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This article will help you: Refer to the way of making a Mid-Autumn Festival fruit tray and easily make a stunning one with your own hands.
Decorating the Mid-Autumn Festival fruit tray and offering it to ancestors is a traditional custom, a beautiful cultural feature of the Vietnamese people. Typically, the Mid-Autumn Festival tray includes mooncakes, dragon fruits, watermelons, pomelos, and more... Here is the most beautiful way to decorate the Mid-Autumn Festival fruit tray, so let's refer to it and implement it.
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As mentioned earlier, the Mid-Autumn Festival fruit tray typically includes green pomelos, mooncakes, preserved kumquats, oranges, longans, and more. Depending on each region, there are variations in the composition of the fruit tray. Among them, the pomelo is considered an essential fruit and cannot be missed in the fruit tray. The arrangement of fruits in the tray carries different meanings, expressing the wishes of the person creating the fruit tray:
- Pomegranate: Symbolizes abundance, brings luck and sweetness
- Apple: Represents wealth and prosperity
- Pomelo: Brings good things
- Persimmon: Wishes for vitality and good fortune
- Yellow melon, watermelon: Praying for peace
To create an attractive Mid-Autumn Festival tray, pay attention to fruits of the same color, preferably choosing ripe and green fruits to symbolize the balance of Yin and Yang. Additionally, place large, firm fruits at the bottom to support the softer ones on top and use tape to secure their positions.
Nowadays, many people carve and shape fruits into adorable animals to make the Mid-Autumn Festival fruit tray visually appealing, unique, and captivating the attention of everyone.
1. Creating a Decorative Dog-shaped Pomelo for the Mid-Autumn Festival Fruit Tray
* Prepare the Ingredients
- Pomelo
- Sharp toothpick
- Satin ribbon
- Lychee seeds
* Steps
- Step 1: Peel the pomelo, then separate the segments and invert the peel so that the pulpy part can be exposed outward.
- Step 2: Use a sharp toothpick to fluff up the pomelo pulp and attach it to the pre-prepared frame. Remember to insert them one by one and cover the frame completely.
- Step 3: Use lychee seeds to create eyes and nose for this adorable pomelo dog. You can use satin ribbon to make a collar for the pomelo dog.
2. Creating Frog Decorations for the Mid-Autumn Festival Fruit Tray
When looking at the fruit tray, it's hard to imagine that these cute, round-eyed frogs are made from winter melon. Surely, a fruit tray adorned with these frogs will capture everyone's attention.
* Prepare the Ingredients
- 4 winter melons
- 1 carrot
- 1 pre-lined bamboo basket with silver paper
- 8 lychee seeds* Steps
- Step 1: Wash the winter melons thoroughly, then cut the top part of the winter melon to create the mouth of the frog.
- Step 2: Thinly slice the carrot to place in the frog's mouth as the tongue.
- Step 3: Take two lychee seeds and attach them to the top of the winter melon to instantly create round eyes for the frog.
3. Creating a Beautiful Peacock for the Mid-Autumn Festival Fruit Tray
The charming peacock with its slender long neck, vibrant red body from chili peppers, and green feathers from pandan leaves enhances the attractiveness of the Mid-Autumn Festival tray.
* Prepare the Ingredients
- Slim and long bottle gourd
- Long Da Lat chili peppers, small ripe red chili peppers
- Ripe pineapple
- Pomelo
- Carrot
- Lychee seeds
* Steps
- Step 1: Cut the bottle gourd to obtain the tip and the slender part. Then securely attach it to the bottom of the ripe golden pineapple. Additionally, you can use sharp toothpicks for stability.
- Step 2: Next, use sharp toothpicks to attach large red chili peppers to the sides of the body and small red chili peppers at the bottom of the neck to create a vibrant and beautiful appearance for the peacock's neck.
- Step 3: Afterward, carve a piece of carrot to make the peacock's beak. Attach two lychee seeds on either side to create the peacock's eyes.
- Step 4: Bend a piece of wire to create small branches and attach them as the peacock's crest. The finished product will look like this:
4. Creating a Green Hedgehog for the Mid-Autumn Festival Fruit Tray
A green-themed fruit tray with images of cute hedgehogs will become even more unique and eye-catching. Making this hedgehog is extremely simple, just follow the steps below:
* Prepare the Ingredients
- Toothpick
- Green and black grapes
- Knife
- Pear
* Steps
- Step 1: Cut the pear in half lengthwise, then use a knife to gently peel the outer skin from the top part of the pear to create the hedgehog's head shape.
- Step 2: Take a sharp toothpick and pierce through a green grape from both ends.
- Step 3: Take the toothpick pierced through the green grape and insert it into the round part of the pear to create the hedgehog's spines. At the head of the pear, attach a nose and add a pair of black eyes using black sesame seeds to complete the hedgehog.
5. Creating Red Fish Decorations for the Mid-Autumn Festival Fruit Tray
A pink fish with a smiling mouth made from cute dragon fruit will delight and impress onlookers, especially children. As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, you can create this shape for your fruit tray.
* Prepare the Ingredients
- Red dragon fruit with white flesh
- Two lychee seeds
- Pomelo peel
* Steps
- Step 1: Cut the pomelo peel into the shape of a fish tail along the back and on both sides.
- Step 2: Vertically score the red dragon fruit to create a line on the top and two lines on either side of the fruit's body.
- Step 3: Attach the fish fins in the correct positions, then add eyes using lychee seeds for the fish. Finally, you will create a beautiful pink and red fish.
6. Carving Watermelon for Mid-Autumn Festival Fruit Tray Decorations
You can use whole watermelons to create eye-catching shapes of cute and adorable animals like rabbits, green fish, and more...
The red watermelon fish is filled with various fruits.
Adorable bunny crafted from watermelon
Watermelon can be carved into various cute shapes
7. Unique and Eye-Catching Ideas for Mid-Autumn Festival Fruit Tray Decorations
When presenting a beautifully arranged Mid-Autumn Festival fruit tray, opt for a square table and cover it with a cloth to create an impressive display. Arrange the carefully carved fruit plates with cute animal shapes. Don't forget to add a mooncake plate and a flower vase to make the fruit tray diverse and distinctive.
Mid-Autumn Festival fruit tray
Festive Mid-Autumn fruit arrangement
Beautifully adorned Mid-Autumn fruit tray
Traditional Mid-Autumn fruit display
Unique Mid-Autumn Festival fruit tray
Exquisite fruit arrangement
Fruit tray on Mid-Autumn Festival day
Festive fruit display for Mid-Autumn Festival
On Mid-Autumn Festival day, showcase your skills in decorating the Mid-Autumn Festival fruit tray with the instructions provided here. Alongside the festive table, make the whole family's Mid-Autumn Festival more meaningful and complete, especially helping children understand cultural customs and learn more. Also, prepare lots of fun, unique, and humorous Mid-Autumn Festival riddles to make the evening even more meaningful.
Mid-Autumn Festival is often associated with the image of Mr. Cuoi, Ms. Hang, and the joyful activities of children. Decorating the classroom walls on Mid-Autumn Festival day with these images is a fantastic idea. When combined with suitable colors, the classroom will become more impressive, creating excitement for the students. Check out the classroom decoration ideas for Mid-Autumn Festival here.
