How Do You Decorate A Recycling-Theme Christmas Table?
Rise to the challenge of setting a Christmas dinner table with recyling as your focus. Here are some tips to get you started. Use either an old white bedsheet or a washable plastic tablecloth, with the white fuzzy side out, as your cloth. To dress up the sheeting, you could use a Christmas-motif stamp (such as a tree) and stamp it with washable fabric paint. Make a Christmas tree centerpiece from old magazines (two or three Newsweeks, for example) by folding the top of each page down to the center of the magazine, creating a 45-degree angle that’s the top of the tree. Glue the magazines together at the center spines, spread the pages evenly and spray-paint dark green or other color. Make an alternative centerpiece by creating a cone from posterboard or other durable product. Then glue on old bows (which would ordinarily be discarded without a second use) or pine cones or sweet gum balls, which will decompose in the compost heap once the centerpiece starts looking dowdy. Set the table w
