Hi everyone, I’m new to the site. I need some ideas please! I’m an oncology social worker and we are hosting a luncheon at our cancer center for breast cancer survivors. We have decorative boxes and we’re trying to come up with a way to showcase them as either a centerpiece or general decor. They have a floral pattern and are about the size of a shoe box. Other than stacking flowers or candles on top, which seems to be done to death, does anyone have any more creative ideas? I’d appreciate any input that I can get! Thanks! – Abigale in the Dollar Store Crafts Community
Hi Abigale! Thanks for joining us and asking your question! I don’t know exactly what your boxes look like, but I found this pretty floral box project (photo above) over at Bump Smitten: Floral Containers. I think it’s pretty and would make a cheerful centerpiece.
Other centerpiece ideas:
- Mini Candy Buffet: Fill the boxes with smaller paper bowls filled with a variety of candies for a mini candy buffet. Provide small paper cups and spoons so guests can serve themselves.
- I LOVE this pink tree branch centerpiece found over at Hostess With the Mostess! So elegant. Use your box for the foundation of the tree.
- Wheat Grass Centerpiece – I usually see wheat grass decor in the spring, but it would be an unexpected, yet very appropriate symbol of life for breast cancer survivors any time of year. You will need to start your wheatgrass about a week before your luncheon. You can plant it in dollar store disposable baking foil pans (choose a size that is small enough to fit inside your box.) You just have to buy a bag of hard spring wheat at the grocery store (it’s in the healthy food aisle, or the hot cereal aisle. A common brand is Bob’s Red Mill.) and plant it into potting mix. This image is from DIY Wedding.
Hope that will get you started! Readers, please add your ideas in the comments!
8 Comments
Danna
You could use a combination of both fabric and ribbon flowers in the centerpieces. You could also add a pin tot the back of them and encourage guests to take one home with them. You could make the flowers using breast cancer awareness fabric,pink and white fabric, other pink fabrics, silk flowers, and different colors of pink ribbon. Each guest would then have a boutinerre to show their support of breast cancer awareness. That’s all I can think of off the top of my head.
Diana Salyers
What about stacking or grouping the boxes together on top of a mirror. Then, use a tea light on top (the candle in those little tin cups). Or if it would hold a larger candle, put it in a metal lid to protect the box from the candle.
Abigale
Thanks so much ladies! I like the mini candy buffet idea. Diana, that was a great suggestion too. Thank you so much for responding!
RebKnitz
Still in the stacking-on-top-of-the-box vein, what about small fishbowls with bettas or goldfish?
Sherry
One wacky thought I had is to fill the bottom of each box with iridescent shredded gift-bag filler (from the Dollar Store) to establish a base, then stack a pile of iridescent “soap bubble” glass balls (Christmas ornaments) on top, maybe in a couple of sizes for variety. You might even nestle glass candlesticks in first and have taper/s in an appropriate color (pink, I presume) sparkling off the glass…
Off The Cuff Cooking
Maybe this wouldn’t work, but I was thinking about turning the box into a diorama type of thing– putting figurines or meaningful objects inside… maybe line three sides with mirrors, and put some kind of painted background on one side, so that it reflects from all directions and create the diorama so that it is meant to be viewed from up top as though you’re looking down into a little world. You could find a lot of neat supplies such as miniature trees, shrubs etc (from doll furniture or a model-train supply accessories) to make a pretty landscape. You could use mosses, or low growing ground cover type of plants and put them on a tray in the bottom too, and make a beautiful little miniature world…
Abigale
Wow, you ladies rock! You all have such great ideas! I’m going to have fun this weekend buying supplies! Thanks to all!
heather
Let us know how it turns out, Abigale! Take a few pics for us!