35 Best DIY Christmas Centerpieces

Having your home full of Christmas decorations brings the holiday season to life. Whether you choose to only have a Christmas wreath on your door, or go all out with decorations around every corner, you should always make sure your table has a beautiful Christmas centerpiece.

One of the best things about the holidays is having all of your family and friends gathered around the table. Having a festive DIY centerpiece not only is a great conversation piece, but will bring that extra touch to your meal.

DIY Christmas Centerpiece Ideas

Below we have the best DIY Christmas Centerpieces to help you create your own homemade decorations.

Mason Jar DIY Christmas Centerpieces

This is a very simple DIY Christmas centerpiece. All you need to do is paint mason jars with your favorite Christmas colors. Next, fill them with beautiful flowers, holly, or Christmas Tree trimmings. To add a special touch, place your decorated mason jars in a decorated tray.

Christmas Centerpieces + Candles

Start off with some small, clear candle holders. Add some cranberries to the bottom of your candle holders for a special Holiday touch. To finish off your centerpiece, add some small pieces of a Christmas Tree trimmings along the table.

Rustic DIY Christmas Centerpieces

Find that perfect log for your table and drill small holes lengthwise to add small tealight candles. You will need power tools for this one to create your tealight holes, or you can place them on top of the log. To create the holes you will want to use a You will also need a 1-1/2 inch diameter paddle or Forstner bit. Add some special holiday touches with cranberries, pine cones, and tree leaves.

Holiday Centerpieces + Pine Cones

This is the perfect DIY Centerpiece to use those pesty pine cones you find laying around. Add some white paint, or canned snow, to your pine cones and place them on your collection of candle sticks holders. Arrange your pine cones, ornaments, and candle stick holder for a beautiful centerpiece.

Wine Bottle Christmas Centerpieces

Save all of your wine bottles from Thanksgiving and create this gorgeous DIY Centerpiece. Simply paint your wine bottles white and fill them with some Holiday garlands and surround with Christmas lights and pine cones. If you would like to add words to your Centerpiece, use a hot glue gun to add words before painting your wine bottles.

Christmas Tree Table Decorations

Find a rustic tray or wooden box and fill with dirt, leaves, or plant filler. Lastly, place some small Christmas Tree branches down the Center along with seasonal vegetables or ornaments for a finishing touch.

Easy Christmas Centerpiece

Sometimes simple is better. Fill a vase with tree branches and then attach red and white pom poms to bring in the Holiday season. Also, adding some sparkles and jewels always adds a nice touch.

Table Christmas Centerpieces

Mason jars are perfect for so many crafts, and Christmas centerpieces are no exception. Add glue to the outside bottom half of your mason jar and then roll it in Epsom salt to achieve this perfect Christmas look. Add a finishing touch with holly berries and twine.

Inexpensive Christmas Centerpiece Ideas

Another gorgeous painted wine bottle centerpiece. There are many Christmas words you can create this look with so make sure and use your creativity. To make sure and get perfect letters, before painting, place stickers onto your wine bottles. Once you paint your bottles peel off your stickers to show your masterpiece.

Simple Christmas Centerpieces

All you need to create this look is a table runner, a rectangular piece of wood, candles and creativity.

Christmas Tree Table Decorations

Another way to use mason jars is as a flower or Christmas Tree trimmings holders. Don’t forget to add your pine cones for that special touch.

Christmas Coffee Table Decor

All you need for this simple look is Christmas candy and a wine glass. This is also perfect DIY decor for a dessert bar to hold up your yummy treats.

Holiday Centerpiece Ideas

Who would have thought that wrapping boxes with moss and brown paper into a present tower would look so simple and elegant.

Elegant Christmas Centerpieces

A silver centerpiece masterpiece. Bring together silver candles, a touch of silver paint to pine cones and cranberries and make this gorgeous look. If you do not have silver items, you can always use silver spray paint to achieve this elegant look.

Xmas Centerpieces

Empty vases, mistletoe and cranberries are all you need for this perfect Christmas Centerpiece.

Simple Christmas Centerpieces

All you need for this simple but festive look are tree trimmings, a few clear jars, burlap, and a table runner. Make this unique with your own special touches of ornaments, pine cones, or holly.

Christmas Tree Table Decorations

This is a centerpiece of HomeGoods and/or Marshalls dreams! Gather all of your Christmas Trees together for one beautiful Centerpiece.

Santa Hat and Candy Cane Centerpieces

Find Santa hats that you love and insert a Styrofoam cone inside to help keep their shape. Using candy cane, or any holiday stripped washi tape, cover a single rod which you will use to hold up your hats.  Stick one end of your decorated pole into the Styrofoam cone and the other into your jar. Lastly, use candy canes to fill your jars, and some white cotton for a snow effect, and you will capture this adorable look.

Elegant Christmas Centerpieces

Nothing is more beautiful and romantic than dinner by candlelight. Gather all of your candle stick holders, large and small, to recreate this look. Do not be afraid of mixing textures, and colors. For a more elegant centerpiece use all white candles. To make this look less formal, you can always add in red and green candles.

Homemade Christmas Centerpieces

Who said tier trays have to be used for food only? Take a serving or dessert tier tray and add all of your favorite Christmas ornaments. Finish off this extremely simple and adorable look with a single red candle on your top tier.

Christmas Centerpieces – Mason Jar + Poinsettia

This centerpiece is very similar to the other mason jar looks we have discussed, but with a gold finish. Also, this decoration has taken the design a step further by drilling small holes and inserting fairy lights for an extra special effect you will love. This look is also perfect for a side table.

Elegant Red Christmas Centerpiece

Who would have thought something so elegant could be so simple. All you need is a large bowl, ornaments, beautiful holiday flowers and a vase. Place your flowers inside your vase and then set it into your bowl. Arrange your ornaments around your vase for extra stabilization as well as a gorgeous Holiday look.

DIY Christmas Centerpiece

A small rectangular piece of marble, or white painted wood is the perfect base for any Centerpiece. Add a few Christmas trees, ornaments, pine cones, and tree trimmings and you will wow your guests.

Wine Bottle DIY Christmas Centerpieces

This Christmas centerpiece is exactly why you keep your wine bottles. Paint your wine bottles white for their base. Once dry, add glue to the bottom section of your wine bottle and roll them in Epsom salt. This will give you a beautifully snow covered wine bottle. Finish off your look with any flower arrangement you would love.

Christmas Centerpieces With Candles

Another gorgeous and simple DIY centerpiece! Take all of your mason jars and pour Epsom salt into the bottom third of the jar. Next, place your decor on top of your “snow”. Cranberries, tree trimmings, and small candles are the perfect touch.

Simple DIY Table Centerpieces

This is a great Holiday centerpiece. If you would like, take some small paper bags and paint any design you would like on them with white paint. Fill your paper bags with tree trimmings. To add that special touch, wrap your bags with twine and small star ornaments. Also, you can hang ornaments from your tree trimmings as well.

Simple Holiday Christmas Centerpieces

There are many uses for a trifle bowl, and here is another one. Take a small vase filled with beautiful flowers and place inside your trifle bowl. Next, simply line your trifle bowl with candy cane sticks around the edge and your look is complete.

Homemade Christmas Table Decorations

Instead of using Epsom salt, this look uses artificial snow placed at the bottom of their empty vases. Next place pine cones, winter flowers or twigs, or even ornaments inside for a simple homemade centerpiece.

Ornament Centerpieces

Don’t leave your cupcake stand empty for Christmas. Fill in your cupcake stand with some of your favorite Christmas ornaments and you are done! Could not be simpler than this!