How To Make Dried Orange Garlands

Essential of the Nordic Holiday style is incorporating elements from nature into your decor. 

With citrus being into the season, the dried orange garland is a great, simple, eco-friendly, and cost-effective way to decorating for the Holidays - especially now that most of us stay at home!

The steps are simple. 
-Slice the oranges as thinly as you can.
-Put them in the oven
-String them onto twine and BOOM! You have a beautiful garland!

Where to place them

-Drape them across the table
-String them across the window
-Use them as gift toppers
-(the obvious)... on the Christmas tree
-In a plate, surrounding some candles
-Hot glue them to the Christmas wreath
-Place them in a glass bowl with some lights in the center.
-Place them in cute bowls with their dried citrus slices or dried herbs, spices, etc.(you can make a garland with some dried apples and cinnamon sticks in between)!

What You’ll Need:

• 2 navel oranges
• serrated knife
• cookie sheet
• paper towel or lint-free cloth
• parchment paper
• twine
• scissors
• scotch tape / hot glue (optional)

How to Make the Garland:

• Heat oven to 250 degrees F (120 °C)
• Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
• Slice oranges crosswise 1/8″ – 1/4″ (30-60cm) thick using a sharp serrated knife, and pat slices dry with a paper towel or cloth.
• Place in a single layer on a baking sheet and bake for roughly 2.5 hours. Flip the slices over after about 1.25 hours.
• After 2.5 hours in the oven, remove any slices beginning to brown, and slide the remaining slices back in the oven until dried and very slightly browned.
• Once slices have cooled, use scissors to poke 2 holes about 1/2″ (1.3cm) apart on orange slices.
• Thread oranges onto the twine. It’s helpful to wrap the twine end with a piece of tape to prevent raveling.