How to Make Centerpieces for Christmas Tables

A holiday centerpiece for your Christmas table (or more of these holiday decorations) sets the season for festivities. Here are some fresh ideas for inexpensive Christmas centerpieces that will delight the whole family!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. 
   A potted spray painted tree looks fantastic and takes a few minutes to perfect.

   Use an old metal or plastic pail and a fake tree: things you probably have somewhere or can get for only a few dollars. Spray paint the tree white and add small festive decorations. This is a simple holiday decoration that anyone can do for a few dollars. An essential holiday decoration: Christmas decorating means Christmas centerpieces for your dining table!

2. 
   Cover the no-longer-plain candles with

   Grab some more pots: clay this time, and those boring old votive candles. These accentuate your table top Christmas tree centerpieces. Melt and whip the candle wax, place some white, silver, and translucent glitter inside to add some sparkle, and center them around your tabletop Christmas tree centerpiece.

3. 
   Want to use cheap Christmas decorations? Use the candy that would be around anyway to add some visual stimulation to your Christmas table.

   The holidays, and Christmas season especially, is a time for tasty treats. Put some colorful candies in ornate (yet usually readily available or cheap to aquire) holders of various heights to get everyone's appetites revving with a visual smorgasboard of yummy chocolates and assorted treats.

Tips & Warnings

• If you use a tablecloth, opt for an elegant choice that lets the Christmas centerpieces stand out, rather than a cute and cheap patterned disaster.
• You can use a cheap silver or white cloth and add "snow" to it as well.
• Don't feel limited to a budget of any kind! Cheap Christmas decorations use things you already have or can pay a few bucks for: be creative!

Resources

• Better Homes and Gardens Holiday Ideas

[00Analana]

on 12/8/2008 These are creative ideas! Thanks!