Holiday Centerpiece Ideas
by Diana Barnum
A holiday centerpiece would make a
wonderful focal point or main decoration for Thanksgiving,
Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's and other holiday occasions. You
can place the centerpiece on your table, entryway table or other
large area or space.
Plus there are limitless ways to
make your centerpiece special. You can mix-and-match festive
objects you have around your house with materials from a craft or
fabric store and even add them to wonderful creations from online
stores. Then design and create coordinating pieces for nearby
countertop or the mantle over the fire place, front porch or
other area.
Some mix-and-match ideas include:
Fall Vegetables
Begin with a pumpkin and gourds.
Loosely arrange them on the table or mantle. Set a natural-color
candle on each side of your display. Finish your free form art
center piece by sprinkling colorful fall leaves all over and
around your center pieces. Make sure they are not too close to
the candles, of course.
Fall & Winter Leaves &
Berries
Simply find a large glass bowl and
fill it with beautiful fall leaves or holly leaves and berries.
Set a candle on each side of the bowl to showcase the leaves.
Then, cut leaf shapes out of construction paper and use them as
place cards. Of course you could also press small leaves, and
glue them to a plain white place card.
Floral Display of Abundance
Make a dried floral arrangement
from fall and winter flowers. Gather some of the plastic sticks
that the florists use to hold notecards. Stick them into the
floral display, but put photos of the things you are thankful for
in them, instead. Or, if you don't have photos, just write words
on notecards and display them in the floral arrangement. Some
words you may start with are "family",
"friends", "food", "laughter".
Carve A Pumpkin
Yes, you heard right, carve a
pumpkin. Of course you don't want to go with the traditional
jack-o-lantern design here. Instead carve some geometrical
designs, or some flowers, leaf-shapes etc. on your hollowed out
pumpkin. Add a candle inside the carved pumpkin and light it just
before your guests arrive.
Holiday Candle Holders
Get some small pumpkins, Christmas
or other candle holders and tiny candles to use with them. Group
of few of these candle holders together for a festive center
piece. Finish your candle arrangement with a few pieces of native
corn or festive ornaments placed around your holiday candle
holders. Give the arrangement more dimension by using different
size pumpkins, ornaments and candles. Use some scented candles to
give your room that Holiday smell.
Dig through your holiday supplies
or take a stroll through your local craft store and you will come
up with your own versions of these suggestions, or even a
creation all your own.
Check out books from your local
library for more ideas to decorate your home and business
environment. You can make your own centerpieces and coordinating
decorations or visit fun shops online. It's as simple as that!
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