St. Patrick's Day Wreath Tutorial

We are only 12 days away from St. Patrick's Day, so if your door is feeling a little bare we have the perfect wreath for you (and your door).

I think this is one of Kim's and my favorite wreath we have made together. It has a lot going on, but we don't think it's too overwhelming either.

Supplies Needed:

• Foam Wreath (we always get ours from Joann's)
• Glue gun
• Scissors
• A variety of ribbon, get different sizes, colors and textures.
• A thick ribbon (this will go all the way around the wreath.) Below is the ribbon we used. We used all 4 yards of the ribbon.

Thick Green Ribbon to go around the wreath

We chose 7 different ribbons in additional to the solid green ribbon.

Optional:

• A bow to get on the side. 
• We bought ours at 50% clearance already made
• A pot of Gold
• an empty pot (we found at Joann's)
• Coins to go in pot (we found this in the by the yard section at Joann's)

Tutorial: 

We started by wrapping the thick green ribbon all the way around the wreath. Start with a tiny bit of glue at the end so it stays put as you are wrapping. You do not need to keep gluing the ribbon to the wreath. It stays on pretty well if you wrap it tightly.We just put glue on the end of the ribbon to begin and then the end of the ribbon to end it. Wrap the ribbon so that the ribbon just barely overlaps.

The 4 yards of ribbon covers the wreath pretty well but if needed you can have a couple of gaps since that will be covered with the other ribbon.

Once your wreath is covered with the base ribbon you can start adding the more decorative ribbon. We cut strips of the ribbon so that the strip would go around the wreath and overlap enough to add some glue to secure it. We added a couple of glue dots directly to the wreath as well, so that the ribbon wouldn't slide around.

You can overlap the ribbon as much as you want. Or even not have the ribbon overlap at all. I think both ways look nice. We left gaps between the ribbon so you could still see out base ribbon (the thick green ribbon).











Don't worry if the back of your wreath doesn't look good, ours sure doesn't. No one will see it anyway!

There is no organization to adding the ribbons. Try to spread out some of the colors and textures, but you will mostly just eyeball it. Honestly, if you like the ribbon you chose there really isn't a wrong way to add them.

The wreath after all of the ribbon has been added.

You can chose to be done here, or add some embellishments like we did.

We found this already made bow and thought it would be perfect with our wreath. We added it below our wreath.

We decided it would also be fun to add a pot of gold in the middle of the wreath. We found the little pot at Joann's. The coins were actually attached to a type of ribbon in the cut by the yard section.

We just clipped the coins off of the ribbon.

We stuffed the pot with tissue paper and then glued the coins on top of the issue paper until it looks like the pot is full of gold.

Then hang the pot on the wreath. We used our Happy St Patrick's Day ribbon to hang it up. We just did a basic knot.

Then hang up and you are officially ready to celebrate St. Patrick's Day!