After you've taken down all of your Christmas decorations, are you sometimes stumped with what to do with your front door? If you don't want to decorate specifically for Valentine's Day, you can make this seasonal wreath that you can keep up from winter through spring!
Winter Wreath Supplies
- Pine wreath form
- Glittered long-needle pine garland
- Lambs Ear, Dusty Miller, or other flocked light green foliage garland
- Glittered pine cones
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Directions
- Cut apart the garlands into individual picks and organize picks into similar groups, removing distinct pieces from picks, such as pine cones, glittered branches, and berries (these will be added to the wreath separately).
- Fluff up your wreath form and reposition any branches.
- Choose one type of wreath pick and "dry fit" them evenly around the wreath and make sure that you're happy with their placement. For example, I chose to start with the flocked pieces first.
- Hot glue those pieces into the wreath.
- Choose the next type of wreath pick and "dry fit" them evenly around the wreath before hot gluing into place. For example, I moved on to the glittered long pine needle picks next.
- Continue dry fitting each type of pick and hot gluing in batches until you've used all of the pick types, making sure that you've evenly distributed each type of pick before hot gluing them.
Notes:
I actually started with a pre-made wreath from Michaels that already had a few unglittered pine cones on it and a few different types of greenery attached to a grapevine base. I had planned to start with a pine wreath form because they give you a little more substance to hot glue your items to.
When I went to purchase my materials for the wreath, the only plain pine wreath forms they had left were either extraordinarily large (about 3 feet across) or super-small (about 6 inches across). This particular wreath was actually a pre-decorated Christmas wreath that was on clearance, and I was happy to use it as a starting point for this project. But I wanted to add a little extra oomph to create an extra voluminous wreath.
Make sure to shop after-Christmas sales for simple wintery floral picks, wreaths, and garlands. I was able to get all the supplies for this wreath for 70% off because they were technically classified as Christmas items and were on clearance before the store brought in all the Valentine's Day merchandise.
I opted not to use the red berries that were included with the flocked garland on this wreath. But they would also look appropriate on a winter wreath too!
I'm really happy with how the finished product turned out. Here are a few close ups so you can see the details better:
Glittery long pine needles and lambs ear:
Glittery branches:
Pine cone clusters:
And one more look at the finished wreath:
There you go! If you've got about 20 minutes, you can create a whole new seasonal winter wreath for your front door this year!
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