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Cheap Thanksgiving Decoration
Thanksgiving Day is celebrated to commemorate the first feast of 1621 shared by the pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians. Thanksgiving is a fun-filled festival that includes Thanksgiving prayers, feast and a host of other activities, making it an event to look forward to.
Thanksgiving Day offers people a chance to unleash their creative skills. People whole heartedly indulge in decorating their homes beautifully for the event. Thanksgiving decorations generally involve usage of various symbols like turkey, pumpkin, pilgrims, natives and so on, that have come to being identified with Thanksgiving Day.
It is interesting to note that Thanksgiving decorations need not always be a costly affair. People can beautifully decorate their homes without spending through their nose. Cheap yet appealing decorations for Thanksgiving can be made possible by simply making use of some imagination, creativity and aesthetic sense.
Let us have a look at some inexpensive ideas which help you decorate your homes during Thanksgiving.
You need:
- Potpourri
- Decorative Buckets
- Baskets
- Copper or Gold Metallic Spray Paints
- Candles
- Fallen Leaves
- Apples
- Thanksgiving Figurines
- Thanksgiving Candle
- Nutcrackers
- Adhesive Dough
- Miniature Pumpkins
- Fall-hue Toss Pillows
- Nuts
Directions:
- While decorating your living room for Thanksgiving, keep in mind appropriate colors for holiday decor - Golds, Burnt Oranges, Terra cotta, Honey Browns, olive Greens, Rusty Reds etc.
- Remeber to keep away living room accessories like vases, flower arrangements, candles etc. that are in pastels or tropical hues.
- Set out toss pillows in fall colors on sofas and easy chairs.
- For example, if your sofa is pastel- peach or blue - go with pillows in rust.
- Change potpourri from floral to a fall scent. Spices and spicy citrus are among the best fall scents for candles and potpourri.
- Attach fall leaves to picture and mirror frames and lamp shades using sticky tack. You can spray-paint these in metallic gold or copper.
- Decorate your Thanksgiving dinner table - a tiny bucket/basket of acorns and fall leaves, a scented votive candle in a candleholder. This candle holder can be hollowed out from the center of an apple or miniature pumpkin.
- Add inexpensive Pilgrim or turkey figurines or candles to your table to underscore the theme.
- Post kids' Thanksgiving art projects in windows, under glass tops of furniture and on walls.
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