
Craft enthusiasts often explore a variety of materials alongside traditional egg decorations, such as felt, wood, and paper, to create unique, handmade additions. Others incorporate pastel-colored ribbons, delicate fairy lights, and spring florals to enhance the charm of their Easter trees. Gather ideas from this list of DIY Easter Ornaments and the Easter tree decoration craft ideas and suggestions below:
1. Pom-Poms:
- As mentioned in the Easter egg tree craft tutorial above, pom poms make a lovely optional addition to decorative trees.
- Use a tacky glue pen, glue dots, or hot glue to attach them directly to the branches of your spring tree, as shown–> HERE.
2. Tree Lights or flameless tealight candles in globes:
- There are a few easy ways to make or decorate an Easter tree with lights:
- Use a lighted artificial white Christmas tree, purchase a small tabletop or standing tree with lights, or use lit branches to make an Easter tree.
- Decorate a store-bought tree or real bare branches with tiny string lights or battery-operated fairy lights to give your Easter tree a gentle yet beautiful glow.
- Or, hang glass tealight holder globes with flameless candles for a magical effect.
3. Spring or Easter Garlands:
- Garlands made with paper or fabric eggs, bunnies, colored wooden beads, wool-felted balls, colorful ribbons, or pom-poms can be wrapped around the tree before ornaments are hung, adding an extra layer of decoration.
- Or purchase one of the Easter garland options below:
- Pastel-Colored Wool Felted Ball Garland
- Artificial Easter Egg and Mixed Berry Rustic Spring Garland
- Colorful Tinsel Twist Spring Easter Garland
4. Easter Eggs:
- As mentioned throughout this post, eggs are the most traditional decoration. They can be real, blown-out shells painted or dyed, or crafted from plastic, construction paper, colored cardstock, wood, paper mache, salt dough, clay, felted wool roving, or fabric.
- Each egg can be uniquely decorated with paint, markers, decoupage, or glitter to add vibrant colors and patterns.
- Visit this DIY Easter ornament post to learn how to make hollowed-out Easter Egg ornaments (along with several other Easter ornament crafts). Or, scroll down to see several cute Easter egg ornaments you can buy at the bottom of this list of Easter tree decoration ideas.
- The homemade Easter tree craft tutorial above provides step-by-step instructions for hanging an egg from a tree branch or limb, indoors or outdoors.
5. Fresh or Faux Spring Flowers:
- Artificial flowers such as felt flowers, cherry blossoms, daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, fake or faux flower heads, or even real spring flowers can be intertwined among branches or glued to the Easter tree’s limbs to emulate spring blooming.
6. Green Foliage:
- Real or artificial greenery can be glued to the tree to add dimension, texture, and fullness. A few leaves and other greenery options follow:
- Collect fresh spring greenery from the outdoors to decorate your tree.
- Decorate branches with wool roving to resemble a fresh crown of leaves.
- Wrap silk leaves around tree branches using the provided wire.
7. Ribbons and Bows:
- Silk, satin, raw-edge chiffon, gingham, and wire-edged ribbons in pastel colors can be tied into big, beautiful bows or simple dangling strands hung as from the branches.
- Ribbons tied onto branches in various pastel colors add a soft, festive touch to the Easter tree.
- Or, use a variegated ribbon or thin ribbons in multiple colors to hang eggs, egg ornaments, and other Easter decorations on the tree.
8. Paper Crafts:
- Handmade paper decorations, such as origami eggs, birds, cranes, or butterflies, add a personal touch and can be a fun craft project for children.
- A few more paper egg ornaments you can make are included on our list of Easter Ornament Crafts.
9. Candy:
- Like Christmas trees, spring trees can be decorated with candy. Try the following ideas:
- Chocolate carrots
- Most wrapped store-bought Easter candies are easy to hang from the tree.
- Pastel-colored candy canes.
- Peeps Easter bunnies and chicks
- Or, put Peeps Easter chicks, foil-wrapped chocolate eggs, or Cadbury chocolate cream eggs in glass globes hanging from the tree’s limbs.
