Curled Paper Wreath

Is there enough time to make one more wreath before Christmas? There is, right? Even if you don't want (or think you have time) to display this hanging up somewhere, this would be really cute as a gift topper (like the rolled paper Christmas trees) instead of a bow! And you could easily scale this down to fit on smaller packages - if you aren't hanging it I'm thinking you could use a cardboard circle as the base instead of the foam wreath base used here and just attach the loops to the cardboard.

Super easy - cut a bunch of different papers (or what the heck, you could just make it one color or pattern - you do you, whatever you like!) in 1"x6" strips; coil each one tightly around a pencil and glue the ends together forming circles (note: this is how you make a paper circle garland by the way - interlocking the circles together before gluing the ends together!). Hot glue the circles all over the wreath base, just turn them every which way and squeeze them in - I've had enough hot glue burns lately to be justly afraid of the glue gun right now, so I used the eraser end of a pencil to hold the circle in place until it stayed put. If you're doing more than one pattern or color you can group them together like I did, or mix them together (not keeping the pattern/color separate) and glue randomly around the wreath base.

I happened to have a piece of patterned scrapbook paper that had the perfect sized medallion with words that fit in the middle of the wreath, so I cut the paper to fit and glued it to the back of the wreath before adding the curled paper circles - you can definitely just leave the middle open tho!

To finish - because I never know when to stop and I like the motto "less is not more. more is more" I added pieces of silver curly ribbon to the wreath, just glued in randomly here and there - and finished by tying on a long piece of curly ribbon to hang it with (skip that if you are laying it on the top of a gift!).

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