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St. Patrick's Day Wreath


  This St. Patrick's Day wreath is so easy to make. It doesn't cost much money and you only need a few items. It will look very festive hanging on your front door!
 
St. Patrick's Day Wreath

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Things Needed:

  • One grapevine wreath
  • One bunch of green silk leaves (I used ivy)
  • 8 to 10 long green pipecleaners (I used the sparkling kind)
  • 8 to 10 floral picks
  • 3 yards of wired St. Patrick's day ribbon
  • Twistie tie or floral wire
  • Hot glue gun
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1. Begin the St. Patrick's Day wreath by cutting apart individual stems from the bunch of silk leaves. Insert these along the grapevine wreath. Concentrate more leaves near the bottom and sides, and not as many on top. This gives the effect of the vine growing upwards. You can hot glue the leaves in place for extra support. Check the photo of the finished wreath to see the placement of the leaves.

adding greenery to wreath


2. Next, make your pipecleaner shamrocks. To start, take a long pipecleaner and begin to roll it in a flat spiral, to make one of the three clover leaves of the shamrock. After you have one leaf done (about 3 rotations), bring the pipecleaner across to the other side (as shown below) and begin the next spiral. When that one is done, bring it to the middle to do the next spiral. Don't worry if it looks messy on this side with the overlapping pipe cleaner, because this is the back of the shamrock. When you turn it over it will look great.


      starting to roll pipe cleaner starting second leaf of shamrock finishing pipe cleaner shamrock

3. Once the shamrock is made, wrap the wire of a floral pick around it. I like to leave a little wire unwrapped to allow the shamrock to "wiggle" a little, or stand out slightly from the wreath.

                pipe cleaner shamrock         shamrock on floral pick



4. Place the floral picks with the shamrocks throughout and around the wreath. Play around with placement to get the best look. You can hot glue the floral picks into the wreath for good support.

adding shamrocks to wreath


5. Next it is time to make the bow. Using about 3 yards of wired ribbon (or longer if you want it fuller), make a "half" loop and pinch together with your finger (see photo). Leave about 7 inches hanging down for the first tail of the bow. The "half" loop will be about the size of one half of the bow.

making bow, step 1

6. Next, twist the ribbon over to make sure the right side of the ribbon is pointing out, and make a loop about the same size on the other side. Meet the ribbon again in the middle and pinch with your fingers.

making bow, step 2

7. Continue to make loops, each one smaller than the next. I was able to do three loops on each side for the bow pictured here.

                     making bow, step 3         making bow, step 4

8. Finally, insert a twistie tie or a wire around the ribbons where you are pinching.
making bow, step 5

9. Fan out the bows. Here's a picture of the completed bow.

completed bow

10. Use wire or a twistie tie to attach the bow to the wreath. You can do this by wrapping the wire around one of the sturdy grapevine branches of the wreath.

attaching bow to wreath


9. Wrap a small piece of wire around one of the back branches of the grapevine wreath to make a loop for hanging. The St. Patrick's Day wreath is now ready to hang on your door!

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