How to Make Waterfall Centerpieces

Crystal Wine Glasses

Create a unique focal point for your table setting by making waterfall centerpieces. Complement your table scape with the soft sounds of water trickling over colorful glass stones, natural river rock or elegant crystal glasses. Your main components are a reservoir to hold the water and a pump to circulate the flow of water from the reservoir to the top of the waterfall.

Things You'll Need

• Large white ceramic bowl
• White spray paint
• 4 brick halves
• Waterfall pump
• Clear waterproof adhesive
• 15 crystal wine glasses
• White rocks

Instructions

1. Spray paint the bricks white so they will blend into the ceramic bowl. If your pump is black, place a bit of tape over the intake valve and paint the pump and the electrical cord white. Let the paint dry.

2. Place the bricks in the white ceramic basin in the form of a plus sign. Glue them to the bottom of your bowl with waterproof adhesive. Clear Liquid Nail works well for this project.

3. Glue the bottom rims of five of the wine glasses and place them on top of the bricks--one in the center, surrounded by the remaining four. Make a line of glue in the center of the bottom of four wine glasses, and place them on top of the five you just added. The glasses should be placed so that the ones on top are sitting in the center where two glasses on the bottom row meet. Continue to build your waterfall centerpiece upward, using one less glass each time until you have only one glass at the top. Let the glue dry.

4. Place your pump in the basin so that it is hidden as much as possible by the bricks. Attach the clear plastic tube included with the pump and then run it up to the top of your wine glass waterfall as unobtrusively as possible. Attach the tip of the tubing to the rim of the top wine glass with waterproof adhesive.

5. Fill the basin with white rocks to camouflage and the wine glasses with water before turning on the waterfall pump.

Tips & Warnings

• This project works best for a table that is against the wall so that your power source may be hidden.

• Move your waterfall centerpiece carefully.

Resources

• Waterfall Pumps