Simple, Elegant and Clever Centerpieces for Your Thanksgiving Table

You can make simple, elegant and clever centerpieces for your Thanksgiving table, that will have your guests singing you praises. Making a special centerpiece does not need to be expensive. Use containers your already have but never considered using for a floral arrangement. If you must purchase something, think outside-the-box and inexpensive. Some of the cleverest arrangements are made by spending pennies or nothing at all.

Use milk glass bud vases or check your local thrift store for inexpensive look-alike vases. Cut mum stems and place one in each bud vase for an elegant centerpiece. Space the bud vases down the center of your Thanksgiving table. Surround the vases in a bed of dried or silk fall leaves and complete the look with miniature pumpkins between each vase. An alternative could also be, changing the pumpkins out for small votive candle holders and candles and sprinkling acorns or nuts among the leaves.

Do you have a collection of vintage purses? Choose one for a centerpiece that is sure to get the conversations rolling. For an artificial arrangement of fall flowers, place a green floral brick inside the open purse and cover with Spanish moss or excelsior. Arrange your stems in the brick. Finish off with a beautiful loopy bow using wire edged fall ribbon. If using a potted mum or real flowers, place a plastic grocery sack, for a liner, down in the purse and set the pot or vase on the liner. Fill the void around the flowers with Spanish moss or excelsior and again add a bow.

Make a bread dough cornucopia for an edible centerpiece. Roll a disposable aluminum pan into a cone shape. Curl the point and grease the outside of the cone well. Purchase frozen bread dough from the grocery store. Roll the dough into snakes and wind loosely around the aluminum pan mold. Allow the dough to rise and bake according to the package directions. After the bread has cooled, carefully pull the pan out of the bread dough cornucopia. You will need to twist and bend the pan. Fill the cornucopia with an assortment of beautiful and colorful vegetables and nuts. Finish by tucking in a few silk leaves and mums.

Make a centerpiece with no flowers at all. Using small Terra Cotta flower pot saucers, fill each with popcorn kernels, dried beans or rice. Place a votive candle into the center of the fillers for a simple centerpiece display.

Place an arrangement of squash in a bed of silk leaves. Core out a hole in each squash large enough to fit tea lights.

Lastly, cut the top from a pumpkin and clean it out. Set a pot of mums inside for a quick, last minute arrangement.