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Easy Oak Leaf Wreath Tutorial

Learn how to make a beautiful fall wreath with oak leaves and acorns from your backyard.
Prep Time20 minutes
Active Time1 hour
Total Time1 hour 20 minutes

Equipment

Materials

  • 1 Wire Coat Hanger
  • Lots of Oak Leaves
  • Brown Paper
  • Acorns on Stems optional
  • Ribbon optional
  • Floral Wire
  • Wire wreath form or straw, foam, grapevine forms

Instructions

  • Cut leaves off trees and separate the leaves from the branches. Leave some of the acorns on the branch.
  • Remove any pests or galls. (see note below)
  • Open a wire coat hanger and use a pair of needle nose pliers to help hold the wire while you make a loop at one end and shape the rest of the wire into a circular shape.
  • Start threading the middle of the leaves onto the wire with the end that is not a loop. Make sure to thread them all the same way. Either face up or face down.
  • Once you have filled about 40-50% of the wire with leaves you can stop.
  • Bend the straight end of the wire circle and connect it to the loop end.
  • Fan out the leaves to fill the wire circle.
  • On the back of the leaves hot glue strips of brown paper to hold the leaves in place.
  • Then add more hot glue to the other side of the paper and glue the ring of leaves to a wire wreath form.
  • Add a bow to the top with floral wire.
  • Wire some acorn branches together with floral wire and attach them to the bow.
  • Glue a few additional acorns on top to hide the wires.
  • Hang and adjust the leaves as you like.

Notes

If you will be hanging the wreath indoors you may want to wipe down or dip them in a diluted bleach solution, approx. 1/4 cup bleach to 2 - 3 cups of water. This will help kill pests, eggs etc..
If you find that you need to you can add some dots of hot glue under some of the leaves once the project is finished to create a look that you like.
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