Beautiful Homemade Potpourri (Holiday Version)

Homemade potpourri is beautiful and can really add a beautiful, elegant touch to any home. When decorating a home it’s great to try and incorporate all the senses, sight, touch, smell, sound and taste. This craft incorporates 2 out of the 5 senses!

Learn how to make your own cheap and beautiful homemade potpourri using items you most likely already have at home.

With the cooler weather coming it can be so fun adding little cozy touches to the house. There are so many ways to add beauty into your home that doesn’t have to cost a lot, and this is one of them!

Why Make Your Own Potpourri

Beautiful Fall/Winter jars filled with nuts and dried fruit.

Store bought potpourri is filled with synthetic scents while your homemade one uses the natural scents of fruit, plants, herbs, spices and or essential oils.
Making your own potpourri is simple, cheap and so much fun to make!
You can customise the potpourri to suit your specific taste adding in different scents and elements that you have available to you.

Tips To Making Potpourri

Filling Jars with fall and winter nuts and dried fruit.

Make sure to add different textures, colours and sized items. This makes the potpourri more appealing and beautiful to look at.
When the scents start to fade you can easily add some essential oils or even toss your potpourri in some spices like cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and ginger to bring back that lovely smell.
Place them in glass jars so you can see the beautiful array of colours. Or in a beautiful dish for them to be displayed on.
By placing the potpourri into jars, you can place the lid on when you’re not around to keep the scent strong. Pop the lids off when you have guest or you are going to be in that room.

What You Need for Homemade Potpourri

Dried fruit: You can use oranges, grapefruit, lemons, limes or apple slices.

Dried or even fresh leaves: Fresh leaves will need to be replaced. You can use bay leaves, or citrus leaves.

Cinnamon sticks

Whole cloves

Cardamon pods

Star Anise

You can also use Pinecones if you have and want to. I didn’t have any at the time.

Glass jars or something to display your potpourri in.

How To Make Homemade Potpourri

If you are going to dehydrate yourself, I have a post here How To Dehydrate Citrus In A Dehydrator.
You can’t go wrong with homemade potpourri. Make sure you have an assortment of each item and place them however you like into a jar.
Add a few drops of essential oils of your choice to really enhance the scent like cinnamon, clove, wild orange oil ect.
Then just put it wherever you would like to keep it on display!

These make beautiful gifts as well just tie a bow around them and let the person know how to use it! Hope you have fun making these yourself!