Here comes the reindeer rolling down the icy paths in the cold winters. Well, there’s still time! As we get closer to Christmas each day, one thing stays the same, a constant challenge and yet an exciting part. It’s about decorating our house with flowers! No doubt, flower arrangements can make your home more beautiful and add a festive feeling to your holiday season. However, you do not need to spend much when you can make a gorgeous DIY floral arrangement by yourself.
One can incorporate natural beauty into their space in many forms, including centerpieces, wreaths, or Christmas flowers in bouquets. If you are confused about how to start, then carry on reading this blog. We will discuss everything you need to learn about crafting a master floral arrangement, from stunning ideas to useful tips. Let’s start crafting a wonderful flower arrangement for Christmas!
Guide to Selecting the Right Flowers for Christmas
Choosing the right flower can brighten up your house and serve as a nice gift, too. Following are a few guidelines for selecting your flower for Christmas.
Select Holiday Flowers:
To keep your flower arrangement fresh and long-lasting, invest more in winter flowers. Since they are seasonal blooms, they will retain their quality and color for a long and make an attractive centerpiece. Poinsettias and Amaryllis are some popular choices.
Considering their Meaning:
Every flower holds a significant meaning. Choose the flowers based on the feeling you want to convey, especially if it’s for a gift. Flowers like Holly convey everlasting life, jasmine represents modesty and purity, and Christmas roses connote a gift for Christ.
Essential Materials Required
Here are some basic tools you will need to create your flower arrangement:
- A Container
- Floral Foam
- Various types of evergreens
- 2-3 varieties of flowers
- Candles
- Scissors
- Pruning Shears
- Wire
Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a DIY Christmas Flower Arrangement
This year, ring the Christmas bells with amazingly scented flowers. Here’s a step-by-step guide to curating your DIY flower arrangement centerpiece.
Step 1: Pick a Container
Take into account the foam and size of the container to determine the shape of your floral centerpiece. Secondly, keep in mind the place where you will be placing it, for example, on a coffee table or cabinet, or is it going to be a part of the buffet? This will help how you design your floral arrangement. You can take plain dishes, bowls, large cups etc, anything that is waterproof and holds the foam in place.
Step 2: Prepare the Foam
Floral foam is available in multiple shapes and sizes; prefer using a simple green block and cutting it to your required size. Soak the foam for at least 2-3 hours in a bucket before using it for the arrangement. However, if you find it sink to the bottom, you will know it’s fully soaked and ready to be used! Now, cut the foam to the size of your container and ensure it is an inch higher than the container. Place it inside and slice the edges and corners a bit to have a smooth shape.
Step 3: Collect the Foliages
Gather different types of fresh greenery, either from your garden or a mixed bundle from a nursery. You can pluck the small branches anywhere you find to create a lot of varieties. This will make your finished arrangement more creative and eye-catching. Go for conifers like pine, spruce, fir, juniper, etc, and leafy green such as ivy, holy, etc.
Step 4: Choosing the Flowers
While you can pick any flower based on your choice or the one that compliments your space, here we have picked hyacinth and poinsettia flowers. To add a more fanciful touch, use dried flower heads of hydrangeas or poppies.
Step 5: Take on your Scissors
Time to prepare the arrangement. Remove any extra leaves and prickles from the stem that would come in the way of inserting the evergreens in the foam. Trim them into a sharp point. If there are branches that appear too thick to be cut with a scissor, use the pruning shears to make a fine edge.
Step 6: Craft the Outline of the Floral Arrangement
As mentioned, your centerpiece can be rectangular, round, C-shaped or any irregular shape as well. Begin arranging the leaves and flowers along the outline until you have covered the outer foam. Give your unique twist to the centerpiece arrangement by assembling the evergreens creatively.
Step 7: Placing the Candle
Adding a candle to the centerpiece further enhances its overall look. You can also get reusable candle holders to place in the middle for an aesthetic touch and to keep the arrangement safer at the same time. Push one or more candles into the foam as per the size and look of your arrangement.
Step 8: Fill Up the Space
Now, start adding more ferns and flowers in circles, covering both the base and the container below. Consider adding flowers around the top of the foam, while the green elements below.
Step 9: Doll it Up
Once you are done with the Christmas arrangement, complete its overall look with different decorations and ornaments. You can consider pincones and glittery ornaments like Christmas balls, bells, etc.
Tips for Long-Lasting Arrangements
After all the effort you put into making perfect arrangements for the special day, it is very important to take care of it. Here are some easy tips to keep them fresh and colorful for a very long time.
- Keep the foam wet all the time. Use a long nozzle container to fill it up to keep the foam soaked.
- Try to keep them outdoors in the light as much as possible. That way, they will stay fresh until you bring them indoors for the celebration.
- Misting your live Christmas centerpieces occasionally is helpful in making them last longer.
Jingle & Arrange: Creative Christmas Flower Ideas
From creating a floral Christmas hamper as a gift to the vase arrangement, the ideas can be endless. Here are some special ways to present them:
Small Table Centerpieces: Wonderful for a special Christmas dinner, make flower centerpieces with Amaryllis or poinsettias.
Hanging Floral Arrangements: Use hanging flowers to bring some festive feel to your decoration. Prepare small, pretty bunches of flowers using cranberries, eucalyptus, or even evergreen branches and hang them in the rooms or on porches.
Giftable Bouquets: A bouquet of flowers given to someone at Christmas surely touches their heart. Prepare a bouquet of either white roses, Holly, or hydrangeas.
