Make Your Own Remembrance Day Decorations

Remembrance Day is a solemn time when we remember those who gave their lives for our freedom. Whether you’re teaching your children about their sacrifice or doing something with your local veterans’ group, you can make some tasteful and lovely Remembrance Day decorations to remember and honour our fallen soldiers.

Make a poppy-covered tablecloth with stamps

This craft couldn’t be much easier. Technically it is a print on paper, made for Anzac Day, but the idea can be transferred to a tablecloth for a Remembrance Day lunch.

Carve a poppy flower with four leave into a potato. Dip the stamp into paint, and dot it around the tablecloth. The middle of the poppies here are poppy seeds, but you could cut a circle out of a sponge and use black paint to make the middle part.

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Create a Remembrance Day wreath

The blogger who posted this craft used pipe insulating foam, which turned out to be pretty difficult to shape into a perfect ring. Instead, use a foam ring, which you can get from craft and art shops everywhere.

Start by getting yarn, a foam ring and pieces of red and black felt. If you want to use a yarn that isn’t white or the colour of the foam ring, also pick up some paint that is close to the colour of the yarn. That way, when some bits of the ring peek through, it won’t be obvious.

Wrap the yarn all the way around the ring, and secure it in place with some glue. Make a felt poppy by cutting four circles out of the red and folding them into quarters. Essentially, you will have four pie pieces. Keeping them folded, glue them onto a smaller circle of felt. You can also cut notches out of the top layer to make them look more like poppies. Glue a small circle of black felt on the middle of the poppy. Add velcro to the back, and place it on your wreath wherever you like. You can add as many poppies as you like.

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Make a flower arrangement that features poppies

Gather loads of poppies and, with things like baby’s breath, ferns and other greenery, arrange them into a lovely bouquet that you can give to others. Or you can take inspiration from van Gogh and just have a vase overflowing with poppies in various stages of bloom.

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Crochet your own poppy

If you can crochet, you may like to make a poppy for your lapel. The poppy pattern is here, and if you do make your own poppy, please consider making a donation to the Poppy Appeal. You can either pop some money into a collection tin without taking a poppy, or you can go online and donate at BritishLegion.org.uk.

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Bake poppy cupcakes

You can raise money for the Poppy Appeal by selling cupcakes, and these cupcake toppers are perfect for just such a thing.

You will need some corn starch, a small rolling pin, round cutters (2”, 1.5”, 1”), a ball tool, fondant in red and black, a foam mat, toothpicks and a large, flat workspace.

Dust your surface with corn starch and roll out the red fondant until it is quite thin. Cut out one large, one medium and one small circle for each cupcake you want to top. Place the big circle on the foam mat and, using the ball tool, work around the outside of the circle to create a lip that curls up. Place it to the side (a cupcake baking tray makes a good storage spot). Do the same to the medium circle, then lightly wet the back and glue it to the big circle. Do the same again with the small circle, and attach it to the medium circle. Create a small ball from the black fondant, and flatten the back of the ball. Make small indentations in the front with the toothpick. Wet the back of the ball, and stick it in the middle of the small circle.

Allow the poppies to harden for two or three days before popping them on top of your cupcakes.

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These are five simple crafts you can do to make Remembrance Day decorations. Please remember to donate to the Poppy Appeal, which helps support past and present members of the British Armed Forces and their families.