How to Make a Christmas Swag for a Mailbox

Give your plain mailbox a Christmas makeover.

Make a Christmas swag to embellish your mailbox next holiday season. Use artificial pine garland, pine cones, artificial seasonal berry picks, and red ribbon to create your swag. No need to worry about wasting a whole pine garland for one small swag: simply use the remaining garland to wrap around your mailbox post.

Things You'll Need

• Artificial pine garland
• Spool of floral wire
• Hot glue gun
• Red ribbon, 2 inches wide
• Large red ribbon bow
• 6 to 8 pine cones
• 6 to 8 artificial seasonal berry picks

Instructions

1. Drape the artificial pine garland over your mailbox. Cut the garland to fit your desired swag length. Twist the end of a spool of floral wire around one end of the swag. Pull the wire underneath the mailbox to reach the other end of the swag. Twist the wire around the loose end of the swag to hold it in place on the mailbox. Cut the wire.

2. Wind 2-inch-wide red ribbon around the cut garland. Apply hot glue to several points on the ribbon to attach it to the swag. Hot glue the large red ribbon bow on top of the swag.

3. Hot glue pine cones to the swag on either side of the big bow. Hot glue artificial seasonal berry picks between the pine cones.