Rustic DIY Christmas Table Centerpiece Upcycling a Fruit Crate
Create a gorgeous Rustic DIY Christmas table centerpiece turning trash into treasure. Add a festive touch to your holiday table with this upcycling fruit crate into a tray.
Equipment
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
- scissors
Ingredients
- A strawberry/fruit crate – with short sides work best
- Burlap ribbon
- Twine
- A cute lantern – Any empty lantern will do.
- Small Christmas ornaments
- Pinecones
- Toilet paper tubes
Instructions
THE LANTERN
- Firstly what we have to do is prepare the lantern!!!
- Place your toilet paper tube right in the center of your lantern if you want to save pinecones and ornaments. It’s also a good spot for a battery-powered candle or light-string battery box.
- Stuff the lantern with pinecones and ornaments randomly trying to spread evenly.
- Close your lantern and set it aside!
WORKING ON THE TRAY
- Take your fruit crate and measure the sides’ height.
- My ribbon was wider than the crate’s height (couldn’t find a narrower one) so I folded it to meet the exact height.
- On one outside corner of the create add some hot glue.
- Quickly place one end of your burlap ribbon.
- Go all around your crate applying some glue every now and then. I didn’t apply too much since I want to update it in the future. I only applied a few points of glue on each side.
- When your ribbon’s ends meet, cut leaving a bit more burlap to overlap the starting end.
- Apply some hot glue and stick the final ribbon end.
- There you go, your crate/tray should look so rustic and new by now!
WORKING ON THE CRATE DECORATION
- Measure your twine going all around your crate and leaving enough to make a bow. Cut it twice if you want to have a bow on both large sides.
- Make your cute bow. It doesn’t have to be perfect. The beauty of rustic is imperfection.
- Then repeat the process on the other side by going all around the crate from the bow and to the other side.
- Woot… It’s almost done!
- Make sure your lantern is at the same level as your crate’s height. You can use a wooden scrap, cardstock, or whatever you have at hand.
- I wanted the lantern to be as visible as possible so I placed a box lid underneath it in the middle of the crate.
- Finally, I started putting all the pinecones around the lantern making sure they looked good and covering all visible spots from the crate and box lid.
- There you go!!! We have a gorgeous Rustic Christmas Table Centerpiece to decorate our Christmas table decoration.