Once you get all the balls on, twist the hanger top and hook back together. I used the hanger hook to hang the wreath from my door wreath hanger!

Directions:
-I bought plastic candy canes from the dollar store for this. They came in a package of 6 & I only used 6 of them. I’m sure real candy canes would be just fine also.
-Our city gives us trash bags on a large roll and then ribbons are hanging to the empty plastic center of the roll. I think an empty paper towel roll would work too.
-I’m not sure why my pictures are turning out all discolored, but anyway, all I did was cut the strips of ribbon long enough to double over and be the length that I needed hanging from my window.
-Next I hot glued the ribbon together at the end & let it dry really well.
-After I was sure it was dry and strong I put it on the plastic roll and hot glued the other side so that the ribbon was tight against the roll.
-After I got each ribbon secured to the roll I hot glued it together all the way down so that it looked like one solid piece of ribbon. Be sure to leave a hole at the very bottom for the candy cane to slip through though!
-When I was all finished I just set it on top of the curtain rod already on my window, pulled the ribbons down, & stuck the candy canes on! Super easy & cute!

I bought the wooden letter unfinished off Ebay from the seller Woodcraft Patterns They have tons of unfinished wood items and letters in different fonts! My R is 16 inches.

Since Andrew is a farmer then of course our R had to be John Deere colors. I think I’m getting used to all the John Deere stuff now though. We have dishes, glasses, serving bowls, coasters, cookie jar, and tons of toy tractors. Anyway though, I just painted the R green and trimmed it with yellow. I agreed to the green and yellow reluctantly, but I really wanted to paint it green with yellow polka dots, but Andrew just wouldn’t go for that. Too girly of course. He thinks everything is too girly!  Then I just took a green ribbon and tied it around the top to hang it from the door.

Probably the easiest thing I’ve made yet! I love seeing it hanging from the door when I come home!

I used newspaper and A LOT of newspaper! I used an entire Arkansas Democrat Gazette Sunday paper, which for anyone who knows is a rather large paper, and I still could have used more to make the wreath more full, but by this point I was exhausted!

I used a large peanut butter jar lid to trace circles on the newspaper and cut them out. The circles really need to have ruffled edges so I just drew them around the circle and cut them out like it was all one thing.

For the wreath frame I used plumbing foam from Lowe’s. It’s only $1. Just wrap it around to make a circle and tape it together.

I found a picture of a bat on the internet, printed it out, and traced it onto black construction paper. The black construction paper is better than just printing out a bat on printer paper because it’s thicker. I used bats in several different sizes. When I got the bats cut out I folded their wings in to make them look like they were flying.

So after I got ALL of those circles cut out you take a pencil and stick it in the center to make the circle fold up and look like a flower. Then you hot glue it to the wreath frame. It takes a lot of time and a lot of work to glue all the little circles and make it look full and pretty. As I said earlier, I gave up.

Once all the newspaper is glued on just hot glue that bats on wherever you would like.

So for the frame of this wreath I used plumbing foam I got from Lowe’s. I connected the ends to make a circle and taped them together. This worked really well, but the burlap is really heavy and the longer it hung on my door the more it started to sag. By the time Halloween was over this wreath didn’t even look close to a circle anymore. So maybe use a sturdier wreath frame.

At first I bought 1 yard of burlap, but that was definitely not enough. I used almost all of 2 yards. You can get burlap in a lot of colors at pretty much any fabric store. I usually get everything from Hobby Lobby. Cut the burlap into about 1″ wide strips that are long enough to tie around the frame and still have long strips hanging out. Tie the burlap strips all the way around the frame. I put all my knots on the front in the same line, but now I know NOT to do that. Put all your knots on the front, but alternate where they are at. (It makes it look more messy and full when they aren’t all in a row)

The pumpkins and “boo” are just unfinished wooden decorations I bought from Hobby Lobby. They’re in the craft section and come in little plastic bags. I just painted them orange with acrylic paint that I already had. After they dried I hot glued them to the wreath.

And there you have it!

But since I wanted to put one on each side of the turkey on the wall I didn’t have enough room to use the entire pallet like they did, I needed them to be shorter so i had to improvise. I cut the pallets in half and it was actually quite a bit harder with a saw than I expected. Next time I will definitely have Andrew do it for me! But anyway here is my finished product! I love them!

So here’s what you’ll need:
Deco Mesh: I used 1 long roll of mesh for my wreath and quite frankly didn’t have enough so go with 2 rolls! Any color you would like.
Metal/Wire Wreath Frame: I got the large one from Hobby Lobby $4.99
Decorations: Ribbon, ornaments, feathers, etc. I used ribbon and ornaments, but Jordan used two different colors of mesh, ornaments, and candy canes.
Zip Ties or Trash Bag Ties: We used trash bag ties because we had tons of them, but zip ties would probably work just the same.

How it works:
Scrunch up the end of the mesh up and tie it to the write wreath frame. Pull out some fabric to make a bubble and tie that section down to the frame. Keep making bubbles and tying them down all the way around the frame. To make it look full you’ll need to go around the entire frame at least twice. When you have the mesh how you want it then take your ribbon and go around the mesh or stick it down however you want. Then stick all your decorations in it. It’s pretty easy, but you really have to work at it to get everything stuck into it; I gave up with mine and just hung the ornaments from the center. I wish I had taken pictures as I was going along now. My mom wants me to make her one so I will next time!