How to Make a Long Halloween Centerpiece

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Ginny with Simply Beautiful Crafts on behalf of Expert Village and today we are going to be making a variety of versatile Halloween centerpieces. This is a very small dish and not a very big figurine so I don't want to overwhelm it with too big of a leaf or too many different kinds. So the first thing I am going to do is put some of these sheer leaves in the bottom of the tray. Just kind of going back and forth with them. They are kind of nice because they are not overwhelming. They are leaves but they are not so big that they are overwhelming. And then I might layer it with a little bit of different color of leaf and extend it out to the end, so that it over laps the dish just a little bit. Again, I don't want my leaves to be too big and overwhelm everything and that is what's nice about these sheer leaves. Now I will just sit my figurine in the middle. Maybe I will add, oh I don't know, maybe I will add just this little candle ring with out the candle, kind of a nice touch to it. Or I could put a votive in here. But you know the votive is kind of big and the house is kind of small. So I think I am going to forgo the votive and just put the little candle rings in there. They are just the right size to fit. Now I have a little bit of a Halloween figurine here and I have the fall colors. I might add a few colorful leaves in here but it doesn't exactly say Halloween yet. So I am going to take some of my black leaves and they are rather large so I am just going to cut them so that they are not quite so big and insert them along with the colorful leaves to give it a little bit of a Halloween flavor to it. It's not easy to see right off the bat that that is a haunted house but with a few black leaves in here and a few Halloween spiders, skeletons, maybe a little witch or two with a finger puppet. And then just a little bit of a sprinkling of candy corn through out it gives it a little bit more of a suggestion of Halloween instead of fall. So, that is how I would put together a little Halloween narrow centerpiece for that small space that just needs a little something extra."