Get our best Thanksgiving centerpiece ideas using fresh flowers, gourds, pumpkins, and more.
Add a touch of fall to yourThanksgiving tablewith elegant yet easy-to-make Thanksgiving centerpiece ideas.
To inspire your Thanksgiving table decor, we’re sharing our best centerpiece ideas.
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Seasonal Floral Arrangement
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When it comes to centerpieces, you could’t go wrong with a display of theseason’s best florals.
Place yourfall arrangementin a neutral vase and decorate with small pumpkins or candles.
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To make the dried orange slices, bake the slices in your oven on low heat for 4-6 hours.
Set the arrangement in the center of your table for a colorful fall centerpiece.
Scatterdried flower petalsand candles around the gourds for a more upscale look.
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Thanksgiving Centerpiece with Gourds
Take a neutral approach to your Thanksgiving decor with this centerpiece idea.
Place miniature gourds in a large bowl around candles of different heights and thicknesses.
To recreate the neutral look, choose light-colored gourds and cream candles.
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Anchor the arrangement with 3 to 4 large pumpkins in a wooden tray.
Fill in the display with bosc pears, artichokes, decorative cabbage, and small gourds.
Finish the centerpiece with cut seasonal flowers like mums.
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Suspend the banner from wooden skewers.
When thinking about your decorations, use things you already have, or can use later.
Dress up your easy centerpiece with a few heads of curly cabbage.
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Keep the place options neutral.
Add color with bright orange clementines, golden yellow billy balls, and red hypericum berries.
This gorgeous magnolia garland idea is easier to make than you think!
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Tall Glass Centerpiece
Get this Thanksgiving table decor look with fall foliage and clear vessels.
We love this simple approach to Thanksgiving decorating.
Dried Flower Arragement
This beautifuldried floralcenterpiece brings in the flowers and colors of fall.
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Start with a clear glass vase and fill it with brown nuts.
Cut the stems of sunflowers shorter than the other foliage so they sit at the bottom of the arrangement.
Fill in the center of the vase with fall grasses and leaves.
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Fill a Centerpiece Box
Display a variety of pumpkins and decorative foliage in this handmade centerpiece box.
When you’re done with your holiday decor, use it as a pretty planter.
To create the centerpiece, cut and hollow out butternut squash and pumpkins.
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Fill with water and seasonal flowers likechrysanthemums, coreopsis, and goldenrod.
Make a Succulent-Filled Pumpkins
This gorgeous succulent pumpkin decoration will last all holiday season.
Use a faux pumpkin to create a planter that’s filled with easy-to-care-for succulents.
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Use it as a Thanksgiving centerpiece and then keep it on display through the New Year.
Mist the succulents occasionally to keep them fresh.
Put Pinecones on Display
Gather pinecones to create this DIY Thanksgiving centerpiece.
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Simply place four low tea light candles on an oval white dish.
Fill in the spaces with pinecones, and finish with decorative berries or cranberries.
This inexpensive centerpiece idea costs less than $10!
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Use Unusual Containers
On any other day, a soup tureen is a purposeful addition to dinnertime.
But its expansive interior and accents make it a good place to display your centerpiece efforts.
Use Candles
Bring your patio hurricane candle holders inside for this quick pumpkin decoration.
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Simply wrap the bottom of your glass candle holders with wide burlap ribbon.
Tuck in a few sprigs of decorative foliage and place on a simple table runner.
Fill in the gaps with mini pumpkins and fresh fall leaves.
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Tiered Centerpiece
The height of this centerpiece is the real wow factor.
Use a cake stand or tiered dessert display to showcase fall’s prettiest natural ingredients.
Fall Catch-All
Go simple with this Thanksgiving decoration.
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Make Mason Jar Snowglobes
Sprigs of faux greenery sparkle in this Thanksgiving Mason jar centerpiece.
Use decorative foliage from the crafts supply store, glitter, and a collection of Mason jars.
Hollow out a pumpkin, and fill it with soaked floral foam.
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Press your stems into it and add sprigs of decorative foliage.
Choose a fall color scheme like cream and orange.
Create the Thanksgiving decoration with just a few inexpensive greenery branches and floral wire.
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Add a few tea candles and you’re ready to set the table!
Arrange them in clear vases in complementary hues.
