Dress your table with hints of festive holiday warmth when you try any one of these easy diy Christmas centerpieces dotted with berries, branches, and cozy votives.
It’s easy to add some festive colorful touches to the table with just a few items! Small glass votives with warm glowing candlelight make easy Christmas table decorations that bring warmth and beauty.
1. LIGHT BULB CANDLE CHRISTMAS CENTERPIeCE IDEA
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A glass trifle bowl is filled with red, white, and green light bulbs. A simple red pillar candle creates a colorful focal point in this basic diy Christmas centerpiece with very minimal elements.
For an updated and more elegant look, fill with this set of small ornaments, or this colorful red cranberry vase filler instead. It’s a colorful and cheap Christmas centerpiece idea that won’t break the bank.
2. Cranberry and Candle Votive Christmas Centerpiece
A red tray is filled with sugared cranberries, square votives in Christmas colors, and a touch of pine greens. If the square votives are hard to find, fill instead with beautiful scented ball ornament candles.
3. Farmhouse Mason jar votive Christmas centerpiece idea
Simple old fashioned jars filled with simple white candles create a warm and cozy scene in this simple diy Christmas centerpiece.
Use faux pine stems and wrap around the jars, bending the pine picks into a circular wreath-like shape. Place tealight jars in the center and add white snowflakes to recreate the look.
4. Sparkly Mason Jar Diy Christmas table Centerpiece
Grab classic glass mason jars Use an adhesive to glue and sprinkle on a snowy white glitter coating mixed with epsom salt (for a snowy effect). Finish with a little red satin ribbon.
You can also buy similar ready-made snowy jars on Etsy and fill with lots of beautiful sparkly frosted branches to finish the look.
5. Tall Vase centerpiece with snow and acorns
For this simple holiday centerpiece, fill a tall glass vase set with snow and top with holiday-themed vase fillers like these beautiful silver and gold acorn ornaments and snowy pinecone picks.
6. Amber glass DIY christmas Centerpiece with evergreens
For this rustic winter woods Christmas centerpiece, fill amber glass bottle vases with pinecone and juniper picks, frosty branches, and little warm fairy lights. It creates a cozy, simple, centerpiece in minutes.
7. Rustic candle holder christmas Table centerpiece
This simple rustic diy Christmas centerpiece idea is styled with large glass hurricane candle holders and wrapped with a little burlap ribbon. Natural elements like dried orange slices and cinnamon sticks are tied on with jute string.
For an added pop of natural green color, fill the hurricanes instead with natural pine and birch pillar candles.
8. WINTERGREENS AND CANDLE VOTIVE DIY CHRISTMAS CENTERPIECE
Top a white cake stand with lots of fresh pine greenery and set it atop a rectangular white serving platter. Add pinecones and red winter berries for color to the cake stand. Fill the stand with a mercury glass hurricane and decorate beneath with small mercury glass ornaments.
9. Cake stand and gingerbread Christmas centerpiece
Fill a rustic 2-tier tray with a mossy floor, juniper and pine greens and little gingerbread cookies (or make your own gingerbread). Fill little white cups with juniper and pinecones. Sprinkle decorative snow and pinecones all around.
10. Pinecones and candleholders Diy Christmas centerpiece
Antique silver taper candle holders hold painted silver pinecones and ornaments beneath in cool blues. To achieve a similar look, try a set of mixed height taper candle holders and top with silver glitter pine cones.
11. Silver and gold centerpiece with white tapers
This luxurious and elegant Christmas centrpiece is made by filling a coffee table tray with a mix of ball ornaments. Top with taper candle holders and long white taper candles. Accent with a few juniper branches.
12. Ornaments in glass bowl DIY Christmas Centerpiece
This is the simplest and possibly one of my favorite ideas on the list. Simply fill a decorative glass bowl with shatter proof holiday ball ornaments.
For an updated more modern look, try using this brass footed bowl as your vessel, and tuck in red berry branches all along the base, letting them spill over to look festive and full.
13. Classic red and green foliage centerpiece
To create the look of a long flowing garland down the center of the table, combine a mix of festive floral picks in bold red, green, and gold colors.
You might combine these big red poinsettia stems (or these magnolia stems) with some evergreen branches with red tinsel ball ornaments. Dot all around with red mercury glass votives.
Tuck the different florals and branches into eachother, bundling them in a long slender format to create the look of a custom garland on the table.
14. Gold Tapers and rustic pine winter berry centerpiece
To create this look, dot the table with lots of long gold slender taper candle holders and top with white taper candles. Add festive touches all along the base of the candles with sprigs of pine branches and red winter berry branches tucked in, and glittery gold ball ornaments.
Be sure to purchase multiples of the red and green pine branches so that you have enough to expand the look down the center of the table.
Highlight this look with little touches like gold silverware, gold goblets, and gold mini votives.
15. Juniper and pomegranate Christmas DIy centerpiece idea
This last look is basically a copy of the look above, but with a simpler feel. For this, use real trimmings of fresh juniper branches and dot with real red pomegranate fruits.
Alternatively, you might add these mini pomegranate branches or these frosted crabapple branches.
Finish the look with simple gold or bronze taper candle holders and slender white candles.
This look is simple, budget-friendly and perfect for anyone who likes natural Christmas decor!
16. Festive Peppermint Candy Mason Jar Centerpiece
I just love this fun and whimsical Christmas candy centerpiece idea. This is actually a readymade table decoration from Target, but it’s easy and inexpensive to build with a few similar items! You can purchase floral vases that come tied with jute twine and fill with warm golden fairy lights.
Add some snowy pine branches and fill with festive peppermint candy picks! With the items I’ve listed here, you could easily make a set of 3 custom homemade centerpieces that mimic this look to dot down the center of your holiday table.
Finish the look with cute peppermint plates and peppermint cups!
I hope that some of these easy diy Christmas centerpieces inspire you to add that special touch to your dining room table this holiday season. Don’t forget to make any one of these ideas yours by giving them your own special twist to bring your space to life!
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