Hello Fall Wreath

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I like to switch out the wreathes on the front door every month or so. Usually, I decorate for each holiday so that is pretty easy to do. However, there are times like now that have no real holiday to decorate for. But I adore fall so making a Hello Fall Wreath just seemed perfect for now.

A few days ago I had an idea to create a fall wreath. But I wanted to incorporate all my favorite things about fall like scarecrows, leaves, pumpkins and other gords, and sunflowers. While at Hobby Lobby, I found a wooden Hello Fall sign along with all the other supplies needed for the wreath.

Hello Fall Wreath

Supplies:

• Grape vine 14 inch wreath
• Scarecrows
• Small bay of hay
• Assorted leaves
• Bag of assorted gords
• Red, orange, and yellow individual sunflowers stems
• Wooden Hello Fall sign
• Craft paint in dark red, orange, dark yellow (I used Americana – Alizarin Crimson, CraftSmart – Pure Pumpkin and Dark Yellow)
• Paint brushes
• Paint tray
• Twine or ribbon
• Hot glue gun and glue sticks
• Floral wire cutters
• Scissors

Directions:

1. I chose to do an umbre-ish pattern by creating 3 additional colors from the three main paint colors. So I mixed a drop or two of Alizarin Crimson with the Pure Pumpkin. Then a few drops of Pure Pumpkin with the Dark Yellow.
2. Starting with the lightest color, paint the front and sides of your wooden Hello Fall sign and finish with your darkest color. For example mine went dark yellow, yellow-orange, pure pumpkin, red- orange, alizarin crimson.
3. Then allow the Hello Fall sign to dry completely.
4. While the sign is drying, plug in the hot glue gun.
5. Then position the sign on the wreath.
6. Use twine to tie the top of the sign to the wreath.
7. Apply hot glue to the back of the sign and attach it to the wreath.
8. Then thread a strand of twine through the wire on the hay bale.
9. Tie the twine to the bottom of the wreath.
10. Apply hot glue to the back of a few leaves. Then layer them starting at the edge of the hay bale and working out.
11. Also apply hot glue to the back of a hay bale to secure in place.
12. Layer gourds and pumpkins next to and on top of the hay bale.
13. Then secure them with hot glue.
14. Apply hot glue to the back of the scarecrows and attach them to the wreath.
15. Use the floral wire cutters to remove most of the stems to the sunflowers.
16. Apply liberal amounts of hot glue to the stem and base of the sunflowers and attach to the wreath.
17. Allow the entire wreath to dry completely before hanging it up.

While it seems like a lot of steps to complete the Hello Fall Wreath it only took about 30 minutes and part of that was letting the whole thing dry at the end so I could hang it up!

I love how this Hello Fall wreath turned out!

Have a great day!

Brandi

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