Ostara Decor Ideas: 17 Craft Ideas for the Spring Equinox
Bunnies everywhere.
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Ostara is the modern pagan celebration of the Spring Equinox. It’s the time of the year when day and night are in balance before the light begins to overtake the dark. While Ostara as a named holiday on the Wheel of the Year isn’t ancient in the way Samhain and Yule are, the Spring Equinox absolutely is.
Cultures across the world have worked with the Spring Equinox as an agricultural and spiritual turning point. After all, the next day is the time when the light overtakes the darkness, literally.
Decorating for Ostara means celebrating the emergence of spring after the cold winter. Popular symbols include eggs, rabbits, seeds, and anything representing renewal and the balance between dark and light. You can go full pastel if you want or lean more mossy forest altar. Or, just simply put some daffodils in a vase.
Below you’ll find DIY Ostara decorations, Spring Equinox decor ideas, altar inspiration, and curated pieces you can shop if you’d rather skip the crafting. I also curated an Ostara decor list on Amazon with seasonal items and supplies. However you celebrate, these ideas will help you welcome spring.
Tips When Decorating for Ostara
Here are a few ways to make your Spring Equinox decor feel pagan and seasonal rather than purely commercial. That said, I still love chocolate Easter bunnies.
- Focus on the Theme of Balance. The Spring equinox is about the balance of light and dark as the day is about as long as the night at this time. You can accomplish this by decorating in pairs and focusing on visual harmony.
- Work with Live Plants if You Can. Ostara is about growth. Instead of fake plastic flowers, use potted herbs, sprouting bulbs, fresh flowers, moss bowls, or fallen branches with visible buds. (Don’t pluck them from trees. That’s not nice.)
- Include Eggs, Seeds, and Rabbits in your symbols. Eggs symbolize potential. Rabbits symbolize abundance and fertility. Seeds represent what’s about to begin. All are easy symbols to incorporate into your decor and you can find many objects featuring these symbols at the thrift store.
- Use Symbolic Colors. The colors of Ostara are primarily green, yellow, pink, and white. Green represents the abundance of new growth. Yellow symbolizes the Sun. Pink is for fertility and affection. And white for protection and the melting snow.
Handmade Ostara Decorations
Craft your Spring decor with these simple DIY projects that reflect the themes of Ostara. These crafts use the symbols of rabbits, eggs, flowers, herbs, seeds, and natural textures.
1. Decorate Eggs for Ostara
Egg decorating predates modern Easter traditions and appears in multiple spring fertility customs across Europe and the Near East. To dye eggs using natural colors you can use a kit that uses vegetable derived colors or make your own.
- Onion skin (one to many, boiled for 30 minutes): Light orange to dark orange
- Turmeric: Yellow
- Beet juice and vinegar: Pink
- Red cabbage (boiled for 30 minutes then cooled): Blue
- Ground coffee: Brown
- Carrots: Light gold
- Blackberries: Purple
- Blueberries: Dark blue
- Raspberries: Pink
Alternatively, you could glue leaves, moss, or flowers onto boiled eggs, draw symbols or sigils with wax on the eggs before dyeing them, or paint them with different colors and symbols like the triple goddess, rabbits, or the Sun. You can also use wooden, glass, ceramic eggs if you want to reuse them each year.
2. Seed Station
Create a small indoor planting space with seed trays, handwritten plant markers, and clay pots. This can live on a sunny windowsill, a kitchen shelf, or a small table dedicated to the season. Paint or label each pot with a sun symbol or write an intention on the side. This represents not just what you’re literally growing, but what you’re calling in this year.
As the seedlings sprout, you’ll have a living reminder of what you’re cultivating both in your garden and in your life. Just remember to water them. Here are some plants to consider that all have magical properties:
- Basil
- Thyme
- Lavender
- Calendula
- Mint
- Chamomile
3. Spring Equinox Wreath
Start with a grapevine base and layer in moss, fresh greenery, and painted wooden eggs. Weave pastel ribbons throughout the wreath and consider adding little hidden rabbits or mushrooms. You can keep it wild and slightly asymmetrical or lean into a balanced pastel palette, depending on your aesthetic. If you’re not up for a DIY wreath, this dried flower wreath is very pretty.
4. Painted Terra Cotta Pots
Paint small terracotta pots with seasonal symbols like bunnies, eggs, sun spirals, bees, flowers, or floral vines. Once dry, you can use them to grow herbs like thyme, mint, or basil indoors if it’s too cold to plant them outside.
5. Pressed Flower Frames
Pressed flower frames are one of the simplest ways to capture spring without cluttering your space. Collect fallen blossoms (or responsibly gather a few from your own garden), press them between heavy books for a few weeks, then arrange them inside a floating glass frame.
6. Decorate with Fresh Flowers
Daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, crocus are spring flowers in bloom at this time a simple way to make your home feel instantly seasonal. Place them in a pretty spring vase and you’re set.
