Decorating with citrus: make a garland of oranges, herringbone own hands

Most people are used to that in the New Year should hover in the air, the aroma of citrus and cinnamon. It may simply be laid in the fruit bowl, and some make a garland of oranges. Decorating with citrus aroma is very delight of children and create a unique holiday atmosphere in the house.

Making garlands

Such decoration looks very original and unusual. Indoors soars distinctive flavor. To create a garland of oranges, need such accessories:

1. Thread.
2. Tape.
3. Cinnamon sticks.
4. Dried whole and cut into slices of oranges.

To dry the citrus, need to cut it into rings, the thickness of which will be about 2 millimeters. After that, put on a baking sheet, placing it on the stainless steel mesh. Drying costs at a temperature index of 120 degrees for 3 hours. After time to cool. Only after the orange rings have cooled, they can be used for decoration.

Whole citrus should be dried on the same principle, but making a lot of cuts along. In order to create his own hands garland need alternately strung on a thread the whole and sliced ​​citrus fruits, cinnamon sticks and tie to tie ribbons of contrasting colors.

Can make decoration and peel. To do this, squeeze the peel using molds for cookies certain figures. Put in the oven and leave to dry. Strung on a thread.

It is also possible with the baby to create a home ekogirlyandu of flowers. For this purpose will be required:

1. Peel oranges.
2. Cones.
3. Beads.
4. Tinsel.
5. Wooden stick.
6. A thread.

Create it very simple:

1. Oranges cut in half and remove the inside of the well (the flesh). Make each of the 5 notches to get flower petals.
2. All half flatten so as to obtain the unwrapped flower.
3. Put in the oven and dried.
4. After that you should take 3 threads. Their length shall be equal. Alternately should string components in the following sequence: flowers and beads, dried orange slices, cinnamon sticks or cones.
5. Decorate a wooden stick tinsel, and then tie it received 3 garlands.

To this hack hang on the wall, you should attach the thread to match.

orange Christmas Tree

Herringbone made from orange circles, can be original decoration for the New Year's table. To create it, we need these ingredients:

1. Dried slices and peel of citrus.
2. Wooden bars.
3. A small bucket or flowerpot.

The manufacturing process is quite simple and will not take much time:

1. On a stick strung orange rings, and put on top of the glue a star (dried peel).
2. To hack was kept in a pot can be prepared salted dough or use other objects for modeling, simply insert the stick close to each other, pour the sand. The most reliable method is to secure the product with the help of plaster.
3. Under the Christmas tree should be placed a small amount of artificial snow, sawdust, or wool.

Crafts can be created from fresh oranges. It will need:

1. Toothpicks.
2. The living tree branches.
3. Cone made of foam.
4. Carnation.
5. Fresh oranges.

To make a Christmas tree, to decorate cloves oranges and fit each on a toothpick. At an angle to insert into the cone so that the weight of the fruit does not slip down. Spruce branches will be required to fill in the gaps between the citruses.