How to Make a Beautiful Fall Wreath for Your Home

In our family we love to find ways to celebrate the seasons. The kids all get so excited when it’s time to pull out our decorations for a special time of year.  This year I decided to make a new wreath for our front door to anticipate the arrival of Autumn this year.

​When you buy stems at the craft store of florals, most are multiple stems all taped together and sold as one. For this project, you are going to want to start taking stuff apart!

First you need to gather your supplies. All of these can be found at most craft stores.
You will need:
18″ wire wreath form
4-5 stems of a filler material, such as a grass, or leaves- just a note, you can do this project with LIVE branches, if you’ve got some left over from a garden pruning project.
4-5 stems of an accent material- I used some pepper berry stems
Large Focal Point flower
10-15 long feathers
Old brooch or glitter button
Hot Glue Gun
Floral Wire
Wire Cutters

Next you are going to start making small bunches with all of your materials. Here I’ve taken one grass stem, one pepper berry sprig and one feather and wired them all together along the bottom. Use you wire cutters to clip off any extra wire at the bottom of your bunch. (below)

Now use your floral wire an attach the bottom of the stem to your wreath form.  Repeat.
Keep attaching bunches, overlapping each piece slightly,  until your wreath is filled up. The number you need will depend on how full the materials are you chose to work with. (below)

Once you’ve got all of your bunches wired on, flip your wreath over. Generously use your hot glue gun and  glue over the top of where the floral wire is attached to the form.  This will keep your wreath from moving around.  Flip over your wreath and look at it- If you like, add some more feathers or grass stems until it’s the fullness that you are happy with.

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Next you are going to take apart your focal flower.  Just tug on it, it will come apart!! Don’t worry we’ll put it back together again.  If you don’t want to use a sparkly brooch for the center of your flower, you can skip this part.

​Now just reassemble your flower in a way that you like! I used some leaves from the stem and glued them to the back.  Just use hot glue to reassemble the flower. I just pinned the brooch onto the reassembled flower.

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The only thing left to do is to hot glue the flower to your wreath and hang it on your door! Oh- if you don’t want to keep the brooch on your wreath don’t stress, you can just take it off when you are done with it and use it for something else.

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This post was originally published at ModernMom, as part of their Wednesday Crafternoon’s series.