Centerpiece ideas using hearts & flowers
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Tags: dowel rods, sheet music, floral foam, hearts flowers, silk flower, birthday partyA "hearts and flowers" theme fits many occasions: Valentine's Day, wedding anniversaries, engagement parties, wedding receptions and even birthdays. You can create centerpieces for and with children by using foam or cardboard to make hearts and by adding simple flowers. Make more sophisticated arrangements for adults by using fresh flowers and elegant accessories.
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Photo Hearts Centerpiece
Make copies of favorite photos and frame them with heart shapes. For a child's birthday party, copy a photo from each year of his life up to the present. Cut simple frames from foam sheets or cardboard and decorate them using paints, markers, buttons, scrapbook ornaments, glitter, ribbon and glue. Paint chopsticks or thin dowel rods to match the frames and glue the framed photos to them. Insert the chopsticks or dowel rods into floral foam along with white daisies and greenery.
For an elegant centerpiece, use silver heart-shaped frames and photos appropriate to the occasion. For example, if you're making the centerpiece for a birthday party, copy photos of the guest of honor. For an anniversary, copy wedding photos and current photos of the couple. Use frames of varying sizes to add interest to the arrangement. Place the frames on a silver tray and twine a silk flower garland among them, or place cut flowers in a low silver bowl and surround it with the silver heart-shaped frames.
Wooden Hearts Centerpiece
Buy unpainted wooden hearts of varying sizes, or cut them from 1/8-inch plywood. Spray paint the hearts pink, red and white. Stencil messages onto three or four of them, such as "Happy Birthday," "Happy Valentine's Day" or "Happy Anniversary." Glue fabric trims, pretty buttons, beads, charms, ribbon and lace to the rest of the painted hearts. Cut chopsticks or thin dowel rods to varying lengths, paint them leaf green and glue one heart to each of them. Paint a terra cotta pot red and cut a piece of floral foam to fit inside it. Insert the chopsticks or dowel rods into the foam. Trim the stems of silk flower clusters to a length that will place them just above the rim of the pot, and insert them into the floral foam, covering it completely.
Music of Your Heart
Copy blank sheet music (see Resources) onto parchment paper. Write a title at the top in longhand. For example, if you're making your centerpiece for Valentine's Day, you might title your sheet music "You've Captured My Heart." If you're creating a birthday centerpiece, your title could be "A Heartfelt Happy Birthday." Draw some musical notes on the paper. If you don't read music, take a look at some sheet music online to get an idea of how the notes should look. Wind the paper around a wooden spoon handle, dowel rod, or other round object, paying special attention to the top and bottom to give it a scrolled look. Display the sheet music on a plate stand. Wind a silk flower garland around the bottom of the stand.
Source: www.ehow.com
