35 Beautiful Easter Decor Ideas that Don’t Use Bunnies
Follow along as I decorate our home for the spring season, adding elements that can also be used for Easter decor ideas without using all of the bunny decor that “hops” up during this time of year! Keep the Easter decor simple, classy, and elegant with these timeless vintage home decor styles for the spring season.
Don’t get my wrong. I love all of the cheerful Easter decor ideas and cute bunnies as much as the next person! However, on years like this when Easter falls late and I don’t want to set out the bunnies on March 1st OR the years when Easter comes early and I’m ready to put away the bunnies before the spring season is ready to close, I find myself looking for spring and Easter decor ideas that are more subtle and lend themselves to being able to just add in a bunny here or there closer to the holiday.
So, while I love Easter decor ideas that DO use bunnies, today we are going to chat about other ways to incorporate Easter home decorations WITHOUT the cute Easter bunny decorations.
How can I decorate my house for Easter?
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While I love decorating for the Easter holiday, I usually start adding my favorite Easter decorations a few weeks before the actual holiday. For 2025, that means I probably won’t start adding the cute Easter bunnies until the end of March or beginning of April. However, I am definitely already giving our home a decor refresh with spring decor and even incorporating some Easter decoration ideas that don’t involve bunnies (yet!)
When I am ready to pull out my bin of Easter-specific decorations, it will be easy to layer these with the neutral Easter decorations I’ve already started decorating with around our home for the start of the spring season.
Here are some easy Easter decor ideas you can start with for spring that don’t include bunnies:
- Use light neutrals and soft colors or even pastel colors for spring.
- Add fresh or faux flowers and brighter greenery to your living space.
- Incorporate lighter fabrics, such as linen and cotton to replace heavier textures from the winter season.
- Use a throw pillow or two for a pop of color and spring pattern, such as floral or gingham.
- Incorporate other spring themes, such as vintage Audubon or botanicals.
- Create a new vignette for your coffee table with a simple vase of flowers or real plants.
- Add a little vase of flowers by the kitchen sink.
- Refresh the kitchen or dining room table with my favorite gingham table runner or floral table cloth.
- Add an overflowing bouquet of faux flowers to the entryway table.
- Create a fun centerpiece with thrifted terra cotta pots (get my easy tutorial here!)
How do you decorate for spring?
These tips are the main ways that I focus on decorating for the spring season. I enjoy simple ideas that allow me to simply add in specific Easter decor ideas like eggs and bunnies closer to the actual holiday.
A few of my favorite tips for spring decorating without bunnies:
- Less is more with spring decorating.
- Lighten the look with textures, layers, colors, and fabrics.
- Look for natural, organic ways to bring in the holiday decor.
- Add simple accents for spring color and Easter festivities.
- Mix old and new for a curated look rather than buying a whole new collection at a big-box store.
35 Beautiful Easter Decor Ideas that Don’t Use Bunnies
1. Incorporate light colors for Easter decor ideas that don’t involve bunnies.
One of my favorite things about decorating for the spring season is that it is such a contrast to the decor from the long winter. Creating light, bright spaces with a simple, airy feel is the perfect way to kick off the spring season, before adding any Easter decor ideas at all!
Pro Tip: To begin adding Easter decor ideas throughout your home that don’t use bunnies, try adding accents of lighter colors. These could range from light neutral tones to pastel colors and even a mix of your favorites!
I am unapologetically a “beige girl” when it comes to home decor. However, I do love adding my favorite color throughout our home in different ways.
This light robin’s egg (no pun intended!) blue-gray has seemed to show up over the years throughout our home. A chippy bookshelf unit in the music room, a vintage store counter in the back dining room, an antique French harvest ladder in the entryway, a vintage Turkish rug pillow in the family room, and a leather sofa in the fireplace lounge space all bring that soft blue-gray tone into our home, no matter the season or decor theme.
In the spring season, I especially love leaning into that color palette and often bring additional accents of light blue and blue-gray into our living spaces. The great thing about a soft color like blue-gray is that it can blend into neutrals or become a focal point, depending on how you style it.
2. Add floral patterns for Easter decor ideas that don’t use bunnies.
Nothing says spring and Easter decor ideas like flowers and floral patterns. Without adding any bunny statues or ceramic eggs, you can start decorating for the spring season and Easter holiday with simple florals.
While a bouquet of beautiful faux flowers, like my favorite realistic peonies, in a simple vase makes a perfectly easy centerpiece for side tables, you can incorporate flowers in other simple ways besides literal flowers.
Floral patterns on throw pillows are a huge trend right now and there are so many gorgeous options out there. I especially love the vintage style block prints! Or, you can lean into the grandmillennial style with a larger floral print on a throw pillow.
For a more dramatic transition from the long winter into the spring season, try adding a rug with a pretty floral print. THIS one would be perfect to leave for the summer and early fall too!
I love adding floral patterns for everyday living in the kitchen or dining room also. A pretty table runner or table cloth with a simple floral pattern is a great way to bring in some spring color, pattern, and vintage style for Easter decor ideas that don’t involve bunnies.
