Thanksgiving Ideas

Sophisticated Fruit and Vegetable Centerpiece

A stroll through the produce department of your local grocery store will yield the colorful materials needed to create this unusual centerpiece — no flowers necessary.

By Leah McCall, Whimsical Gatherings; Photos by Montague Photography
Filed under: Centerpieces, How To, Thanksgiving

Garden Vegetable Thanksgiving Centerpiece

For the freshest possible centerpiece, assemble on the day of your get-together. To save time, the baby green blooms and cornhusk flowers can be created and produce skewered the day before, then refrigerated until ready to assemble.

Materials Needed:

8" diameter trifle dish or container of choice
knife
dry floral foam
hot glue gun and sticks
175 skewers or plant stakes
1 bag corn husks
scissors

dried or fresh cranberries
10 miniature eggplants
15 beets
1 bag baby greens
20 crab apples
75 red pearl onions
1 head red cabbage

Cover Trifle Bowl

Attach red cabbage leaves to dish with hot glue; cover seams and fill gaps with cranberries.

Gluing Purple Cabbage to Base of Centerpiece

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Cut and Secure Floral Foam

Determine necessary amount of floral foam by placing dry blocks in container. Tip: Foam should be 2 inches taller than vessel lip. Using knife, cut foam to correct size, then secure bottom of foam block to container with hot glue.

Placing Foam in Thanksgiving Centerpiece

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Create Baby Green Blooms

Apply hot glue to tip of skewer/plant stake. Working in an overlapping, concentric pattern, attach leaves until bloom is approximately 3 inches in diameter. Create 30 baby green blooms.