Creating a Holiday Centerpiece
September 16, 2009 by Linette Gerlach
Filed under Christmas, Holiday Parties
I took a floral arranging course several years ago, and I still love creating my own floral arrangements, especially for the holidays, and for holiday entertaining.
Creating a holiday centerpiece doesn’t have to be difficult, and you might even have some of the things you need already in your home. If you have a beautiful basket, or vase that you’re not sure what to do with it would make a great base for your holiday centerpiece.
Here are a couple other ideas for holiday centerpiece containers or bases:
- A small sleigh
- A wagon
- Flower pot
- A small burlap bag (made to look like Santa’s bag)
- A horn of plenty
- A wrapped gift box, or floral foam wrapped up like a present.
- A pumpkin or gourd
- Yule log
- Serving tray
- A holiday bowl
You get the idea, many things can be the base of your holiday centerpiece, just use your imagination. You can also be creative on what you use in your centerpiece arrangements, including:
- Evergreen branches
- Pine cones
- Flowers
- Fruits
- Vegetables
- Beads
- Feathers
- Wire small presents, angels, or ornaments into your arrangements
- Fall leaves
- Candles
- Dried fruits
- Raffia or ribbon
- Dried seed pods
- Mini lights
Just be creative. If you’re creating a centerpiece for Thanksgiving use fall colors, fruits, and vegetables. For a Christmas or New Years centerpiece use whites, reds, greens, blues, golds or silvers.
Dried floral foam makes a great base. Here’s a wonderful video with a great example of a
holiday centerpiece being created from Monkey See.
It’s really not hard to create your own holiday centerpiece, and it can save you a ton of money over purchasing pre-made decorations.
Images (c) L Gerlach
These would be lovely for a winter or holiday wedding. Imagine a nutcracker centrepiece with mixed nuts on the tables for little munchies. That would be fun.