Fall Wreath Magic: A Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting a Seasonal Masterpiece

Fall is a beautiful time of year, and there’s no better way to celebrate it than with a homemade Fall garden wreath. This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to make your own Fall garden wreath using fresh flowers, foliage, and other natural materials.

How to Make a Fall Wreath with Dried Flowers

I’ve always loved the idea of transforming my front door into a seasonal masterpiece. There’s something so rewarding about making your own front door wreath and tapping into your creative side! Plus, let’s be honest – store-bought wreaths can break the bank!

Today, I’m working on a new Fall wreath and I’m excited to share my step-by-step process with you.

Let’s create a stunning, handmade piece that will be the envy of the neighborhood!

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Gathering Fall’s Bounty: Selecting the Perfect Flowers and Foliage

My supplies

• Twig Wreath
• Dried Sunflowers
• Celosia
• Amaranth
• Astilbe
• Hydrangeas
• Starflowers
• Rudbeckia
• Pheasant Feathers
• Dried Wheat
• Moss
• Glue Gun
• Chiffon Ribbon

Even though it’s the first week of October here in New Hampshire my cut flower garden is still looking fantastic! I have my fingers crossed that we don’t get a frost anytime soon because I will be so sad!!

Take a tour of my Summer Cottage Garden

I cut stems from my red amaranth, starflowers, celosia, and hydrangeas for the wreath. The sunflowers that I will be using I cut and dried a few weeks back after they were done flowering. (I hung the small sunflowers upside down in my workshop).

The twig wreath base that I am using was the one I used for my Vintage Garden Tool Wreath that I had outside my garden gate this summer. I took that one apart.

I found it at my local antique shop but Michael’s does sell a larger one. You could definitely just use a grapevine wreath too..plus much easier to find!

Weaving Your Harvest: Assembling a Stunning Fall Wreath

One note, I needed to use my hot glue gun to secure some of the flower stems in place. Most stems I could just slide under the wiring around the wreath.

It really depends on the flowers you end up using and how strong the stems are. It really only takes a quick second to add a little glue.

The first thing I added was the dried sunflower stems around the wreath.

After the sunflowers, I started filling in the wreath with the other flowers. In total, I added 5 sunflower heads around the wreath.

These are SunFill Purple Sunflowers. I highly recommend them in your garden next year!

If you aren’t familiar with amaranth, it’s really the coolest flower to grow!! It produces velvety plumes of bright flowers. It’s super easy to grow and reseeds itself. It was popping up everywhere in my garden.

Another cutting garden favorite of mine is celosia. This is another interesting flower to grow and they dry out incredibly well.

Also, it is incredibly easy to save seeds to use for next year’s garden!! Look at the base of the stem in my hand…the poppyseed-looking seeds are the celosia seeds! All I have to do is run my finger down the stem and collect the seeds, storing them in a cool place for the winter.

I kept filling in spaces with different flowers until it looked full. Then added a few pieces of moss to cover any holes and hide some of the glue that I could see on the stems.

To add a different texture to the wreath I did add a few stems of dried wheat.

If the wreath is in direct sunlight the colors of some of the flowers will start to fade (especially the hydrangeas,) but the stems will stay intact even when faded.

To finish up my fall garden wreath I tied a long chiffon ribbon bow on the bottom middle part of it.

Also, I popped in a few quail feathers around the wreath…I totally loved what just a few feathers added to the overall look!!

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Finished Fall Garden Wreath

So it took me only about 20 minutes to put the entire wreath together, a really quick DIY project! Probably 5 of the minutes were trying to tie the bow on…friends, I will not be teaching a bow-making class anytime soon!!

The wreath is the perfect fit for my Fall Front Porch this year. I added lots of garden touches when I put this one together including moving my potting bench up here.

xo, Jennifer

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