Economical Christmas Church Dinner Decor

Last year, about this time,

I helped my friend with

her church Christmas dinner 

decorations.

The pictures are very mediocre,

but I wanted to share these

very low cost ideas with you.

In the center of the dining tables, 

we started with squares of wrapping

paper from the dollar store,

sprigs of fresh evergreen,

(Free from the back yard! The wrapping

paper underneath protects the table linens from tree sap.)

glass cylinders wrapped in

tissue paper,

(inside each cylinder, we put a few inches of

rock salt with a battery votive candle on top)

silver ornaments from

the dollar store.

On the buffet table,

the "table runners" are 

wrapping paper from the 

dollar store!

More cylinders in the center

are filled with rock salt 

(& there is rock salt sprinkled around them

to resemble snow).

Branches - spray painted white-

are in the cylinders &

dollar store ornaments adorn them. 

The foam snowflakes are

also from . . . you guessed it!

It all looked much better in person - of course!

The vases or cylinders were all borrowed, so the

only cost was a few dollars 

worth of decorations

to give this huge gym a 

little Christmas atmosphere.

Clean-up was made easier with by just rolling up the

wrapping paper & throwing it away.