Christmas bauble wreaths are enjoying a surge in popularity. This is great news for those of us who love a creative project as they are hugely quick and easy to make at home and they'll only take you an hour or so from start to finish.
The beauty of making your own is that you can pick whichever baubles match your favourite Christmas colour scheme. Will you opt for traditional reds and greens or go ultra modern with neon pinks and citrus shades?
For more DIY decoration ideas, check out our guide to the biggest Christmas trends this year or for a more traditional wreath, we've got a step by step guide to how to make a Christmas wreath out of foliage.
How to make a bauble wreath
Essentially you only need 3 things to make a wreath:
- some Christmas baubles
- a wreath base
- something to tie the baubles in place with.
For this DIY we used a wire wreath base that came in a pack of two with some florists wire for attaching the baubles (£7.99, Amazon). and 3 multipacks of champagne baubles from a local supermarket.
Our wreath used about 80 baubles in total –30 larger baubles and rest were small ones. It's much cheaper to buy a multipack of assorted shapes and finishes than it is to buy them separately.
How to you make a wreath with a coat hanger and baubles?
In the full guide below we use a metal wreath base, but you can easily get the same affect with a wire coat hanger. You simply untwist the coat hanger and reshape it into a circle.
Snip the string off your baubles and then thread them all on to the wire, adding as many as you can fit on and using small baubles in between larger ones to fill the gaps. To finish, twist the ends and shape your wreath with our hands, then tie with chunky ribbon to cover the join of the wire.
It helps to use some glue to secure the bauble pins first as this method puts quite a bit of pressure on the baubles as they cram together, and they can sometimes pop off their pins. It's worth reinforcing the fixings before you begin.
