Give your front entrance a cheerful floral greeting.
Project Overview
• Work Time: 1 hour
• Total Time: 1 hour
• Skill Level: Kid-friendly
Capture the essence of blooming sunflowers for your house with this homemade wreath guide. Using materials like burlap mesh, pipe cleaners, and a low-cost wire frame, this sunny look is a simple way to add some brightness to your entrance. Sunflower wreath is beautiful during spring through autumn so it’s a great multi-season wreath. You will be glad to learn that you can do the entire thing in under one hour. Would you like to design using a different flower? Easy, just swap out the colors for your own floral arrangement.
What You’ll Need
Equipment/Tools
• 1 Rotary cutter
• 1 Cutting mat
• 1 Pair of scissors
Materials
• 1 roll green 10″×10-yard poly burlap mesh
• 1 Pipe cleaner
• 1 10-inch wire wreath frame
• 1 roll yellow 10″x10-yard poly burlap mesh
• 1 roll brown 10″x10-yard poly burlap mesh
• 1 Zip tie
Instructions
1. Create the Leaves
Unroll the green burlap on the cutting mat.
Cut five 11.5″x10″ pieces using your rotary cutter.
Twist five pipe cleaners around the outside edge of the wreath frame, evenly spaced.
Tuck the corners of each piece of ribbon in toward the center and pinch to form a bowtie shape.
Hold each piece in place by twisting it into a pipe cleaner along the frame.
Continue around the frame to create your wreath’s leafy foundation.
2. Create the Yellow Petals
Cut 30 10″x10″ yellow burlap squares.
Twist pipe cleaners along the subsequent inner ring of the frame, beginning with five and adding additional as necessary.
Fold the yellow pieces into a bowtie shape using the same pinch method.
Place two petal pieces on each pipe cleaner, twisting to secure.
Overlap the petals to fill in and create depth.
Continue layering until you cover in towards the center ring.
3. Create the Flower Center
Cut three 2-foot-long pieces of brown burlap. Fold them up and zip tie one end.
Braid the strips and bind the other end with a second zip tie, trimming off any excess
Wrap the braid around in a circular pattern, securing with zip ties at each quarter turn.
Flip the wreath over and secure the center braid in the center with zip ties in back.
