Equipment: an egg container (cardboard or ceramic), a collection of empty egg shells, egg cups. Chocolate eggs and “hot cross buns”.

Flowers and Foliage: whatever takes your fancy but they must be small. I have used tiny succulents, narcissi, anenomes, cherry blossom, eringeum, iris, tree ivy seed heads. Moss: white reindeer, green, Spanish (akes good ‘birds nest” effect).

Step 1: Decide on the overall design: theme, where egg shells / egg cups will be, textures and colours.

Step 2: Egg shells: fill each one with a small fitted piece of dry oasis. These will hold the flowers.

Step 3: Egg cups: fill these with soil for the bulbs / succulents you will use.

Step 4: Moss: use this to line some of the egg box places adding eggs and other fun items to make a “nest”.

Step 5: Flowers: the eringeum are dried flower heads, the Cornish narcissi are fresh and heavily scented, the anenomes were buds when I added them, the blossom is cherry and hawthorne bush twigs. Other people used tulips, lenten roses and geums. All of them looked lovely.

Step 6: Fun things: chocolate easter eggs, African tarataal birds, the semi-precious stone eggs belong to my mother (malacite and yellow quartz), some blue and white candles from a candleholder I had, wood ladybirds, the bee is from the handle top of a mesh food cover …….. You can be very creative about the things you use. - my favourite was the chocolate hot cross buns made from upside down walnut whips with a cross across the bottom.

I was reluctant to do this one - not enough “flowers” I thought. But in has been fun thinking of little things that can be added to the arrangement. Some people were very creative: one used sea shells and crabs for a seaside theme, many used chickens or rabbits for an easter theme.

I’m not sure how long they will last, but they make a change from our usual arrangements.