Decorating your Home for the Memorial Day Weekend

Bring patriotic color to your outdoor and interior home

Colorful flowers will not only enliven your table, they present a good way to welcome guests and usher in the weekend. Choose flowers that are bright and cheerful but not over the top. Gorgeous table decorations show off your style and creativity, beautify your dining table, and add splendor to your dining room. You can also plant flowers with patriotic colors in flower pots and place them throughout your exterior.

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Serve Food with Patriotic Colors

If you can’t afford to buy artificial decorations, get creative with food. Choose red , blue, and white food and create edible works of art. You can use red strawberries and tomatoes, blue chocolate candy or blueberries, and white creams and breads. Your guests will love looking at the food as well as eating it. In fact, don’t be surprised if they keep on saying “This food looks good enough to eat.” Look through our patriotic desserts:

Patriotic Dessert – Patriotic Popcorn

Try of these 23 Patriotic Desserts:

Bring red, white and blue to your dessert table this summer! Which of these patriotic desserts is your fav?

Enliven Your Drive and Lawn

You can add pizzazz to your drive with patriotic jars. Simply paint mason jars white, blue, and red. Place votive candles and small flags inside the jars for added appeal. Pt for battery-operated votives as they double as flag spotlights.

To capture the attention of your guests, paint stars on your lawn. However, be sure to buy paint that is not harmful to grass. Create a stencil from a cardboard and make the stars. Your home will become the most festive in the entire neighborhood.

Memorial Day is a great time to kick back and spend time with family and friends. And what better way to commemorate the day than with patriotic décor? Take inspiration from these ideas and make your Memorial Day holiday unforgettable in every way. Your guests will enjoy themselves tremendously.

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Memorial Day Craft: Paper Flower Wreath

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Supplies

• Scissors
• Pins
• Ribbon
• Glue
• Floral wire
• Fabric strips (for wrapping the wreath)
• 6 packets of red, blue, and white tissue paper (with 8 sheets each)
• Styrofoam wreath (get one with a flat top and bottom)
• Patriotic ribbon

Instructions

1. Wrap the wreath with the fabric strips and hold them in place with the pins.
2. Take a packet of tissue paper and fold each tissue accordion-style starting along the short end (make approximately 1.5-2 inch folds).
3. If you want to make big flowers, cut the tissue in half; for small flowers, cut it twice. Keep in mind that the smaller flowers are harder to make with many sheets, they need tissues with 6 sheets or less.
4. Wrap the floral wire around the middle part of the tissues.
5. Use the scissors to round off the tissue ends.
6. Fan out both ends of the tissue and lift one sheet at a time. Do this carefully to avoid damaging the tissue.
7. Continue lifting the sheets until you have a pretty flower.
8. Repeat this process to make the other tissue paper flowers.
9. Once you’ve made blue, red, and white flowers, arrange them on the wreath to see how they will look. This is important because you can’t move the flowers after attaching them with glue.
10. Apply glue on the wreath and hold each flower in place until it sticks.
11. Pin the ribbon to the back of the wreath.

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Memorial Day honors those who lost their lives in the line of duty. It reminds us how much we have to be thankful for. As you celebrate the day this year, do something different. Try making this Memorial Day craft with your kids. Kids have a lot of time on their hands during summer break and what better way to keep them busy than by making this craft? They will have fun and you will be thankful for their help.

Which craft are you making this Memorial Day?

Patriotic Decor: Memorial Day Front Porch Decoration

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Flags & Flags

Flags are patriotic and are very fitting to anything related to the Memorial Day. So, buy long flag banners from your local stores and hang them from the edge of the porch roof with command hooks. You can also go for traditional bunting, perfect for hanging from the railing of your front porch. The bunting will add a dramatic touch and make things a little bit more festive.

Patriotic Combination of Flowers

Who does not love flowers? Flowers are beautiful, soothing, refreshing, and they are an excellent décor item too! Use a patriotic combination of colorful flowers to decorate your front porch. Choose red flowers like petunias, gerber daisies, dianthus; white like dusty miller, nemesia, geraniums; and blue like hydrangeas, salvia, and lobelia.

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Patriotic Planters and Pots

With flowers, flower pots and planters can also be used to underline the patriotic theme. Paint them with any of these three colors or all of them. You can also give the same treatment to the furniture in the front porch.

Flame the Festivity

Rotate the mason jars from indoor to outdoor to add fun and festivity to this special holiday. Take several mason jars and glue a tiny flag around each of them. Light small candles or flameless LED candles inside each jar and place them on both sides of the each step of the front porch stairway. The candles should have just the right height to illuminate each flag.

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Enhance with Small Accessories

Small accessories are always a good option to add to the decoration and festivity of a place. So, why not adding some cool items to your front porch for the Memorial Day? A wreath, a doormat, some red pillows on the seating arrangements, and some tiny flags can really enhance the patriotic décor of your front porch.

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These small decoration arrangements will help you changing the look of your front porch without much hassle. The patriotic décor ideas are simple and cost-effective, and leave you with the option of improvisation.

Have you planned any special décor theme for your front porch for the upcoming Memorial Day?

Patriotic Decor: Decorating Your Memorial Day Picnic Table

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Fruits Decoration

Fruits are an excellent item to décor the Memorial Day picnic table. You can get a variety of fruits at grocery stores even if they are still not quite in season. Create centerpieces with shish kabobs and fruits flowers and show a fantastic edible way of accessorizing your table. For kabobs, cut fruits with mini cookie cutters and thread onto skewers for a starry display.

Colorful Candles & Vases

Adorn the Memorial Day picnic table with colorful candles and vases wrapped in red and blue paper. You can do it by yourself. Just buy colorful paper, cut them in the right sizes, and wrap around the vases with glue.

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Decorate the Coasters & Napkins

Coasters and napkins are essential elements to a table. So, add to the festivities by making celebratory coasters and napkins. Take some printout of your favorite designs, cut them according to the shape of the coasters, and stick by spraying adhesive. Similarly, personalize the napkins by using iron-on numbers or designs at the corner of each of them. Use paint-chip strips as napkin rings. Just wrap and tape!

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Pinwheels & Cutouts

Why to deprive kids of the fun? Involve them in your patriotic décor mission and keep them busy – at least for a while! Give them patriotic scrapbooking paper, clothespins, and glue. Teach them how to make clothespin pinwheels, which you can later use for the table decoration. Want to make something funnier? Buy adhesive paper in various colors. Cut out stars or whichever shapes you like and stick them to anywhere you want such as on the glasses, cups, napkin rings, etc.

Final Touch with Flags

Any patriotic décor will be incomplete without flag decoration. A flag centerpiece is very easy to assemble. Fill an open basket with decorative grass, plastic stars and spangles, and red blue croquet balls. Now, complete it by adding a few small flags.

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The patriotic decor of your Memorial Day picnic table will help displaying the creative flair of your patriotic spirit. The ideas are easy to execute and the end results are beautiful enough to win compliments.

What Memorial Day decorations are you using this holiday?