One of my favorite holidays is coming up: Thanksgiving! This holiday brings together family and friends to celebrate all the wonderful things that happened this year over delicious food and lots of merriment. Plus, it jump-starts the holiday season and includes some of my favorite foods to indulge in. This year, we're hosting Thanksgiving at our house, so I wanted to come up with some simple ways to decorate the Thanksgiving table for guests using something sweet and unexpected—ice cream cones!
You can watch the how-to video below on how to make a cone-a-copia, napkin ring, and place card holder all using ice cream cones. This is my favorite video to date, so I hope you guys enjoy it!
Check out my finished Thanksgiving table in the video above and see all sources for the ingredients used below…
VIDEO CREDITS
Brought to you by Oh Joy + Target
Video: Modshift
Music: "Gotta Have Him" by Emily Hearn
Production assistant: Julia Sir
Hair and makeup: Danielle Walch
Ingredients and sources used: Ice cream cones, test tubes, gold edible spray paint, stoneware cake stand, bamboo skewers. My top is Phillip Lim for Target. Edibles: snap peas, baby carrots, green beans, grapes, and popcorn. Flowers used: dahlias, red hypericum berries, and ranunculus.
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{Photos by Casey Brodley for Oh Joy}
Adorable!! What a cool idea. It looks so bright and colorful. I hope it’s as easy to make as it looks in the video 🙂 What’s the glue u used to stick all the cones together? Is it edible? Also what kind of a base till you use for the centre piece? Your table looks so lovely. Thanks for sharing this cute idea 🙂
What a totally unexpected idea! My favourite is the ice-cream cone flower arrangement. We already celebrated Thanksgiving in Canada but I can see doing this for so many other holidays or events. Thanks for sharing.
oh my gosh this is SO adorable! i would have never thought to use ice cream cones but it looks great…so clever.
Molly {Dreams in HD}
http://dreamsinhd.blogspot.com/
Gorgeous set up. I love the floral arrangements!
Joy, this is AHH-mazing! It’s so inspiring to watch you create. I never would have thought to use ice cream cones for anything but ice cream but leave it to you to plan a whole holiday around the little suckers. 😉
xoxo,
Chelsea & The City
so many cute ideas, joy. i love those organge/gold polka dot napkins. and you might say i am rightly obsessed with the lim line at target.
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This is so fun! I love how colorful it is, usually thanksgiving colors are much more dark and neutral so this is a fun alternative!
who would have thought to use ice cream cones at Thanksgiving! brilliant.
I love the idea of BRIGHT colours at Thanksgiving! (Although I do love Autumn colours) Such a fun and creative idea! I’m sure the table smells great!!!
this is the brightest looking thanksgiving set-up i’ve seen yet!! love that you’ve included less subdued hues. 🙂
xo, http://www.lilyonfillmore.com
Joy, I agree that this is THE sweetest set-up I’ve seen! So creative. I’ve been enjoying these videos so much so thank you for taking the time to make them. 🙂 I really love place mats you used… where are they from?
Love it! This is my favorite video yet, I love that it’s a DIY video and the table setting is beautiful.
love these ideas! I could see using them for other occasions, too – like a bridal or baby shower! I would use something edible (like frosting?) to adhere the cones in the centerpiece and use edible flowers.
The waffle cones are such a great idea & so inexpensive! Love it. Beautiful flowers, too 🙂
xo kristen genevieve
sunnywithachanceoflemons.blogspot.com
Wow! What an amazing table setting! How do you come up with those awesome ideas?
xx,
E.
http://www.theslowpace.com
I love this idea so much! I think I might have to give it a try. Plus I love the colors you chose its not the typical fall colors, but it still screams fall. Thanks for sharing!
wow what a gorgeous setting!!
Oh wow! This is great! Thanks so much for sharing. I can’t wait to try the cone-a-copia at my house this thanksgiving. Your arrangement makes everything look so bright and cheery. I love it.
What a fun colorful table! I love that there is some pink. It’s a nice change from the usual burgundies and deep reds.
Well this was absolutely delightful to watch. Beautiful centerpiece dearie do!
Great idea Joy! I love the carrots and peas integrated with the flowers. So fun!
Very cool idea!
~Bev
http://bevedlybev.blogspot.com/
I love this idea Joy! Hosting my first Thanksgiving this year, will try this out 🙂
So Cute!! I love this idea! I had no idea if you baked an ice cream cone that you could cut it in half ha ha I was worried for a second when you pulled out the scissors. Genius!
oh! this is the best DIY project i have ever seen! ice cream cones. how creative!!!
Oh goodness, how lovely! We love this ideas so so much. Thank you for sharing!
xo
http://www.PlumPrettySugar.blogspot.com
So cute and so creative!
amazing – i don’t even normally like diy’s since i never have time to do them but this was totally out of the box. love. also, it’s nice to see a more colorful take on thanksgiving for once – just proof that a cornucopia could be modern too – who knew! congrats!
Very cute idea and well-done video!
if oh joy had to set up a thanksgiving table, this is exactly how it would look like!
you do an amazing job of carrying your colorful, playful and adorable style into everything you do:)
love the floral arrangement and the polka dot napkins!! the colors are great 🙂
Clever idea! Thanks for sharing all your incredible talent.
Love everything about this! ESPECIALLY the napkin rings and napkins 😀
joy! this is one of my all-time favorite posts. what a clever idea that translates as being really sophisticated (even though it’s all ice cream cones!). you, my lady, are an inspiration!
Que preciosidad y la gama de colores es fantástica.
Besos
I love your little videos! So fun to see you in action! Happy sweet Thanksgiving 🙂
I always love watching your videos and this one did not disappoint! I am in love with the easy and creative ways to use ice cream cones for table settings for Thanksgiving. All of the colors put together are beautiful! 🙂
Hi! I only recently started following your blog after I found out about it thanks to your book on blogging, and I’m so glad I did! Everything in this video is beautiful!
and thank you for the book, it’s been very useful 😀
Love this! Beautifully done. Can you tell me where the place mats are from?
Love all the ideas and it is a clean work so fresh and inspirational.
I am trying to work on knit and crochet but I am 65…. I have a small shop on etsy you can take some ideas from my shop
Best wishes and happy to be here
I love the ice cream cones!!! But the polk-a-dot napkins are my favorite!
You are so incredibly talented, Joy! From the ideas to the beautiful video, you and your team are simply amazing!
Adorable! Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving 🙂
I love your blog! You are such a talented artist… The Thanksgiving table looks great and… yummy!
I LOVE IT!
This is the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen! So creative, thanks for sharing! I will share it with my readers!
very intersting to see these different deco for the fests, nice and very beautiful, nice video too