Things You'll Need:
- Assorted fruit
- Evergreen branches
- Marker
- Paring knife
- Melon ball scoop
- Foam core
- Wooden skewers
- Assorted foliage
- Hurricane jar
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Step 1
Choose fruits that coordinate with the color of your room or the season. You can create a Christmas centerpiece with apples and evergreen branches, or a tropical centerpiece with kiwis, star fruits and pineapple.
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Step 2
Create an edible fruit centerpiece for a children's party. Use a marker to draw a handle on the rind of a watermelon. Remove the rind around the handle with a sharp paring knife, and prepare the flesh for the melon basket with a melon ball scoop.
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Step 3
Save money on fruit centerpieces by attaching fruit to a foam core with wooden skewers. You can buy foam cores in different sizes, such as a conical shape, which you can turn into a tree studded with whole fruits mixed with cut fruit chunks for eating.
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Step 4
Fill in the gaps between fruit pieces with foliage from your yard or from the florist. Branches from citrus trees are shiny and leathery, which make a durable centerpiece filling. Herb foliage is short-lived, but adds fragrance to the centerpiece.
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Step 5
Highlight the natural beauty of fruit by creating a centerpiece with a large glass hurricane jar. Fill the jar with one kind of fruit, like lemons, for a bold color statement. You can fill the jar with water also if desired.
