Flowers

• Use fresh, sweet-smelling red and white flowers to create stunning table centerpieces. For Valentine's Day, design a simple and sentimental centerpiece by sprinkling rose petals down the center of the table and nestling small, white candles in clear vases amongst them. Celebrate Fourth of July by filling a vibrant blue vase with red and white roses or carnations as a festive outdoor table centerpiece.
  
  

Edible Items

• Recruit red and white sweet treats when creating tasteful table centerpieces. For centerpieces that double as desserts, fill large clear glass vases with red and white candies, such as candy-coated chocolates and gumballs, and allow guests to scoop some up into bags as favors. As another idea, insert faux white flower stems into vases of red candies, such as jelly beans.
  
  

Candles

• Not only do candles make ideal centerpieces, they also cast a soft glow across the table and create ambiance.. A glass bowl filled with water, red rose petals and floating white, heart-shaped candles is a romantic centerpiece idea. At Christmastime, place a fragrant evergreen wreath in the center of the dinner table and fill it with several red and white pillar candles.
  
  

Repurposed Pieces

• Transform everyday items into creative table centerpieces. Decorate a holiday table with tall crystal candlesticks topped with shiny red and iridescent white ball-shaped ornaments. Set the metal tops of the ornaments into the indentations designed for the candles. Place a bit of tacky wax, which you can find at craft stores, on the ornaments before setting them atop the candlesticks to secure them into place. For a centerpiece that tastes as good as it looks, fill the bottom of a white bucket with sand or florists' foam. Insert red and white swirled lollipops into the filler material to create a whimsical candy bouquet.