DIY Christmas wreaths and baubles

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A quick way to create your own Christmas decor with your kids this season. Try to recycle materials as much as possible. I created these wreaths and baubles as end of year teacher gifts along with my daughter.

Material

3 Wreaths medium size
3 Plastic Baubles - plain in round and oval shapes
1 Hot Glue gun
1 Jo Sonja's Silver Colour
150gms Mixed bag of buttons
Ribbons and Christmas Wishes plaques
1 Varnish Aerosol
30 Dried Big Gum nuts
10-20 Artificial Pearls

Method

Button wreath:
- Use hot glue gun to decorate one wreath with mixed buttons. Start with some colourful highlight buttons and then cover rest of the area with white buttons. Do not add any buttons on the back side of the wreath.
- Decorate with Christmas Greetings plaque and let it dry.
- Cover the wreath with Varnish Spray to add glaze and protect the buttons.
Wreath with gum nut decorations:
- Colour the gumnuts with silver colour and let it dry.
- Stick the gumnuts to wreaths as per your choice using a hot glue gun.
- Add pearls between the gumnuts to glam-up.
- Add ribbons and Christmas greetings plaque as required.
Christmas Baubles - round or oval shaped:
- Open the baubles and colour them with silver paint
- Join the baubles and stick white buttons in uneven arrangement at the top end of the bauble (near the ribbon hole)
- Add beautiful satin ribbon through the hole to hang the baubles on your tree!

Notes

If you don't have hot glue gun, use clear drying PVA glue and leave it for drying overnight.

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38 Comments

- - Mum of 5 darlings :) said
  - 13 Nov 2015
    10:09 pm
These look terrific !! What a great idea 🙂

- - curlytops said
  - 12 Nov 2015
    2:51 pm
Lovely idea. where can you get plain wreaths from?

- - mom141438 said
  - 12 Nov 2015
    12:18 pm
Love this, I will definately be trying this with my daughter

- - aridzone said
  - 11 Nov 2015
    2:56 pm
Great idea!

- - robyn_smithwick said
  - 10 Nov 2015
    5:45 pm
This is all so innovative~

- - mom152736 said
  - 09 Nov 2015
    9:00 am
these look so cute… and such a nice timing when christmas is soooooooooooo near 🙂

- - mom103920 said
  - 09 Nov 2015
    1:27 am
Thanks Akshaya, these are absolutely beautiful. I haven’t made Christmas wreaths since I was a child. My kids will love gathering the gumnuts and goodies for this project.

- - Toni Rowland said
  - 08 Nov 2015
    10:36 pm
Such a brilliant idea. I might try this for Christmas.

- - mom160421 said
  - 07 Nov 2015
    9:43 pm
I love all the new ideas that people come up with for Christmas wreaths – it makes them very individual.

- - mom57808 said
  - 07 Nov 2015
    5:02 am
MY GRANDDAUGHTER MAKES ME A NEW WREATH EVERY YEAR

- - mom94378 said
  - 06 Nov 2015
    11:51 pm
Sorry but the words christmas and wreath just don’t seem to go together.

- - mom93821 said
  - 06 Nov 2015
    6:03 am
Love making Christmas wreaths – thanks for sharing your beautiful creations.
- mom93821 replied
  
  07 Nov 2015 , 4:30 am
  We always hang wreaths on the door at Christmas.
- - mum4107 said
  - 06 Nov 2015
    5:45 am
Wow they look fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing

- - mom94378 said
  - 05 Nov 2015
    9:21 pm
Nice job, they look terrific.

- - mom90758 said
  - 05 Nov 2015
    2:17 pm
They are so beautiful! Congratulations to you and your daughter on crating such gorgeous wreaths!!