Katie Brown Shows You How to Host a Very Modern Thanksgiving This Year
This year, why not try something a little different - host a very modern thanksgiving. Think lots of white with accents of copper, and you’re guests are sure to delight in how simply striking your home will appear.
Here are nine projects that will add a simple elegance to your Holiday. Click the project titles for full articles.
A Modern Vinyl Runner
Materials:
White Vinyl
2 pieces of Copper Pipe
Tools:
Hot Glue Gun
Scissor
Instructions:
1. Cut a piece of vinyl so that it is two feet longer than the length of your table, and 1 ½ - 2 feet narrower than the width of your table.
2. Hot glue the copper pipes to either end of the vinyl runner. You want to make sure the copper pipe is longer than the width of your runner.
Owl Decorations
Materials:
3″ Styrofoam Balls
White Alligator Vinyl
Copper Brillo Pad
Grey Felt
Googley Eyes
Tools:
Hot Glue Gun
Scissor
Sharpie
Instructions:
1. Flatten out your copper Brillo pad and glue it to your styrofoam ball.
2. Cut several teardrop shapes out of the alligator vinyl - these will serve as feathers.
3. Glue the “feathers” around the rest of the ball, leaving the Brillo pad un-feathered, so it acts as the breast of the owl.
4. Cut one larger, slightly more rounded teardrop from the vinyl and glue it to the top of the ball, to that the point comes down onto the Brillo, and the tops of the “feathers” are covered.
5. Cut a figure eight or “B” from the grey felt and glue it to the top of the Brillo pad, so that the tip of the top teardrop drops down over it slightly.
6. Add a googley eye to each side of the “B”.
7. Cut a small triangle from the vinyl and glue below the eyes to serve as a beak.
8. Cut two small triangles from the grey felt and pinch them in half, with a dab of glue, then glue them to the owl to serve as ears.
9. Write the name of your guest on the top of the owl.
Materials:
4 x 4 in. Wooden blocks
Copper tacks
White gloss spray paint
White fabric
White iron-on letters
Tools:
Hammer
Iron
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Instructions:
1. Spray the blocks white, and let them dry. (This may require multiple coats.)
2. Cut the white fabric into small squares, slightly smaller than the blocks.
3. Iron on the letters, one per square, to spell out your message.
4. Attach the lettered fabric to the face of a block with a copper tack in each corner.
Modern White and Copper Napkins
Materials
White flour-sack napkins
Copper pipe cross sections
White iron-on numbers
Tools
Iron
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Instructions
1. Iron your number to the bottom-center of your napkin.
2. Feed the napkin through the copper pipe.
3. Repeat until you’ve accounted for each guest.
Decorated Modern Folding Chairs
Materials:
White vinyl cut into long 2-inch strips, or vinyl ribbon
Folding chairs
Tools:
Scissors
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Instructions:
1. Cut your vinyl into long 2-inch strips if you’re not using vinyl ribbon.
2. Cut a small cross into one end of the vinyl strip.
3. Wrap the strip around the chair back, and feed the end through the small cross, then tie a slipknot to secure the strip.
4. Repeat until the chair back is covered, or until you’ve achieved the desired look. You can line all the knots up, or scatter them across the back of the chair.
Materials:
Balloons, in various shades of White
10 Helium Balloons, in various shades of White
Copper Wire
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Instructions:
1. Blow up your balloons. Alternatively, you could call a party supply store and order balloons that have already been inflated.
2. String together your balloons with copper wire. Be creative. Leave spaces between balloons, bunch them up, and even add extra wires to have lengths hanging off in different directions.
3. Attach the helium balloons along the wire. You can bunch a few up where you want the most life, and then trail them along the rest of the wire. Make sure to leave a length at the end without any helium balloons attached, so that your balloon chain truly drapes like a waterfall.
Materials:
Large White Platter
Printable Full-Sheet Clear Shipping Labels
Artists’ Table Easel
Tools:
Computer
Printer
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Instructions:
1. Write and print your menu (vertically) in black ink on the shipping labels.
2. Clean the serving dish and dry it well.
3. Apply the sticky label, carefully, starting from the upper left corner.
4. Smooth out any air bubbles as you go.
5. Place the ‘menu’ on an artists’ table easel, and clamp it into place so it is secure.
Hint: Print multiples in case of any goof ups.
Materials:
Wire Mesh Waste Basket (copper preferred)
White Duck Tape
Paper Bags
White Bag
Gourds, Corn, Wheat - real or fake
White Flat Spray Paint
Glue Dots (optional)
Tools:
Scissors
Instructions:
1. Spray paint all the gourds, corn, wheat etc flat white, and let them dry (multiple coats needed.)
2. Smash the wire mesh waste basket so that it makes a cornucopia shape as best as you can.
3. Scrunch a thick paper bag into a point to make the ‘tail’ and tape onto the bottom of the wastebasket to complete the cornucopia ‘horn’ shape.
4. Continue taping the entire “cornucopia” with the white duck tape, wrapping around and around.
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5. Scrunch a white bag (plastic or paper) and stuff to the back of the cornucopia to take up some space.
6. Lay the cornucopia on its side, push down a bit to create a flatter bottom so that it doesn’t roll.
7. Add the white gourds, corn, wheat etc so they are ‘tumbling’ out.
Hint: If your gourds won’t stay in place, sneak a few glue dots in between them to secure them into place.
Materials:
Metal Rake
Copper flat wire
Dried or artificial fall foliage- ‘Cat tails’ and leaves
White spray paint
Copper spray paint
Tools:
Painters tape
Hack saw
Wire snips
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Instructions:
Saw off the rake handle to desired length (we suggest leaving it about a foot long.)
Tape off the rake from the handle, spray handle white, let dry.
Tape of the handle from the rake, spray rake copper, let dry.
Lay your rake down with the tines facing upward, arrange your fall foliage fanned out over the rake and gathered at the base of the handle.
Wrap copper wire around base to make a tight hold, twisting to a knot for a finish.
Hint: Hang your rake wreath with a copper tack to complete the copper theme.
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