Christmas wreaths can be pretty pricey to buy, but are super easy (and much cheaper) to make yourself. With zero experience in wreath-making (aside from theoretical skills acquired on Pinterest), I thought that it could only be so difficult…and unlike the mince pies that I tried to make on the same morning, it all worked out pretty well!
This is a great craft to do with a group of you – get the greenery and decorations laid out, open the prosecco (or pour the tea, depending on the time of day!) and crack on some Christmas music. If you weren’t feeling festive before, you will be now. And we did ours in November (oops)!
What you need:
- Variety of greenery – we went with ivy, fir, holly, and some miscellaneous evergreen bits (my tree knowledge is failing me here!) Depending on how DIY you’re feeling, you can either buy this in, or collect it yourself
- A wreath ring – options here are many – wire, foam, twine, moss. I went for moss-covered rings from John Lewis, as I thought that they’d help keep the greenery fresh for longer – Link to John Lewis moss wreaths
- Ribbon for hanging
- Glue gun – mine was from Hobbycraft
- Bits to decorate – I went to the garden centre in Wandsworth, and got pre-wired baubles and red berries, fir-cones, and dried orange slices
How it’s done:
- Soak your moss rings in water earlier in the day, and then leave them to dry out bit – they should be damp (otherwise it’s hard to get the greenery in), but not soggy
- Tie a length of ribbon around your wreath to hang (I went with about 50cm, then trimmed later) – it’s easier to do this now than when you have all of your greenery on the wreath. If you want to lie your wreath flat (e.g. as a centrepiece), then you don’t need to do this
- Starting with your bigger bits of greenery (e.g. the fir), start adding to your wreath by pushing the stems into the moss ring. For best effect, angle your leaves at a slant, and make sure that they are all going in roughly the same direction
- Once you’ve got basic coverage of your wreath with the bigger leaves, start adding in the smaller and spikier leaves, such as the holly and ivy
- Attach any wired decorations in the same way, by pushing the wire into the moss ring
- Finally, use your glue gun to secure any non-wired decorations onto the wreath
You’re then ready to hang your wreath!
If you’re not inspired yet, here are five that we made earlier…
Craft it like Katie 