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Make Easter Brunch Playful with Lemon Easter Eggs

Make Easter Brunch Playful with Lemon Easter Eggs

Want an original Easter Brunch idea you haven’t seen before? Dress up lemons like Easter eggs. They are so cute and take just minutes to make!

Lemons and Easter go hand-in-hand in my home. The burst of brightness from the citrus pairs beautifully with fresh spring vegetables. As you can see from my Easter brunch menu, lemon is always featured heavily. What can I say? it’s my favorite flavor!

When I realized that lemons and eggs are basically the same shape, a light bulb went off. Why not dress up lemons as Easter eggs? How cute is that? I broke out my hot glue gun (tiny pushpins would also work) and decorated my lemons to look like Easter eggs. Pastel ribbons and furniture pads made whimsical fun.

Besides being adorable, this solves the problem I have in Miami of not having real eggs sit outside in the heat. I hate wasting food just for decorative purposes. I grew little pots of wheatgrass and tucked these lemon eggs into them for a centerpiece.  My guests thought it was a hoot!

Make Easter Brunch Playful with Lemon Easter Eggs

Make Easter Brunch Playful with Lemon Easter Eggs

Lemon Easter Eggs Material Needed

  • lemons
  • rickrack in pastel colors
  • ribbons in pastel colors
  • velour furniture pads
  • hot glue gun
  • push pins

Make Easter Brunch Playful with Lemon Easter Eggs

Make Easter Brunch Playful with Lemon Easter Eggs

Make Easter Brunch Playful with Lemon Easter Eggs

How to Make Lemon Easter Eggs

1. All you need is your imagination to make these lemon Easter eggs. Measure ribbon around the lemons and cut to size.

2. Use hot glue or pins to secure ribbons and rickrack. (If using pins, don’t do this too far in advance or lemons make leak and spoil.)

3. Peel off the back of furniture pads to stick them on lemons as polka dots. This works best if lemons are already at room temperature.

Make Easter Brunch Playful with Lemon Easter Eggs

This is a no waste project. If all you use is hot glue and stickers, after brunch cut the lemons and use their juice.

Here are some of my favorite lemon recipes:

Lemon Caper Salad Dressing

Authentic Italian Recipe for Limoncello

Lemon Curd

Preserved Lemons

Classic Lemon Bars

Make Easter Brunch Playful with Lemon Easter Eggs

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  2. This is such a cute and fun idea! I love how you’ve used the adorable bunny egg holder to create what could be a pretty centerpiece for Easter dinner. This could also be a fun craft project to make with the kids. Thanks for sharing!

  5. This is such a great idea!!! I can’t stand buying those plastic eggs every year and having halves lingering around the house for another 6 months.

  10. I really love that this is perfect for warm weather areas. I hate leaving the real eggs out for long, regardless of temperature, so what a perfect solution.

  11. This is such an excellent idea! I personally hate dyeing eggs because it’s a mess and it smells bad, but this is just so adorable and easy, too. Thanks for the idea!

  16. Great question, Bonnie. They really don’t add much of a smell. If you wanted a lemon scent, you could squeeze the peel of one lemon and dab the others with the essential oils from the squeezed peel.

  18. These are so colorful I love this idea! I wonder if they add a lemon smell as well? That could be nice

  28. Genius idea! Totally going to do this as a centerpiece for my kitchen table. My kids can reach it so anything that is breakable is off-the-table (literally) 🙂

  29. Omg!!! YES. This is a phenomenal idea. I’m in Tampa, so I feel you on needing a solution for keeping eggs outside. This is perfect! Thanks for sharing xx Tiffani

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