There is nothing I love more than a pretty spring porch. Or fall porch. Or Christmas porch.
It doesn’t take a lot of money or a lot of time to create a beautiful spring porch that will bring a smile to your family and neighbors’ faces.
Six Packs of Pansies for a Spring Porch
I stopped by the dollar store and got 6 colorful oblong Easter baskets. I like the ones with long handles to add some height. Next, I stopped by the nursery and bought six 6-packs of colorful spring flowers: pansies, violets and diascia are pretty low growing flowers that fit perfectly in those baskets.
Grab a few crates, stools, alternate baskets or wood pieces or rounds to add some height variations and arrange those baskets on top. You can grab all of these things and more at Hobby Lobby or Target or any number of places. But you typically get the exact same basket for a couple bucks more there compared to the dollar store, and I love to try to use other things I have lying around (free) to round out my basket arrangement.
Finishing Touches
I also grabbed a few little Easter decorations and signs along with my baskets at the dollar store, and I set them up alongside. Last year, a woman wandered into my garden asking if I was still selling produce which really confused me until I realized she had taken my “Cottontail Farms Carrots: 5 cents” sign quite literally.
Another cute idea for a spring porch is to set a clear glass pitcher or large mason jar on a stool or small porch table filled with a large bunch of carrots with their full fluffy green tops. This is obviously what I should have done last year, and I might have made a few cents.
Surprise Switch Out
When Easter comes around, you can quite quickly pull the plastic six packs of flowers out, plant them right into your garden beds, and refill the baskets with faux grass and candy as usual. I love a good upcycle and this saves a few dollars and a few baskets.
Plus, when the kids wake up on Easter morning, they can walk out to the spring porch, now accustomed to the baskets and be astonished (hopefully) that those boring pansies have been replaced with treats just for them! The Easter Bunny does tend to come around and eat up those yummy flowers and then leave something in return on Easter morning, that’s what I hear at least!