- Use monofilament string (fishing line), hooks, or ribbons in a rainbow of colors to hang pieces of Easter candy on the limbs and branches of your Easter egg tree.
- Tie the fishing string, baker’s twine, or ribbon around it. Or puncture the wrapper with a metal ornament hook to keep the candy safe and preserved.
10. Personalized Decorations:
- Incorporating family photos in small frames or pendants, children’s handmade keepsake crafts, or other personalized, handcrafted decorations can make your Easter tree a heartfelt centerpiece in your home.
11. Other Spring or Easter-Themed Ornaments and Symbols:
- Several other Easter-themed characters and spring symbols can be used to decorate Easter trees, such as miniature bunnies, spring chicks, baby lambs, birds, butterflies, fake carrots, and other spring-themed decorations.
- These can be store-bought or handmade, crafted from paper, felt, wood, needle-felted wool roving, fabric, yarn, salt-dough, or clay.
- Learn how to make several different kinds of homemade Easter ornament crafts HERE:
12. Easter Ornaments You Can Buy:
- Decorate your Easter tree with the gorgeous Easter ornament ideas you can buy from the list below:
- Hanging plastic decorated Easter eggs.
- Multi-colored hanging Easter egg decorations with dots
- Vintage-style papier-mache Easter egg ornaments
- Stained glass Easter egg ornaments
- Frosted-glass pastel Easter egg ornaments
- Real eggshell hand-painted bunny and flowers
- Vintage wooden Easter ornaments
- Colorful Foam Easter egg ornaments and carrot decorations
- Hanging foam carrot ornaments
As shown in the photo below, we have several easy Easter ornament ideas on our list of DIY Easter Tree Ornaments, including pom-pom chicks, salt-dough eggs, toilet paper roll birdhouses, fabric scrap eggs, DIY stained glass egg ornaments, yarn-wrapped eggs, and traditional hollowed eggs. Get the craft project tutorials HERE–> How to Make Easter Ornaments.
The Easter Tree Tradition
Easter Egg Trees offer a whimsical holiday decoration that intertwines spring’s renewal at the equinox with Easter’s celebratory spirit. Originating in European earth-based customs, these delightful spring decorations involve adorning indoor or outdoor trees with Easter eggs and other spring-themed decor, transforming them into a festive focal point of the season.
These creative DIY projects add a bit of whimsy for the kids (and the young at heart), making Easter even more fun. Most of our guests squeal with delight at the first sight of them. A few of our many DIY Easter Egg Trees are shown in the photos for this post. Scroll down to learn about Easter trees, including the steps to make one. You might also enjoy these family Easter traditions and Fun Things to do on Easter.

Where does the Easter tree tradition come from?
The Easter egg tree tradition is said to have originated in Germany during pre-Christian times. However, its exact origins have been lost. But, if you have ever asked, “Why do Germans hang eggs on trees at Easter?” The Easter egg tree tradition would be the most likely answer. A German Easter egg tree is called an Ostereierbaum or Osterbaum.
What is Osterbaum?
An Osterbaum (Ostereierbaum) is a tree traditionally decorated with an assortment of hollowed eggs hanging from colorful ribbons outdoors. Today, trees covered in eggs, Osterbaum, are also made and decorated indoors. Various Easter egg ornaments and other festive spring symbols and decorations adorn their color-filled branches.
How did the Easter egg tree tradition begin or originate?
Who invented or created the first Easter Tree? Decorating a tree with eggs was a part of early pre-Christian spring festivals and celebrations in Germany, Austria, and other German-speaking European countries. Eggs symbolize fertility and rebirth associated with Eostre, the spring equinox (Ostara), and the celebration of spring since ancient times.
So, it is likely that the tradition of decorating trees with eggs began during those early spring celebrations. In addition to Germany, there is evidence of Easter trees in other parts of Europe. For example, archeologists have uncovered evidence of large outdoor trees adorned with eggs in Poland, Hungary, and Austria.
What is an Easter Tree?
