Before the New Year, you always want something special: secretly a welcome gift, unexpected luck, a pleasant surprise from a loved one or an unusual tasty treat. The soul is waiting for a miracle and a little magic. I wish that the house would be unusually beautiful and festive and smelled of tangerines and oranges.
So what's the deal? Here are some ideas for doing this. It remains only to take it and do it, but a miracle, it will not be able to pass by and will definitely look into the house where they are waiting for it, and there is the aroma of citrus, pine needles and spices.
A simple composition of orange slices, cinnamon sticks and aniseed stars placed in a transparent container will fill the house with citrus scents and create a festive mood.
An unusual Christmas tree made of cones, pine needles, cinnamon, rowan berries and citrus fruits will take you to a fairy forest where it smells deliciously of orange and sweets (cinnamon).
The herringbone pyramid of bright yellow lemons will give a sunny mood and refresh the interior.
You can decorate the serving table in an original way by replacing the usual tinsel with a garland of lemon and berry branches.
This composition fascinates with its simplicity and originality.
A bright wreath of juicy fruits will delight the eye and give a sunny mood.
Down with gray tones in the interior! The holiday should be bright. Let's add some color even to the stairs.
The most natural and delicious decoration.
Such a beautiful wreath on the door will remind all household members and guests of the upcoming family holiday.
A transparent vase filled with tangerines, rowan berries and spruce twigs, like a small fragrant lantern, creates an atmosphere of comfort and celebration in the house.
The original garland of spruce legs, dried orange slices, cones and dried fruits is very bright and beautiful - an excellent solution for New Year's decoration.
Incredibly delicious scent of tangerine, yellow drops of fruit on a snow-white table, candles. This is how a romantic New Year's Eve can be.
Green tangerine, orange orange, yellow lemon. Their bright colors will illuminate the room and fill it with warmth, and the snowflakes interspersed with carnations carved on the peel of the fruit will turn them into fragrant Christmas balls.
Eco-style on the tree. Fabulous, and not boring at all.
A fragrant ball of tangerine and cloves. Mmm ... what a smell!
An original decoration for the window. Beads, strung on a thread, like small pieces of ice, orange slices, like lights. Cold and warm. Stunning contrast.
True, these little round trees on the branches of a Christmas tree look like cheerful suns? So in the house from them it will be joyful and festive.
Dried orange slices are ready-made.
Such a cute tabletop decoration is simple and easy. She will decorate any place in the house and remind you of the upcoming holiday.
A magical corner, where the eye rejoices, smells of sweet tangerines, and all problems are forgotten, because all this says: the new year is coming soon, everything will change for the better.
Citrus Christmas decor creates a real holiday feeling in the home. It is unusual and bright. It is not difficult to make it, you just need to wake up the artist in yourself. Let this New Year you will definitely succeed.
Moms and dads know that the New Year must certainly smell like oranges, tangerines and ... cinnamon. Grandparents will definitely add Olivier with champagne to the list of New Year's aromas, but we will not use it for new Year's decor... We will create beautiful New Year decorations from citrus fruits and create pleasant fragrant childhood memories.
Preparing for the New Year 2019 should not turn into an endless race to complete all the points that your child wrote in a letter to Santa Claus. Truth. There are many great ways to make your child happy. A gift is just one of these ways.
When all-all desires come true - good, but gradually the MIRACLES created by the hands of parents or Santa Claus still begin to be taken for granted, for granted. But if you teach your child to rejoice not only when he receives, but also when he creates and gives, then consider that you will give him more chances for happiness in the future.
So making wonderful New Year's decorations from citrus fruits can be such a step towards enjoying creativity and the opportunity to please loved ones with a handmade gift! And also ... this wonderful aroma!
Just imagine: it is a great pleasure for a child to do something with his parents, this wonderful evening smells of oranges, tangerines, cloves and cinnamon - 20 years and 30 years pass, but each time, inhaling the scent of citrus, your child (already grown up) will experience a rush positive emotions, return to childhood and draw strength from the source that the FAMILY once opened for him!
Gift Ideas
- A bag of different fruits and spices to decorate
- Books about the New Year: Andreas H. Schmachtl “The Adventures of Julius Dandelion. Save the New Year ", Clement Clarke Moore" New year's night... A Mouse's Tale ", E. T. Hoffman" The Nutcracker and the Mouse King ".
- A new set of children's dishes, cutlery or a bright sippy cup.
Assignment for parents
Have a scent evening. Show your child what cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg look like. Decide together what decorations you will make for the New Year. You can rehearse today: then, on the eve of the holiday, creating a decor for the New Year 2019 with your own hands will not take you much time.
Task for the child
Together with your mother, read the poem "Orange" by L. V. Zubkov. Isn't sharing great?
We were sharing an orange.
Many of us
And he is alone.
This slice is for a hedgehog.
This slice is for a swift.
This slice is for ducklings.
