How to make a Christmas wreath

Soon everyone is a favorite holiday. This is the New Year, followed by Christmas, the Old New Year, Baptism. The time when our dreams come true, the time of gifts and surprises. You are waiting for some miracle and change for the better. Hope for luck in the new year. The mood is festive, upbeat. And no troubles will spoil it. It's time to decorate your house with garlands, Christmas toys, rain, tinsel. What creates a festive atmosphere? Of course, the decoration of the house. First of all, the Christmas tree. It's a tradition to dress her up for such a holiday. We put the tree in a prominent place. We decorate with garlands, colorful balls, tinsel, rain, sweets and other pleasant trifles. We turn on the lights, watch this beauty. The spectacle is fascinating. Under the tree put Snow Maiden and Santa Claus. You can also put boxes of gifts. It's already felt the approach of the New Year.


If you are tired of old toys and want to decorate the house somehow in a new, original way, then you can make a Christmas wreath yourself. There is nothing complicated. It takes a little time and desire. We will not wait for miracles, we better make them with our hands.

Let the holiday begin right from the doorstep. For this we will buy, and even better, we will make a Christmas car at the front door. The degree of good mood and joyful anticipation will rise at once. This cute tradition has existed since ancient times, when it was believed that the good forces will certainly notice the wreath and enter the house, and the evil ones will get scared by the side. The wreath can be made entirely from Christmas balls, looks bright and stylish. But the classic variation of colors will never go out of fashion.

A Christmas wreath is a beautiful decoration on the table. As a basis, you can use a floral sponge ("oasis"), as in floral boxes, or foam, or even a foam. branches of pine or spruce, cones, ribbons, Christmas balls, bells. According to the European tradition, four tall beans are added to the Christmas wreath, which are alternately lit on each of the four Sundays of Advent (Christmas ) Between big ones you can stick in 6 small red candles and light them one by one on the other days of the week.It was invented such a wreath in 1839 by Johann Hinrich Wihern, a Lutheran theologian who took up a number of poor children and brought up all the time when Christmas came and he made a wreath with candles for them to count the holiday's day on their own.The Christmas wreath with four candles is associated with the earth's globe and the sides of the world. The circle symbolizes eternal life, the green is the color of life, and the candles are the light that the world is filling with Christmas.

There are a lot of ideas of decorating the house for the New Year. But especially expressive ways of transforming the interior are valuable. We offer a master class.

  1. We will weave a base of thin flexible twigs and twigs or we make a framework of wire.
  2. Branches of spruce (or fir), approximately 10 centimeters in length, with a stiff filament firmly fixed on the frame in a circle lap.
  3. To the Christmas wreath turned out lush, vpletemvetki first clockwise, then against.
  4. We decorate the wreath of ribbons with ornamental plants: mistletoe, ivy, ilex or holly.
  5. The wreath will look very much, if to twigs attach small Christmas balls in tone.
  6. In the center on the tapes we bind the kvenk several cones.

Here is such a wonderful decoration for the New Year and Christmas! Upcoming holidays!