Easter Topiary Tree Table Centerpiece

This charming topiary will bring the beauty of spring inside to your table. This centerpiece can be used alone, or other shorter items can be placed around it to create many unique centerpieces.

What You Will Need:

1. 6” Styrofoam sphere
2. 12” Round Wooden Dowel
3. 6” Ceramic pot or metal pail
4. One bag individually foil wrapped chocolate eggs
5. Silk yellow daisy-like flowers
6. 1Package purple pony beads
7. Blue five petal silk flowers
8. 2 Packages white pearl beads
9. Assorted size light blue buttons
10. One small pick of white roses
11. Teardrop shaped pearl beads
12. Light yellow buttons
13. Pink buttons
14. Hot glue gun
15. Extra glue sticks
16. Purple ribbon
17. Scissors

Directions:

1. Plug in the hot glue gun, make sure it has a glue stick, and let it warm up.
2. Begin by pushing the wooden dowel about an inch into the Styrofoam sphere.
3. Pull out the dowel and put a small amount of hot glue in the indent created by the dowel and replace the dowel.
4. Allow the glue to set.
5. Take apart the white rose pick, and insert them around the dowel. Put them close enough together that they will hide where the dowel goes into the Styrofoam. You will probably need to use four to five roses.
6. Hot glue blue buttons in a circle around the roses. If looks best with three rows of blue buttons.
7. Around the blue buttons glue another three rows of white pearls.
8. Set the topiary aside and allow the glue to dry.
9. Cut daisy flowers off of their stems. Leave a about a quarter inch of stem so that it can be pushed into the Styrofoam.
10. Just above the white pearls begin inserting daisies into the Styrofoam, one right next to the other, so that there is one row of daisies. You will need to use the hot glue gun to glue the petals to the Styrofoam, so that they don’t hang down.
11. When you have finished gluing on the daisies. Glue one pink button into the indented area between the daisies.
12. Directly above the center of each daisy, and in the same row as the pink buttons, glue on a blue five petal flower. Put one flower above each daisy.
13. Just above the pink buttons glue one teardrop shaped pearl with the smaller end pointing toward the pink button.
14. Above the blue flowers glue one yellow button.
15. Hold the dowel so that you can look down on the center of the sphere.
16. Glue a single five petal flower in the exact center.
17. Glue purple beads in a circle around the blue flower.
18. Continue doing this until you have four rows of purple beads around the blue flower.
19. Just underneath the purple beads glue one row of white pearls on.
20. Hold the dowel inside the pot or pail, and pour in the chocolate eggs. These will hold the topiary up right.
21. Tie the purple ribbon around the pail, and set on your table to enjoy during the Easter season.

If the colors used in this example do not match exactly with your other decorations, feel free to come up with your own colors.