This slice is for kittens.
This slice is for beaver
And for the wolf - the peel.
He is angry with us - trouble;
Run away - who where!
Which of the neighbors would you like to treat with a delicious orange or chocolate Santa Claus? How about a lonely grandma from the second floor?
Citrus Christmas tree decorations
To make Christmas decorations from orange slices, you first need to dry them.
Cut the orange into slices 2 mm thick and place them in the oven on a baking sheet with a stainless steel mesh (not a regular one, otherwise they may burn). Dry citrus fruits in the oven for 3 hours at 120 ° C. Cool and use for New Year's decor!
To decorate you will need:
- dried orange slices
- carnation
- tape or elastic
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After you've dried the orange slices, little is left. Take a clove and decorate the center of each citrus circle with it. Did you smell the scent? Soon he will delight you right up to the New Year!
Now you just need to stretch a beautiful ribbon through the small hole in the slice and hang it on the tree!
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A citrus decor made of crusts will look no less beautiful on the Christmas tree!
To do this, you will need:
- orange, lemon or tangerine
- iron cookie cutter
- stationery knife
- thread
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Process:
- Peel the citrus so that the rind remains as intact as possible. Straighten and trim it so that it lies flat on the table.
- Using a cookie cutter, squeeze out the shape of the herringbone, stars, etc. in the peel
- Trim the area around the hole from the cutout with a clerical knife so that it is several centimeters larger in diameter from the cut out figure.
- Paste the cut shape into the picture with the back, soft side.
- Pull a string on top of the toy, hang it on the tree!
Citrus garland
For such a garland, you will need:
- dried orange slices
- whole dried oranges
- cinnamon sticks
- ribbons
- thread
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We have already told you how to dry citrus fruits for decoration (in circles) above, but in general, oranges are dried according to the same principle. Only on fresh fruit, you need to make many longitudinal cuts, as shown in the picture and put in the oven for 2-3 hours.
To create a garland, string alternately whole dried oranges and citrus circles, tie cinnamon sticks and ribbons of contrasting colors!
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You can also create a simple yet cute orange peel garland. Using the cookie cutters, squeeze stars or Christmas trees out of it, dry in the oven and string on a thread!
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Together with your baby, make an eco-friendly garland for the home of citrus flowers!
For her you will need:
- wooden stick
- rain
- thread
- beads
- bumps
- orange peels
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Process:
Orange herringbone
A small Christmas tree made of orange circles can be a wonderful decoration for the New Year's table!
For her you will need:
- dried orange circles
- wooden rods
- orange peel
- small pot or bucket
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Process:
- String the orange rings on a stick, and on top of the glue gun or super glue put a star from the dried peel.
- How to strengthen a craft in a pot: there are many options - you can make salty dough or other modeling mass, tamp it into a pot and insert sticks. You can pour sand and stick the twigs in the same way. Well, the most durable way is to use alabaster (can be purchased at a hardware store).
- After you've strengthened the tree, place some wood shavings, cotton wool, or sprinkle the base with artificial snow.
Another very beautiful decoration for festive table can be made with fresh oranges!
For the Christmas tree you will need:
- oranges
- worm
- foam cone
- live spruce twigs
- toothpicks
Juicy sweet oranges and spices make magical decorations that fill your home with the aromas of Christmas
It’s freezing outside the window, and we’ll make ourselves comfortable and make something!
From juicy sweet oranges and spices, magical decorations are obtained that fill the house with the aromas of Christmas: balls, candles, candlesticks, garlands and even an orange tree.
Dried cloves are more than just a fragrant spice. Using a felt-tip pen and a toothpick, oranges can be easily decorated with a fancy carnation pattern. Oranges decorated with cloves, will make the whole house fragrant.
Use a kebab skewer or toothpick to poke holes in the orange peel. Then insert the dried cloves into the holes. You can lay out patterns on the orange or just randomly decorate it. It is better to outline complex lines in advance on the fruit with a felt-tip pen.
The scent will be more intense, if you put the clove inflorescences in a jar, sprinkle with clove oil, tighten the lid and leave for a day. To make a dry allspice ball, put the stuffed fruit into a mixture of cinnamon, violet root powder, allspice and nutmeg for 3-4 weeks. It is necessary to turn over and sprinkle the oranges with spices daily until they are completely dry. Only then can they be hung or beautifully laid out in bowls.
IN holidays the orange tree will become the cutest table decoration and add its scent to the smells of Christmas cookies or gingerbread. Carnation-decorated fruits are nestled in small clay pots on a moss bed.
Orange garlands
A variety of carnation patterns transform each orange into a small piece of art. Thread a piece of aluminum wire through the orange. Twist both ends in a snail shape. Attach decorative tape and hang the product. Such a garland will decorate the window and make it look even more elegant.
