Hand Made Christmas Arrangements

It's Christmas time! And it's time for you to join your family, especially your children to celebrate the most loved and peaceful moment of the year. Create some special moments learning them to let free their imagination and make by their self real pieces of art.
For this special Christmas floral arrangement, you have just to purchase a few useful things: one floral foam, from any local flower shop, some pine branches, 5 red santini (or any color you want), one small and thick red candle with a pine or fresh flavor. You'll also need a green or red dish as a base for your arrangement. First, you'll moderate the foam after the dish's dimension and lines, letting to see just 2 centimeters from the bowl.Then cut the centre of the foam that the candle gets through. Don't you forget that the candle have to burn at least for one day. So don't cover it with the floral foam, or take care about the floral arrangement not to be debased by the warmth or the candle's flame. We have to point out that the candle has to be put in the arrangement ultimately, so your work doesn't become more difficult. After this intervention, glue the foam on the dish, for the Christmas arrangement's stability, especially if it's about your children's work. Let the rest in your children's care. They'll love to play and to contribute to the house's decoration. You have just to prepare the vegetal material, using a knife or clippers: cut the santini's stem at a very sharp angle, for a better hydration. And the kids will stick the pine branches covering the foam with. Then the santini will stay above, as a patch of color, as a sensation point.
For a snow effect, you can use a special Christmas spray. Don't forget to water the foam for the flower to resist more. Put this arrangement in the centre of the Christmas table and let your children to be proud of their work. They'll feel the spirit of Christmas.

Christmas arrangemet with roses

This is a fresh flower arrangement for your happy Christmas table. You need a glass bowl, 5 red roses, 5-7 lemon slices, pine branches, 4-5 stems of sweet briar, one orange pliable wrapping paper, soil, wires and a strait ribbon. It's easy to made, but you have to prepare the lemon slice about two weeks before you start to make the Christmas arrangement. Cut the lemon to obtain slices of 1 centimeter width. Then let them dry on a hot surface.The drown lemon slices will be varnished using a hairbrush. In this form, these fresh elements will decorate your special Christmas arrangement. You can also use the drown and varnished lemon slices to garnish your Christmas tree or any other arrangements. Fill a glass with soil or floral foam and water it. Then stick the pine branches without covering the bowl, but giving a round aspect to the arrangement. Put one rose in the centre and the other 4 roses corresponding to the four sides of the bowl.
The sweet briar has to be put above through roses, as a quantity contrast. It could mean the family's joining: children and parents and the rolled paper signify the Santa Claus's gifts. The last ones and the lemon slices too are wired and the stick in the floral foam. These represent the freshness the happy to be rounded by the entire family. Don't you deny yourself a special moment, a sweet, happy and relaxing one.