Craft ideas for Christmas: Winter Button Wreath

Craft ideas for Christmas: Winter Button Wreath

This wreath is one of my favorite Christmas Decorations (seeing as how I only have 3 out)… I like that wreaths can stay out longer since it’s more of a winter decoration than just Christmas This craft was part of a button Christmas Craft series I did in 2008 and I wanted to share it again today

How to make a Winter Button Wreath

1) Cut out 2 identical cardboard donuts and glue them together. Mine were about the circumfrence of a human head but you cut yours to whatever size you’d like.

2) Gather lots of buttons. White is probably the easiest to find… to avoid too much variety though, I dug through my jars and found all the similar vintagey-plastic ones.

3) Start by hot-gluing a flat layer of buttons. Let the buttons hang over the inside & outside edges of the cardboard donut.

Tip: Clear the hotglue web off each layer of buttons, it gets ugly otherwise.

4) Add a few more flat layers. It’s good to have a variety of button sizes so that the you can kinda lay them down like bricks. I always started from the center of the circle and moved outward.

5) Add another layer, but don’t completely overlap the buttons below it. Start inward a bit, add your layer as normal but end it before the edge of the layer below it. So it’s kinda stepping/pyramiding upward. This will give it a rounded look :]

6) Keep doing this till you only have a layer 1 button wide in a circle.

Note: Steps 4-6 might have you concluding that I drank too much egg nog; I’ll try to explain it better. (If you got what I meant in 4-6, move on to step 7). Okay. So lets say you do your first 3 layers four rows of buttons wide (in a circle). Next, your 4th layer should be 3 rows/circle of buttons wide and should be showing the buttons below it on the inside and outside of that circle. Good? Then, your 5th layer should be 2 rows/circle of buttons wide. And showing the buttons below it on the inside and outside of that circle. Lastly, your 6th layer should be 1 circle of buttons wide. And showing the buttons below it on the inside and outside of that circle. And that is your last layer and your wreath should look rounded

7) Pick a few pretty ribbons, wrap it around the top a few times and tie it in a bow

Hang it where you’ll get the most smiles

Merry Christmas friends!! I hope you get the best hugs ever this Christmas

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