Palm Sunday: 12 DIY projects to decorate your home

Palm Sunday is celebrated on Sunday, one week before Easter every year. To mark this important date in the Christian calendar, an olive branch or a bunch of palm leaves is blessed in the church during mass. For this reason, in the decorations that are used to embellish a house at Easter, the foliage of these two plants are used - depending on which are easier to find.

Both palm leaves (fronds) and olive branches can be intertwined, but each of these plants can also be used for different decorations as stand-alones: wreaths, compositions to hang up or even others to be placed on the table, and more. Check out the ideas below:

Palm trees can have fronds of various sizes and shapes, depending on how much the branch from which they are taken has grown. Generally, fronds of all sizes all combine very well with each other to create tasteful compositions to hang on the door, perhaps even with a bow.

The longer fronds are beautiful when arranged with the tops facing downward.

Using olive tree branches, on the other hand, you can decorate jars in which to place attractive candles: a simple and elegant decoration, suitable also for the Easter holidays period.

Again, a white ribbon is all that is needed to hold the olive leaves in place around the candles.

With olive branches and flowers, religious symbols such as a wooden crucifix can also be decorated in a natural and simple way.

Or you can make your own crosses using branches and lowers to hang up in and around the home.

The cross can also be the prominent feature that decorates a green wreath.

With the olive branches, you can fill out a round wreath, perhaps adding some lavender so as to have a little color and a pleasant scent.

Using cardboard cutouts as templates, children can easily create a dove with an olive branch in its beak - perfect for a picture to hang up or for a greeting card.

Alternatively, the paper doves can become the decoration of string decoration.

Online, there are also templates and instructions available to cut paper and then fold and position it so as to create three-dimensional doves to be hung from the ceiling, for example.

And you could also use plaster or ceramic doves in an Easter-themed composition!

Happy Palm Sunday and Happy Easter