I have a small wooden footed tray that I often use as a centrepiece on my kitchen island. My island is white marble and a decent size rectangle, so I tend to add flowers or seasonal décor on top to ground the space. Without a vase, tray or cloche, the island gets lost in a kitchen that's a sea of white.
For spring, I wanted a real flower or plant element incorporated into my seasonal centrepiece design. After a long winter, I'm ecstatic to see fresh flowers and blooms again.
Daffodils, an early spring sprouting bulb were a natural choice. I chose a miniature daffodil varietal with a yellow-on-yellow palette for the outer and inner petal colours.
Coincidentally, I happened to have a number of empty food tins handy (from this recipe), so in keeping with a cooking/ kitchen theme, I decided to re-purpose the tins to plant the daffodil bulbs in.
A final thought I had was that, with Spring and Easter being quite spaced apart this year, I wanted the centrepiece to transition through both March and April, with minimal changes required.
Initially, I kept the centrepiece look quite natural and neutral, using a wooden vessel and beige ribbon with polka dots (very trendy in clothing style and decor at the moment!). I wanted the focus of the centrepiece to be on Spring - grass, the soil, daffodils, etc.. I completed the look with warm white LED twinkle lights. During evenings, the hint of light highlights the blooms like a subtle spotlight.
Here is a framework for how-to DIY a similar Spring Centrepiece. It's a guideline for creating something similar to mine, but most important is to just get creative and have fun!
How-To Create Your Spring Centrepiece:
1. Choose a vessel.
2. Add grass. Mine is faux (from Michael's), however real grass would really take your centrepiece to the next level!
3. Weave warm white LED twinkle lights through the grass.
4. Empty and wash food tins.
5. Use a hot glue gun to secure a neutral ribbon to the outside of the empty tins.
6. With newsprint underneath, add potting soil and sprouting bulbs to the tins.
7. Fertilize and water.
8. Place tins on top of the grass & secure in place if unstable.
9. Continue to water sprouted bulbs every few days or as needed.
10. Watch your centrepiece grow :)
Once the foundations for your Spring Centrepiece are put together, it's easy to transition from spring blooms to bunnies!
To transition my centrepiece to Easter, I kept the warm white LED twinkle lights, grouped some faux speckled pastel Easter eggs in a variety of sizes around the tins and layered a few faux nests around the base (or feet) of the tray. Easy!
Some Optional Items To Transition Centrepiece From Spring To Easter:
*Eggs
*Nests
*Little rabbit figurines
*Faux carrot tops and carrots coming out of the grass
*Easter ribbon
*Use pastel colours
*Pastel coloured twinkle lights
I'm very happy overall with how this Spring Centrepiece DIY turned out. It's a perfect pop of colour and fresh flowers that I'm craving as winter turns to spring. Let me know in the comments below or post at #mykuratedlife on Instagram if you create a Spring Centrepiece, I'd love to hear from you!
Here's to Spring,
Krista
P.S. Click to see some of my previous seasonal tray décor “how-to’s” here.
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