The time has come soon: Advent season. This is the ideal moment to lovingly decorate your home to get in the mood for Christmas. Fairy lights, Christmas tree balls, stars and candles create a festive atmosphere. Traditionally, a home decorated for Christmas also includes an atmospheric wreath with burning candles. With a little skill you can tie it tastefully yourself. Our picture gallery shows you ideas on how you can make your very own Advent wreath. Immerse your Advent Sundays in candlelight!
Craft ideas with a natural look
Natural craft utensils that you find on a walk through the forest are suitable for this. Beautiful branches, pine cones, fresh, soft vines, ivy, willow, sloes, tall grasses are abundant material. The best of the coniferous trees are Nordmann fir and false cypressfor the Christmas wreathThe branches of box, ivy and sage are very decorative.
With small cones on a plate
The base of the wreath is traditionally a ring-shaped framework - prefabricated rings made of steel, Styrofoam or straw are available in craft stores. If you like it green, you can use longer, flexible branches for the framework, which are easier to shape. You can use a bucket as a template for the basic structure. Tie the branches tightly together with wire. For hanging designs takeround tied wreaths.
Make an Advent wreath in a different way
Anything the garden offers is suitable for decorating (and it's cheap too): dry cones, acorns, chestnuts, berries and rose hips are attached to the wreath with hot glue. Cinnamon sticks and dried orange peels go perfectly with the trendy natural look and spread the Christmas scent. Dried flowers of hydrangea, firethorn and allium can be prepared with hairspray. This protects against rapid decay and gives the small-scale decorations their shine. Alternatively, you can cover the Styrofoam framework with a thick knitted scarf.
Craft idea with Christmas balls
When decorating during Advent, the following applies: first decide on the color for the Advent decoration and only then buy decorations that match the color.
Festive arrangement made of moss and candles
Soft ones can be made from mossForm balls and attach to the wreath. Even pieces of bark, brushwood, fresh fruit and crab apples can be found on the Advent wreath. Beautiful gold or silver-colored bows, as well as small decorative elements such as deer figures, small sleighs or great zinc vintage numbers from one to four, can be put into the finished wreath. To attach the candles to the ring, you can use simple tips or candle holders.
Make your own from a gray scarf
Great table decoration for Christmas
Your visitors will also like the homemade Christmas decorations. Your Christmas wreath will be an atmospheric eye-catcher on the table or dresser.
Make your own Advent wreath – inspiration
Natural materials such as cones, chestnuts, walnuts, sticks or vines and brushwood follow the current natural trend and fit in perfectly.
Homemade Christmas decorations – cheap and still pretty
This wreath works without glitter thanks to its homogeneous coloring in red and white and few natural materials.
Decorate your home comfortably
Advent decorations in cream and red tones ensure coziness in the dark season.
Unobtrusive and simple, but still an eye-catcher
Beautiful natural Advent wreath
The rustic model goes very well with a predominantly white interior
Atmospheric Advent decoration on trend
Simple Advent arrangement in white and silver
Hanging Advent wreath
An eye-catcher with crab apples during Advent
Advent arrangement with country house charm with checks and classic red