I love glass vases. I find them extremely versatile for decorating and useful for much more than displaying cut flowers. In a previous article, I offered suggestions on how you can use your glass vase to make fun and festive Christmas table centerpieces. Here I will tell you how you can use your glass vase to make a colorful and unique Memorial Day centerpiece. Even if you are planning a Memorial Day barbecue that is extremely casual, you can still use these ideas to brighten up the table with a Memorial Day centerpiece using your glass vase. So, dust off those glass vases and use them to create a lovely and festive centerpiece that won’t cost you a ton of money and will surely get you many compliments from your Memorial Day guests.
How To Make A Memorial Day Centerpiece With Your Glass Vase: Marbles Or Gum balls. Fill your glass vase to the top with either red, white and blue marbles or gum balls. Either option you choose will surely please the youngest of your Memorial Day guests. The children can either play with the marbles after you eat or enjoy a few gum balls while they are playing.
How To Make A Memorial Day Centerpiece With Your Glass Vase: Red, White And Blue Stars. Have your children or nieces and nephews cut out stars from red, white and blue construction paper. They can use glitter, glue and faux gems and buttons to decorate the stars. Fill the glass vase to the top with the stars. This Memorial Day Centerpiece idea also affords you some uninterrupted time in the kitchen if you are busy preparing food for guests. Scatter several of the homemade stars around the base of the glass vase.
How To Make A Memorial Day Centerpiece With Your Glass Vase: Red, White And Blue Candy. Fill your glass vase with striped peppermints, plain white peppermints, cinnamon discs and any blue hard candies you can find. Encourage your guests to help themselves to a candy treat after admiring your Memorial Day Centerpiece.
How To Make A Memorial Day Centerpiece With Your Glass Vase: American Flags. Set the children up at the kitchen table with paper, crayons and magic markers to create many different sized American Flags. Fill the glass vase with them and arrange several miniature, store bought American Flags to peek over the top and the sides.
How To Make A Memorial Day Centerpiece With Your Glass Vase: Colored Sand. Colored sand can be purchased at the arts and crafts store. Layer red, white and blue sand in your glass vase to make a festive and unique Memorial Day Centerpiece. After setting your table and placing your glass vase in the center of it, drop several light handfuls of colored sand around the base of the vase. Use your finger to trace around the sand to make a very pretty and interesting design.
How To Make A Memorial Day Centerpiece With Your Glass Vase: Red, White Or Blue Candle. Fill your glass vase halfway with whatever colored sand you choose and place a colored pillar candle on top. Depending on the width of the vase, you may also be able to place two or three votive or tea lights together to make a beautiful holiday centerpiece as well as give your table a pretty glow.
How To Make A Memorial Day Centerpiece With Your Glass Vase: Colored Tissue Paper. Crumple pieces of red, white and blue tissue paper and fill your glass vase. You can use your scrap booking scissors to cut designs in your tissue paper for a more creative touch.
How To Make A Memorial Day Centerpiece With Your Glass Vase: Flowers. Florists and grocery stores offer flower arrangements around Memorial Day with dyed red, white and blue flowers. You can purchase a lovely and festive floral display and simply put it in the vase with some water. This will certainly be a very beautiful centerpiece for your Memorial Day table. To make a more creative and unique Memorial Day centerpiece, consider filling your glass vase with colored water and floating just a few blooms of colored flowers on top. Cut the stems off of red, white or blue artificial flowers and fill the glass vase to capacity. You can also fill your glass vase with a traditional flower arrangement and place several snapshots of family members that have served in the Armed Forces in between the flowers.
