Christmas Dough Bowl Ideas

Ready to get a jump start on your holiday decorating? Here are a few of my favorite ideas on how to decorate a dough bowl for Christmas!

Dough bowls-everyone loves them, but do you struggle with ideas on how to style them???  Today I am sharing several simple ideas on how to decorate a dough bowl for Christmas!

I know, it isn’t even Thanksgiving yet but I have been anxious to get started with some holiday decorating! I just love these snowman battery candles so much, I have been wanting to get them out since September!  Scroll down to see how I have them displayed for this year!

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What is A Dough Bowl?

How To Decorate Your Dough Bowl

The Legend of the Sand Dollar

Another shell I like to use in my seasonal dough bowl arrangements is the sand dollar.  There is a legend or a poem about the symbolism of the sand dollar.  The legend tells the story of Christ with symbolism found in the patterns and internal structures of the sand dollar.

The top of the shell has a symbol that looks like a star which signifies the Star of Bethlehem.  This is the star that led the Wise Men to the baby Jesus.

On the opposite side of  the sand dollar, you can see the outline of a poinsettia, the traditional Christmas flower. If a sand dollar is broken open, it is said that five dove-shaped pieces appear.  Doves are often used to represent peace and goodwill.

Whimsical Holiday Dough Bowl Ideas

At the beginning of the Holiday season one year, I purchased the white dough bowl that you see perched behind the spindles.  It is another reproduction one.  I fell in love with the shape of it.  I do wish it was a little bit deeper and a tad longer.  It is so cute and I just love the “wings”.

I had a lot of fun decorating this gingerbread themed dough bowl for the kitchen.

I also created a dough bowl display for the dining room.  Our inside dining table is glass topped and octagon shaped.  Using my white bowl again, I combined a battery candle, jingle bells and pinecones.

Continuing with my gingerbread theme, I designed this Snowflake Wishes and Gingerbread Kisses white dough bowl.

When we lived at the farm, we had an actual dining room with an oak dining table that had several leaves.  I sometimes used a slightly different kind of dough bowl as the centerpiece.  It was called a dough riser. This one had three sections so you could have three balls of dough rising at the same time.  Unfortunately, I sold it when I had one of the sales during the downsizing process.  I wish now that I would have kept it! 

My husband found this adorable metal camper at Aldi’s one summer.  It looks a lot like the one my grandparents had when they used to vacation in Florida.  Somewhere I have a picture of my grandpa sitting in a lawn chair in front of their camper.  Of course, I couldn’t find it to include it in the vignette!

This next dough bowl centerpiece is a true example of my decorating style.  Here I am incorporating architectural salvage “gingerbread” spindles into the centerpiece.  I explain the logic behind my choice in this post: A Very Merry & Unique Style of Gingerbread

This tiny snowman is riding his ribbon toboggan, holding a banner that reads “Love Never Melts Away”!  Isn’t it just precious?

Love Never Melts Away

The Snowmen Trio

My cousin’s wife received a set of these adorable Snowman battery operated candles one year for Christmas!  I fell in love with them but got busy and completely forgot about them until I saw them again at their house at last Thanksgiving!  I found them on Amazon and bought them as an early Christmas gift for myself!  I do things like that a lot!  I will put a link to them at the end of the post if you are interested in them!  They come with a remote control too!  And the “wicks” move so they look just like real candles!

Snowman Dough Bowl Christmas 

This year, I decided to use the white dough bowl.  Here is where I started!  I was planning to use the plain pine pics and the rattan hearts.

Even with taking my handy wire cutters to the pine pics, I couldn’t get them to fit in the dough bowl the way I wanted them to.  Fortunately, I had another option handy!  This glittery pine pics with the tiny snowballs were just what I needed!  I was able to take the sprays apart and feather them into the dough bowl.  Then I nestled the rattan hearts around the edges.  Perfect!

Snowman Battery Operated Candles in White Dough Bowl 

close up!

This whole process took about 20 minutes.  It probably took me longer to put the batteries in the candles!  I seem to struggle with putting batteries in things!

I do love to decorate with snowmen.  When I lived in Illinois, I left them out all winter.  I plan to leave this arrangement out until Valentine’s Day.

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