Guests often see your dining room table first when they enter your home for Christmas. A decorated dining room table with style will often set the mood for your holiday and for your entertainment. But dining room table decorations, especially with fragile Christmas knick knacks, often voids the purpose of the room. The answer to how you eat on your dining room table and use it to hold your Christmas knick knacks is answered by creating them on easy to lift serving trays. Try these five easy to construct serving tray Christmas knick knack arrangements to add style to your home for Christmas.
Serving Tray Christmas Knick Knack Decorating Idea #1 – Cold as Blue Snowmen
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Which serving trays and other supplies to use?
Snow or angel hair, Cookie sheet, Christmas Snowmen Knick Knacks, String of 25 blue lights, Fresh cut plants – sweet bay, rosemary, clematis seeds, candlesticks for the knick knacks
Directions for building Cold as Blue Snowmen Tray Knick Knack Arrangement
Wrap the twenty-five miniature string of blue lights inside a cookie sheet with an edge with the plan to use the cookie sheet as your serving tray. Be sure to leave the plug in end of the cord at the back and use an extension cord to attach and detach the lights. Cover the lights with snow, making sure the lights peek out a bit and covering the edges. Fit the pieces of the Christmas knick knack set inside the lights and snow. Fit taller thinner stems in back to look like trees, sprinkle the clematis seeds on greenery and snow to add a natural feel to your home for Christmas. Use the candles in the knick knacks.
Serving Tray Christmas Nativity Decorating Idea #2 – Angels in the Mist
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Which serving trays and other supplies to use?
Small platter, 2 wine glasses, snow, one candlestick, 2 angel Christmas Knick Knacks, fresh cut flowers, small vase
Directions for building Angel in the Mist Serving Tray Knick Knack Arrangement
For this decorating idea, use a small platter as serving tray. Fill the wine glasses with snow then add the angel Christmas knick knacks. Set a candlestick behind the two wine glasses. Build a vase of flowers and set it in front of the angels. Cover the base of the tray with the snow for a heavenly style for your home for Christmas.
Serving Tray Christmas Nativity Decorating Idea #3 – Fiery Ice
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Which serving trays and other supplies to use?
Pizza cooking sheet, Cereal bowl, Paper plate, Snow, Water, Christmas Knick Knacks Fresh Cut greenery – bay leaf laurel leaves, flowers, dried nut shells, Tinsel, candle
Directions for building Fiery Ice Serving Tray Knick Knack Arrangement
In this decorating idea, use the pizza cooking sheet as your serving tray. Place the bowl in the pizza cooking sheet and cover it with a paper plate trimmed slightly larger to cover the hole. Fit snow around the pond edges, the paper plate, and up the sides of the bowl. Build a small floral arrangement inside the Christmas Knick Knack. Set the set on the paper plate. Set out the leaves around the edges. Sprinkle the nut shells on top. Set the tray where you want it. Fill the serving tray with water to look like ice. Drizzle tinsel on top. Add a candle to provide a warm coziness to this winter wonderland in your home for Christmas.
Serving Tray Christmas Nativity Decorating Idea #4 – Toys Escape
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Which serving trays and other supplies to use?
Bread board, decorative box, Christmas Knick Knack Toys and Nutcracker, snow, silk flowers, fruits and nuts
Directions for building Toys Escape Serving Tray Knick Knack Arrangement
In this decorating idea for your home for Christmas, use a breadboard as your serving tray. Place a sewing or other decorative box on top, with one knick knack doll crawling or falling out. Set other knick knack dolls around the edges and on top. Fill in empty spaces with a nutcracker, oranges, nuts and silk flowers for a fuller look.
Serving Tray Christmas Nativity Decorating Idea #5 – Live Santa Wreath
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Which serving trays and other supplies to use?
Chip dip tray, Santa and Mrs. Santa Knick Knacks, paper plate, snow, water, fresh cut greens – bay leaf laurel, ivy, rosemary and chrysanthemums
Directions for building Live Santa Wreath Serving Tray Knick Knack Arrangement
In this serving tray Christmas Knick Knack decorating idea, use a chip dip as your serving tray to make your home for Christmas ring with Santa and Mrs. Santa’s laughter. Cut the edges off a paper plate to cover the chip dip portion of the serving tray. Disguise the paper plate with snow and put Santa and Mrs. Santa on top. Fill the chip portion of the serving tray with water. Place bay leaf laurel in the chip portion of the serving tray in a circle, filling in from the previous branch. Then place sprigs of rosemary into the bay leaf branches for variety and position the ivy to hang out in places. Cut buds of chrysanthemum so they sit around the edges. Be sure to check the water level regularly.
I hope you try using one of these Christmas Knick Knack decorating ideas in your home for Christmas and set the mood for a happy holiday time.
