A Christmas wreath is an obligatory attribute of the New Year holidays, and recently a pine needle ring decorated with satin ribbons and candles was a rarity in our country. Created in the middle of the 19th century in Hamburg, the wheel-calendar helped illiterate children of the poor to count the weeks and days remaining until December 25, the birthday of Jesus Christ.
A beautiful tradition quickly spread all over the world and before each New Year more and more doors, windows, shop windows show off to each other variously performed Christmas symbols. You can buy a ready-made wreath for Christmas, but it's more interesting to make it yourself, decorate it in your own way, adding your favorite colors and details.
What should you remember?
- A wreath is always a circle, a ring without end and edge.
- There are no strict rules in decoration - only fantasy and good mood.
- The place for the Christmas wreath is on the front door, in the window, on the table.
Material
The key to success is a good base: a circle made of cardboard, plywood, wood, dense foam, even salt dough, preferably with a hole in the center.
The traditional filling material is spruce paws, candles and satin ribbons, but any other, familiar or just nearby, can be used.
Sweet christmas wreath
Confectionery is a wonderful craft material! Anything goes: cookies, especially figured ones, colored caramels, marshmallows, gummies, chocolates in shiny wrappers. The photo shows different types of sweets that make up a wonderful winter ensemble.
All this deliciousness is arranged in a circle and fastened with wooden toothpicks on a pre-baked large bagel made of sweet dough or on any other basis. Unusual, bright, tasty.
Try to make a New Year's symbol from other products - sausages, groceries. Crafts made from pasta of different types and sizes, and even painted with bright colors, cause a smile, laughter and a completely New Year's mood. And tinsel, felt, burlap, newspapers!
Gif.webpts of nature
They draw inspiration by painting and spreading pine cones, red rowan berries, juniper branches in a circle. You can connect the composition with glue, pins, carnations, multi-colored threads, twine and always red or white satin ribbons. The proposed photos are already embodied ideas, choose or create. And according to the link - as many as 7 master classes about wreaths of cones.
Christmas ball wreath
The most affordable material for making a wreath is old Christmas balls. It is very easy to attach them to the foam base using paper clips. If desired, you can add real or artificial spruce branches.
Christmas felt wreath
Skillful hands make many New Year's figures from felt, besides, in the house there is always one or two soft toys of animals, snowmen. A little imagination - and funny figures will line up in anticipation of the solemn winter event.
Christmas wreath made of newspapers and paper
This simple and accessible material is always at hand, and unusual ideas are in the photo!
Ribbon decor
Even the smallest needlewomen can handle such wreaths. Take a large number of ribbons and arrange them artistically on the circle.
Variations with shape
Classic wreaths are round in shape, but modern wreaths have many variations and creative solutions: rectangular, square, heart-shaped and herringbone.
Simple master classes for everyone
From Christmas tree decorations
And now a small instruction, a master class with step-by-step photos on how to make a beautiful Christmas wreath.
Wrap the base ring tightly with yarn or braid of any color.Attach multicolored balls of all colors to the base in random order (with pins, brackets, paper clips).
Dried fruit wreath
A necklace made of rings of dried oranges, mandarins without a center, strung on a thick wire, is good to complement with a real Christmas bow made of dyed burlap. How to do this can be clearly seen in the photographs.
Brushwood and balls
Weave the base from thin branches of willow, birch for strength, pulling the project with twine. Against the dark background of the tree bark - touching foam snowflakes, sparkling tinsel, a translucent nylon bow.
Home symbol - textiles
A needlewoman's wreath - balls of multi-colored yarn, knitted with fragments of a knitted fabric. Furry pom-poms are also good.
How to make pom-poms: cut two identical rings out of cardboard, wrap them not very tightly with multi-colored fluffy yarn, cut its layer along the outer edge and, threading the wire between the cardboard layers, pull off the middle of the pom-pom (see photo). The long ends of the wire will serve as an attachment between the pompoms. Their number depends on the capabilities and desires of the author, as well as the final decor.
If you do not have the skills to work with threads, knitting needles, or a needle, just wrap the ring in a knitted sweater - the texture of the knitted fabric creates a wonderful image of soft home warmth. One or two bright bows, a cardboard figurine of an angel, a deer, will remind you of the New Year's holiday, Christmas.
Whatever the Christmas wreath is made of, it always symbolizes joy, anticipation, invites you to get together to meet the most solemn and significant day of the year, to wish each other peace and happiness.
