How to Make a Floral Centerpiece With Takeout Containers

Making a centerpiece to enliven your dinner table doesn’t need to be expensive or time-consuming, as you’ll see in this video. The fresh, fun, and easy floral centerpiece here will cost you mere dollars and take only minutes.

Making a centerpiece to enliven your dinner table doesn’t need to be expensive or time-consuming, as you’ll see in this video. The fresh, fun, and easy floral centerpiece here will cost you mere dollars and take only minutes.

What You Need

  • scissors, ribbon, cardboard takeout containers, tape, sturdy sandwich bags, baby's breath

Follow These Steps

  1. Tie ribbon around the box
    Cut a piece of ribbon about 15 inches long and tie it around the opening of a takeout box, weaving it in and out of the slits. Finish with a bow on the front of the box.
  2. Tape a plastic bag to the inside and fill with water
    Securely place a sandwich bag in the container and fill it halfway with water.
  3. Cut and arrange flowers
    Cut a spray of baby’s breath to the height of the takeout box and arrange the stems in the bag of water.

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