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Key Takeaways
- Create themed terrariums with colorful plants and sand or stones in purple, green, and gold.
- Elevate hanging planters by adorning them with Mardi Gras beads.
- Transform houseplants into festive centerpieces by adding miniature carnival masks on stakes.
Mardi Gras, a festival renowned for its vibrant purple, green, and gold palette, celebrates culture and encourages creativity. Creating a party with this theme doesn't necessarily have to be expensive or complicated, particularly when embracing nature's beauty. Plant decor can infuse any celebration with a lively and fresh flair.
Try various DIY party ideas that perfectly embody the spirit of the holiday. From quaint potted designs to intricate themed centerpieces, these Mardi Gras party ideas put a distinctive and botanical twist on your decorations.
1 Mardi Gras Color-Themed Terrariums
Design miniature worlds with colorful, lively plants
Build tiny ecosystems that reflect the festive colors for your Mardi Gras party decorations. Go with diminutive succulents, air plants, or mosses, highlighted with vibrantly colored sand or stones in the festival's iconic purple, green, and gold hues for these DIY ideas. To make mini terrariums, you'll need:
- Glass terrariums
- Succulents, air plants, or moss
- Sand or stones in purple, green, and gold
Start the project by layering your choice of purple, green, and gold sand or stones at the base of the terrarium. Then, carefully plant your moss, succulents, or air plants, arranging them so that the featured colors stand out and create an eye-catching display. This approach creates a festive and botanical homage to the spirited Carnival celebration that takes place during Mardi Gras, capturing the party's essence in a miniature, living display.
2 Colorfully Beaded Plant Hangers
Use Mardi Gras colors to create festive hangers
Use these fun DIY party ideas to elevate hanging planters with a colorful makeover by adorning them with beads. Intertwine the beads within the hanger's structure or drape them around for a celebratory effect. As a bonus, the beads make wonderful party favors for your guests! To build them, you'll need:
- Hanging planters
- Mardi Gras beads
- Glue or wire
Add the green, gold, and purple-hued beads to your ordinary hanging planter. String the beads on wire and wrap them around the planter or secure them to the structure with hot glue. Try to get a balanced distribution of green, purple, and gold as you work. When you finish, put your plants in the planters and hang them around your home, concentrating on the space where your party will be.
3 Carnival Mask Plant Stakes
Small Mardi Gras party decorations for your planters
Transform your houseplants into Mardi Gras centerpieces with this simple and quick DIY idea. To make it, all you have to do is add miniature carnival masks on stakes and put them in your planters. These cute, playful decorations can easily go into the soil of any one of your potted plants to bring a festive touch to your indoor greenery. You'll need:
- Miniature carnival masks
- Wooden skewers or sticks
- Hot glue gun
- Glue sticks
Use your hot glue gun to carefully secure the small masks onto the tops of the wooden sticks or skewers. Give them a few minutes to dry and gently place them in your potted plants. These Mardi Gras party ideas work best indoors because the masks may not withstand getting wet, but you could seal them with a waterproof barrier if you wanted to use them outside.
4 Plant Purple, Green, and Gold Leaf Plants
Get living Mardi Gras party ideas for your home
Embrace the Mardi Gras theme by finding plants that showcase the festival's signature colors through their foliage. Consider incorporating purple basil (Ocimum basilicum L.), ornamental kale (Brassica oleracea), and purple and green croton (Codiaeum variegatum) into your decor to bring the holiday's colors to life with your plant decor. To try this idea, you'll need:
- Plants with purple, green, and gold foliage
- Decorative pots in Mardi Gras colors
- Potting soil
- Spray bottle with water
Get a flat working surface and lay out your plants, pots, and soil. Add soil to the pot, plant your kale, basil, or croton, and backfill around them to fill the pot. Water until the soil is saturated to help settle it. Once you finish, set your plants in a location that gets the necessary amount of light. Monitor them, water as needed, and watch them thrive to grow colorful foliage in time for your Mardi Gras party decorations.
While it varies from plant to plant, many houseplants like south-facing windows. Learn about all your plants and their light requirements to avoid scorching the foliage.
5 Hang Festive Floral and Foliage Garlands
Dress up your porch railings, balconies, or doorways
Create vibrant garlands by combining flowers and leaves with the Mardi Gras color scheme. This idea is perfect for hanging in doorways, running across tables, or decorating walls. When you finish, these garlands add a lush and festive touch to any celebration. To make them, you need:
- Purple, green, and gold flowers and foliage
- Floral wire
- String
- Colorful ribbon or Mardi Gras beads
Carefully thread the flowers and foliage onto the floral wire or string, alternating between the colors to build a lively and colorful garland. These simple yet effective DIY ideas bring the spirit of Mardi Gras into your space, and they can help you fill what would typically be unused areas, such as on your wall or balcony railing.
6 Mardi Gras Seed Ball Favors
Give your guests plant decor to remember your party
Send your guests home from your party with a lasting memory of the celebration by creating DIY seed balls. These wildflower seed balls should have flowers or foliage that match Mardi Gras colors and come wrapped in festive packaging. To create these fun DIY party ideas, you'll need:
- Wildflower seeds with purple, green, and gold foliage or flowers
- Red clay powder
- Air dry clay
- Compost or potting soil
- Water
- Purple, green, and gold tissue paper
- Ribbon
There are two ways to create this Mardi Gras party idea. For the first, combine the wildflower seeds with red clay powder and compost. Gradually, add water until the mixture forms a pliable dough. Shape the dough into small balls and set them out, so they will air dry. Once dry, wrap each seed bomb in colorful tissue paper, picking colors that celebrate the Mardi Gras spirit. Finish this project by wrapping them with a festive ribbon and giving them to your guests.
The second option is to mix the compost or potting soil with the seeds and set it aside. Flatten small discs of air-dry clay, put a small amount of the soil and seed mixture in, and seal the clay to create balls. Allow them to dry before wrapping them to give away.
The University of Florida points out that this fun project was originally a way to preserve seeds for the next season's crops.
7 Design Pretty Floral Mask Centerpieces
Beautiful Mardi Gras party decorations for your table
Turn Mardi Gras masks into eye-catching table decorations by adding colorful flowers. These centerpieces mix the fun of Mardi Gras with the beauty of flowers, and they're a great way to bring the festivities to your tables. To make them, you'll need:
- Mardi Gras masks
- Floral foam
- Fresh or faux flowers in purple, green, and gold
- Hot glue gun
Use your hot glue gun to secure floral foam onto the Mardi Gras masks. Carefully insert your chosen flowers into the foam, ensuring you fill in around the mask with Mardi Gras colors, so none of the foam shows through. These creative DIY party ideas allow you to build a captivating centerpiece that marries the festivity of carnival masks with the natural beauty of flowers.
Wrapping up the Festivities
With creative DIY ideas, your Mardi Gras party will embody the vibrant spirit of the Carnival and bring a touch of nature's beauty to the festivities. From terrariums to flower-studded centerpieces, each idea offers a unique option to use plant decor in a festive and creative way.
Let these Mardi Gras party decorations spark your imagination as you prepare to celebrate the holiday with flair and greenery.
