35+ Decorative Bowl Filler Ideas for Beautiful (& easy) Winter and Christmas Decor
What can I display in a bowl? What are vase filler ideas for winter? These 35+ decorative bowl filler ideas will make your winter and Christmas decorating easy and beautiful.
If you’re feeling a little stuck with your winter or Christmas decorating, I’ve got ideas that will make your styling much easier. You don’t have to buy a bunch of new things to get a fresh holiday or seasonal look. These vase filler ideas can transform your everyday decor accessories into seasonal beauty. These 35+ Decorative Bowl Filler Ideas for Beautiful (& easy) Winter and Christmas Decor are an inexpensive and budget-friendly way to decorate.
35+ Decorative Bowl Filler Ideas for Beautiful (& easy) Winter and Christmas Decor
Rustic and Natural Filler Ideas
Bringing nature indoors is one of the most inexpensive and beautiful ways to decorate your home seasonally. You can forage your yard or a nature trail or buy fresh items locally. Cut up logs or branches to make smaller slices or chunks, gather pinecones and snip your evergreens. Pop them into your favorite vintage find and you’ve got instant rustic style.
Winter bowl filler ideas:
- pinecones, all shapes and sizes
- evergreen sprays, real and faux
- fresh flowers and potted plants (poinsettias and mini trees)
- deer sheds
- moss and lichen
- sticks, wood slices, wood chunks, bark, split wood
Everyday Items as Bowl Filler Ideas
Many decorative filler ideas can be found in your house. Simply dig through a couple drawers or cupboards and use these things decoratively. A simple bow or holiday accent will turn them into charming decor.
Everyday items to use as winter and holiday fillers:
- epsom salts
- fiberfill stuffing
- cute drinking straws
- cookie cutters
- rolling pins
- books with seasonal colored covers
- stacked dishes
- bells
- silverware
- candles
Simple DIY Bowl Fillers
With a little creativity you can DIY items to use as bowl fillers. Styrofoam spheres can be wrapped with color-coordinated yarn or you can make your own yarn poms. Both can fill a bowl (or birdcage;) themselves or be paired with rustic pinecones or log slices.
Vintage music sheets, book pages or old maps can be rolled or crafted into easy DIY decor, too. They’re the perfect lightweight filler for any vessel. Add glitter to the paper edges for holiday bling.
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Decorative Fillers from The Grocery Store
Grocery store items can be an easy and fun filler for Christmas. Place in a glass jar or mug or sprinkle them through other fillers. Coordinate the colors to your holiday or seasonal decor and use them year after year (don’t tell my kids the candy canes are a couple years old;)
Grocery store items to use as vase or bowl fillers:
- peppermint candies in all shapes and sizes
- nuts in their shells
- ribbon candy
- cinnamon sticks
- Christmas cookies
- dried citrus slices
- marshmallows
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Seasonal Decorations as Holiday Bowl Fillers
Any small seasonal decorations can be used as bowl fillers. Just add a little greenery or a pretty ribbon and they become festive. Mass vintage ornaments in a bowl or fill a vintage find with cute seasonal boxes.
Here are some seasonal decoration filler ideas:
- vintage store or ornament boxes
- fake wrapped gift packages
- ornaments-any kind
- mini bottle brush trees
- vintage Christmas light bulbs
Bowl Filler Ideas for Winter and Christmas Decor
As you can see, the bowl fillers (or vase fillers) are what makes the vignette seasonal. You could use the same accessory all through the year and simply change the filler for the season. A simple wooden bowl can look different depending on what you put in it.
Hopefully these decorative filler ideas have your head spinning with ways you can turn your everyday accessories into festive holiday decor, inexpensively. They can be stored away and used again (in a different container) next year!
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Great ideas! I really enjoyed seeing the variety. Loved the flared candle cups in the tops of canning jars. I have used them in flared vases full of potpourri (with extra essential oil). As the candle warms the vase, the oil smells heavenly!
That’s a great idea, Kathy! Thanks for sharing:)
Wow, Lora, so many fabulous ideas. I love how you put the poinsettia in the vintage tree stand. Brillant. I have one of those old stands in the shed. I am going to pull it out and plop a plant in there. Thanks for the inspiration.
Your welcome, Wendy!
No, I haven’t started yet so these are some great ideas, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed them, Marlene. I haven’t started yet, either!
These are all some fabulous ideas…since I’m a vintage/antique collector, I’m always looking for new ways to display items that we drag out only once a year (such a shame) lol.
Thanks again for the great ideas!
Glad you enjoyed them, Sandra!
You are so creative, my friend. Seeing your beautiful vignette’s reminds me so much of my mom. Happiest of holidays to you.
So glad to stir happy sentimental thoughts, Renae:)
Love all your great vintage ideas, Lora. You always inspire me with new ways of decorating and display.
I appreciate that, Debra; it goes both ways!
Love this, Lora!! Such simple ideas that can really turn any everyday thing into Christmas decor. I love to fill bowls, too 🙂 Pinned!
Yes, bowls work, too, Rachel;) Glad you enjoyed the ideas!