9 Ways To Decorate With Dehydrated Citrus Slices

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Connect With The Winter Season

Dehydrated citrus slices are perfect to use when decorating the house for the winter season. The slices look like stained glass when they catch the light, giving the home a bit of a magical warm feeling. Their natural pop of color will brighten even a dark winter day.

Using your hands to create decorations is a gentle way to connect with the season and enjoy what winter provides us. Adding natural decor into the home feels intentional and offers an alternative to the bright and busy decorations found at the store.

Find my ultimate guide on how to make dehydrated citrus slices in the oven here! Citrus slices can last for up to a year when stored in an airtight container in a cool dry place.

How To Use Dehydrated Citrus

1. Dried Citrus Garland

Garlands add a cozy atmosphere to the home during the winter and holiday season. You can add dried citrus to your pine garlands with a hot glue gun.

Or try making a dried orange slice garland and hang it up with string lights. Cut your preferred length of twine and set aside. Gently make a hole in your dried orange slices using a toothpick, chopstick, or skewer. String the oranges through the twine and tie a loop at each end to easily hang the garland. You can also cut out parchment stars and hole punch one star point. Alternate the dried oranges and stars (see my image above). Hang with these starry string lights for extra charm.

Tip: Make a few garlands to hang vertically in a window to see the dried orange slices catch the sun like stained glass!

2. Cocktail/Mocktail Toppers

A dehydrated citrus slice adds an elegant and festive finish to a cocktail or mocktail. This detail will impress your guests, or add a slice to make your own drink feel special. When it looks pretty, it’s that much more fun to drink! It’s all about romanticizing the little moments.

Tip: Dried oranges are great paired with an old fashioned, dried limes work well with a cranberry mule, and blood oranges are tasty with rum based cocktails.

3. Table Decorations

Pine garland makes great centerpieces and for draping along a mantel or around windows. Try adding dehydrated citrus slices by hot gluing them or stringing them onto the garland. Use smaller citrus slices to wrap around as napkin holders, or add them to table centerpieces (as shown in the images above).

4. Cake/Dessert Decorations

Dehydrated citrus slices are perfect for adding onto cakes as decoration. They add a nice natural touch to simplistic cakes with their beautiful stained glass appearance.

You can also adds slices to cheesecakes, cupcakes, and they work especially well when the dessert is citrus flavored.

5. Ornaments

Create homemade ornaments! When stored in a cool dry place, they can last for years (but are not for consumption after a year).

Use a toothpick, chopstick, or skewer and poke a hole through the top of one fruit segment. Pull string or twine through the hole and tie it. Hang the citrus ornaments onto Christmas trees or in windows and enjoy their charming appearance.

6. Decorate Gifts

When wrapping your gifts, add a dehydrated citrus slice to give your gifts for a natural decoration aesthetic. Poke a hole in the citrus segment using a toothpick, chopstick, or skewer. String the citrus fruit through ribbon or twine when wrapping your gifts. You can also use a hot glue gun to glue to the citrus slice onto the gift.

7. Add To Wreaths

Make your wreaths extra special this year by adding homemade citrus slices. Either tie them to the wreath with metal wire or hot glue the slices on. First position the slices to your liking and then secure them. Oranges and grapefruits add a nice pop of color against the green pine wreath.

Tip: Make the wreath yourself! Gather a frame, pine boughs, pine cones, cranberries, etc. Making a wreath is a fun winter craft and also perfect for the winter solstice. Han the wreath on your front door to add a special touch.

8. Add To Homemade Potpourri

Add a few slices to your potpourri to make it look pretty and colorful. Dried citrus slices don’t have a very strong smell but they do look nice mixed in with other winter elements like pine, balsam, and pinecones.

9. Decorate Charcuterie Boards

If you’re making charcuterie or grazing boards during the holidays, try arranging some dried citrus slices! That warm and cozy feeling that the holidays bring is often in the small details. Honoring the seasonal produce is a great way to add this cozy touch! Citrus slices are safe to eat, but the rind may be bitter and hard.

This blog post is about different ways to use dehydrated citrus!