I saw a really neat Dollar Store center piece on the Eddie Ross blog, which was WAY cooler than what I am about to show ya'll... but alas they were out of Skeleton heads at my store! So this is a more Thanksgiving inspired version.
Materials: $1 foam ring, $1 bag of leaves, $1 bag of pumpkins/gourds & a glue gun.

I covered it in leaves first which took all of 5 minutes!
then I added some pumpkins and put my candle in the center. Maybe it looked better without the pumpkins?hmmmm
Anyway be sure to check out the skeleton one at Eddie Ross blog