An Easter egg tree, also known as an Osterbaum (Ostereierbaum), is a tree or bush decorated with hollowed-out eggs, Easter ornaments, and other spring-themed decorations and symbols. These spring ornaments and decorations are traditionally hung from tree limbs on colorful ribbons or perched on branches. Today, Easter egg trees are a gorgeous yet simple Easter decoration for homes, community centers, workplaces, classrooms, and places of worship. They are ornate trees with a spring theme.
Making one involves selecting a suitable tree or branch, real or artificial, and decorating it with eggs. These eggs can be blown out, painted, or made from plastic, wood, or even chocolate! Whether you choose Easter tree decorations or decorate them with different colors, patterns, or glitter, it’s fun for children and adults alike. When finished, hang the eggs on the tree with string, ribbons, or metal ornament hooks.
How is an Easter tree used?
An Easter tree adds a lovely spring element to your home decor. It also makes a perfect centerpiece or a beautiful addition to your Easter brunch or dinner table. Beyond their decorative appeal, Easter Egg Trees serve multiple uses: they can be a central piece in Easter celebrations, a fun DIY craft project for families, or a way to welcome spring by incorporating symbols of new life and rebirth into your DIY home decor.
Their versatility and charm make them a beloved addition to family Easter traditions and other special springtime events and holiday celebrations worldwide. In the weeks before Easter Sunday, my family enjoys making and decorating an Easter tree to add spring decor to our home. In the days leading up to Easter, we like to display it as a centerpiece on our spring nature table. On Easter Sunday, we put our beautiful Easter tree on the dining table as a centerpiece, adding a festive touch to our holiday celebrations.
What is the Meaning of an Easter Tree? What does an Easter Tree represent or symbolize?
For many, the Easter tree represents the sweeping away of winter and the rebirth of spring. Because the egg has long been revered as an ancient symbol of rebirth, fertility, life, and regeneration, these ornate and colorful trees, called Ostereierbaum, were initially decorated with gorgeous, hollowed-out eggs to symbolize the welcoming, much-anticipated return of spring.
In ancient times, decorating bare trees with colorful eggs hung on beautiful ribbons was a great way to bring back the pastel colors of spring, which were only beginning to bloom outside. So, for many people today, as in the past, decorating a tree with eggs is a way to celebrate the joy and abundance of spring.
Imagine seeing a beautiful, large tree, or Ostereierbaum, decorated with colorful Easter eggs hanging from its branches, in the middle of a once-barren landscape just beginning to awaken. It must have been a breathtaking sight. Coming across an Easter egg tree was likely a joy to behold. Thus, Easter egg trees celebrate spring and everything it will bring. Best of all, they can be recreated in modern times, both inside and outside the home.
Today, you can make (or buy) many other fun Easter ornaments besides the traditional colorful eggs that have adorned Easter egg trees since ancient times. So, the DIY Easter decoration tutorial below includes several craft ideas and a list of Easter ornaments you can buy, making it super easy to decorate your Easter or spring tree. You might also enjoy our Spring Bucket List of fun seasonal activities.
When do you put up your Easter Tree?
A DIY spring tree is a perfect centerpiece or decoration for an Easter brunch or dinner table. You can put it up on Easter Sunday or in the days leading up to it. My family enjoys putting up our spring tree as the first signs of spring begin to appear everywhere. We usually make and decorate our Easter tree around the spring equinox in mid to late March.
In other words, you can make one exclusively for your spring or Easter holiday celebration. Or, create an Easter tree in early spring to decorate your home, community center, classroom, workplace, or place of worship as the season changes from winter to spring. A German Easter tree also makes a lovely centerpiece for a spring nature table in the weeks leading up to Easter. And, of course, Easter Egg Trees or Osterbaums look gorgeous adorning the dining table for Easter brunch or dinner. But feel free to decorate and use your spring tree however you wish!
What is the Largest Easter Egg Tree?
The world record for the largest Easter egg tree ever decorated was set in 2017, when people in Pomerode, Brazil, celebrated Easter with a beautiful egg tree featuring a record-breaking 82,404 painted eggs (source).
Before then, the largest Easter egg tree, known for its record-breaking count of decorated Easter eggs, was an apple tree in Saalfeld, Thuringia, Germany. This traditional Easter tree in Germany gained international recognition when the Kraft family began decorating it with thousands of intricately hand-painted eggs in 1965.
