Great ides for Christmas centerpieces

Christmas centerpieces can make or break a table. There are effective, inexpensive, and festive centerpieces that can make a table come to life. The first thing to decide when choosing – or making – a centerpiece is size. Centerpieces are typically used for large tables, often for tables where families will be eating Christmas dinner (for example). However, a centerpiece can be used for coffee tables, small breakfast tables, and all sorts of surfaces.

Great ideas for Christmas-theme centerpieces are plentiful, and can be easy to pull off for those who are inclined in the do-it-yourself department. One wonderful concept is to get poinsettias – either real, which look fresh, or fake, which last forever – and putting them in a decorated planter. The planter can be plain, and can have Christmas charms or glitter glue-gunned to it. This flower looks particularly attractive when lightly sprayed with fine glitter – silver, red, gold, or white look pretty. A fake flower will not wilt under this sort of adornment. Another great centerpiece is a wreath. One can purchase a plain wreath – there are multiple colors out there, but for this one, a traditional green looks best – and then work some craft magic. Using a hot glue gun, red velvet bows can be added to the wreath, which will sit in the middle of the table. Small candle-holders can be inserted into the bushier parts of the wreath, and then candles – red, gold, and purples look very nice – can be inserted. These can be lit, but one should be careful to not start a fire. For those who want to be careful, the candles can either stay unlit, or can be subbed out by fake candles that are battery-powered. Pinecones should never be underestimated. These can be hot glue-gunned together to form a centerpiece. Some like to spray paint them in silver and gold, which can look festive.

Another particularly ornate project involves using chestnuts, painting them silver and gold, and making a chestnut wreath out of them. Decoupage can be another way to create a great centerpiece. A large vase – preferably one that is cheap – can be covered in modge podge glue, then covered in a festive fabric (Santa Claus patterns, snowflake patterns, etc.), and then covered in more of the glue. Once it dries, the vase will look shrink-wrapped in the fabric, and it will be smooth and shiny. Flowers can be inserted, and if they are fake, a chunk of Styrofoam can be inserted and the flowers can be stuck into it so they stand upright. A somewhat ambitious centerpiece could include snowflakes. One can buy stiff paper and spray paint it with glitter, then cut snowflake shapes out of it. A small, wiry tree – real or fake – can be adorned with the snowflakes, which can be glue on or hung with little hooks. A snowflake star can go on top. To complete the look, a small “skirt” can be put underneath the tree, and candles can be lit around it to illuminate the centerpiece.

Christmas centerpieces can make or break a table. There are effective, inexpensive, and festive centerpieces that can make a table come to life. The first thing to decide when choosing – or making – a centerpiece is size. Centerpieces are typically used for large tables, often for tables where families will be eating Christmas dinner (for example). However, a centerpiece can be used for coffee tables, small breakfast tables, and all sorts of surfaces.

Great ideas for Christmas-theme centerpieces are plentiful, and can be easy to pull off for those who are inclined in the do-it-yourself department. One wonderful concept is to get poinsettias – either real, which look fresh, or fake, which last forever – and putting them in a decorated planter. The planter can be plain, and can have Christmas charms or glitter glue-gunned to it. This flower looks particularly attractive when lightly sprayed with fine glitter – silver, red, gold, or white look pretty. A fake flower will not wilt under this sort of adornment. Another great centerpiece is a wreath. One can purchase a plain wreath – there are multiple colors out there, but for this one, a traditional green looks best – and then work some craft magic. Using a hot glue gun, red velvet bows can be added to the wreath, which will sit in the middle of the table. Small candle-holders can be inserted into the bushier parts of the wreath, and then candles – red, gold, and purples look very nice – can be inserted. These can be lit, but one should be careful to not start a fire. For those who want to be careful, the candles can either stay unlit, or can be subbed out by fake candles that are battery-powered. Pinecones should never be underestimated. These can be hot glue-gunned together to form a centerpiece. Some like to spray paint them in silver and gold, which can look festive.

Another particularly ornate project involves using chestnuts, painting them silver and gold, and making a chestnut wreath out of them. Decoupage can be another way to create a great centerpiece. A large vase – preferably one that is cheap – can be covered in modge podge glue, then covered in a festive fabric (Santa Claus patterns, snowflake patterns, etc.), and then covered in more of the glue. Once it dries, the vase will look shrink-wrapped in the fabric, and it will be smooth and shiny. Flowers can be inserted, and if they are fake, a chunk of Styrofoam can be inserted and the flowers can be stuck into it so they stand upright. A somewhat ambitious centerpiece could include snowflakes. One can buy stiff paper and spray paint it with glitter, then cut snowflake shapes out of it. A small, wiry tree – real or fake – can be adorned with the snowflakes, which can be glue on or hung with little hooks. A snowflake star can go on top. To complete the look, a small “skirt” can be put underneath the tree, and candles can be lit around it to illuminate the centerpiece.