Cheap Christmas Table Decorations

You can make an easy and cheap Christmas table decoration simply by gathering things from your back yard.  Like branches from winter flowering shrubs, sprigs from a pine or fir tree, ivy, and holly berries.  If you can’t find any red berries faux ones work really well too – you’ll find lots on sale at this time of year.

After gathering your bunch of nature’s winter finery, fill a glass vase two-thirds full with tap water – a glass vase that’s wider at the base than at the top, and about 5 inches or so high, is a good kind to use.  Then – cutting the end off of each stem as you go – arrange your stems of greenery, blooms, and berries one by one in your vase.

And there you have it – a Christmas centerpiece that’s easy to make and inexpensive too!

Incidentally, depending on the region in which you live – and of course the weather – you may have some forsythia flowering in your garden.  If so the branches of the forsythia shrub, with their pretty yellow flowers, are just perfect for this kind of Christmas table arrangement.

Happy Christmas!