One thing we have in abundance at our house is sticks! The little ones love to pick them up and play with them.
So when I saw this cute stick wreath featured on Crafting a Green World, I knew this would be a good fall project for my little brood.
All of us were able to participate in gathering a basket full of sticks and then the next morning, Toddler Girl and I assembled the wreath.
For the cardboard circle, I traced a dinner plate onto cardboard (used one of our recently emptied moving boxes!) and then used a bowl to trace the inner circle.
In the tutorial, she wrapped her cardboard circle with twine but I didn't have any so I used strips of burlap instead. A nice rustic and natural look!
I squeezed tacky glue for each stick and T.G. stuck them on the wreath! Tacky glue takes a long time to dry; I set the wreath out of reach for the rest of the day.
Yes, hot glue would be faster but then T.G. wouldn't have been able to help which was really the point of this project! And I have a love/hate relationship with hot glue--it doesn't always work as well as I think it should!
A brown gingham ribbon was used for hanging and our stick wreath is now hanging by the door where the littles hang their coats and bags.
We love our simple fall wreath!
So when I saw this cute stick wreath featured on Crafting a Green World, I knew this would be a good fall project for my little brood.
All of us were able to participate in gathering a basket full of sticks and then the next morning, Toddler Girl and I assembled the wreath.
For the cardboard circle, I traced a dinner plate onto cardboard (used one of our recently emptied moving boxes!) and then used a bowl to trace the inner circle.
In the tutorial, she wrapped her cardboard circle with twine but I didn't have any so I used strips of burlap instead. A nice rustic and natural look!
I squeezed tacky glue for each stick and T.G. stuck them on the wreath! Tacky glue takes a long time to dry; I set the wreath out of reach for the rest of the day.
Yes, hot glue would be faster but then T.G. wouldn't have been able to help which was really the point of this project! And I have a love/hate relationship with hot glue--it doesn't always work as well as I think it should!
A brown gingham ribbon was used for hanging and our stick wreath is now hanging by the door where the littles hang their coats and bags.
We love our simple fall wreath!
2 comments:
That is so cute! I love that everyone was able to help make it!
This is darling!! We have so many sticks like this in our backyard ~ I think we're going to try to make something similar soon. Thanks for the fun idea! Hope you are doing well!
Blessings,
Katie
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