How to Decorate a Picnic Area for the 4th of July
Decorating your picnic area for the Fourth of July can be a fun and creative experience. The type of picnic area you have will play into your decorating options. The type of celebration you want to have in your picnic area will also play into your decorating potential. What is important is that you plan around your space and natural outdoor offerings, and then let your creative juices flow. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Set your budget. The more money you have or want to spend, the more options you have for your decorations.
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Decide if you want to decorate using lights to create a festive mood and creative lighting effects.
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Determine how many people will be in your picnic area on the Fourth of July and how many places to sit and to eat will be needed.
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Make a plan for how you will acquire enough chairs, tables or picnic tables to accommodate the guests and how you will arrange them throughout the picnic area. Remember to think about arranging tables and chairs and picnic tables so that guests have good exposure to your picnic area as well as to each other for visiting.
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Determine how you want to decorate the tables. Do you want to have tablecloths and should these be paper, plastic, cloth, or linen?
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Decide whether you want to have a centerpiece on each of the tables or whether the Fourth of July theme will be carried out by using red, white, and blue table accessories such as plates, glasses, eating utensils.
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Decide if you want to have picnic area decorations that highlight the Fourth of July theme such as: flags, Uncle Sam blow up effigies, stars, fireworks, etc.
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Make a list of all of the supplies and materials you have decided you want to use to decorate your picnic area and go to a craft or hobby store, a party store, a paper store, or a specialty seasonal store to make purchases.
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Decorate your picnic area.
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Tips & Warnings
Lighting can be as simple as putting colored light bulbs into existing outdoor lighting fixtures. A little more detailed lighting might include using strings of colored lights and hanging them on poles surrounding the picnic area. A more complex approach would be to use strings of lights wrapped around tree trunks and branches in your picnic area. A romantic approach to lighting might be to hang glass candle holders from tree branches and use tea candles to provide a soft mood for the event.
