Jelly Jar Centerpiece for Christmas

For this month’s Thrift Store Décor Challenge, I put together a simple jelly jar centerpiece for Christmas using found items and a few things from the dollar store. I’m usually way ahead on these projects, but truth be told I was running close to the deadline with this project. Maybe I should start next month’s project tomorrow?

Do you have extra jelly jars?

Let’s see how this Christmas centerpiece using jelly jars came to be . . .

I have a corner in the shed designated for thrift store finds. These jelly jars were originally given to me by my daughter Jamie. They were in a pile in the garage until I recently reorganized my wood shop. During that week I also cleaned out and painted the shed. You can see other items just waiting for their big day!

And an old sewing machine drawer?

Did you notice this small sewing drawer next to the jelly jars? It had been about a foot away but I moved it over by the jelly jars when I took that other picture. The only thing I did to the little drawer was clean it.

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Gather some Dollar Store Items

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After washing the yucky jelly jars, I gathered my supplies. I had picked up some beaded necklaces and battery-operated tea light candles at Dollar Tree.

Initially, I tried using the beaded necklaces whole, but the battery-operated candles didn’t sit very well. I used scissors to randomly cut the beads apart, sometimes as few as three and other times as many as 5, letting them fall into the jar. I used four beads to fill each jelly jar (you can buy them on Amazon).

Pretty Jelly Jar Centerpiece

I originally tested five jelly jars for the centerpiece but then tried only four. The picks are from Dollar Tree.

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I added a fifth jar and another pick and I love it! I chose gold tea light candles, but white would look nice too.

If you don’t have a small sewing drawer, you could easily make your own small drawer.

Christmas centerpiece made with jelly jars and small drawer MyRepurposedLife

I wouldn’t recommend using real candles with these small plastic beads. NOTE: Keep the tiny beads away from children. I love the simplicity of this Christmas centerpiece. It would be easy to change it up for other holidays. You can probably find some small jars at the dollar store if you don’t have any jelly jars. I like the cut glass on these jelly jars.

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