In one of my past home blogs, I wrote about our seasonal nature table. It was the cure-all for my daughter’s propensity for bringing home sticks and other natural items. While my bag of seasonal decorating tricks is fairly small, I do have another one up my sleeve. It’s simple, and it’s easy for a child to do. It’s the seasonal wreath.
I love to adorn our front door with a wreath for every season. However, I am not nearly ambitious or wealthy enough to head off to the store to purchase a new wreath for every seasonal holiday. My cheap and easy solution? A few years ago, we bought a grape vine wreath base from the craft store. Every season, we recreate it into a seasonal wreath.
Currently, the wreath is wrapped in raffia. On the raffia, I’ve placed wooden hearts for Valentine’s Day – simple but effective. After Valentine’s Day, we take the hearts and the raffia off, and I dig into the decorating boxes. Out comes a spring ladybug and some flowers from the craft store. If I felt ambitious, I could also place fresh flowers in the wreath from my garden. As I said above, I rarely feel so ambitious.
In the fall, we cover the wreath with flowers in autumn colors. For Halloween, we cover it in a giant “boo” sign, with ghosts. And come December, we have red flowers, although sometimes I replace the grape vine wreath with Douglas-fir and cedar boughs wound around a central coat hanger and adorned with a red ribbon.
I think that a wreath is a lovely decoration for the front door. It’s welcoming, and it’s easy to create and recreate for every season of the year.
Do you have any seasonal standby decorations that are easy to create? Any ideas for spicing up a seasonal wreath?