These easy last minute Christmas centrepieces are perfect if you still need something for your table (or anywhere else!) but you don’t have the time to make anything elaborate.

It takes less than half an hour to make and uses stuff you will probably either have already or be able to find easily outside.

How to Make Easy Last Minute Christmas Centrepieces

You Will Need: a glass bowl, candles, greenery, pine cones, berries, double sided tape or sticky fixers.

Depending on the size of the bowl, chunky candles might be a better option than tea lights.

If you only have tea lights and your bowl is quite deep, you will need to use something as a stand for them. I used a piece of flower foam from a kit I’d never got round to making.

1. Tape the candles to the bottom of the bowl. Because I was using oasis as a stand for tea lights, I taped the oasis to the bottom of the bowl, then stuck the candles to the oasis.

This is partly for safety so that they don’t fall over and set the place on fire, but also so that they don’t move about while you are making the centrepiece.

2. Cut the greenery into smaller pieces. The smaller the bowl, the smaller the pieces will need to be.

3. Start to fill the bowl with greenery. I filled mine up to the level of the oasis.

If you are using chunky candles, leave about 3 -4 cm of the candles exposed.

4. Add some of the berries.

5. Arrange the pine cones.

6. Fill remaining gaps with berries.

7. If you are using a chunk of oasis as a stand, cover the oasis with tiny bits of greenery.

That’s it, finished!

I also made a centrepiece using a much smaller bowl. I didn’t need a stand for the tea light as the bowl was shallow enough.

Tips

It doesn’t have to be a fancy bowl, a plain glass one will do. The bowl I used was a wedding present that had been lurking forgotten in a cupboard!

Deeper bowls will need bigger candles. If you use tea lights in a deep bowl, they will need a stand of some kind. I used a chunk of oasis.

Taping the candles to the bottom of the bowl will make them less likely to fall over.

To fill the bowl, just use what you have. At this time of year I am always very thankful for my neighbour’s Leylandii hedge! Any evergreens will do. You could even lop a bit off the back of the Christmas tree if you have a real one and  it won’t show.

If you don’t have hawthorn growing near you, you could use dried orange slices or cinnamon sticks.

If you like using natural stuff to decorate at Christmas, you might also like these posts!

How to Make a Pine Cone Garland

How to Make Dried Fruit Decorations

How to Make a Christmas Wreath

How to Make a Dried Fruit Garland