Difficulty: Beginner
Spring has sprung! That means it’s time for lots of color after the gray days of winter. After St. Patrick’s Day I still had my St. Patrick’s Day wreath on my front door for over a week.
Does that ever happen to you? A holiday comes and goes and you have the decorations up until the next holiday or season. Sometimes I’m on the ball and change my decorations right away, but this time I was behind. Only a little behind I figure a week and a half isn’t so bad.
I had good reason for being behind. I didn’t have a spring wreath for my front door until a day ago. A few years ago I made an Easter wreath for my front door, but it was kind of fragile and when I pulled it out of the attic the following year it was crunched and wrinkled and not salvageable.
It was my own fault. I should have done a better job constructing the wreath, so that it was more sturdy, but I stored it haphazardly, so I was asking for trouble. I was just trying to get the wreath put away and chucked it into the attic, but took no notice of how I had put it into a box. Oh well, lesson learned. I hope!
This year I decided instead of making an Easter Wreath that I would make a Spring wreath, because I could leave it up longer, thus avoiding having to change out my decorations as quickly. I’m kind of a lazy person if you hadn’t noticed, haha!
Where did I go to purchase my supplies? The Dollar Tree of course. I pretty much can’t make a craft project without stopping there for supplies. Where else can you get a wire wreath form for a dollar? They always have silk flowers, though they aren’t as realistic looking as those available at the craft store, they are good enough for me.
I’ll be honest I originally wanted to make a tulip wreath, but Dollar Tree didn’t have silk tulips, so I had to change my idea. I settled on a color scheme and started grabbing flowers, gladiola to be exact. With some sparkly berries and green burlap ribbon I was ready to start creating.
I didn’t know if I had bought enough flowers or ribbon, but figured that I would start and see where I ended up. Things worked out beautifully. I only had a few left over berries and about half a spool of ribbon. And I have a new Spring wreath for my front door.
Lucky for you I figured this out so there will be no guess work for you. You can check the supplies list and the tutorial and in about 20 minutes you’ll have some fresh spring décor for your home.
Supplies
6 Gladiola Stems (2 of each coordinating color)
1 Multi colored Gladiola Stem
1 Wire Wreath Form
2 Spools Green Burlap Ribbon
3 Berry Stems in same colors as Gladiola
Hot Glue Gun
Glue Sticks
Remove tags from wreath and flowers. Wrap the end of the burlap ribbon around the outermost wire on the wreath a few times to secure it.
Bend one gladiola stem to follow the shape of the wreath form.
Lay on top of the wreath form.
Wrap ribbon around flower stem and around the back of the wreath form. Keep wrapping ribbon around the wreath form and flower stem making sure not to cover any flowers.
Add in a different solid color gladiola stem and keep wrapping ribbon around flower stems. You may be wrapping two different flower stems at a time.
Add in the next color trying to keep colors evenly spaced. Continue wrapping with ribbon. Continue around the whole wreath until all solid color gladiola have been used.
At this point my first spool of ribbon was almost done, so I tied the end of it to the next spool of ribbon to have enough length to create a hanger for my door.
Cut apart all of the berry stems.
Alternate berry colors and place stems under the ribbon pushing the whole length of the stem under the ribbon.
Only the berries and leaves should be visible.
Place berries evenly spaced around the whole wreath.
Take the multi colored gladiola stem and pull off all of the flowers.
Place the flowers around the wreath to cover up any visible green ribbon.
Hot glue the flowers to the wreath.
Double up the ribbon to create a hanger long enough for your door.
Glue the cut end of ribbon to the back of the wreath and hang from your door.
