These are some fantastic last minute Thanksgiving decorating thoughts from Care2.com. Keep the kid’s out of your hair by sending them outside to collect the leaves and acorns!
1. Centerpieces: Pumpkins and other winter squashes, Native American corn, acorns, nuts, grapes, pears, pomegranates, and apples overflowing from a wicker cornucopia or heaped in a wooden bowl look abundant and gorgeous in the center of your festal table.
2. Leaf coasters: Autumn leaves make fantastic coasters to protect your furniture from rings and stains. Oak leaves are especially tough, leathery, and durable.
3. Natural napkin rings: Tie napkins with raffia and tuck in a pretty fallen leaf and an acorn, or a cinnamon stick or two. Guests can add their cinnamon to a pot of hot cider to sip on later.
3. Simple arrangements: There is a gorgeous Zen simplicity in a perfect branch bearing colored leaves set into an earthen vase. Sometimes that’s all you need for a seasonal and dramatic focal point.
4. Pumpkin vase: Hollow out a pumpkin and place a cup inside to hold fresh or dried flowers.
7. Multiple fruits: Miniature pumpkins, apples, pomegranates, or pears look charming placed in a row on a bookshelf or mantel, or marching up the stairs.
8. Leaf garlands: Stitch leaves together with heavy thread or tie bunches together and wire them into a garland.
9. Decorated votive holders: Glue or tie the following around the outside of your glass votive candle holders: dried apple slices, cinnamon sticks, cornhusks, autumn leaves.
10. Decorated tapers: Place tapers in shallow bowls filled with perfectly-colored Native American corn, or place a ring of acorns around them, or set them into hollowed miniature pumpkins or apples.
11. Festive lamps and lights: Glue a pretty leaf to a nightlight cover, or add autumn leaves to a lampshade.
12. Native corn: Thread the kernels of Native American corn to make pretty jewel-like strings to hang in a doorway or place around a lampshade. For how-to instructions, see Native Corn necklaces.
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