At its peak, the apple tree decorated by the Kraft family was said to have featured over 10,000 Easter eggs. The remarkable display of hanging eggs attracted visitors worldwide, became a symbol of Easter celebrations in Germany, and more than likely influenced the spread of this colorful Easter tradition!
As of this update, the world record holder for the largest Easter egg tree remains the pecan tree decorated with 82,404 painted hen eggs mentioned above. Associação Visite Pomerode began collecting and painting the eggs in 2016, determined to break the world record. He achieved his world record-breaking goal at the 9º Osterfest in Pomerode, Santa Catarina, Brazil, on March 16, 2017. This tree surpassed the previous record set by the Kraft family in Germany. You can see a video of this spectacular Easter egg tree on Facebook.
Traditional Easter Tree Ideas:
My family enjoys making new Easter ornaments and decorating our Easter egg tree with colorful eggs hung on a ribbon or fishing line. In the weeks before Easter Sunday, we like to display our homemade tree decor as a centerpiece on our spring nature table.
Finally, we love to put our beautiful Easter tree on the dining table as a centerpiece for our Easter celebrations. Our homemade Easter tree adds a festive touch to our holiday celebrations. A DIY spring tree is a perfect centerpiece or decoration for an Easter brunch or dinner table. You might also enjoy these Rustic Walnut Shell Baby Jesus Ornaments for the Christmas tree.
Decorate a Tree for Easter This Year!
Add a touch of meaning and magic to your home with an Easter tree. Children from toddlers to teens love decorating seasonal trees, so Easter trees are always a hit with toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and older kids.
Even teens and adults enjoy decorating Easter egg trees in the springtime. An Easter tree adds a lovely spring element to your home decor. It also makes a perfect centerpiece or a beautiful addition to your spring nature table.
Spring Easter Tree Centerpiece and DIY Decor:
Make homemade Easter ornaments and decorate an Easter egg tree with the kids as a family Easter tradition, or make it a part of your spring celebrations or another holiday tradition.
Spring trees make a lovely DIY centerpiece for your table, whether you prefer to host or attend brunch or dinner when the Easter bunny comes to town or celebrate something entirely different.
Other DIY Tree Ideas:
Once Easter is over, we love to turn our Easter tree into a butterfly tree, keeping it up and continuing to decorate it with various ornaments, nature finds, and crafts we make throughout the summer.
Next, we make a Thankful tree in the fall for Thanksgiving, and finally, we are big fans of decorating a Christmas tree as a family Christmas tradition.
Learn more about Nell Regan Kartychok, author and photographer of this DIY Easter Tree tutorial and Rhythms of Play HERE!
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- Easy Bunny Craft
- Fun Family Easter Traditions
- Easter Egg Decorating Ideas
- Wooden Easter Egg Decorating Ideas
- Watercolor Surprise Easter Egg Art
- Eco-Friendly Easter Basket Ideas
- Easter Art Projects
- Natural Toys for Easter Baskets
- DIY Easter Baskets













Beautiful – I love decorating for all holidays! Thank you for recommending our homemade eggs too!
I love decorating too! You’re welcome 🙂
Kids just love decorating trees, right? How funny that you had to hold back and let your little one do it all by herself … I’m the same! Thanks so much for linking up to my felt Easter tree decorations post!
They sure do and they don’t like it when you move what they have placed–haha! You’re welcome 😉
What a sweet idea! I am always looking for new additions to our nature table. The kids will love this. 🙂
Thanks! You’re kids will love this! I wish we made some of the crafts instead of using store bought one’s. It would have made it even more fun! There’s always next year!
So cute! We have a tree outside that my kids would love to decorate like this. Thanks for the idea!
Decorating trees in your own yard is an excellent way to make an Easter tree. I like to keep ours on our spring nature table, and then put it on the dinning table on Easter weekend 🙂
Ooh, I love Easter trees! I wish we had a tree in our yard to do this with — we might have to go hunting for some sticks!