If the holiday table is going to a small family Christmas composition can be quite simple: a sprig of pine wood (pine, spruce, arborvitae), a candle or a small figurine of an angel, tinsel.
For larger compositions, except pine branches, using natural or artificial flowers and dried flowers (Helichrysum, akroklinum, Gomphrena et al.). Of the toys most appropriate glass balls or bells.
German custom of the Christmas table put a composition whose base is an apple or an orange. In this fruit stick sprig of pine wood, dried flowers, rowan berries, small glass balls on the pointy matches or toothpicks, small bumps. You can create an entire pyramid of such compositions, combining fruit with the same toothpicks. Crowns the pyramid is usually plastic or glass figurine of an angel.
European countries borrowed the idea of hanging Christmas composition on wooden hoops. Usually take two hoops, placing them parallel to each other or crossing vertically to get a figure like a balloon. Hoops entwined ribbons, tinsel, sparkling braid; decorated with pine branches, small candles, Christmas balls.
Original and elegant Christmas decoration can be built out of straw (an allusion to the fact that the birth of Christ took place in the manger, on the straw). Straw braid like a scythe, then decorating bows ribbons, pine twigs, dried flowers. It is used as a wall decoration (you can connect the ends of the braids and get smart circle).
Widespread Christmas composition with flower poinsettia - "Christmas Star". Pot with blooming bright red poinsettia put in pots or some beautiful dishes, and in the interval between the walls of a coniferous or "snow-covered" (covered with salt) branches, fur, gilded trappings - someone like that. Pros florists construct even "Christmas pyramid" - a composition in the form of a cone, completely hung with Christmas paws, cones, holly berries, decorative small apples. At the top of the pyramid adorned flower (or rather, bract) poinsettia.
The more unusual, the more modern - guided by this motto when creating Christmas arrangements, and your home for the holiday will be stylish and elegant.