The easiest way to customize a Christmas wreath is to buy a ready-made wreath and decorate it individually and occupy. We show you how to do it.

Make Christmas wreath yourself - that's what you need:

• Wreath (diameter approx. 40 cm) from Korea fir, pine and Ilex or finished Christmas wreath from florist
• 4 candles or pillar candles
• 4 Advent wreath candle holders
• pinecone
• Flower wire or craft wire

Make Advent wreath - how it works:

1. Get a wreath: From the florist, have a wreath (diameter approx. 40 cm) made of Korea fir, pine and ilex bound. Alternatively, you can also buy a finished Christmas wreath and add ilex twigs.
2. Plug in candles: Candles (not in classic red, but in fine "cashmere") with Advent wreath candle holders and a few pine cones with flower wire stuck in the wreath. Do not distribute the pins evenly, but arrange them as a group.
3. Pretty decorate: A wooden star and a larch branch decorated with glass balls in a pharmacist's glass complete the Advent feeling. Done is the self-designed Advent wreath!

Make Advent wreath: the most beautiful ideas

You can also make the Advent wreath completely yourself. That's not as difficult as it sounds. We show you three beautiful crafting instructions from the book "Dekoideen für Weihnachten" by Anke Schütz and Ilka Schulzki:

Asparaguskranz

© Gräfe und Unzer Verlag / Photography: Anke Schütz

Looks wonderfully classic, smells and is not that difficult to make yourself: This Advent wreath is really a feast for the eyes!

You need for the asparagus wreath:

• 6 walnuts
• 6 peanuts
• 12 white craft beads
• 6 pieces white cord (30-40 cm)
• Asparagusranken
• Metal ring (Ø 35 cm)
• Tree candle holder made of metal (antique look)
• Tree candles in different colors
• narrow ribbon
• Disposable gloves
• newsprint
• white spray paint
• thick sewing needle
• secateurs
• Gardening gloves
• binding wire
• craft glue

So you do the asparagus wreath itself:

1. Put on the disposable gloves, pick nut by nut in the hand and dye it in half with spray paint. Put on newspaper and let it dry. Then spray the other side.
2. With the sewing needle in each peanut at the end of a slightly larger hole. Apply glue to the end of a cord and use the sewing needle to stuff it into the hole in the peanut. Then thread two beads onto the drawstring. Apply adhesive to the loose cord end and insert into the hole of a second nut. Now each two nuts and pearls hang at the ends of a cord.
3. That's how you prepare the walnuts. With these you can with the needle at the blunt end of a hole in the seam between the shell halves prick.
4. Loop the asparagus branches around the metal ring, creating a loose wreath. Attach here and there with binding wire. Wear gardening gloves - the tendrils are a bit prickly. Too long tendrils you shorten with the secateurs.
5. Cut four long ribbons from the ribbon and knot at four points to the garland. Bring the ends together and hang the wreath.
6. Now spread candlesticks and candles on the wreath and hang the ribbons with the nuts over the wreath so that the nuts hang differently high.

Christmas wreath with pine cones

© Gräfe und Unzer Verlag / Photography: Anke Schütz

This wreath enchants us with its natural look. He gets along without kitsch and flourishes and still brings Christmas mood to your apartment.

You need for the wreath with pine cones:

• Branches, z. Eg beech or linden (15 à 30 cm, 8 à 20 cm)
• Metal ring (Ø 24-26 cm)
• 14 paper muffin cases
• 7 pine cones
• 7 brass eyelets (0.3 × 1.5 mm)
• green velvet ribbon
• 7 fir branches (here fir tree)
• Vogelsand
• tealights
• secateurs
• brown stuffing yarn
• scissors
• hot glue
• tablespoon

How to do the wreath with pine cones:

1. Cut the branches to the correct length according to the diameter of the metal ring. Leave them a little longer, so that they protrude over the ring - that looks livelier.
2. Now tie the branches to the metal ring with the stuffing yarn. Place the first layer of branches parallel to each other on the ring, the second layer diagonally to it and a few branches criss-cross, so that a network of branches covers the metal ring.
3. Put shorter branches here and there between the larger ones, so that the muffin cups will have good grip later.
4. Now fasten four bands to the metal ring, bring them together to the desired height and knot them together. Hang the roof from branches on a hook. Important: The metal ring must hang exactly horizontally.
5. Turn the threaded metal eyelets into the ends of the pine cones. Knotted a ribbon in the eyelet and hang the pins differently high in the branches - so creates a lively up and down. Put some fir green in the knot of the tape gives the cone a fresh touch.
6. Put two muffin cups together and glue them in place with hot glue. For a better stand fill with the tablespoon some bird sand in the molds and put the tealights inside. The Ästedach depends on a place protected from drafts. If you worry the paper cups might catch fire, replace them with glass lights.

ivy wreath

© Gräfe und Unzer Verlag / Photography: Anke Schütz

This pretty deco has it all: The red and white candy canes can be nibbled Advent.

