How to Make Dried Fruit Ornaments
Enjoy the beauty of natural Christmas decorations when you make these easy dried fruit ornaments to adorn your tree or packages this holiday season.
Yield: 12
Cost: $20
Equipment
- Drill
- Large needle or paperclip
- Scissors
Materials
- Dried fruit slices. Oranges lemons, and limes. (try apples too)
- 3- inch cinnamon sticks
- Raffia ribbon
Instructions
- Slice and dry fruit in the oven on the lowest heat for about 2 - 4 hours, flipping every 30 minutes.
- Drill a small hole in the middle of the cinnamon sticks
- Poke a hole in the middle of the dried fruit slices with a large needle, paperclip, or skewer.
- Take a piece of raffia ribbon twice the length of the desired stack size plus 4 inches and fold it in half.
- Make a knot on the non-folded end. Thread a cinnamon stick over the folded end of the raffia and slide it down to the knot.
- Continue threading on slices of fruit.
- Finish with another cinnamon stick.
- Hang your creation on the tree.
Notes
Oven time to dry the fruit varies. Be sure to pat off excess liquid before setting the fruit slices in the oven.
You can also buy dried fruit slices online.
These ornaments will darken slightly over the years but will keep well if packed well in a sealed tub.
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