June 24, 2006

Christmas Tree Wreath

Christmas is the most popular holiday for decorating your home. It's also the time to find and make Christmas crafts! While it is very easy to purchase ready made decorations and Christmas crafts, it is far more festive and fun to make your own special Christmas crafts!

Christmas crafts can be made from a variety of materials. If you like working with wood, you can cut out typical holiday designs, like snowmen, Christmas trees, or Santa figures and then spend some time painting to bring life these fun little wood pieces. There are many websites that offer free patterns to make these items, or you can print an image from your computer and use it to create your own pattern. If it's your first time working with wood as a craft, start out simply- cut out a rectangle and make a sign for your holiday guests! You could paint little trees or stars, and print out “May all your Christmas wishes come true!” or a similar saying.

If you'd like to really get into the holiday spirit, try your hand at making Christmas wreath's. Go to your local Christmas tree seller, and ask for tree branches that have fallen from the trees as people drag them to their cars. Often, you can get them for free. You'll want to browse the Christmas crafts section of a hobby store- and pick up festive ribbon; a deep red will look beautiful. Walk down the craft aisle that contains the silk flowers and pick out some small, red holly type flowers as well as baby's breath. Alternatively, you could make your wreath with real flowers.

To assemble your wreath, bend a wire coat hanger into a circular shape. Using string or bread ties, start winding your Christmas tree clippings around the wire to form a circular shape out of the branches. Keep attaching the pieces to your wire coat hanger until you get a full, round wreath. Here is when making your own crafts becomes fun! Wrap your ribbon around your wreath decoratively, and move it around until you like it's positioning. Tie a fancy bow in the center. Then, using a hot glue gun, you can finish your wreath by attaching pieces of babys breath and holly berries that you purchased from the craft store. Scatter them all around the wreath to create perfect the perfect holiday wreath.

The holiday season is a festive time, and making your own Christmas decorations can really add to the special feeling of that time of year.

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