Colorful Tree and Pompom Wreath

November 23, 2021 Katie

I’ve seen variations on this wreath, and I have loved all of them. It’s something that is appropriate for the holidays but also works all winter long. I’d been wanting to make my own wreath for a long time, but I kept putting it off until I came across these bottlebrush trees at Target. I love them so much that I had to use them!

This is actually my second project with these trees. You can see my colorful forest ornament here. I can’t get enough of these trees.

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Supplies:

Foam wreath form (mine is about 16″)
White yarn in various weights and textures
Pompom makers

Scissors
Greening pins
Bottlebrush trees

Glue gun/glue sticks

As much as I love the rainbow colors, I’ve seen beautiful wreaths with just green trees or white and gray trees. I’ve also seen wreaths with gray and white yarn and trees that look very pretty and wintery. There are so many possibilities, and you could do whatever you want!

Here’s what I did…

The first step was making a lot of pompoms. I wanted to cover about a third of the wreath with pompoms, but I didn’t know exactly how many I needed, so I was winging it. I made them in three different sizes (using the three smaller pompom makers that I have), and I started with seven of each size. I did end up making more, but I’ll explain how I made that decision later.

I used blanket yarn to wrap the wreath form. I was originally looking for chunkier yarn (I even have some in “white”), but I couldn’t find any in a bright enough white. Fortunately, I did find something that worked perfectly. To wrap the wreath form, I started by tying a knot with the loose end of the yarn. Then I wrapped the yarn around the wreath form a bunch of times before stopping to push the loops together and tighten them up. I kept going until I had covered about 3/4 of the wreath, and then I tied it off with another knot.

To attach the pompoms, I pushed greening pins through them and then pressed them into the foam. I started in the center of the exposed part of the wreath form and then worked out from there. I had plenty of yarn left over, so if I felt I needed to make another pompom to fill in a bare spot, I just did it.

Once I was happy with the way the pompoms looked, I started attaching the trees. I started with the biggest tree in the center. I added some hot glue to the bottom of the tree base, and then I pressed it onto the foam for a few seconds until it held. I kept adding trees in a similar manner. To add the trees in front, I glued the bases onto the front of the wreath form and then bend the trees upwards.

Once I had glued on the trees, I felt like there were a few holes that I needed to cover. I made a few extra pompoms to cover any left over bare spots or places where it looked like the trees were floating. If I couldn’t use a greening pin to attach them, I used hot glue.

The one thing I haven’t completed on this wreath is the hanger, and that’s because I’m not sure yet where or how I want to hang it. It does sit well enough on my over-the-door hanger, as you can see, so that works for now. But I’m accumulating an impressive collection of wreaths, so it may end up on the wall somewhere.

After I hung the wreath to take pictures, I was looking at them and thinking something was missing. I thought about trying to find small colored ball ornaments to stick all over the top part of the wreath, but I was afraid that anything I would buy would be too big. Then I had the thought to try straight pins. You can get them in all sorts of colors. I wasn’t 100% sure that I was going to like them, but I also knew that if I didn’t, I could pull them out and you’d never even know they’d been there. So I ordered some! I pulled out the colors that matched the colors of the trees, and then I just stuck them in all over the wreath.