Easter Decorating with Wheat Grass and Other Natural Elements



I haven't done much in the way of Easter decorating this year, probably

because we still have things in boxes from when the house was on the

market. I did find a few decorations to place around the house, but right

now my favorite Easter decoration is the mossy basket I recently put

together. You can read about how I did that here.

One nice thing about Easter decorating is that it lends itself to the use of

natural elements such as moss, bird's nests, eggs, fresh flowers and wheat grass, just

to name a few. Most of us already have these items and can put them to

use right away whenever the Easter decorating spirit strikes us.

Here are just a few examples. Pinterest is overflowing with ideas

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DIY Vintage Easter Cloche

DIY Spring/Easter Cloche

I told you all about my grand plans to fill my DIY mossy basket, but my best laid

plans went awry. It was actually my daughter's idea -- discovered somewhere

on YouTube -- to grow wheat grass in egg shells. I was then going to fill the

basket with those eggs. Unfortunately, the wheat grass seeds I bought two

years ago seem to have "expired" because many of them just did not want to

sprout at all. Here they are, growing in a clay pot instead.

As you can see, it seems that there were just as many seeds that didn't

sprout as ones that did.

I was really disappointed, since my daughter and I went to all the trouble of

saving the eggshells, filling them with dirt, and spraying them with water,

just waiting for them to sprout.

Unfortunately, after all that, we were left with some pretty poor excuses for wheat grass.

I know, it's just plain sad, isn't it?

So, lesson learned: make sure you have fresh seeds!

If you'd like my full tutorial on how to successfully plant ornamental wheat grass,

you can check that out here. Here's a picture just to give you an example
as to how lush and full my wheat grass plants were that year. 

Since the wheat grass-eggshell idea was a bust, I had to come up with another

 idea for filling that mossy pot. Here's what I went with instead.

I placed the potted wheat grass in the basket, then surrounded the pot

with faux robin's eggs. 

 

 

 Not exactly the look I was originally going for, but I think I like it anyway.

The plan now is to buy some new wheat grass seeds. Hopefully I'll have

a much better outcome this time. Have you ever planted ornamental wheat

grass? How did it go for you?

It's spring break here this week for the kids so that means there's a lot to do.

And of course, Easter's on it's way! Are you ready for Easter?

What's your go-to Easter decoration?



Well, that's it until next time!

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