Patriotic Wreath-Dollar Store Craft Challenge
7 Materials
$10.00
1 Hour
Easy
This month, along with a group of blogging friends, we are participating in a Dollar Store Craft Challenge. Since I’ve been doing some crafting for the Fourth of July, I decided my craft would combine patriotic colors with some dollar store items. My Dollar Store Challenge Craft is a fun and simple Patriotic Wreath.
I love stopping by my local Dollar Tree to check out the seasonal decor. I always find fun items that I can use for crafting. For only a few dollars, I can combine several of the items I find there and turn them into a decor piece
I began by wrapping the tulle around the wreath form and tying it off into a tight knot. From there, I continued wrapping the tulle, bunching it up along the way. It took one roll of tulle to cover about half of the wreath form. The roll was 6 inches x 31 yards. Since I was planning on covering the wreath with the hats, I could have used only one roll, without as much bunching. But, I often repurpose wreaths, so in its next life, it might need to have the full look. I continued wrapping one more roll of tulle around it.
Once the wreath form was completely covered, I used a dab of hot glue to secure the end of the tulle to the wreath. Before adding the hats to the wreath, I cut off the attached strings. After trying several different looks, I began putting the hats in place on the wreath with hot glue.
I used a total of ten hats on the wreath. I added a foam star sticker to the top of each hat.
Using a small piece of red, white, and blue ribbon, I made a loop for hanging. It’s hot glued and stapled together. It’s stapled and glued to the back of the wreath.
The metal star that I had in my craft stash has a small hole for hanging in the top. I ran a piece of twine through the hole, tied it off, and slipped it over the loop ribbon.
I tied a simple bow around the loop of ribbon. The last touch for the patriotic wreath was to add the star wands. I used a piece of the string that I cut from the hats to tie three of the wands together. I trimmed the wand sticks down so that they wouldn’t be seen. The wands are tucked into the ribbon to keep them in place.
The hats are made of plastic, but the wraps around each hat are paper, so I don’t plan on leaving this outdoors to be exposed to rain. I’ll hang it on an inside door instead.
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Need to find the pattern and directions for a bucket bag.
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yes, would love to try it, although my hand sewing skills are as good or better than my sewing machine at this point.
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