I was inspired after seeing about a dozen different pins on pinterest about ornament wreaths. Here's one example. I figured, how hard can it be? I can totally hot glue a bunch of ornaments to a foam wreath. And one hour and 10 hot glue singed fingers later, I had a gorgeous wreath. Here's how I did it.
1. Collect as many ornaments as you can find in varying sizes. I went to the Christmas Tree Shop, dollar store and the craft store. I removed all the metal hangers from my ornaments, but you can leave them on if you want them to be part of your design.
2. I started with a foam wreath from the craft store (find in the floral section). I forgot a step, which I recommend including. Wrap your foam wreath in tinsel garland or pretty colored ribbon because you will be able to see the wreath through the piles of ornaments.
3. I then hot glued the biggest ornaments in an even pattern around the outside and then glued the medium sized ornaments on the inside (see figure 1). I crammed the round tip of the ornament a little bit into the foam.
4. I then just went crazy gluing ornaments all over the wreath until I would up with figure 3. Not all of the ornaments actually touch the foam wreath.
I could not believe I completed a Christmas craft with almost no casualties. On a side note, I am free to commit as many crimes as I want because the hot glue burns I sustained burned off my fingerprints.
And then it all came crashing down....literally. A few days after completing the wreath, the hook on which it hung SNAPPED IN HALF and the wreath came crashing down to the floor. And I should mention that this happened in the middle of the night, so I was sweeping up broken glass ornaments at about 2 am...while the cats attempted to play in the shards.
