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Fall Harvest Centerpiece |
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This easy centerpiece highlights the best the season has to offer, and can be made with many of the ingredients you have lying around the house—or even the yard.
Supplies:
• 1 large, flat platter or 12 to 16-inch
(30.8 to 40.6 cm) mirror, framed or unframed
• Assorted fresh fall leaves
• Assorted pumpkins, gourds, nuts, pinecones, acorns or other harvest fruits.
• 1 large pillar candle
• 1 340 g bag Ocean Spray® Fresh Cranberries
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Directions: Place a platter or mirror on the table. Scatter the leaves on the mirror and place candle on top. Arrange pumpkins, gourds and assorted fruits and nuts around candle. Sprinkle Ocean Spray® Fresh Cranberries around fruits and candle.
Discard berries and other fruit when they become soft, which can range from a few days to a week.
*Tip: Gather brightly coloured leaves and press between paper towels or newspaper until dry. If coloured leaves are not available, you can use dried or silk leaves instead.
Variations:
Instead of large candles, you can use a few votive candles in glass containers, along with pumpkins, gourds, whole nuts and fruit such as apples and cranberries.
Fill a large glass bowl with fresh fruit such as apples and oranges. Sprinkle with unshelled nuts, fresh cranberries and clusters of dried flowers. Wrap a wide fall-coloured ribbon and raffia around the bowl and tie into a bow. Tuck two or three long cinnamon sticks and sheaves of wheat into the ribbon.
Arrange colourful ears of dried corn, fresh squash and gourds on a tray. Sprinkle with unshelled nuts and fresh cranberries. Tuck dried flowers and small bunches of wheat sheaves, tied with ribbon or raffia, around and among the vegetables.
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