Reader favourite: Make a Christmas Wreath at Home

A Christmas Wreath is a great decorative piece for everyone’s home during the festive season.

If you don’t have greenage, trees or plants around to make a Christmas Wreath, this easy to make wreath will be loads of fun to make with the kids. It’s great for getting kids to use their imaginations and use what’s around and inside the home.

Follow these easy instructions to make a Christmas Wreath.

What you need

Wire coat hanger (or thick wire)
Newspaper
Sticky tape
Ribbons, scrap material or anything else than can be tied in a knot (I used ribbon and raffia)

What to do

1. Bend the coat hanger into circle (it doesn’t have to be perfect). You can leave the hook on for easy hanging, or snip it off and hang your wreath on something else. I’d always take it off for a neater, less this-used-to-be-an-old-coat-hanger look, but each to their own.

2. Scrunch up a piece of newspaper into a sausage shape – a double page of Guardian paper works well – and secure it around the coat hanger circle with sticky tape. This should cover one half: you’ll need another piece to cover the other half.

3. Tie on pieces of ribbon, material or anything else you have to hand (I’ve seen a lovely orange wreath made from pieces of Sainsburys bags). I cut all my pieces to about 8cm. You can aim for a neat, simple wreath like the one in the above photo or tie on loads of bits for something that looks more fuller.

4. If you left your hook on, cover the back of a piece of ribbon in PVA glue and wind it around it.

5. Finish with a bow, or hang something pretty in the middle.

These Christmas Wreaths are alot of fun to make, and it gets your creative side working.

Enjoy the festive season.

Katrina.xx

You can get really creative and try out other things and ideas as well  Check out the video below, which shows you how to make a Christmas Wreath out of old CDs.