Top 10 Most Beautiful Mid-Autumn Festival Table Decorations

As you all know, pomelo is an indispensable fruit for every Mid-Autumn Festival table. Instead of leaving the fruit as it is, why not turn it into an adorable dog made from pomelo segments, with the body and head made from banana stems, eyes and nose made from longan seeds, and a ribbon around the neck for a cuter look.
Ingredients Needed:

• 1 elongated fruit like papaya, yellow squash, or small elongated watermelon for the dog's body.
• 1 round fruit like orange, apple, pear for the dog's head.
• 3 – 4 pomelos
  
• Chili pepper or colored paper for the tongue.
• 2 longan seeds for eyes - 2 long skewers - 1 box of toothpicks - Basket or plate for decoration.
  

Instructions:

• Step 1: Cut the top part of the papaya and apple; connect them with skewers. Then cut the bottom of the papaya to stabilize the dog on the basket or plate.
• Step 2: Peel the pomelo, separate the segments, and spread them out, making sure the segments remain attached to the peel.
• Step 3: Use toothpicks (split in half) to attach pomelo segments to the papaya body, starting from the top down, attaching a horizontal row across the front, then filling in the remaining gaps to fully cover the dog's body evenly with pomelo.
• Step 4: Use the pomelo peel to carve and attach two drooping ears. Then, use 4 peeled pomelo segments as legs for the dog. Use two longan seeds for eyes, use chili pepper or carved pomelo peel as a tongue attached to the dog. Additionally, you can use ribbon bows to decorate the dog.

Ingredients Needed:

• 1 green pear
• 1 bunch of green grapes
• 1 black grape, toothpicks, knife

Instructions:

• Step 1: Divide the pear into 2 parts and lightly peel the skin of the pointed end of the pear to make the head of the hedgehog.
• Step 2: Thread toothpicks through green grapes.
• Step 3: Use the toothpick-threaded green grapes to cover the round part of the pear to make the hedgehog's spines. Finally, attach the nose and add eyes, then you're done.

Ingredients Needed:

• 1 red dragon fruit with white flesh
• Pomelo peel
• 2 lychee nuts

Instructions:

• Step 1: Cut the pomelo peel into a fish scale shape, with 2 smaller scales on both sides. Ensure to leave some peel to insert into the dragon fruit and trim into sawtooth shapes along the edge!
• Step 2: Make longitudinal cuts on the dragon fruit, one at the top, and two on the sides.
• Step 3: Insert the pomelo peel fish scales into the dragon fruit, then attach the fish's eyes using lychee nuts or black grapes, and you're done.

Ingredients Needed:

• 1 ripe pineapple, unpeeled
• 1 long, slender winter melon
• 8 long Da Lat chili peppers
• 10 small ripe chili peppers
• Foam sticks commonly used for flower arranging
• 2 lychee fruits
• 1 piece of carrot

Instructions:

• Step 1: Cut the winter melon to obtain the stem, the thinnest part, then securely attach it to the bottom of the ripe pineapple using toothpicks.
• Step 2: Use sharp toothpicks to attach the large red chili peppers on both sides of the body of the rooster, while the small chili peppers are attached to the bottom of the neck.
• Step 3: Carve a sharp piece of carrot to make the beak, use two lychee fruits for the eyes, and finally bend the foam stick into small branches to attach as the rooster's crest.

Ingredients Needed:

• 1 pre-lined wicker basket with silver paper
• 4 zucchinis of equal size
• 1 carrot
• 8 lychee nuts.

Instructions:

• Step 1: Clean the zucchinis and cut the top part to make the frog's mouth.
• Step 2: Place a thin slice of carrot into the zucchini to make the frog's tongue. Finally, attach 2 lychee nuts as eyes to complete.

Ingredients Needed:

• 1/4 carrot
• Boiled eggs
• Black sesame seeds

Instructions:

• Step 1: Peel and slice the carrot into thin strips.
• Step 2: Position the egg horizontally, then cut a small amount of egg white on the outside and cut small slices of sesame seeds.
• Step 3: Use a knife to cut a V shape on the top of the egg, gently lift the cut part with a toothpick, then insert the sliced sesame seeds underneath to elevate the small ears.
• Step 4: Use black sesame seeds to attach to the egg as rabbit eyes.
• Step 5: Use a knife to carve a small round hole under the eyes, then insert a piece of carrot sliced into seeds inside to complete.

