DIY Halloween Candy Themed Front Door Wreath

My front porch has needed a Halloween makeover for a few years and this is the year! Today I'm going to show you how to make a funny candy themed Halloween wreath for your own front door.

The neighbors have the good candy - isn't it the cutest? I mean, I dont' know about you, but I am guilty of buying Halloween candy WAAAYYYYY too early, eating all of it, and then buying it again (OK, maybe twice). By the time Halloween gets here, our loot may have some Tootsie Rolls and Dum Dums mixed in with the prized candy bars (because honestly, we ate most of those looong before October 31 rolled around . . . . ). We do draw the line at handing out Raisin Creme Pies - we are not monsters. :-)

So, this wreath is just giving all the kiddos a heads up! (And in case anyone's wondering, this will not deter the kids from our house one bit - and it's not meant to! You guys know that we always dress up with our boys for Halloween and walk around the neighborhood with them. Our neighborhood does Halloween BIG! So we always leave out a giant bucket of candy on the front porch with the light on.) This wreath is just all in good fun!

For a few years now, I have had a conservative all white pumpkin wreath on my front door at Halloween. It matched the dapper skeleton and his dog that would take up residence on our front porch every October. Here's a picture of the porch last year with a few other dashing goblins you might recognize.

Is this not a sassy skeleton?

Every October, he's all like, "Hello, neighbors! I bid a Joyous Halloween to you!"

But this year, I wanted something different. And that something caught my eye when I was in our local craft store in early September. (Of course, as soon as I get wind of stores putting out their Halloween decorations, I immediately go to see what they have put out!) So, yes, I have been sitting on this project waiting to post it for a few weeks now. ;-)

Don't worry, our friend Mr. Skeleton and his dog are living it up in our dining room this year, so you might see more from them later this season in our Halloween Home Tour. Stay tuned!

Candy Corn Themed Halloween Wreath Supplies

• 1 black pine wreath form
• 10 3" foam candy corn floral picks
• 8 5" pom-pom floral picks
• Outdoor Mod Podge (optional)
• Deco Art Craft Twinkles, crystal color
• 7 various Halloween themed wire edged ribbons
• Chenille stems or wire
• Candy themed Halloween sign
• Hot glue gun and hot glue
• Scissors
• Paint brush
• 2 Soda can tabs (optional)

Directions

1. Paint both sides of the candy corn picks with 3 coats of Mod Podge, allowing each coat to dry the recommended amount of time between coats. (I did this to help the foam picks hold up a little better on an outside wreath. This step is optional if you're going to use your wreath indoors.)

2. After the final coat is dry, paint one side with Deco Art Craft Twinkles. If you want your candy corn to be really sparkly, you can paint a second coat after the first has dried. Note: I only painted one side of the candy corn because only one side will be showing on the wreath.

3. Then, fluff your wreath before you start decorating it.

4. My sign had a decorative rope stapled to the back for hanging. So, if your sign has anything like that, you'll need to remove it so that you can wire your sign to your wreath. 

Since my sign had no other hangers, I hot glued two soda can tabs on the back of the sign so that I would have something to loop chenille stems through.

Here's the back side of the wreath. As you can see, the soda can tabs won't show, but the are just the right thing to hold the sign to center of the wreath! 

5. Once your sign is attached to the wreath, the next biggest thing on the wreath will be the bow. I followed this YouTube tutorial and made 4 of the bows she shows.

I used about 7 different types of coordinating Halloween wired ribbon. I already had some of these ribbons stashed in my craft closet, and I bought a few of these specifically for this project. You can always make a bow out of just one type of ribbon if you would prefer.

When I was finished with my 4 funky bows from the tutorial, I attached them all together into one large bow before attaching them to the upper left corner of my wreath with a chenille stem.

6. After you've attached the bow, you'll need to "dry fit" your candy corn picks and your pom-pom picks around the wreath and make sure that you're happy with their placement.

7. Once you're happy with how everything looks, just hot glue all the picks in place.

Now you're all set to hang your new candy corn wreath on your front door to greet the ghouls and goblins for Halloween (and send them to your neighbors' house - ha)!

Hope you give this DIY Halloween Candy Wreath a try for yourself.

If you're just itchin' for some more Halloween goodness, and you can't wait for the new stuff that's coming in a week or so, make sure you take a stroll through some of our most popular past Halloween posts.

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