7. Decorate Your Porch
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8. Paint Rocks
Collect smooth stones and paint them with symbols of spring. These can be placed in garden beds once planting season begins, tucked into potted plants, or arranged on your Ostara altar.
9. Floral Garland
String together dried lavender, baby’s breath, or other dried flowers using twine or thin wire. If you’re using fresh flowers, create small clusters tied with thread and drape them across mirrors, mantels, or doorways for a day-of ritual or gathering. Or, use this approach to create a pretty floating wall of flowers.
10. Bake Shaped Breads
Admittedly, bread is more of a Lughnasadh symbol, but if someone showed up at our spring equinox party with a bread loaf shaped like a bunny wearing a flower crown, I’d be pretty delighted. (Also, kind of in love with this pan at Williams-Sonoma that makes miniature bunny loaves.)
11. Eggshell Candles
Carefully crack eggs near the top, empty and rinse the shells, and allow them to dry. Fill each with melted beeswax or soy wax and a short wick to create delicate, symbolic spring candles.
12. Eggshell Placecards
Use emptied eggshell halves as tiny place cards. Fill them with soil and plant microgreens or just sprouted herbs like basil. Write names on the shell with a fine pen and place one at each setting for your Ostara brunch or dinner. They could also be used for offerings.
13. Ostara Altar
If you want something more intentional, set up a dedicated Ostara altar. Include fresh flowers, eggs, seeds, rabbit imagery, spring herbs, and symbols of balance. We have a full guide on how to create an Ostara altar if you want deeper correspondences and ideas from other witches and pagans.
14. Knit Eggs or Bunnies
If you knit or crochet, craft small bunnies, birds, or eggs to cluster together as a centerpiece or as whimsical objects placed around your home. Plus, they’re reusable year after year. If you’re ambitious (or very fast), you could also knit up some spring socks.
15. Dough Bowl Centerpiece
Fill a wooden dough bowl with preserved moss, dyed eggs, small rabbit figures, and blossoms. Place it on a coffee table, the dining table, or on the entryway console for a seasonal focal point.
16. Add Sculptures of Spring Deities
Set out small sculptures or art prints of spring-associated deities such as Persephone, Hathor, Ishtar, or other gods and goddesses connected to the themes of the season to welcome their energy back into your space.
17. Spring Pillows
This isn’t exactly crafting, but one way you can change the energy in the space is swap heavier winter textiles or holiday patterns for lighter pillows in floral prints, soft greens, pale yellows, or patterns featuring the symbols of the season.
18. Spring Coffee Bar
Set up a small seasonal coffee station with floral mugs, honey, cinnamon, pistachio or lavender syrup, or fresh herbs like mint. Add a small vase of flowers and perhaps a bowl of pastel-wrapped chocolates. Though I tend to prefer to add flavor to my coffee myself, Bones Coffee offers many flavored coffees that would work for the season.
Ostara Decorations
These spring finds make it easy to decorate for Ostara. From rabbit tureens and woodland trays to floral candleholders and storybook teapots, these pieces lean into the softer side of the Spring Equinox. You can also shop my Amazon picks for Ostara here.
Bunny and Cabbage Tureen
Bunnies eat cabbage. We eat cabbage. Bunnies, they’re just like us. Get the tureen at Anthropologie here.
Woodland Creature Tray
Anthropologie has a wide range of catch-all trays featuring rabbits, chipmunks, fairies, flowers, and other spring designs. See them all here.
Purple Matcha Tea Bowl
Somehow we’ve associated matcha, the powdered green tea, with spring. And, while I don’t totally get why, I’m not mad about it. Club Magic Hour sells many delicious teas, but they also have this star-studded matcha bowl for whisking your matcha before drinking. Get it only at Club Magic Hour.
Flower Candleholders
These floral candleholders come in a variety of colors and are perfect for your altar or dining table. Get them on Amazon.
Wood Bunny with Bells
This carved celestial rabbit comes complete with bells, making it a great addition to your altar area or just outside your home. Get it on Etsy.
Lavender Doormat
You probably know the whole thing about not having a welcome mat that literally says welcome. (If not, check out our article on protection spells.) Whether or not you buy into the idea of it, there’s no denying this lavender doormat is a pretty way to “welcome” spring. Get it on Amazon.
Bunny Garland
This simple bunny and beads garland is a simple, minimalist way to add some spring symbolism to your decor. Get it on Amazon.
Bunny Cheese Plate
Are we still doing cheese plates? (Hope so.) This ceramic cheese plate featuring a bunny figurine works as an offering dish or as a seasonal way to set out charcuterie for a spring party or Ostara gathering. Get it at Williams-Sonoma.
Beatrix Potter Teapot
This teapot featuring Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail from the classic tale of Peter Rabbit is just darling. And an easy way to heat up that water for your matcha to go with your blackberry scones. Get it at Williams-Sonoma.