It smells incredible and the flames create a fabulous atmosphere. First, cut off the top of the orange with a sharp knife so that the diameter of the hole matches the diameter of the tablet candle. Remove the pulp with a spoon. It can be used for dessert. Then fill the peeled orange with sand, place a candle on top. Decorate the edge of the cut with a carnation.
Apply a pattern
The thread trimmer is the right tool to cut patterns on citrus fruits. Wood cutters work as well. Ornaments, spirals, stars or hearts - use all your imagination. And with waste - thin strips of zest - flavor sauces and creams.
Fresh remnants of the peel sorry to throw it away. You can cut small pendants out of them using a cookie cutter. Trim the edges to keep the skin flat, then press it against a cutting board and cut out a shape. Decorate with them, for example, gifts. Just tie a few orange peel stars and a few cinnamon sticks to the ribbon.
Orange peel candlesticks
Pill candle holders add warm light to the early winter twilight. Use small molds to cut holes in them in the shape of hearts or stars through which light will penetrate. On a coarse salt base, such flashlights will stand level.
Peel carving
Orange and lime essential oils improve mood, refresh and inspire. By carving patterns on the peel of an orange, we release particles essential oilsthat have a beneficial effect on the body. Kumquats are also a great treat for the Christmas table. They are eaten without peeling.
The garland enchants with its simplicity. The patterns are cut with cookie cutters from the remnants of the peel. To string them onto the wire, first carefully poke the holes with a fine needle. The finished garland can be wrapped around the vase, fasten the ends of the wire. A thick orange candle, which is placed in a pot between fir branches, is suitable here.
Golden wreath
On christmas eve dried orange slices - welcome guests in the house! They are good for decorating wreaths. In the product in the photo, orange slices are glued to a wreath of willow twigs. Or they are neatly secured with wire. In the middle is a place for candles. And around you can beautifully lay fir branches.
To prepare orange slices for decoration, cut the fruit into 4 mm thick slices. Then place them on a wire rack and leave to dry in the oven for a few hours. at a temperature of 60 ° C... At the same time, leave the oven door ajar so that the moisture can evaporate freely. Secure the door with a regular wooden spoon. As an alternative to the oven battery or tiled stove can be used... The process, however, will take much longer. It is important to place something under the oranges, as the leaked juice will stain. Thus, you can prepare for decorative purposes and circles of lemon, tangerines, lime and apples.
Decorating the Christmas tree
A bunch of dried orange slices will be a decoration for the Christmas tree. Tie two or three slices with bast rope and fasten them to a spruce branch. They will look organic when paired with cones, salted dough, nuts or straw.
Add paints
Fruit slices will light up a room with warm colors if they are placed in a transparent vase with a candle. To do this, you need dried orange, apple and lime slices. It is important to position them along the glass so that light seeps through the translucent fruit slices. Cinnamon sticks will decorate the composition and add flavor.
We decorate furniture
Decorates the back of a chair or doorknob... To do this, you need dried orange circles, if possible the same size. Washers made from the middle part of the fruit work best. To make the heart even, first cut the template out of cardboard. Place the slices on top of it. They should overlap each other by about a third. Then glue the wreath. Apply glue to the places where the peel touches. For this, a special cold glue for floristry is ideal.
Citrus decorations create a true New Year's Eve feeling at home. It is easy and accessible to everyone.
Decorating with natural materials has long become one of the fashion trends, and now such decor costs impressive amounts of money. But no one bothers to do this with his own hand, and you will definitely find everything you need at home. Crafts from dried oranges are just the case when consumables are cheap, and the result looks expensive and original.
Dried Orange Decorations
There are three options for preparing dried oranges for decoration: whole rings or slices are dried out of them, along with the zest and pulp, the peel as a whole, or its individual pieces. But ideas for crafts made from dried oranges are just a dime a dozen and we will consider the most interesting of them in the list below:
Dried oranges for decoration are most often used for decoration. christmas trees or windows. This is a convenient format for making garlands or creating whole compositions. As a rule, dried orange slices or rings are strung for decoration and cinnamon sticks, pieces of natural fabrics, cones or any other are added to them. natural material... Garlands are formed in a similar way, stringing alternately segments on a wax cord or twine.
Christmas tree made of dried oranges as a decoration new Year's table and not only will be a pleasant surprise for guests. Usually they take a base made of cardboard or foam in the form of a cone, and then decorate as fantasy tells.
A wreath of dried oranges surprisingly harmoniously fits into almost any atmosphere, not necessarily New Year's. These are just dried slices, and figures cut from the peel, sometimes they are whole balls of the peel, hollow inside.
A garland of dried oranges often becomes a decoration for a fireplace, window opening, and even a festive table. Small dried rind figurines are very good for decoration gift boxes and packages.
A picture of dried oranges is generally an unplowed field for creativity. A panel created from orange roses looks very beautiful (the peel is initially rolled and dried in this form), dried orange slices for decoration are very convenient in forming a pattern or mosaic.
