From florals to faux eggs, decorating an Easter wreath is a simple way to usher springtime into your home. While tulips and speckled eggs are traditional Easter wreath add-ons, you can count on DIYers to get more creative and craftier. Whether emphasizing the religious significance or using all things bunny-themed, an Easter wreath lets you put your stamp on the holiday, which falls on Sunday, April 4,
this year.
If you don’t want to invest in a pre-made wreath but you’re a first-time DIYer, starting with a simple grapevine wreath may be for you. These can be pricey at craft stores, but they can often be found for half the price, or cheaper, at yard sales and thrift stores.
Very few supplies are needed to transform a grapevine wreath into a holiday- or season-specific piece of decor. Dollar stores have really upped their floral game, and are a great place to find everything you need to create your springtime door decor.
Supplies:
• Grapevine or willow wreath in the size of your choice
• Florist wire (Pipe cleaners or bread ties work, too.)
• Wire cutters
• 2-3 faux flower stems (Tulips are used here, but any spring flower will do.)
• 2-3 stems of smaller flowers or greenery (optional)
• Item to cover where stems meet (A wicker butterfly is shown, but you could use a bird’s nest, a crafted bunny, a wooden monogram letter, a bow made of ribbon, etc.)
Easy Approach —
Step 1: Separate each flower from your flower stem, so that they are individuals. Starting at the right (where our image shows a butterfly), space your stems one by one curving around the wreath toward the opposite side.
Step 2: Use your floral wire to secure each flower to the point where you want it to sit on the wreath. (Some crafters prefer hot glue to floral wire. It’s your choice, but using wire allows you to swap out florals from season to season with the same grapevine wreath as your base!)
Step 3: Fill in vacant spots with your second set of stems, using leafy greenery to help hide floral wire.
Step 4: Place your focal item (wicker butterfly, bow, monogram letter, etc.) at the point where your floral stems first meet on the right side. Secure it with floral wire or hot glue.
Step 5: Wrap a wire or pipe cleaner into a circle atop the back of your grapevine wreath, twisting the ends together through a good portion of the wreath’s stems for security. This is how you will hang your wreath, either to a nail, hook or wreath hanger made for doors.
Easier Approach —
A twist on this first approach to an Easter wreath is to simply encircle the top of your grapevine wreath with your tulips, leaving no portion of your wreath uncovered. In this case, you follow the same steps, but completely cover the wreath’s surface.
While there is no need for a ribbon or decorative item to cover where the floral stems started, anything could still be added directly atop the flowers, if desired. Speckled craft eggs could easily be tucked around this type of wreath, either by gluing them to floral sticks, or gluing them directly to the wreath itself.
Easiest Approach — Perhaps the simplest take on a springtime Easter wreath is to take your two stems of flowers, without cutting each flower off, and place them end to end, so that the stems overlap and one set of buds is on the right, the other on the left.
Secure the stems atop one another with one wire, then secure the entire bundle to your grapevine wreath with a second wire. Bend the stems so the flowers are angling around the wreath, and cover the stems with a large bow. You can even just secure a single set of stems to your wreath for the simplest approach of all.
There are, of course, countless options when it comes to ringing in spring with an Easter wreath that depicts your style. Whimsical or modern, religious or secular, have fun creating a minimalist or over-the-top crafty piece that says, “Happy Easter, Happy Spring” to you!
Written by Angel Morris
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