I had promised Immy that we would make a wreath to hang on our door this Christmas and then I had the crazy idea that we could make a paper Christmas wreath from recycled magazine pages. Sometimes my crazy ideas work!
And this is one Christmas craft with the potential for working those important fine motor muscles in small hands as well!
Homemade Paper Christmas Wreath from Recycled Magazines
1. The first step was to cut lots of strips from the magazine pages. I chose pages that featured predominantly red and white print to match our Christmas theme.
2. Next I ruled the pages into 2cm widths (the width of my ruler) and Immy and I got cutting the pages into strips
3. Next we folded each strip over and stapled it at the bottom to form a petal shape.
Before long we had a big pile of red and white magazine ‘petals.’
4. I recycled a large piece of cardboard and traced around both a dinner plate and a glass to form the base of our wreath.
5. Next, it was time to start gluing. We used a glue stick and started arranging our first row of petals about 2 or 3 cms in from the outside edge of the wreath base.
We continued pasting petals the whole way round and then began a second row to overlap the first…
…and then we added a third and a fourth row of petals…
…until the whole base was covered.
6. Finally I stapled a few simple, small curls from the remaining strips of paper to cover the staples of the final row of petals.
We hung our Christmas wreath with double sided tape on our front door to spread a little Christmas cheer and welcome visitors to our home.
For even more Christmas wreaths, check out our collection of 12 homemade Christmas wreath ideas.
Christie Burnett is a teacher, presenter, writer and the mother of two. She created Childhood 101 as a place for teachers and parents to access engaging, high quality learning ideas.
Good use for all my mags lying around! 🙂 Thanks for the idea!
Ai @ Sakura Haruka
This is really awesome! Love that you incorporated Christmas into this challenge. We did ours back a month ago so I was hardly in the Christmas spirit! We are going to make one of these and I’m pinning it too!
This is bound to spread Christmas cheer. I love it! What an excellent way to recycle magazines and catalogues. Gotta love an idea that turns out so well.
I’ll have to check out the challenge over at Tinkerlab. I have been MIA from the blogosphere so it will be fun to check this out.
Looks gorgeous Christie – who’d have thought there’d be that much red and white in a magazine? Stapling is a favourite activity with my guys too, it’s that satisfying ‘ker-clunk’ I think (they love the hole punch at the moment too).
Oh my, you wreath is GORGEOUS! How wonderful!
Maggy
Wonderful! I love it:)
This is a wonderful idea. We need a wreath for this winter season. I love your idea. I will get my kids on it right away!
love the red glossy look of this – so pretty!
Great color scheme! It pops!
Fantastic idea! looks so pretty!
utterly brilliant! move over, martha! make room for immy!
We made a magazine wreath too… your’s looks way more simple than ours. Wish I would have seen it before I did the work because your’s is really cute!!!
What a beautiful reuse of magazines. Love your wreath – so festive!
That is amazing, so much fun and what a great result. May daughter would insist on the entire wreath being pink and purple but who cares when it looks that good. 🙂
I think this is beautiful. I will have a crack this afternoon with M1!
I love this idea!
I love how this turned out!! It is beautiful and so festive!!
Supercute wreath and love that it’s made with recycled materials! I still haven’t made our door wreath yet and this one might be it 🙂
Oh my goodness, I never left a comment on this awesome post and contribution to the creative challenge?! I’m so sorry, Christie. I adore the way you put this together, and tons of my readers seem to be headed over to your blog to check it out!
I wanted to let you know that I featured this in my “What I Bookmarked This Week” post today – stop by and see!
Great idea. Would also be possible with wrapping paper too. I have lots of odd pieces left over from last year.