Adding new decor doesn’t need to break the bank, either. You can browse some of my favorite budget-friendly spring and Easter decor ideas HERE on my storefront!
3. Add terra cotta elements for a garden style of Easter decor ideas without using rabbits.
As much as I wish I had a green thumb, that particular gene has seemed to skip me. Maybe one of these days I’ll have more time to explore gardening as a hobby. For now, though, I do enjoy mixing in a little bit of vintage garden style into my spring and Easter decor ideas. While a vintage garden theme may definitely include rabbits and bunnies, it doesn’t have to!
In fact, you could start the spring season with some simple decorative nods to the vintage garden style and lean more fully into it by adding some bunnies made of natural materials closer to the time of the holiday.
On the other hand, mixing terra cotta elements into your home decor is something that you can use for all of spring and even in the summer too. One of my favorite thrifted collections are these small terra cotta pots that I enjoy mixing into my home decor in the spring.
Try adding touches of terra cotta for spring decor:
- Pile small, empty terra cotta pots in a large dough bowl or vessel.
- Add potted plants to thrifted terra cotta pots and line them up down the table for an easy, everyday centerpiece.
- Try this easy DIY to make terra cotta pot candle holders for spring table decor or vignettes.
4. Use decorations with natural materials for Easter decor ideas that don’t involve bunnies.
Another easy way to bring in the light and airy feeling of Easter decor ideas, without adding any bunnies, is to focus on decorative accents with natural materials.
Typically, I have a lot of rattan and woven textures in our home throughout the year. Since we live in South Florida, I can hardly help but having a bit of that casual, coastal, cottage style influencing our spaces. However, in the spring, I enjoy adding even more woven texture with basket planters, basket trays, rattan lamps, and even textured pillow covers.
Other natural materials that I almost always incorporate into my spring and Easter decor ideas are:
- Faux or real plants
- Fresh or faux flowers
- Freshly cut branches from the trees in our yard
- Moss
- Dried egg gourds
- White marble bowls and marble eggs
- Concrete/terra cotta bunnies and/or eggs
5. Incorporate lots of flowers and greenery for Easter decor ideas that don’t need bunnies.
What is spring without flowers and freshly bloomed greenery?! Besides bringing in floral patterns with throw pillows and wall art, you can add instant spring vibes with a simple vase of flowers!
While I love fresh flowers, I don’t always take the time to drive to one of the grocery stores that has nice fresh blooms, then arrange them for our home with Easter decor ideas. However, I have several kinds of faux flowers that look incredibly realistic. I love using them to bring cheerful spring touches throughout our home.
Most of these flowers can be purchased in a different color, such as pastel colors like pink or blue. Since my favorite flowers are white, I enjoy adding faux flowers in a neutral color to my coffee table, kitchen island, dining room table, night stand, entryway table, and any other spot where they fit with Easter decor ideas!
To give even more visual interest to my spring flowers, I enjoy styling them in vintage vessels and textured vases. This antique French harvesting bucket is perfect for tall cherry blossom blooms while my favorite blue-gray vintage pottery piece holds realistic white tulips in a coffee table vignette in the living room.
Over on THIS post, you can find my favorite styling tips and ideas for decorating with faux flowers and how to make them look even more realistic with your Easter decor ideas.
In my personal collection so far, these are the best faux flowers and artificial plants (available to link currently) that look the most realistic, while still being budget-friendly.
- Artificial hydrangeas that look and feel real; available in various colors
- Favorite faux tulips, also available in other colors
- Real touch peonies; I love the white but the other colors look beautiful if you want a pop of color
- Realistic eucalyptus garland for table centerpieces
- Favorite eucalyptus stems
- Best faux greenery stems for arrangements
- Realistic green palm branches
- Realistic bougainvillea trees for outdoors
- Favorite bougainvillea vines for outdoors (perfect for pots)
- White forsythia wreath (on my front doors)
I have a few favorite silk flowers that I cannot link because I have had them for so long and they aren’t available. However, that is the great thing about investing in the best faux flowers. You can enjoy them for years and years to come!
6. Create visual interest and seasonal style without Easter-specific symbols.
Another way to give your home the look and feeling of spring and Easter decor ideas without Easter-specific symbols, like bunnies, is to incorporate other seasonal elements. It is easy to get stuck in the “bunny” rut for spring, simply because we are surrounded with cute spring ceramic bunnies at every store we go to from mid-February through April!
However, there are other signs and symbols of spring that are perfect to incorporate into spring home decor. For example, these vintage style art pieces look like real paintings. I like to add them to thrifted picture frames to incorporate into a gallery wall. Birds, lambs, butterflies, and flowers can all help you decorate for spring and even use for Easter decor ideas that don’t include bunnies!
7. Plant a Resurrection Garden for easy spring centerpieces that don’t involve bunnies.
How to make an Easter display?
One of our family’s favorite ways to get ready for Easter is by making a Resurrection Garden. Typically, we use a vintage vessel, like a dough bowl or my large antique French tian bowl. However, you can use any kind of large planter.
