DIY Oak Leaf Wreath

This DIY oak leaf wreath is made with fresh leaves from your backyard. It's an easy and inexpensive way to create a beautiful natural fall wreath for your home decor.

We have many oak trees along the back of our property and a huge one in our front yard. They are beautiful. However, if you have oak trees then you know how tough they are.

The leaves stay on the tree for a long time in the fall and they don't break down as quickly as other deciduous trees. In fact, during spring cleanup I am always surprised to find full oak leaves in my garden beds.

So obviously we have a lot of oak leaves and often, though it varies, a ton of acorns. I've made a few fall decorating crafts with acorns before but today I'm using oak leaves to make a quick and easy fall leaf wreath for our porch.

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How to Make an Oak Leaf Wreath

Step 1. Cut down oak leaves. I kept some of the acorns on the branches to use in this wreath because they are so pretty, but it's optional.

Step 2. - Be sure to remove any galls or other pests from your leaves. I knew I was going to leave this wreath outdoors on our porch so I wasn't too worried about pests. However, if you want to hang yours indoors and are concerned you could wipe down or dip the leaves in a diluted bleach solution with approximately 1/4 cup of bleach to 3 cups of water.

Step 3. - Open the wire coat hanger by twisting the top.

Step 4. - Use the needle nose pliers to help you hold the wire while you manipulate it into a circular shape.

Step 5. Make a loop at one end.

Step 6. Start to thread leaves onto the straight end through the middle of each leaf face down.

Step 7. - Once you have about 40 - 50% of the wire covered bunched up together you can stop.

Step 8. - Fan out the leaves and move them around into a nice pattern.

Step 9. - Use some strips of paper and glue them to the backs of the leaves to hold the leaves in place. Then add more glue on top.

Step 10. Flip the wreath over and place it on the wreath frame.

At this point, you will still be able to move some of the leaves around. Once you are satisfied feel free to use more dots of hot glue to secure them into place.

Step 11. Wire on a pretty ribbon bow and use the wire to attach a few branches of acorns in the middle. Cover the center by gluing a couple of acorns directly on top.

Hang and enjoy!

Other Options and Ideas

• You can use different kinds of leaves. You could collect brown fallen oak leaves and make a wreath like this. If they are very brittle soak them in some water first. Other collected colorful fall leaves would be beautiful too.
• Use other fall embellishments such as pine cones or berries in addition to or instead of the acorns.

Here's what the wreath looks like a week later. The leaves are starting to curl up making it look even better, in my opinion.

Here it is a year later. It's lost an acorn, but I think it still looks beautiful.