Easy Canada Day Wreath

This year I have been trying to make things using materials I have on hand.

In early Spring my granddaughter and I built a cold frame to grow lettuce and radishes.  We built it from bricks and a window we already had.  We're still enjoying the lettuce and pick almost every day.

COVID19 has me staying home and avoiding stores as much as possible.

We hosted a July 1st party last year, our first summer in this home, so I had a few things left over.

I used these scarves that I bought at the dollar store to tie around potted plants.  I also used them as tiebacks for the curtains on the gazebo. 

I washed them at the end of summer and put them away.

To make the wreath I used four of the scarves.  Two red and two white.

I also used straight pins to secure the scarves to the wreath form and some florist's wire to form a looped hanger.

The elastics were used to hold the loops for the bow.

Starting with one end of a scarf I gathered it a bit and secured it to the wreath frame with straight pins.  

Wrap the scarf around the wreath covering the pins.

Continue wrapping and add the second scarf using the pins to secure.

Tuck the ends of the scarf under an adjacent loop and secure with pins.

I looped the white scarves in my hand and held the loops in place with an elastic adding an additional elastic as needed.

I pinned the bow to the wreath.  I then made a hanging loop of the wire and pushed it into the wreath form.

This wreath is super quick and easy. 

If you don't have scarves use strips of fabric or ribbon.

Happy Canada Day

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Canada Day Door Wreath

Canada Day Door Wreath

This wreath is a fairly easy project.  I already had most of the supplies I needed, except for the ribbon, which I purchased at Michaels.

The wreath is easily adaptable to a U.S. theme.

Materials List

- A wicker or grapevine 10" wreath

- 3 toilet paper tubes (for firecrackers)

- Wrapping paper in a colour of your choice.  I used gold-coloured, but white, kraft paper, scrapbook paper, or a patriotic-themed paper would work just as well.

- Ribbon in appropriate colours to decorate the firecrackers.

- Several sprays of wired white buds.

- Red burlap ribbon for bow

- Red jute twine for fuses on firecrackers and for a loop to hang the wreath.

- Flags, I used three 8" x 6" with 10" sticks

- Glue gun and craft glue, flat paint brush

Optional - Watered down brown acrylic craft paint to age the flags and ribbons.

Method

*If you are going to age your flags and ribbons do that first so they will dry by the time you want to use them.

Use an amount of brown paint on a tray or foil plate and add water until the consistency is very watery.

With the paint brush paint the ribbons and flags until they have the aged look that is pleasing to you.

Let them dry.  The drying time is not too long.

*Start work on the tubes

Cover the tops of each tube with wrapping paper.  Cut circles of paper larger than the top and tape it down on the sides of the tubes.  

Then wrap the wrapping paper around the tubes and glue it where the paper meets at the back of the tube.

Leave one tube long, but cut a little off of each tube at the bottom so that they are progressively shorter.  Your tubes will each be different lengths.

Poke a small hole in the tops of the tubes and push a length of jute twine into the hole (approx 1 1/2" to 2" lengths).  The twine is the fuse.  Add glue so the twine does not fall out.

Wrap the tubes with ribbons.

*Assemble the wreath

With the glue gun place a few dots of glue on the inside bottom of each tube and pinch together.  This makes it easier to attach them to the wreath.

Starting with the longest tube tuck it into the wreath and add hot glue to hold it in place.  Add the next longest and so on until all three are attached to the wreath.  

I bent the smallest tube forward and added an extra bit of glue to hold it.

*Place the bud sprays on the wreath around the firecrackers and glue.

*Add a bow and place the flags, tucking them into the wicker and glueing.

HAPPY CANADA 150

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