Dress up your party with homemade party decorations.
Save the party budget by making your own holiday decorations. Make your party sizzle with style by adding festive points of interest in your party room or area. Decorate an entryway with glittering objects for dramatic eye appeal. Add a lighted centerpiece or a floral one to a holiday food table. Use items from your home to make these party decorations. These inexpensive items are fun to make and will put everyone in the party mood. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
Decorative Flutes
1. Place champagne flutes at random around a buffet table.
2. Lay a single sheet of tissue paper flat on a table.
3. Grasp the paper by the center with the thumb and index finger of your right hand.
4. Make a flute shape with your left hand.
5. Tuck the fluted tissue paper into the flute glasses. Tie curling ribbon to the stem.
Glitter Snowflakes
6. Put the bottom of a wide plastic glass on some white poster board. Outline the image on to the board with a pencil. Do this several times, one for each snowflake.
7. Cut out the circles with sharp scissors. Use scissors to make holes and decorative edges on your snowflakes.
8. String glue on the snowflakes working with them one at a time.
9. Set the snowflake glue side up in a shoebox. Sprinkle glitter on top. Shake the box. Repeat this until all the glitter snowflakes are completed. Let glue dry an hour before using them.
10. Place a hole in the top of each snowflake with a hole punch. String fishing line through the holes, knotting after each one. Hang the fishing line in a doorway or entry.
Lighted Vase
11. Place a large vase on a table.
12. Fill the vase with miniature lights, white or colored. Position the lights so the switch is easy to access.
13. Add plastic Christmas ornaments or colored filler beads to the vase.
14. Turn on the lights.
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