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 Nativities 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 Nativity is answered by creating them on easy to lift serving trays. Try these five easy to construct serving tray Christmas Nativity arrangements to add style to your home for Christmas.
Serving Tray Christmas Nativity Decorating Idea #1 – Solemnity in Blue
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Which serving trays and other supplies to use?
Snow or angel hair, Cookie sheet, Christmas Nativity Set, String of 25 blue lights, Fresh cut plants – sweet bay, rosemary, clematis seeds
Directions for building Solemnity in Blue Serving Tray Nativity
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 Nativity 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.
Serving Tray Christmas Nativity Decorating Idea #2 – Sands of Time
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Which serving trays and other supplies to use?
Breadboard, Table cloth, Snow, File folders, Tape, Spot light, Christmas Nativity Set
Directions for building Sands of Time Serving Tray Nativity
For this decorating idea, use a breadboard as serving tray. Cover the breadboard with dunes of snow covered by a tablecloth that matches the one on your dining room table. Build two pyramids using the file folders by drawing a square and four equilateral triangles. Fold the triangles to build the peak, taping the inside then fold up the bottom, taping the tops. Use a spot light to cast shadows to make your home for Christmas seem timeless.
Serving Tray Christmas Nativity Decorating Idea #3 – Skating on Ice
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Which serving trays and other supplies to use?
Pizza cooking sheet, Cereal bowl, Paper plate, Snow, Water, Christmas Nativity Set Fresh Cut greenery – bay leaf laurel leaves, dried nut shells, Tinsel, candle
Directions for building Skating on Ice Serving Tray Nativity
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. Set the Christmas Nativity 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 – Loaded with Jewels
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Which serving trays and other supplies to use?
Chip dip platter, paper plate, three or four strings of red and white bead garland, poinsettia and ivy silk flowers, Christmas Nativity Set, snow
Directions for building Loaded with Jewels Serving Tray Nativity
In this decorating idea for your home for Christmas, use a chip dip platter as your serving tray. Cut a paper plate to fit over the dip hole and disguise it with snow. Settle the Mary, Joesph and baby on top of the dip hole and settle the other figures from your Christmas Nativity set around the chip platter. Wrap the figures with the bead garland until the bottom and sides are covered. Set silk flowers evenly spaced inside the beads.
Serving Tray Christmas Nativity Decorating Idea #5 – Stairway to Heaven
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Which serving trays and other supplies to use?
2 bread boards, 1 casserole dish, snow, 2 votive candles, 1 candlestick, 1 vase
flowers, Christmas Nativity Set
Directions for building Stairway to Heaven Serving Tray Nativity
In this serving tray Christmas Nativity decorating idea, use a large breadboard as your serving tray. Place the casserole dish upside down on top, then cover the casserole dish with another smaller breadboard. Disguise the casserole edges with snow. Set the Mary, Joesph and baby figures on top of the top breadboard. Settle the other figures around the edges of the casserole pan, leaving space for the candlestick, vase, and votive candles. Build a vase of flowers in the vase in order to look like this Christmas Nativity Set serving tray is an act of homage.
If you choose to do one of these easy serving tray decorating ideas to make your home for Christmas seem special, you will find it easy to set aside for meals.
