Here’s an easy DIY on how to make your own dried flower hoop wreath. These are a big Instagram trend and there are workshops around so I thought it’d be fun as an activity at my Twenties theme birthday party yesterday.
Wreaths are fun to create yourself and you could easily make it more Christmas themed with pinecones and red berries instead of flowers.
Flowers all foraged from nature and dried in my garage for two weeks. The fabric flowers, florist wire, and hoops all from Spotlight.
Step 1: get your metal hoop and remove the cardboard tag, and find the join, as we will cover up the join.
Step 2: choose three types of plants; a focal point such as a protea or fabric flower, long wispy leaves and grasses for the base, and smaller flowers and cones for layering with.
Step 3: Start with the longest, wispy grasses such as dried grasses, toitoi, jasmine vines, bracken fern, eucalyptus, and so on. This makes the base. Start attaching by winding florist wire towards the focal point. By doing this in layers and building upon top of the previous foliage, we will cover up the florist wire and stems as we add new foliage.
Step 4: Add foliage in the opposite direction, so the stems all point towards the focal point. Now add your smaller flowers- dried roses are great, as well as small cones and protea and banksia.
Step 4: We are layering and building up covering the previous stems with florist wire, until we reach the focal point. Here I’ve used king protea and fabric flowers.
Step 5: hang your wreath on the loop itself, or tie some natural twine as a hanging loop.
Voila! Your dried flower hoop wreath is done.
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23 November 2020
Megan Robinson