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The Ultimate Guide to Celebrating Spring features crafts, recipes, decor ideas, wreaths, and more. This is the perfect place to get inspiration and spring ideas for welcoming this special season into your home!
As a life-long resident of Ohio, the changing seasons are a big part of my life. I love to welcome each one, and enjoy sharing seasonal content with all of you. Adding seasonal accessories to your existing decor is the easiest way to refresh a room, without reinventing the wheel. Over the years, I have gathered together an idea list for celebrating the various seasons…and last year, I finally wrote one for spring. This guide has been completely updated and reorganized for 2024, and includes every scrap of spring season inspiration I have, and then some!
What follows is a collection of my best decor ideas, recipes, crafts, wreaths, spring activities, and more. My hope is that these suggestions will provide endless ideas, so you can celebrate spring in style!
Spring Dinner Ideas + Sides
- Serve this chicken salad for a simple weeknight supper.
- Make these ham and swiss sliders for two or a crowd!
- Whip up this Chicken Caesar Pasta Salad in no time.
- This Meyer Lemon Chicken sheet pan dinner is super quick and easy.
- Make this beautiful fresh citrus salad.
- This pasta salad recipe is as pretty as it is delicious!
- If you are looking for a side dish for Easter or Mother’s Day, this Jiffy Corn Casserole is a crowd pleaser!
Spring Desserts + drinks
- Make this beautiful homemade angel food cake.
- Serve this gorgeous sour cream coffee cake for Easter or Mother’s Day!
- Make this simplified berry chantilly cake to impress your Easter guests!
- Serve these strawberry shortcake biscuits for a fun and fresh dessert.
- Make lavender simple syrup, and then make lavender lemonade. It’s so refreshing and delicious!
- Or…if lavender isn’t your thing, make mint lemonade.
- This jello salad was probably served by your granny at spring family gatherings!
- Make these simple and sweet blueberry cookies. Also try these amazing blueberry muffins.
- Try these strawberry scones…or this strawberry bread.
- Make homemade butter for your family, or as a hostess gift.
Spring Garden
- See how to plant ferns in vintage galvanized containers.
- Plant a small herb garden for your kitchen.
- Learn all about beautiful spring-blooming bleeding hearts.
- Spring weather can be tricky! See my method for protecting early spring blooms from frost.
- Put fresh herbs in little pots for the perfect kitchen herb garden.
- Think ahead to warmer weather and plan your summer gardening by considering this list of hardy perennials.
- New to gardening? Take a look at these tips to get started.
- Start a journal to record the progress of your garden.
Spring Decor Ideas
- Add some yellow. It’s bright and so cheerful!
- Check out my best ideas for the easiest spring decor for the living room.
- See how beautiful white tulips look in vintage blue mason jars.
- Put this pussy willow centerpiece together in just a few minutes!
- Sprinkle vintage quilts and pillows around to add color and interest.
- Learn how to mix and match plates to make an interesting spring table.
- Add fresh eucalyptus to shelf decor for a fun spring look.
- Mix inexpensive melamine plates with vintage china for a unique look. Also includes using eggs, shades of blue, and other pastels.
- Give your Easter guests cute favors made from terra cotta pots.
- Assemble this simple centerpiece with Meyer lemons and greenery.
- Set a pretty spring table with blue and white items.
- Using neutral ironstone on shelves is a fresh spring idea.
- Add soft pastel hues like pale pink, light blue, mint green, and lavender into your decor.
- Easy ways to refresh your kitchen for spring.
- See this pretty and super easy centerpiece for a dining table.
- Pull out your market basket and add some spring blooms. Set it in an empty corner, or hang it from a doorknob.
- Incorporate spring decor accessories like painted eggs, egg-shaped candles, or decorative egg wreaths to celebrate the season, and add a festive touch to your space.
Spring Flowers
- Get my guide to the best spring faux flowers!
- Take a look at this amazing collection of spring flower arrangements.
- Add faux lavender to buckets or vases for a look that won’t fade.
- Fill your dough bowl with gorgeous pink cherry blossoms.
- Tips for arranging tulips…and how to make them stop drooping.
Spring Wreaths + Outdoor Decor
- A spring into summer porch refresh.
- A unique but so simple door decorating idea.
- A big and showy tulip wreath.
- An easy door basket with a cute bow.
- A pink spring wreath that adds amazing curb appeal.
- Refresh your front door with a fun spring-inspired doormat.
- A spring wreath with ferns and flowers.
- Paint ugly planters to match your front door!
- Decorate your porch with crisp black and white.
- Spruce up the sitting area on your porch, deck, or patio.
- Our first spring porch at the Sugar Maple house.
Spring Craft Ideas
- Treat yourself to a fun and relaxing craft session! Make these DIY Mod Podge terra cotta pots to add to your spring decor. Fill them with faux greenery, dried flowers, or use them as table setting favors. They also make the perfect Easter or Mother’s Day gift.