Instead use lengths of wrapping paper, trimmed and taped around vases you already have.
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Bowl Centerpiece
Keep your Thanksgiving centerpiece simple so you’re free to focus on the food!
Fill a low concrete bowl with mini white pumpkins, pinecones, stones, and white berry sprigs.
Add in cranberries or small clementines for an additional layer of color.
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Put Food on Display
This Thanksgiving buffet proves that the presentation really does make all the difference.
Drape harvest-themed table runners across a wooden buffet table.
Servefavorite Thanksgiving dishessweet potatoes, stuffing, salad, and turkeyin simple, low serving dishes.
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Use wooden serving spoons to really drive the theme home.
Pinecone Centerpiece
Oversized pinecones and plain pillar candles make a big statement on any table.
Fill a white vessel with mangolia stems and use florists wire to attach artichokes and clementines.
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Finish the centerpiece with yellow craspedia billy ball stems and small white flowers.
Display Dinner Ingredients
Head to the grocery store for this simple Thanksgiving decoration.
Create an easy centerpiece by filling a low bowl with artichokes, pomegranates, and red Gerber daisies.
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Mix up this Thanksgiving centerpiece with other fruits, like apples, pears, and oranges.
A vase filled with wheat adds texture to the centerpiece.
Fill a tall cylindrical vase with dried white beans.
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Add a berried branch from a Golden Raindrops crabapple tree to another vase to complete the setting.
Place them on display with different shapes and heights of white serving dishes.
For a softer look, opt for a pumpkin made of yarn.
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Pumpkin Pots
Create this easy Thanksgiving centerpiece at any scale to fit the size of your table.
Start with a terra cotta pot and cut floral foam to size.
Place faux moss on top of the foam.
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Poke a thick wire into the bottom of small faux pumpkins, then place wires into the foam.
Make an easy sign with a wood dowel and brown cardstock.
This pumpkin decoration is perfect for making with kids!
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No mercury glass on hand?
Making your own Thanksgiving decorations is easy.
Get ourstep-by-step tutorialfor faux mercury glass; just use gold glitter spray paint instead of silver!
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A long velvet runner keeps this homemade Thanksgiving centerpiece well-defined.
Neutral Centerpiece
Let your Thanksgiving menu be the real attraction with this simple yet beautiful centerpiece idea.
Fill a natural wooden bowl with one tall pillar candle and white flowers like mums and carnations.
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Fill in spaces with spruce branches and pinecones.
Paint a Gourd (or Three!)
Thanksgiving decorations don’t get easier than this!
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We used milk paint and a quick coat of shellac to embellish these attractively autumnal flower vases.
A long, flat gourd or pumpkin makes a perfect harvest vessel for thisstriking succulent centerpiece.
If you need extra height and texture, just prop the arrangement on top of a log slice.
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Here, a shallow footed tray becomes the vase.
Hollow out the center of the cabbage and replace it with florists foam or a small jar of water.
Arrange a few blooms inside; surround with other pretty, colorful vegetables.
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Make a Pumpkin Planter
Perfect for a big crowd, thispumpkin planter centerpieceidea will steal the show.
Bring your Halloween pumpkin inside and create a handmade Thanksgiving decoration.
We’ll show you how to make it and care for it all season long.
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Place the items in a variety of shapely glass containers down the length of a table.
To pick up the shimmery paint tones, try serving pieces or flatware in gold hues, too.
you’re able to paint the branch white or leave it natural.
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Prop the branch in a tall vase filled with acorns, nuts, or small rocks.
Mums are a great fall option.
DIY Velvet Pumpkins
Craft this twist on the velvet pumpkin trend for a sweet Thanksgiving centerpiece.
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Find textured chenille fabric in fall colors at a crafts supply store.
Wrap faux pumpkins in the fabric, gathering the edges of the fabric at the top stem.
Fresh Herb Centerpiece
For an inexpensive Thanksgiving centerpiece table decoration, turn to your garden.
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Fill distinctive vases or glasses with tall cuts of herbs, including sage, thyme, and rosemary.
Hang Painted Acorns
Contrasting colors and interesting textures add visual variety to this outdoor-inspired tree centerpiece.
Select a few acorns; carefully remove the tops and set aside.
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Spray-paint the seeds a bright color, let dry and reattach the tops with a bit of hot glue.
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