Do you think that artificial wreaths and garlands are time-consuming? When Christmas is just around the corner you cannot sit down to make wreaths and garlands from scratch. Instead of making them on your own, it is best to buy artificial. They are a lot less work and will even last you longer than homemade wreaths and garlands. If you don’t believe this, here’s how you can make wreaths and garlands at home. Read through it and find out if artificial Christmas wreaths and garlands are more time-consuming or natural ones.

How To Make A Wreath?

Things You’ll Need

• Bypass pruners
• Paddle Wire  
• Wire snips
• Wire wreath frame
• Greens

To make your wreath, you need to first make the wreath frame. You can get the wreath frame from a shop or if time allows, you can make it on your own. To make the wreath frame, you need to use wire and mold it into a sphere. Connect the two ends, and you can add different smaller spheres to it. Connect a few layers of spheres, and then you can finally start filling it in. To fill it in, you need all the bushes and other greens you can find.

To get a symmetrical wreath, you need to have the same size foliage. When clipping the plants, make sure they are of the same size. Then you can start assembling them on the wreath frame. Try bunching them together before putting them on the frame: this will help you get a fuller-looking wreath. Attach all the bunches together with a thread and keep doing that until the whole frame is covered.

How To Make A Garland?

Things You’ll Need

• Foliage
• Needles
• Paddle Wire
• Floral Tape
• Scissors

To make the garland, you need to cut a length of paddle wire that you think suffices for your garland. Then you can add on the foliage that you have collected. This foliage can be pine and fir left among other greens. Before you get on that, you need to punch holes in the plants so that you can thread through them easily.

String all your plants together and then loop the string of all the plants around the paddle wire. When you are done stringing all of them, you can cut off the access stems and branches. To make the garland smoother you can use floral tape and smoothen out all the rough edges. You can add as many bunches as you’d like.

Final Thoughts

Now that you know how to make wreaths and garlands, you would understand how time-saving it is to just but artificial wreaths and garlands. If you do not have the time, do not skip on the decor instead, go for artificial ones. You can also customize them to your liking by adding more things such as ribbons and ornaments. So it is best to go for artificial wreaths and garlands rather than making them from scratch.