- Add the beautiful scent of lavender to your home with these DIY lavender sachets.
- Planning a spring bridal or baby shower? Make box lunches!
- Homemade sugar scrub is the perfect Easter or Mother’s Day gift from the heart.
- A sweet, tried + true Easter bunny pillow craft.
- A super simple DIY Easter Bunny Nest that’s charming and sweet. Just updated for 2024!
Spring Self Care
- Treat yourself to a lovely candle in a fresh floral scent.
- Plan ahead for Mother’s Day by shopping this carefully curated collection of gift ideas freshly updated for 2024.
- Get a new lipstick in a fresh and pretty color. I love this berry vanilla from Laura Geller.
- Plan a girls night, and splurge on dinner at your favorite restaurant.
- This dusty pink sweatshirt looks great with these cute linen pants and tee. It’s perfect for spring, and it won’t break the bank! (The pants run a little big so consider sizing down.)
- On the first nice day, when the sun is shining, take a bike ride or a long walk.
- Add a Mrs. Meyers Peony kitchen set to your kitchen counter. The scent is amazing!
- Declutter and organize one space in your home to create a sense of renewal.
Spring Printables
The 2024 Spring Printable Collection consists of:
- 11 spring-themed designs suitable for DIY wall artwork. Featuring three brand new floral printables pictured in the image above.
- Mother’s Day gift cards.
- Thinking of you gift cards.
- Thank you gift cards.
How to Get The Printables
To get this collection of spring printables, all you need to do is fill out the short form at the end of the post. You will immediately receive an email that contains the link to this free spring printables collection. You will also receive new posts and special offers straight to your email inbox!
I hope you found some new ideas to share with your family. I will keep adding to the list as I share new content when spring rolls around each year. Once again, I want to thank every one of you for your support and friendship. I am so grateful that you take the time to come to this blog. Until next time…
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Hello. I would love the spring printables along with summer printables that you have. I enjoy viewing your site.
Thank you. Muriel Kuri
I would like the 2024 Spring printables
Hi, I’m interested in the free printable. Thanks
Hi Brenda…do you see the form at the end of the post? Just fill it out and I will send the printables to your email. Thanks!
I would love the spring printables and to be an OSP email subscriber. Your ideas are an inspiration to me.
Hey Barbara…did you see the form at the end of the post? Just fill it out and I’ll send you the printables. Thanks!
Love all these pictures!
Beautiful prints!
Awesome post! So many great ideas….your time pulling this together is appreciated. I will spend days and days coming back to this one for “cheering up my home” & all the yummy recipes. Thanks Ann!
As always, beautiful and so much inspiration. Thank you for always sharing such wonderful ideas.
I live in Canada and right now it’s snow and cold. But I am already getting ready for spring. And I have already tried your strawberry scones and they are to die for.
Thank you. Enjoy your day.
Such a lovely post! I’m dreaming of spring but the weather isn’t co-operating. More snow is in the forecast for this evening. While I wait for warmer temps, I will enjoy your spring ideas. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing
Happy Spring!
This post is awesome. I just skimmed it quickly but will sit down and read every word with my coffee. I will definitely be making the strawberry scones – probably today! I already have plans to refresh the French blue on my front door – along with the wooden plant table in the same color. I am a planner by nature, and every year I break the year down in quarters and list projects to be accomplished and check them off. I’m on to quarter #2 in a few weeks. It’s a real sense of accomplishment.
I love your print outs. I have used them in the past.
Everyone who receives them comments on their beauty.
Thank you for doing this for me (and everyone else)
Barbara
Thank you for the
Spring prints
Thanks so much. Such sweet tags and prints.
Sandi
Love these prints
So much good stuff here!! I especially have my eye on that strawberry scone. We just had our floors refinished last week and have been in the process of putting the house back together. I’m absolutely sick of winter and the fresh space gave me motivation to start incorporating spring into our decor and meals. Thanks for all of the inspo!
I can’t wait to try the strawberry scones. Thank you for the recipe.
Happy spring, very soon.
Karen B
Fun reading and reviewing. Found your blog in 2014 when I retired & had time to discover blogs, am working once again & always find the time for your blog. It’s The Best! Have tried many, many of your ideas & they always bring cheer to my life!
Fantastic guide, Ann! Lots of great spring inspiration!
I enjoy your blog very much. I just live south of you in KY (Lexington). I found this post especially helpful. I’m looking for a blue for my front door and had already pinned your front door a long time ago. All week I’ve been on a search for new planters and found on this list about painting them. Fantastic idea! Looking forward to more posts as you work on your new home.
This is a wonderful post, Ann. Very uplifting and helpful at this time of year. Thank you and happy Spring!!
So much inspiration in this post! Hope you have a happy spring!😊