Decorations for a Fruit Party

Materials

• Make a list of categories as a guide to purchase fruit-themed items that can be used as decorations. Refreshments may include fruit dips and desserts such as pineapple upside-down cake and applesauce cupcakes. Wall decor can include posters about fruit, apple farms and jelly processing companies. Use party accents such as fruit table centerpieces, fact sheets on fruit, printed recipes and fruit streamers.
  
  

Decorating Ideas

• Hang streamers with fruit images along the walls and on tables or make fruit mobiles. Create trays of edible fruit towers, with the fruit cut into pieces and secured with bamboo skewers and toothpicks for easy tasting. Display contrasting whole fruits, large and small, such as clusters of assorted grapes garnished with colorful fruit leaves. Another edible decoration is a melon bowl filled with small scoops of cut fresh fruit topped with cherries. Fruit posters can be purchased at websites such as allposters.com. Put out small dishes of fruit candies and mints.
  
  

A Few Tips

• Seasonal fruit will probably dominate the menu of fresh fruit trays without breaking the budget, although frozen berries and other fruit can be used nicely as garnishes for a fruit punch bowl or frozen inside ice cubes. Purchase ice cube trays from craft or gourmet stores that have fruit shapes as conversation pieces. Take photographs of fruit displays at grocery stores and have them blown up to poster size to hang on walls.