Easy Ways To Make Your Own Christmas Wreaths

Sure, we've got a while until Christmas, but time flies, so have some fun with Christmas crafts before the season arrives. Your door will be decorated early this year when you try one of these easy ways to make your own Christmas wreaths. 

There's something special about handmade items. It's hard not to wonder in today's fast-paced, technologically driven world if people still want to receive or enjoy making handmade creations, such as seasonal wreaths. According to Mood Sewciety, thanks to technology and the internet, sites like Etsy and iCraft make turning crafting into a business easier than ever, as well as making shopping for these items fun and quick. With one click, treasure hunters can have unique, handmade items shipped to their homes. 

So, the answer is "yes." The art of making items with our hands is a part of our culture and isn't going anywhere. Enjoy designing your own Christmas wreath for yourself or start your own online business. Either way, we've got some fun ways to get started.

Grapevine wreaths are easy to find at your favorite arts and crafts store. Add some raffia and pinecones for a Christmas wreath that can stay up all winter long. You can also take on the challenge of making your own grapevine wreath. According to Interior Decoration, if making your own wreath using grapevines, choose vines that are still green, so they bend easier, and remember, the beauty of these wreaths is their imperfections. 

There are so many things you can do to these wreaths to get them holiday-ready. Still, many crafters feel because of the grapevine's natural beauty; you don't need to do much. Dried pinecones and greenery that are found on a walk can be hot glued to the wreath, along with a big bow at the top, or as mentioned, a rustic bow of raffia. Consider natural elements to go with these natural wreaths. Using floral wire, you can even attach small objects like a tiny birdhouse or a festive little snowman.

Plain straw wreaths are one of the easiest to decorate for Christmas because of the way they are put together. You can find them at your local arts and crafts store, and they offer a neat and tidy wreath choice. According to Martha Stewart, straw wreaths are nicely padded (foam underneath the straw) and effortlessly decorated using hot glue and floral pins. 

A favorite option with straw wreaths is to choose a cheery ribbon and simply wrap the straw wreath until it's covered, pin down the end of the ribbon, then top with a bow ... voila! Or, using floral pins, choose some artificial sprigs and leaves and attach them to the wreath. You can also combine both methods. Straw wreaths hold up well when stored properly. A large plastic bag or a wreath box works well. One benefit of using floral pins with straw wreaths is that you can unpin everything and easily redecorate the wreath for another season. An easy craft project with flexibility –- perfect.

You may not get the fabulous aroma with fake greenery, but you can have fun creating a wreath sooner when you use it. Plus, artificial greenery lasts for years. According to Christmas Light Source, two major benefits of artificial Christmas wreaths are that it's easier to find the right one to blend with your décor compared to real evergreen, and of course, artificial greenery doesn't shed needles like the real stuff. Less sweeping and vacuuming? We'll take it. 

Of all the wreath decorating projects, the artificial evergreen wreath may be the most common. We see them everywhere during the holiday season, and they are some of the most fun to create. Using floral wire, hot glue, and your imagination, you can literally attach anything to these useful, fluffy wreaths. The fluff is great for hiding wires and those large blobs of hot glue hiding behind fake berries, pinecones, and other sprigs. Gather a collection of artificial wreaths in a variety of sizes, and in one afternoon, you can create several holiday wreaths.

What candy do you think of for the holiday season? For many of us, it's peppermints. According to All Recipes, it might be the fact that the holiday season also happens to be the season for suffering from colds that draws us to peppermint candies and other peppermint treats. This naturally derived flavor has healing properties that soothe things like headaches and congestion. 

However it came to be, peppermint candies are the perfect red and white color for Christmas, and they make the prettiest decorations. And yes, even wreaths. Create your peppermint candy wreath the same way you would the pom-pom wreath. Simply hot glue them all over a Styrofoam wreath form. With these smooth round candies, you can layer them in an orderly fashion or glue them randomly. Sweeten the deal even more with additional candies like little red cinnamon pieces in between the peppermints. Top it off with a bright red bow at the top and a floral pin in the back for hanging. 

Although wreaths are traditionally in the shape of a circle, you can decorate your door with other things as well that have the same effect as a wreath. Old vintage ice skates are charming and definitely say, "Home for the holidays." Skates have a built-in hanger with their shoelaces. Use that to hang the skates on a wreath hook on your door and fill the skates with greenery. You can add bows, berries, and whatever else makes you feel festive. It's truly one of the easiest ways to spruce up your door at Christmastime. 

If you still want the traditional wreath look, most skates fit easily in the center of a wreath, and you can hang a round wreath right over the skates, making it look like it's all connected. Don't have any vintage skates lying around? Hit the flea markets over the summer for some treasure hunting. If you go into a flea market with a plan, you're sure to walk out happy with what you've found. According to Passioshake, it's best to show up early to a flea market so you can get a chance to see everything, then come back again at the end for the best deals.

Cookie cutters have a way of taking us back in time. Even seeing a modern-day cookie cutter can cause us to instantly think of childhood. It's no surprise they have that ability. Cookie cutters have been around for centuries. According to MissouriRuralist, cookie cutters became popular in the 16^th century with the classic gingerbread man shape and continued to evolve from there. 

Bakers still love the gingerbread man and every other cookie cutter. A wreath made from cookie cutters is ironically anything but "cookie-cutter." Enlist the ones you never use anymore, or search for old antique cookie cutters for a fun and festive wreath. It's a bit tough to hot glue cookie cutters because of their thin edges. Using a grapevine, evergreen, or artificial evergreen wreath, tie the cutters on with ribbons, yarn, or raffia. That's all there is to it for a unique, reminiscent Christmas wreath and a stroll down memory lane. 

As a kid, you may have had some laughs as you wrapped the garland around your shoulders and strutted around the house when you were supposed to be decorating the tree. A little strut now and then is highly recommended. When you're finished, turn that shiny garland into a wreath. 

The words tinsel and garland can be a little confusing. Are they the same thing? No, they're not. According to Home Questions Answered, tinsel is little metallic strands or metallic colored strands (today, they're usually made from plastic) and most often attached to a string, which is what we call a garland. 

Garland comes in all forms, but for the sake of wreath making, we'll discuss tinsel garland. If you like sparkle, this is the wreath for you. Once again, turn to your trusty foam or straw wreath form for this simple project. You can use any wreath, but if you want to see nothing but glimmer, a simple form is best. Wrap the garland tightly around the form you choose, then secure it with a floral pin at the end for a completed wreath. You can, of course, add anything else to the wreath, like a bow or some holiday sprigs.