Fall Wreath

Today is housework day, on top of my dinner date night with my Pawpaw so I had nothing on the agenda to post about. But to make sure I get in a routine of posting, I still wanted to post about something. I'm gonna pull out a craft I did back in November. When we moved into out house in June of last year and when I started childcare in my home I decided I would decorate the house every month much like people do for Christmas, Halloween, and Easter. Part of this decorating process meant coming up with different door hangers for each month. Oriental Trading Co. was instrumental in a few of the ideas I chose. The great thing about their ideas is you can order kits from them and make several, but you can also just use your own materials and make one. Which is what I did, I already had the things I would need and I didn't need 12 door hangers. :) The first one I made was one for November. Along with the typical Thanksgiving day decorations I also threw in some fall/harvest type things. One of this Fall items was a leaf wreath. I used foam sheets(you can choose your colors), googly eyes, a marker, hot glue, yarn(this can be changed to rope, string, etc. or not used at all), and a piece of insulated copper wire(it would probably be easier to use an actual wreath form). I started by finding coloring pictures online of leaves and acorns that I liked and printing them out. I then traced the shapes on to the foam sheets and cut them out. After that I glued eyes on and drew a mouth on each leaf, you don't have to do this but for my house it made it a little more kid friendly. Next I shaped the wire into a nice circle and glued the leaves onto it, this helped it to hold its shape. I do wish I would have just used a wreath form because I don't do well working with wire, but it still came out good. The perk of not ordering a kit and just doing it yourself it the personalization you can add to it. You're not limited to colors or patterns, lay out, or anything else. Lastly I placed some small acorns randomly around the wreath on top of the leaves and nice bow at the top for some extra pop. I loved the way it turned out and fully intend to use it again this year!