DIY crafts allow us to express our creativity, and who doesn’t love to decorate their home during the holiday season! In this article, we will see how to create pretty decorations using the peel of our beloved and fragrant citrus fruits, so that nothing is wasted, and we avoid spending to buy plastic alternatives.
Table centerpiece with citrus peel
Who doesn’t want to decorate the table in an original way during the holiday season! One original way is to create a centerpiece with citrus peels: just dry some peels and slices of oranges and lemons, and place them in small trays. With the addition of pinecones, cinnamon sticks and a few leaves, the table will become not only beautiful, but a joy to our sense of smell as well! In fact, these centerpieces will give off a pleasant fruity aroma, thus creating a very warm and cozy atmosphere.
Hanging decorations with citrus peel
We are used to seeing classic plastic decorations hanging on Christmas trees, but why not create something original and all-natural? A very pretty and elegant idea is to decorate our trees with slices of dried citrus. Making them is really very simple and will make even the youngest children happy, making them participate and engaged during the creation of these delicious decorations: just cut oranges and lemons into thin slices, let them dry and then equip yourself with string. Helping yourself with something sharp, slit the top of the slices and insert the twine, closing it with a knot. Your Christmas trees will become beautiful, the warm color of the sun, and fragrant!
To create other beautiful Christmas decorations for hanging, you need to equip yourself with orange peels, lemons and several small molds (classic cake molds will do just fine). With the help of something sharp, carve the top of the peels and close them with a knot. Here you have beautiful, fragrant decorations ready to hang anywhere!
Citrus peel garland
You can really create a lot of decorations by not wasting anything of our citrus fruits: a useful way to use them is to turn them into beautiful garlands to hang on the door or to use as elegant centerpieces. As a first step, you need to have a wire hanger that will have to be carefully bent trying to give it a circular shape. Using a ribbon, wrap dried leaves and twigs around the hanger, and with glue place previously dried citrus slices, cinnamon sticks and other dried fruits around it.
Decorating gift packs with citrus peels
An imaginative idea to make use of citrus peels is to use them to decorate gift wrappings: all you need is some twine, a few wooden sticks or cinnamon sticks, a few leaves and recycled wrapping paper. You will thus create original wrappers to wrap gifts to put under the tree. There are really so many ways to consume citrus fruits without waste, all you need is a bit of imagination and creativity, and the desire to have fun inventing new ideas!
