Decor from dried citrus: 10 ideas for mom and baby

Parents know that Christmas should certainly smell like oranges, tangerines and... cinnamon. We will create beautiful New Year's decorations from citrus fruits and pleasant aromatic memories of childhood.

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Preparing for Christmas should not turn into an endless race to complete all the points that your child wrote in the letter to the magician. Truth. There are many wonderful ways to make a child happy. A gift is only one of these ways.

When all wishes come true, it's good, but gradually miracles created by the hands of parents or Santa still begin to be perceived as understandable, as necessary. But if you teach your child to be happy not only when he receives, but also when he creates and gives, consider that you will give him more chances for happiness in the future.

That's how making wonderful Christmas ornaments decorated with citrus fruits can be such a step towards getting pleasure from creativity and from the opportunity to please loved ones with a gift made with your own hands! And yet... this wonderful aroma!

Just imagine: it gives a child great pleasure to do something with parents, this wonderful evening smells of oranges, tangerines, cloves and cinnamon - 20 years and 30 years pass, but every time, inhaling the aroma of citrus fruits, your child (already an adult) will feel a rush of positive emotions, will return to childhood and draw strength from the source that the family once opened for him!

IDEAS FOR GIFTS

1. A package of various fruits and spices for their decoration
2. Books about Christmas
3. A new set of children's tableware

TASKS FOR PARENTS AND THE CHILD

Arrange an evening of aromas. Show the child what cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg look like. Decide together what decorations you will make for Christmas. You can rehearse already today: then, on the eve of the holiday, creating the decor will not take you much time.

Attention! Of course, the child will want to try both tangerine and orange, and maybe even lemon. Be careful: citrus fruits are very allergenic.

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CITRUS TREE DECORATIONS

To make New Year's decorations from orange slices, they must first be dried.

Cut the orange into slices 2 mm thick and put them in the oven on a baking sheet with a stainless steel grid (they may burn on a regular one). Dry the orange circles for 3 hours at a temperature of 120°C. Cool and use for Christmas decoration!

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For decoration you will need:

• dried orange slices
• clove
• ribbon or rubber band

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After you have dried the orange slices, there is little to do. Take a clove and decorate with it in a circle the middle of each citrus circle. Did you feel the aroma? Soon he will delight you until Christmas!

Now you only need to stretch the beautiful ribbon through the small hole in the slice and hang it on the Christmas tree!

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Citrus decor made of crusts will look no less beautiful on the Christmas tree!

For this you will need:

• orange, lemon or tangerine
• iron form for cookies
• stationery knife
• a thread

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Process:

1. Peel the citrus so that the peel remains as intact as possible. Straighten and cut it so that it lies flat on the table.
2. Using a cookie cutter, squeeze the shape of a Christmas tree, a star, and the like into the shell.
3. Cut the area around the cutout hole with a clerical knife so that it is several centimeters larger in diameter than the cutout figure.
4. Insert the cut-out figure into the image with the reverse, soft side.
5. Thread a rope on top of the toy, hang it on the Christmas tree!

CITRUS GARLAND

For such a garland you will need:

• dried orange circles
• whole dried oranges
• cinnamon sticks
• Tape
• a thread

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We have already told you how to dry citrus fruits for decoration (in circles), and in general, oranges are dried according to the same principle. Only on the fresh fruit you need to make many longitudinal cuts, as shown in the picture, and put it in the oven for 2-3 hours.

To create a garland, alternately string whole dried oranges and citrus circles, tie cinnamon sticks and ribbons of contrasting colors!

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You can also create a simple but cute orange peel garland. With the help of molds for New Year's cookies, squeeze stars or Christmas trees out of it, dry it in the oven and string it on a thread!

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Together with the baby, make an eco-garland for the house from citrus flowers!

For it you will need:

• wooden stick
• rain
• a thread
• beads
• bumps
• orange peels

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Process:

• Cut the oranges in half and peel the pulp. On each half of the peel, make 5 incisions as shown in the picture.
• Flatten each half - you should get a flower.
  

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• Send the flowers to the oven and dry.
• Take 3 threads of the same length and string dried flowers, beads, dried orange circles, pine cones or cinnamon sticks on each.
• Decorate a wooden stick with sprinkles and tie 3 citrus garlands on it.
• Tie a thread in the color of the garlands and hang it on the wall!

ORANGE TREE

A small Christmas tree made of orange circles can become a wonderful decoration for the festive table!

For it you will need:

• dried orange circles
• wooden rods
• orange peel
• a small pot or bucket

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Process:

1. String orange rings on a stick, and place a star made of dried peel on top of a glue gun or superglue.
2. How to strengthen the product in the pot: there are many options - you can make salted dough or another mass for modeling, tamp it down in the pot and insert the sticks. You can pour sand and stick twigs in the same way. Well, the most durable way is to use alabaster (you can buy it at a hardware store).
3. After you have strengthened the Christmas tree, put some wood shavings, cotton wool or sprinkle its base with artificial snow.

Another very beautiful decoration for the festive table can be made from fresh oranges!

For the Christmas tree you will need:

• oranges
• clove
• foam cone
• live Christmas tree branches
• toothpicks

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It is easier than simple: decorate the oranges with fragrant cloves, put them on toothpicks and insert them into the cone of foam plastic at an angle so that the fruit does not slide due to its weight. Fill the gaps between the oranges with Christmas tree branches.

CANDLE IN ORANGE

Do you want a festive warm atmosphere in the house? Make a practical citrus decoration for the New Year's table with your child - a candle in an orange!

There are many variants of such a candle, but the classic is the one in which the pulp of an orange is cut out, and a wick is placed in the empty peel of a citrus fruit and melted paraffin is poured.

It is not safe to do this with a child, so you can put a small candle in the peel, having previously cut patterns into the orange.

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You can cut off only the top of the orange, clean the pulp and insert a candle on top! Do not forget to decorate citrus with cloves, then New Year's aromatherapy will affect the festive mood of your family even more!

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And finally, I would like to share a very original festive life hack, which will definitely be appreciated by children and your guests on festive days!

Try to prepare your favorite cupcakes with a delicious filling, pouring the dough not into special molds, but into orange peel.

How to implement this sweet idea, see in a short video:

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