Three Easy and Budget-Friendly DIY Christmas Wreath Ideas

Finding the right Christmas decorations to match your home decor can be tricky. The solution? Make your own! These DIY Christmas wreath ideas let you put a personal twist on them, so you can add colour and special touches to your mantlepiece or front door. From vibrant rosettes to satisfying scissor work and bright pom-poms, grab your art supplies and make a statement by creating them all.

Paper Flower Christmas Wreath

A front view of a DIY Christmas wreath made of paper rosettes in red and varying shades of green, displayed on an aqua background.

The repetitive folding of rosettes is so soothing it definitely counts as your daily dose of mindfulness. The simple process can be done almost anywhere and works as well at a desk as it does in front of your favourite TV show. Once you have your rosettes ready, it’s a matter of styling them into your wreath and adorning each with a ribbon or paper disc. You’ll be surprised at how quickly you can make this show-stopping DIY Christmas wreath.

‍What You’ll Need

Products to make DIY Christmas wreaths including construction paper, glue gun, scissors, cutting mat, glue stick and ribbon, displayed on aqua background.

‍Instructions

‍Step 1: Place a piece of foam board over a cutting mat. Use a pencil to trace two circles – you can use household objects to find the size that you like!

Step 2: Using the end of scissors (or a scalpel for grown-ups), follow along the line, pressing firmly to create your wreath base.

‍Hot Tip: Moving in one smooth line with scissors or a blade will leave you with the best finish.

Step 3: To make rosettes, take a piece of paper and make a small fold at the bottom of the paper. Then flip the paper and fold that exact same panel back onto itself. Flip the paper again and take that panel and press up again, then repeat until the entire piece has been folded.

‍Step 4: Hold the paper down so that all of your folds are squished like a sandwich, and pinch in the middle. Then press the two sides together. Add some glue (or you can use a mini stapler) and press the inside folds together until they meet, and hold. This should leave you with a folded paper fan in a V-shape.

‍Step 5: Repeat the process of folding and gluing, and then glue two V-shape fans together at the seams to create a single rosette circle. For bigger rosettes, you can glue together four V-shape fans at the seams.

‍Hot Tip: For mini rosettes, once you reach step four, after pinching the folded piece of paper in the middle, you can then cut at that pinched fold which will leave you with two smaller folded pieces. Pinch each in the middle again, and glue the seams together to make a tiny V-fan. Once you have two of those, glue the outer seams of each V together.

A GIF series of images showing a growing series of paper rosettes, then hands gluing the back of a rosette and sticking rosettes to a wreath made of foam board.

‍Step 6: Once you have all your rosettes ready, place them onto your foam wreath base until you find a size and colour formation you like. Then take your hot glue gun and secure them into place.

With folded edges, you don’t have a lot of smooth surfaces to use. Add a good amount of glue to the bottom middle of the rosette which will have the most flat surface, then find little edges to add a small dab of glue to, and hold down firmly onto the base. Hold the glue in place for around 10 seconds to give it time to cool and grab onto the foam board.

‍Step 7: Once all the rosettes are glued together, add some cute bows to the middle of some rosettes, and cut out circular discs for the centre of others, to give it a finished and polished feel.

‍Step 8: Using twine, tie a loop and secure with glue to the back of the foam board, making sure that when it is pulled tight, you can’t see it above the top of the finished wreath.

‍Tropical Fruits Wreath

A front view of a DIY craft Christmas wreath made from coloured paper in greens, apricot, yellow and white shown on an aqua background.

Want to make an Australian Christmas wreath? With its summer-inspired design, this craft project suits our warmer climate. With hints of oranges, lemons and little blossoms hidden throughout, this cardboard and paper creation will be a conversation starter when guests arrive for Christmas lunch. Prepare for plenty of scissor work and concentration with this project, as you cut, snip and glue your way to completion.

What You’ll Need

Products to make a DIY Christmas wreath including construction paper, glue gun, scissors, cutting mat, pencil glue stick and green twine displayed on an aqua background.

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‍Instructions

A GIF series showing hands folding coloured paper and cutting out circle and leaf shapes, tracing a circle on foam board, then cutting it out with scissors to form a wreath.

‍Step 1: Place a piece of foam board over a cutting mat. Use a pencil to trace two circles – you can use household objects to find the size that you like!

‍Step 2: Using the end of scissors (or a scalpel for grown-ups), follow along the line, pressing firmly to create your wreath base.

‍Hot Tip: Moving in one smooth line with scissors or a blade will leave you with the best finish.

‍Step 3: Take green paper in multiple shades and cut out various leaf shapes, giving yourself plenty of options of thinner and thicker leaves.

Step 4: Using peach and yellow paper, fold the pieces in half, before cutting out circles for your oranges and a lemon shape on your yellow paper. This will give you four of each shape.

GIF series showing hands crafting paper oranges, cutting out paper flowers, a pair of scissors, and gluing paper leaves, oranges and flowers on a wreath.

‍Step 5: Fold each piece in half, and glue two sides together, trimming them to make sure the shapes are neat and even. This creates a ‘half’ of each fruit with a flat side that you can easily glue down onto your wreath.

Step 6: Sketch out some flowers onto a piece of paper, and cut one out to use as your stencil. Trace that one onto white and pink paper and cut out until you have a handful of blossoms.

‍Step 7: Take a yellow piece of paper, cut a tiny circle and fold it in half. Using the tip of your scissors, finely feather-cut your way around the edges, so you have a frayed little yellow circle when you open it. Ruffle the edges then glue one or two to the middle of each flower after the flowers are attached to your wreath.

Step 8: Start placing all your green leaves onto your foam board until you’re happy with their position, then glue them down covering most of the board. Repeat the process with the fruits and finally the blossoms.

‍Hot Tip: Before gluing down all of the leaves, fold some in half to give them more dimension. The same can be done to the petals of the flowers, so they ‘pop’ more in amongst the greenery of the wreath.

‍Step 9: Using twine, tie a loop and secure with glue to the back of the foam board, making sure that when it is pulled tight, you can’t see it above the top of the finished wreath.

‍SEE ALSO: 4 Fun Glue Gun Crafts to Try

Pom-Pom Wreath

A front view of hands holding up a craft DIY Christmas wreath made from multi-coloured pom-poms.

Who knew a rainbow-coloured wreath could still look so festive! The neat and tidy rows of mini pom-poms will suit minimalists, while still bringing a kaleidoscope of technicolour to your Christmas decor. Perfect for the front door or hanging over a mantlepiece, this DIY Christmas wreath is also a project the kids will love to get crafty with.