Making Table Centerpieces

Series Summary

Crafts are an important part of teaching children, and making fun centerpieces is a great craft for parties and weddings. Crafts can improve a child's imagination, bolster and accelerate a child's creative development and help them learn certain concepts in a fun and interesting way. Whether making hand turkeys from brown construction paper for Thanksgiving, building the world's largest Popsicle stick sculpture, or just making a mess of construction paper scraps, crafts are a good way to keep the kids busy and help them learn to have fun with creativity. Centerpieces are made like any other craft and decorate tables at weddings or dinner parties. In this free video series on making homemade centerpieces, party craft expert Stephanie Smith teaches decorators great centerpiece ideas for parties and holidays. Smith covers finding decorations and where to start. Favoring the plastic party hat as a centerpiece foundation, she adds balloons, tissue paper and plenty of pizazz to plastic hats, making a gorgeous centerpiece for any occasion. Smith covers the Fourth of July, St. Patrick's Day, princess, soccer and other themes.

Video Transcript

"On how to make a centerpiece for your table. Now with any party a center piece is a must, it just puts the whole look together and ties the whole theme together too. So I have started an example here of one that we are going to make. Our centerpiece involves a hat and we are going to add, build on from there using balloons or tissue paper or flags or maybe some wire garland. So whatever your theme is this centerpiece can tie into it really easily. This one right here is a patriotic theme. And we just have balloons tied down to a weight and we can, it can be any type of weight, it doesn't have to match because it's just going to be covered with the hat. So let's get started."