How to Make Your Own Cornucopias for Autumn

The cornucopia has always been known as a symbol of having plenty of food and abundance. It has also been called a horn of plenty, horn of amalthea, or a harvest cone. It has become well-associated with the holiday of Thanksgiving and the fall harvest. So what better way to celebrate the season than to make your own cornucopia for your holiday meal, or even as a decoration to put around the house. Cornucopia's give off a festive and beautiful look that will put your home and family in the holiday mood in no time.

EdibleSugar Cone Cornucopia

You're guests will love these edible name cards at the Thanksgiving table.

What you will need:
sugar cones, ribbon, icing(store bought decorating icing is fine), fruit-shaped candies or fruit snacks, doily's(optional)

Using the tube of store-bought icing, squirt alongside the sugar cones the names of each guest. Then out the cone on a doily covered saucer or decorative paper plate. Fill the cone with candies, raspberry jellies, fruit shaped candy and gums, candy corns, and citrus slices. For an even less-expensive option, you can use fruit shaped cereal/ Position the food so that it spills out and around the opening of the sugar cone.

Twine Cornucopias

What you will need:
9 inch paper plate, masking tape, glue and scissors, Manila rope, clothespins or binder clips, twine, coffee filter

To make your own cornucopia, roll the plate into a cone, using the masking tape to hold it together, and bending the end a bit to put a curve into it. Wrap up the cone with even more tape so there is a smooth surface all around it. Leave the hole at the tip of it untaped. Use the glue to put on a length of manila rope around the mouth of your cone. To dry better, use the clothespins or clips to hold it into place overnight.

To cover the rest of your cornucopia, fill up the hole at the top of the cone with craft glue, and put in one end of a 30-foot length of twine into the glue-filled hole. Run a line of glue along the whole length of the cone, and start wrapping the outside with the twine, making sure to keep close together so all is covered. Let your cornucopia dry completely. Put a coffee filter all the way inside, and you are done! Fill with candy, nuts, popcorn, fruit, or whatever you like. Perfect to display for weeks at a time.