How to make a Christmas wreath with your own hands - a detailed master class for beginners (60 photos)

A bit of history

It is believed that the history of the Christmas wreath began somewhere in Europe. However, in ancient times our ancestors decorated their homes with shaggy spruce paws. Green color was considered as a symbol of hope for the revival, and the circle was called to symbolize the infinity and the cycle of all existence.

With the onset of winter, dried ears were woven into such fluffy rings and nuts were attached. Such a bright ornament was hung over the table to attract good luck and happiness.

A little later the mistletoe began to be wreathed in the wreath, and in Western Europe the holly was used.

Today, bright red leaves of poinsettia, known to biologists as Molochais marvellous, are added to the ornate creation.

Principles of creating a wreath and its differences

Despite the fact that in every country it is accepted to add something peculiar to the festive wreath, the principles of making wreaths don't differ from each other. Maybe the common roots of fluffy decoration contribute to this.

In Scotland, pieces of checkered fabric are woven into the wreath, and in the United States red ribbons are more popular, in France dried flowers become the decoration of the wreath.

In Russia there aren't any special traditions, so in the homes of friends and acquaintances you can find paws of spruce tied up with ties, funny socks and tinsel. So the material for creating a wreath can be anything.

Materials for making Christmas wreaths

Stores offer a huge selection of wreaths for bright and festive decoration of the home before the New Year holidays. They differ in size, the colors used, the filling.

But the price of such factory-made products is quite tangible.

At the same time, the material for making a cute wreath can easily be found in every home or picked up completely free in the forest or park.

The frame

The basis of a wreath is a wire or cardboard. Although some craftsmen are able to make a New Year's Eve craft from paper, foam plastic, wood.

However, the first two options are easier to use.

Material for creating a wreath

Here there are many more options. To decorate the frame into a brightly colored handicraft, you can take:

• Spruce paws (real or artificial);
• tinsel of bright foil or green soft polyethylene, imitating the needles of a fir tree;
• small branches of trees;
• Sacking or twine.

Decor

As decorations, too, you can use anything the creator wants. These can be:

• cones;
• Christmas toys, in particular, balls;
• nuts and acorns;
• ribbons and bows;
• candy;
• tangerines;
• cinnamon sticks;
• artificial flowers (real buds can also be used, but they will have to be changed often) or berries;
• felt toys;
• snowflakes;
• electric garland;
• Leaves of poinsettia, ostrolista.

For the wreath to remain attractive for a long time, the leaves will have to be periodically replaced with new ones.

Making a wreath

You can make the simplest wreath, taking your time, on a free evening or devote a day off to this activity.

It does not take much time, but the whole family will enjoy it, so it is better to involve all the family. Interesting activities can be found for everyone in the family.

Step by step master class can easily be found on the Internet, although the technique of creation is quite simple. The main thing is to prepare all the materials and tools, think through the idea and the color background of the future craft.

Pictures of Christmas wreaths will help in this.

Step by step, the making of the wreath looks as follows:

1. To create the simplest wreath it is necessary to bend a soft wire in a circle and fasten the ends, so they do not fly apart. Dense thread or ordinary scotch tape will help.
2. A ring of folded wire is placed on the crumpled paper or newspaper. This will help make the creation more voluminous. Paper is wrapped with scotch tape.
3. Tinsel is wrapped tightly around the top or coniferous paws are attached. Tight threads, tape or a glue gun will help to secure the twigs or fluffy decorations.
4. Gaps are filled with selected decor elements and smart ribbon.
5. On top of the wreath, a loop is made.

New Year's wreath is ready to decorate the house.

As a basis, you can cut a ring from dense cardboard or bend twigs of willow. In the latter case, the frame is not decorated. The rest of the technique does not change.

Unusual options

If you want to make a completely unusual decoration, you can use fabric or burlap, ribbons or twine instead of tinsel. You can fill only part of the wreath with decorations.

An interesting idea can be a wreath, entirely or partially composed of cones. This natural material can be left in its natural color, painted with white or silver paint, or even make each cone a different color.

Unusually look a wreath of colored or monochrome balls of wool. To do this, you will need to coil light balls and glue them to the base, fill the gaps with elements of decoration, stick spokes in the top balls.

And make sure that a curious child can not get to them.

Colors to use

There are no restrictions on the color scheme. However, traditionally green, red and gold tones are used.

Recently, a combination of silver and blue tones on a green background, shades of yellow and green, silver and gold colors is gaining popularity.

You should not mix more than three colors, otherwise the handicraft will get too garish look.

As you can see, to create a Christmas wreath with your own hands is not difficult at all. But a beautiful handicraft will bring into the house comfort and the expectation of something very happy, which will happen very soon, literally in a few days.

Photo ideas of homemade Christmas wreaths