A beautiful Christmas wreath with your own hands is easy to make out of sweets and lambs.
On New Year's Eve, not only the Christmas tree is decorated with candies,but also Christmas wreaths. A DIY New Year's craft in the form of a Catholic Christmas wreath can decorate any door. According to legend, it is believed that Santa Claus will only come with gifts to the house where he is called with a Christmas wreath. Therefore, if you want Santa Claus to fill your house with gifts, then be sure to make a Christmas wreath with your own hands.How to make a Christmas wreath We will need– a cardboard hoop, green tinsel, glue, candy and any other sweets. My children really wanted to stick on the bagels. It may seem to you that there is little in common between Russian bagels and the Catholic wreath that came to us from Western countries, but still the New Year’s craft turned out to be interesting and such a Christmas wreath will definitely bring warmth and happiness to the house. First, let's prepare a base from a cardboard sheet. The hoop should have a diameter of about 40 centimeters. If you don’t have cardboard paper, use several small sheets and tape them together. Draw a circle on a larger sheet of paper. A compass may not be suitable for this action; use two pencils or pens, which you first tie with a thread of the required length. Fix one handle in the center of the sheet, pull the thread and draw a circle with the second handle. You need to draw a second circle, a second circle in the center, but with a smaller diameter, approximately minus 4 centimeters. When you cut out both circles, you will have a hoop – this will be the basis of the New Year's craft. Now let's start decorating with tinsel. It can be selected in green color. Gold and silver tinsel also looks interesting in New Year's crafts.Wrap the tinsel around the hoop, sometimes securing it with glue or tape. Do not bring the layers of winding close, the tinsel is quite fluffy. therefore it is applied at some distance.To make the Christmas wreath easy to hangon the door, you will need a loop. It is easy to make from a piece of satin ribbon. Tie the ends of the braid in advance and securely fix the resulting loop along the outer edge of the hoop on either side.Let's prepare sweet decorations. To decorate a small Christmas wreath, about a dozen candies and a few bagels are enough.For fixing sweets on a hoop it is betteruse hot glue. Apply a few drops of hot melt glue to the underside of the bagels and immediately attach to the Christmas wreath. Distribute the bagels throughout the hoop at even intervals.Next, we start gluing the candies.Decide in advance – If you want to eat the candies later, then glue them carefully. beyond the edge of the wrapping paper. And if you don’t mind sweets for the creative process. then stick the candies as you wish. More often, glue is applied to the middle of the candy and the sweetness is immediately fixed on the hoop of the holiday wreath.Distribute the candies throughout the circle and ourNew Year's craft is ready. Hang a Christmas wreath on the door and wait for a miracle. Santa Claus will definitely come to you on New Year's Eve with a big bag of gifts.