Easter is considered to be the biggest and brightest holiday, both among Orthodox and Catholics. Many traditions are associated with its celebration, but those that do not change from year to year and are considered the most important are to paint eggs for Easter, to bake Easter cakes and festively decorate the house.
Decoration of the house for the Easter begins with the Great, or as it is called, Holy Week. Until Thursday, called the Great or Pure Thursday, the house is completely cleaned, washing windows, washing curtains, carpets, polishing the dishes. Then the house is decorated with Easter decorations and attributes of this bright holiday. And only after that they start baking Easter cakes and other Easter baking, painting eggs and preparing festive dishes.
Before you begin the home decoration for the Easter , decide on what Easter compositions and ornaments you can make yourself or buy in the store.
This can be crafts on the Easter theme in the form of decorative eggs made of fabric, beads, paper and other Easter attributes. Decorate the house for Easter with the help of eggs can be thus: to form nests from branches or straw, put in the middle of decorated eggs and a figure of a bird. Decorate the Easter nest can be bright colors, ribbons, feathers. Also Easter eggs are used in decorating the Easter tree, Easter wreaths and bouquets. The Easter tree is usually decorated with paper Easter eggs or decorative eggs from the shell, as well as ribbons sewn from the fabric by figures of birds, rabbits and other animals.
Those who managed to sow the seeds of oats in pots early in the spring lay an Easter egg on the sprouted grain - they have been used by the hostess since ancient times.
Orthodox Easter is always celebrated between the beginning of April and the beginning of May. This is the time when the spring sun already shines and warms in a special way. It's time to replace the heavy winter curtains with light, airy, brightly colored curtains. It can be an organza or a transparent tulle, but can be curtains made of light fabric of light color with a floral ornament.
Before Easter, curtains can be decorated with beautiful garlands of green branches and decorative Easter eggs.
On the window panes, you can draw Easter patterns with paints or cut them out of a self-adhesive film.
On the window sills to arrange pots or baskets with dug directly to the ground daffodils - these are traditional Easter flowers, decorate them with decorative Easter eggs, animal figures. There, on the windowsill, you can put your own nests with beautiful eggs and bird figures.
If your house or apartment has a balcony, you should not leave it unpainted for Easter. Open or glazed, the balconies suggest many opportunities for imagination. Easter design of the loggia or balcony can be decorated with such Easter decorations:
- Inflatable animals( traditional easter rabbits, lambs, chickens)
- Easter tree in a flower pot
- Easter decorations from straw and vines
- pots and flowerpots with lush greenery( for example, in advancethe grain of oats or wheat sown in the early spring)
Your balcony should remind all passers-by that a bright Easter holiday is celebrated here.
The best decoration of the front door to Easter is a decorative Easter wreath woven from dry twigs and decorated with ribbons, feathers, eggs, flowers, greens.
Also, the doors can be decorated with garlands made of straw, colorful ribbons, colorful feathers. Thus, allowing your fantasy to play out, you can create original scenery, not only on the front door, but also on the interior doors.
Ideas for Easter decor can be applied and decorating the festive table. Serving the Easter table helps create the atmosphere of an unusual holiday - the Bright Christ Sunday.
Tablecloth for the Easter table should be new and elegant, wipes preferably lacy, light or bright colored. Arrange on the table the figurines of animals, symbolizing the spring holiday - Easter. Different peoples have rabbits( or rabbits), sheep, chicken and chickens.
Devices for the Easter table can be decorated with paper napkins, carving chicks, hares or flowers from them. To transparent glasses, such decorations can even be glued, so that throughout the holiday its atmosphere does not fade.
Flowers on the festive Easter table are mandatory. Vases with tulips and daffodils, pots with spring crocuses and sprouted grain are all placed on your table by Easter.
In the center of the table you can arrange a basket with painted eggs. Put dry branches on the bottom of the basket. If you want to lay Easter eggs on a dish, pour red beans or lentils into it, and lay eggs on top, it will turn out very original.
And do not forget about the most important thing - the Easter cakes. Put the biggest Easter on the dish and cover with the most beautiful eggs.
Remember, the more beautiful and festive you decorate the house for Easter, the more fun and soulful will be the preparation for the holiday and its very celebration. Christ is Risen!