You need for the ivy wreath:

• 4-6 ivy banks (1 m)
• Metal ring (Ø 24 cm)
• Fairy lights (battery operated)
• 5 sheets of differently patterned craft paper (Din A4) wooden clothespins
• red and white candy canes
• pinecone
• Schleifenband
• red and white kitchen yarn
• binding wire
• paper glue
• scissors
• possibly hot glue

This is how you make the ivy dance:

1. Gradually wind the ivy banks around the metal ring. The first tendrils are wired at the beginning and end with winding wire on the ring so that they are tight. You can simply put the other tendrils in the tied tendrils. Fill the wreath with so many ivy banks until it has the desired volume.
2. Now you wrap the fairy lights around the wreath. The cordless device hides under the leaves. Knot the four bow ties to the wreath. Lead them together and hang the wreath on them.
3. Roll up a sheet of craft paper over the corner to make a pointy bag. Stick the end of the sheet with paper glue. Roll up the toppings in different ways - one may continue on, the other narrower.
4. Now you attach the paper bags with clothespins on the wreath and put a pinecone in each bag. You may need to glue the pins with hot glue so that they do not slip too deep, but peep out of the lace bag.
5. Now attach the candy canes with the kitchen yarn - the colorful Naschkranz is ready!

These three plus 47 other echarmante ideas for Christmas decorations can be found in the book "Christmas decoration ideas - 50 ideas, surprisingly easy homemade" by Anke Schütz and Ilka Schulzki (GU, 14,99 Euro, at www.amazon.de).

Crochet Christmas wreath

Or make something original - and crochet your Advent wreath yourself! So it is guaranteed to be unique.

© makerist.de/ Schneckenkind-Raphaelo

This wreath is completely without needles: With a little polystyrene and cotton yarn, it is simply crocheted! To decorate him still different crochet figures, small balls and of course tealights. In no time he can be transformed into a door wreath.

The complete instructions from the designer "Schneckenkind-Raphaelo" for the wreath as well as the Christmas trees, the robin and the cones can be found at our Partner Makerist. And of course we'll help you learn how to crochet when you're still at the beginning.

Advent wreath of leaves

© Indra Olemutz

It greens so green in the winter gray ... Clematis, sage, eucalyptus, silver leaf and Cape green indicate the color in the wreath.

SIZE ABOUT. Ø 58 CM

MATERIAL:

Either take 1 foam ring (Ø 40 cm) if you want to keep it moist. Or, as here, 1 straw wreath (Ø 40 cm) if you want to dry the wreath. Plants: eucalyptus fruits (the thick balls), clematis (the hairy heads are often found along the roadside), silver leaf (the white-gray leaves), sage (the light purple leaves), cape green (the greenish tufts with the globules), flower wire , Flower scissors

How to do it:

The framework forms the Steckschaum or straw wreath. Tie the different leaves and fruits piece by piece around the straw wreath or put them in the floral foam and secure with flower wire.

Numbers for an individual Advent wreath

© Indra Olemutz

Four weeks we will still be awake ... The numbers remind us with their warm glow that the most beautiful celebration of the year is approaching.

MATERIAL:

Paper mache figures (about 12 cm in size, eg from Rayher), 2 DIN A4 sheets of transparent paper (eg from Artoz), cutter, scissors, pencil, glue stick, matching masking tape, double-sided adhesive tape, small - ne candles with small stands or fairy lights

How to do it:

1. Carefully cut the front and back of the numbers carefully with the cutter. There is a line at the edge transition where this is easily and without much pressure possible. Smooth any frayed edges.
2. Brush the numbers laterally with glue stick on the edges and stick them on the tracing paper. With approx. 0.5 cm of protrusion cut out the tracing paper with the cutter all around, the numeral sticks.
3. Cut the supernatant at all corners and curves (this makes it easier to flatten the edges) and stick around the edges of the letters. All around secure the adhesive edges with the masking tape in some places.The back remains open, but can also be pasted. Place the numbers, secure against falling over with double-sided adhesive tape. Although they are also without tape, but for security reasons, it is recommended!
4. Light candles or a string of lights behind the numbers.

Tie Advent wreath itself

If you want to make your Christmas wreath from scratch, then buy a blank, for example a straw wreath, and single green branches. The fir branches are attached with wire to the straw wreath and can be arranged as desired. So you can easily and easily bind your own Advent arrangement. Decorative elements (such as Styrofoam) and candles you can then secure with candle wire or with a candle holder.

Making Adventskanz: Even more ideas

Simple Advent wreath on an elegant tray

It does not always have to be the elaborately bound Advent wreath. Less is sometimes more, as this simple, yet elegant Advent wreath proves. A timelessly beautiful tray, four pillar candles, a bit of nature decoration and the Advent wreath for minimalists is ready!

Advent wreath for pragmatists

Form follows function: This Christmas wreath is functional and so casual that it is a real eye-catcher again. Fir green, candles and decorative pieces are simply distributed on tin cans and then connected to the wreath by a decorative band. Great idea for student apartments.

Advent wreath in the glass

Mason jars are the all-rounders in the Christmas decoration - as well as in this simple, but very beautiful Advent wreath, which is simply distributed over four decorative glasses. Whereby: A wreath is not really that anymore. Rather already an Advent arrangement. That does not matter to us! Arranged on a pretty tray and provided with number stars, a beautiful Advent wreath is created in no time at all.

Advent wreath from the forest

As worn fresh out of the forest in your Christmas room - that's what this really extraordinary Advent wreath looks like. The basis for this Advent arrangement is a natural wood discreetly decorated with natural materials. Four candles on it - and the pre-Christmas season can come!

Mini Advent wreath to go

Advent is where you are! With this sweet Advent wreath to go for your pocket you can bring you and your loved ones anytime, anywhere in Vorweihnachtsstimmung. In addition, the Advent wreath is also a funny souvenir if you are invited somewhere to drink coffee.

By the way: An Advent wreath is also ideal as a homemade table decoration for Christmas. With a few fir branches and with the help of the Advent wreath, the table looks much more festive. Even making Christmas decorations yourself is great fun!

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