How to Make a School Teacher Wreath With Pretzels

Video Transcript

" Hi! This is Ginny with Simply Beautiful Crafts on behalf of Expert Village and today I am going to show you the wreath that I started with many years ago. I made gifts for my children’s teachers. You might have a friend as a teacher. You might have children, whose teachers you would like to gift with a wreath. So I started out making these and had too much fun with it. What you want to do is find a kind of ribbon that you like, this is particularly Christmas ribbon and weave it through your finished wreath. Some ribbons have difference on the back and some of them don’t. So you want to check your ribbon out and make sure that you are putting it through consistently. Start in the back, behind a joint, go over, under, over, under, all the way around your wreath. One way to measure it if you want to cut it before you use it is to put it around the outside for one and a quarter to one and a half times the size of the wreath, weaving it in and out, in and out, checking to make sure that your ribbon stays the way you want it. It will take you about 10-20 minutes once you have your finished wreath and all of your embellishments. This is an opportunity to use your glue gun. You do not have to rely on white glue and wait for it to set. Once your wreath has been varnished or shellacked, the glue gun will hold things to it. Once you have made your way around your wreath with your ribbon and you want to take it on the back side and find a seam, draw a bead of hot glue right down that seam, put it on there, hold it until it is cool and then do the same thing with the other piece from the other end. Once you have done that, you are ready to embellish your wreath. These are buttons that I found in the craft store, and you can also find things in the scrap booking section that are stickers. This is kind of a combination of buttons and stickers. If you are going to put something in the back, I recommend that you do that first, turn it over, put your spots of glue, lay it on and turn it back quickly to make sure it is exactly where you want it, because hot glue sticks very quickly and it will pull the surface of the pretzel off if you do wait for it cool. Then you want to arrange your buttons or your pieces of adornment around your wreath and once you have them the way you want them, simply take your hot glue gun, put it on, slip the back of it into a hole and you are done. Last thing you want to do is to make a wreath… I mean a bow for your wreath and also something to hang it with whether you have a wire or a cross or a piece at the top. So now you have a special wreath for that special teacher whether it is a friend of yours or one of your children’s teachers. Hope you enjoy making a wreath for that special teacher."