Autumn flowers, acorns, twigs, fresh leaves and dried flowers: autumn has a lot to offer in terms of craft materials. You can make a beautiful autumn wreath yourself using natural materials and decorate the entrance to your house with it!
Make your own autumn wreath: Fresh flowers and pumpkins as an accent
Modern with a touch of country house charm: this is the best way to describe the first autumn wreath. Perfect for anyone who has chrysanthemums in the garden or on the balcony. For this craft idea you will need the following materials:
- Vine wreath for hanging from the craft shop
- freshly picked chrysanthemum flowers
- small decorative pumpkins (diameter max. 5 cm)
- white acrylic paint
- Paint brush
- Hot glue
Directions:
1. Shorten the chrysanthemum stems to 7 – 8 cm.
2. Paint the decorative pumpkins white and let them dry.
3. Attach the chrysanthemum flowers to one side of the wreath and secure them with hot glue.
4. Attach a maximum of 3-4 small decorative pumpkins. Alternatively, you can hollow out the pumpkins from the bottom to make them weigh less.
Tie a door wreath for autumn with dried flowers
Dried lilies of the valley, paint spray and a brick ring from the craft shop is all you need to realize your next craft idea. Make the lilies of the valley shine by coloring them in beautiful fall colors. Of course, you can also hang autumn flowers upside down and let them dry. Since they fade with this method, the color sprays from the flower shop come to the rescue.
Materials:
- Dried flowers (not pressed!) with stems
- Steckziegel-Ring
- Scissors
- Water-based color sprays for flowers
Directions:
1. Line the work surface with newspaper. Dye the lilies of the valley in different, harmonizing autumn shades and let them dry.
2. Take several flowers and stick them into the foam. Continue until the entire ring of bricks is completely covered with lily of the valley. If necessary, shorten the stems with scissors
3. Hang in a place protected from rain.
Make a beautiful autumn wreath out of hydrangeas
Amore romantic Hortensienkranzbrings a vintage touch into the house. To achieve the optimal effect, you can use fresh flowers. But dried hydrangeas are also suitable, but in this case you have to wait a little longer.
This is the best way to dry hydrangeas:
Mid to late September is the right time to cut off and dry the hydrangea flowers. Make sure the flowers are still fresh. Partially withered buds are simply discarded. Then remove all leaves on the stem and hang the hydrangeas upside down in a dark and ventilated room. Alternatively, place them in a vase with very little water. The water should barely cover the ground. Leave the flowers in the vase until the water evaporates and they dry. Then you can start crafting.
The materials for the autumn wreath:
- Hydrangea flowers – fresh or dried
- Rebenkranz
- Hot glue
Directions:
1. Arrange the hydrangea flowers on the vine wreath and secure them with hot glue.
2. Fix the flower color with hairspray.
Craft idea with corn cobs for autumn
A wonderful autumn wreath made of corn leaves and corn cobs will give the entrance to the house or the garden gate that certain something. This beautiful autumn decoration is very long-lasting and will be easy for even complete beginners to create. You will need a round wooden wreath base. You need a wooden ring with an inner diameter of 20 cm and an outer diameter of 30 cm. Glue the corn cobs together with the leaves so that they look like rays of sunshine. Allow the glue to dry completely before hanging the wreath.
Create a modern autumn wreath with wheat stalks
The next door wreath is modern and scores points with its simple production. All you need is a straw wreath and dried wheat stalks to put together the autumnal decorations. Use floral wire to secure the wheat stalks to the wreath. You can also tie a red satin bow or display the wreath without any other decorations. This means its puristic beauty is particularly highlighted.
Moss and decorative pumpkins as autumn decorations
A moss wreath or a ruby wreath can be quickly and easily spiced up with decorative pumpkins. Various sizes are available in craft shops - choose smaller pumpkins if possible and secure them with floral wire and hot glue. Do not hang up the autumn wreath, but place it on the garden table or lean it against the wall of the house.
A beautiful autumn wreath in warm colors will brighten up your garden and home. In September you can find a lot of natural materials in the forest or in the park. Autumn leaves, nuts, acorns, fruits, flowers and even rose hips can be collected and then creatively displayed. The children are of course allowed to help - by collecting the natural materials and sticking them on or putting them in pockets. Of course, the right base should not be missing - straw Romans are particularly suitable for voluminous and heavy wreaths. Vine blanks are ideal for wreaths with flowers.
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