Like many, my neighborhood likes to decorate for Halloween. I never have before, except for maybe putting a couple of pumpkins on my door step. This year, since like most people, I am home mostly, I decide to decorate a bit. I really wanted to create a Halloween wreath, but I didn’t like the store bought ones that are rather gaudy and mainly plastic. I decided to create a rather simple wreath mainly with materials I already have. I am rather happy with the way it came out, and here it is hanging on my front door.
Finished Halloween wreath hanging on my door
It was fairly easy to make. First, I went into my yard and gathered a bunch of twigs that were relatively smooth. As there is a large sycamore in my yard, and sycamores are famously self-pruning, so finding nice smooth twigs was easy.
Branches I gathered in my yard
Then I painted the twigs black with acrylic paint. I found some thick, but pliable wire in my boxes of crafting supplies and used it to form a ring about a foot in diameter. Then I bought some black yarn.
Branches painted black with black yarn to tie them to the wire circle I made
Next, I used the yarn to tie some of the thicker twigs onto the wire to form the wreath base.
The larger branches tied to the wire circle to form the base of the wreath
I kept adding the twigs, and I started using black ribbon to tie the smaller twigs to the base twigs. I wanted the black ribbon to visible but not the yarn.
All branches are now tied together with yarn or black ribbon
Then I embellished with orange and purple ribbon. I also used this extra ribbon to tighten how the twigs were tied together.