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A colourful table decoration for Easter, consisting of Stripes plates from Mateus, glasses from Byon and napkins from Scandi Living.

5 Easter table setting ideas for a bright and playful Easter table

Easter is the perfect opportunity to decorate the table in a cheerful and playful way. With creative details, vibrant colours and lovely accents, you can transform your Easter table into a real eye-catcher. Let yourself be inspired and discover how you can create a festive and playful table decoration with simple means.

Updated on Monday, 31. March 2025

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IDEAS FOR YOUR EASTER TABLE SETTING

What exactly do you need for an original Easter table setting? Here are five tips to help you create a playful Easter table:

Colourful tableware
Cute napkin folding techniques
Bright spring flowers
Creative place cards
Easter tarts and festive cakes<br>

Stripes plate Ø28 cm

Yellow

$34.15

Bubbles oval plate 20 cm

1. Colourful tableware

Start with a bright, spring-like base. A pastel-coloured or patterned tablecloth creates a friendly and festive atmosphere. Go for soft colours such as pink, light blue or mint green to emphasise the playful character. Combine with cheerfully patterned or colourful tableware - for example, with floral patterns or delicate dots. Colourful plates, glasses with coloured rims and springtime napkins bring additional freshness to the table.

A table set with colourful tableware from the Flowers collection by Mateus.

Flowers leaves serving platter Ø34 cm

White

$158.45

Oyster cup with saucer 25 cl

Rhombe cake dish Ø 27 cm

white

$62.90

Here you see a green Easter table setting idea from Mateus with green plates and pink linen napkins.

MateusOyster plate 20 cm

$29.50

2. Cute napkin folding techniques

A lovingly laid table thrives on small details. Folding napkins into cute bunny ears or butterflies is a particularly charming idea. Use fabric or paper napkins in pastel shades that blend harmoniously with the colour scheme. Add a small bow or a name card to make them not only a practical but also a decorative highlight on the Easter table.

To create your bunny ears:

Fold your napkin into triangle and then roll it into a tube-like shape.
Wrap your napkin around an egg and secure the napkin at the top of egg so it resembles bunny ears.

You can find more napkin folds here: 6 napkin folding ideas

Your Easter table setting ideas should always include a napkin fold like the one you see here in tones of yellow.

Concertina your napkin into a fan shape and add a flower as an additional detail.

Great Easter table setting ideas always include a lovely napkin fold like you see here with a simple scrunch and flower wrapped around a Scandi Living linen napkin in pink.

Scandi LivingClean serviettes 45 x 45 cm 4-pack

$36.90$49

Fold your napkin into bunny ears for a lovely Easter table setting idea for your Easter table.

ERNSTErnst napkin 2 pack checked 40x40 cm

$17.90$24.90

3. Colourful spring flowers

Flowers are part of spring and therefore also part of the Easter table! Go for bright spring flowers such as tulips, daffodils or hyacinths to create a fresh accent. Arrange them in small vases or spread mini bouquets over the entire table. Individual flowers in small glass bottles or as scatter decorations on the table also create a lively and cheerful overall look.

Do you want an Easter tree for the table? Then have a look here: How to make an Easter tree

Here you see an Easter table setting idea from Swedish influence @colorelles with tones of pastel pink and an Easter tree.

Take a leaf out of influencer @colorelles book and set your Easter table with pretty pastel tones and an Easter tree.

Easter table setting ideas - here you see the vase from Swedese with the Lene Bjerre rabbit as a table centrepiece.

SwedeseAnna vase small 27 cm

$110.95$135

Create an Easter tree at home with colourful vases such as the Curlie vase in yellow from By On or the Dorit vase from Broste Copenhagen.

ByonCurlie vase 20 cm

$92.95$125

4. Creative place cards

Easter eggs are the symbol par excellence of Easter. Design painted or glued Easter eggs in different colours and patterns and place them decoratively on the table. Alternatively, you can personalise the eggs with the names of your guests and use them as original place cards. Handmade place cards in the shape of Easter bunnies, chicks or eggs also add a special touch.

@faggemala1912

Dots plate 28 cm 4-pack

Green

$56.90

For Easter, make a small bird's nest out of birch twigs, place it on a plate and put an egg labelled with your name in it.

Blow out eggs, fill them with messages and use them as place cards.

5. Easter cakes and festive pastries

Easter without sweet delicacies? Unimaginable! Cakes and pastries in particular are wonderful eye-catchers on the festive table. How about an elaborately decorated Easter cake with pastel-coloured cream and little sugar bunnies as decoration? Or a moist carrot cake with cream cheese frosting that not only tastes delicious, but also fits perfectly into the Easter atmosphere? Small cupcakes with Easter motifs or lovingly decorated biscuits also look great on the table. Perhaps you could even set up a dessert table for your guests to help themselves from?

If you would like the recipe for this delightfully playful pastel cake you can find it here: A Festive Easter table setting in spring pastels - 5 tips