From a watermelon, you can also carve it into various animals to make your Mid-Autumn Festival table more lively. The tools you need are very simple: a watermelon (round or elongated depending on the animal you want to create), a regular fruit carving knife, and a melon baller.

Ingredients:

• 1 watermelon
• various fruits as desired

Instructions:

Style 1: How to carve a watermelon into a carp shape for the Mid-Autumn Festival

• Step 1: Determine the back and belly of the fish to cut it appropriately.
• Step 2: Use the melon baller to scoop out the melon pulp from the fish's back.
• Step 3: Carve around to create fins and fish eyes.
• Step 4: Place small-sized fruits into the cavity on the fish's back to enhance its liveliness, such as green grapes, black grapes, peeled longans, etc.

Style 2: How to carve a watermelon into a Mid-Autumn Festival Jade Rabbit

• Step 1: Use a regular fruit carving knife to cut the watermelon into a round rabbit face with long ears. The cuts should be straight lines. If you're not confident in drawing rabbit ears, find a rabbit image, print it out, and adjust the ear size to fit half of the long watermelon. Utilize the watermelon rind to cut decorative whiskers and attach eyes and nose with other colored fruits to make them stand out.
• Step 2: Decorate the rabbit with eyes and whiskers.
• Step 3: Further decorate the rabbit with various fruits like rambutan, strawberries, blueberries, etc., into the hollowed-out back.

Ingredients:

• 1 yellow-orange
• Sharp toothpick
• 2 yellow birthday cake candles

Instructions:

• Step 1: Wash the orange.
• Step 2: Cut a small round portion for the bear's face and two circular pieces for the bear's ears.
• Step 3: Use a toothpick to secure the bear's eyes, made from birthday cake candles.

Pomelo, a unique fruit for the Mid-Autumn Festival, can be transformed into a cute and amusing bunny with just a little creativity, making it a delightful gift for children during the festival.

Ingredients:

• 1 pomelo
• Several longan fruits
• Sharp toothpicks and a small knife

Instructions:

• Step 1: Use a knife to carve a portion of the pomelo peel to create the bunny's face. You can outline the shape beforehand for easier cutting.
• Step 2: Carve another portion of the peel at the bottom to form the bunny's fangs.
• Step 3: Make two small holes on the top for the bunny's eyes, then place two longan fruits inside as the eyes.
• Step 4: Carve a small hole in the middle and insert a longan fruit as the nose.
• Step 5: Use sharp toothpicks to skewer into the sides of the pomelo to create whiskers for the bunny.
• Step 6: Carve two pieces of peel from the back and stick them in as the bunny's ears. You can also utilize the front peel.

Ingredients:

• 1 apple
• 1 small knife
• 2 sesame seeds for decoration

Instructions:

• Step 1: Normally, you slice the apple in half lengthwise, now cut the apple into 3 parts, where the first part is one cheek of the apple, which can be thinner than the opposite cheek, and the apple core is in the middle of the second part, right in the middle of the apple.
• Step 2: The thick cheek (part 3) is placed downwards and evenly cut in half, each side is thinly sliced into 4 - 5 slices. Then, you arrange the slices on each side overlapping each other and evenly spread them into the crab's legs. Arrange the two sides of the legs symmetrically and leave a gap of about 2cm between them.
• Step 3: The core part of the apple is used for the crab's claws. You cut both sides of the core into two thick apple slices, and discard the core in the middle. Press the tip of the knife into the flesh of each apple slice to cut out two consecutive V shapes. Now you have two creatively shaped claws. Stack the two claws on top of the large legs.
• Step 4: The thin cheek of the apple (part 1) is attached with two sesame seeds as eyes, it will be the crab's eyes. Place the eyes on the top center between the claw and leg sections already prepared. The blushing crab is now complete.