A Resurrection Garden is a beautiful symbol of Easter. Since our faith is such an important part of our family, I really love this tradition and enjoy creating a Resurrection Garden each spring with my kids. Speaking of, we need to get that done soon!
Over on THIS post, you can find an easy tutorial for making a simple Resurrection Garden with Easter decor ideas. One of the fun things about it is that you can make your Garden as simple or fancy as you want! Regardless of the style you create, a Resurrection Garden makes a stunning table centerpiece for a kitchen table or dining room table. It can be a beautiful focal point for your Easter decor ideas that don’t use bunnies.
Frequently Asked Questions about Easter Decor Ideas
How do you make your house cozy in the spring?
Using natural materials, mixing wood tones and soft colors, and using a mix of old and new is a great way to create cozy Easter decor ideas and spring styles throughout your home. I find most of my vintage treasures at yard sales, a stop at an antique mall, or even estate sales from time to time!
Here are a few ways I make our home cozy in the spring:
- Light-weight throw blankets in light colors
- Throw pillows in light fabric and color
- A touch of cozy glow with battery-operated candles
- Fresh scent with my favorite candle
- Simple vignettes
- Neutral colors
- Natural materials
- Low-maintenance styling
- Add fresh plants in each room
What decorations can I make for Easter?
Spring is such a fun season for creating and there are so many great Easter decor ideas out there for DIY Easter decorations. One of my favorite DIY projects ever are these beautiful cement Easter eggs. They are perfect to bring a neutral color with that soft gray color that blends perfectly with my spring decor.
I also love that they are more of a subtle nod to Easter decor ideas and can be kept out in my decor for the entire spring season without feeling too Easter-ish. Over on THIS post, you can get the easy tutorial to make your own DIY cement Easter eggs!
Easter is a great time to hit up the craft store and have some creative fun with DIY projects and Easter decor ideas. Wreaths are a lot of fun to make and over on THIS post, I share a few of my favorites. My very favorite are the DIY Palm Sunday crosses for the front door; they couldn’t be more simple but I just love them!
How do you decorate outside for Easter?
I love decorating our front porch for the different seasons and holidays. Easter is no exception! Over on THIS blog post, I share my favorite front porch Easter decor ideas. Spoiler alert: it does include bunnies because they are just too cute!
However, you can find non Easter front porch decor ideas HERE. I am using these non Easter decor ideas on my own front porch this spring and will simply add a few outdoor Easter decorations closer to the holiday.
How to decorate a table for Easter?
The place in my home where I have the most fun decorating specifically for the Easter holiday is my dining room table. It is so fun to set a pretty table with a festive look for such a special occasion! In recent years, I have had a lot of fun coming up with Easter decor ideas for the dining room table.
Over on THIS post, you can find some of my favorite Easter table settings that could be used for an Easter brunch or dinner.
Over on THIS post, I share my very, very favorite Easter decor ideas for the table using Easter bunny decor with a Peter Rabbit theme. I have created this look a few different times and always have a lot of fun with it!
I love coming up with easy centerpieces that look like they took a lot of effort! One of my favorites was when I secured these pretty branches in some of my favorite chippy vintage planters. Then, we hung cute Easter ornaments. Seriously, it’s such an easy centerpiece but also makes a pretty focal point. Plus, the kids had fun helping with these Easter decor ideas too!
What is the best filler for Easter baskets?
Admittedly, I go overboard with Easter baskets. What can I say?! They have always been such a fun part of our Easter celebration with our kids and I don’t plan to stop creating them anytime soon! In fact, I’ve told my kids that when they get all grown up and move away, I’ll find neighborhood kids and make Easter baskets for them because I enjoy it so much!
Traditionally, I create Easter baskets for my kids with some kind of theme. When they were younger, I did fun themes like beach toys or gardening tools. Now that they are older and have different interests, I like to create personalized Easter baskets for each of them and use a color theme to tie it all together.
Last year, I asked my kids if they wanted me to stop the color theme and just make it more random. Honestly, they are getting old enough that I thought they might not really care. I was delighted when they gave me a resounding NO! They look forward to the fun color theme and the surprises that are tucked down in their baskets. I’ve already started a stockpile of goodies for this year’s Easter baskets!
Over on THIS blog post, I share tips and ideas for creating pretty Easter baskets. I also share lists of ideas for Easter basket fillers, goodies, and treats that are not just candy!
After putting this blog post together, I am definitely in the mood for all things spring related and can’t wait to keep adding spring touches around our home. It will be easy to add Easter decor ideas to layer with my spring decor when the holiday gets a bit closer.
I hope you’ve found some ideas that you will enjoy incorporating into your own Easter decor ideas and spring decorating!
For even more ideas, you can check out the curated collections and mood boards of Easter decor ideas HERE on my storefront.
Here are a few of my favorites for spring and Easter decor ideas:
- Neutral spring decor for the living room
- Light blue and white cottage style spring decor
- Favorite faux flowers and vessels
- Cottage style earth tones for spring decor
- Other favorite spring decorations and Easter decor ideas
Happy Spring and Happy Decorating!
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