How to Make a Traditional Christmas Wreath With Pretzels

Video Transcript

" Hi! This is Ginny with Simply Beautiful Crafts on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I am going to show you how to make a traditional Christmas wreath out of your pretzel ring or wreath. As with all of your wreaths, the first thing you are going to do is put your ribbon through it. This is a very inexpensive paper ribbon that I got at the craft store. You can also use cloth ribbon, lace ribbon anything that has that traditional Christmas flavor to it. You want to wrap your ribbon around your wreath, one and a half to one and a quarter times tell you about how much ribbon you need and then you are going to start weaving it through, coming from the backside to the front going over a joint. As you weave your ribbon through if it is wider than your wreath ribbon, you want to kind of hold it a little bit so that you keep the ribbon wide, pull it through and you might want to leave just the little bit so it has that bit of puff that adds to the 3D effect of you wreath, may be even hold it down just a bit so that you do not accidentally pull that puff, so then you can pull it tight on the bottom and you still have the little bit of a puff on top. Go ahead and go all the way around your wreath with your ribbon, keeping it straight, stopping those puffs from getting flattened out, putting it through until you get all the way around to the beginning. Once you are there, you want to take your ribbon, cut the end of it off so that it is just right there and then you can either cut it so that it is pointed or if you have already got a flat cut with it, you can lay your bead of glue right here in the crease and then kind of pleat your ribbon, so that all of it is on there and it is behind the wreath, so that you do not see it from the other side. Then once you got your ribbon all the way around it you can make a bow for the bottom and go ahead and stick your bow on and then embellish it with traditional Christmas designs. I was able to find these products at my discount store and a lot of time The Dollar Stores will have these kinds of things around Christmas time. This big bag of little beads has lasted a longtime and I have been able to use it for many products. You want to carefully put your ornaments around or your decorations around, lay them on, play with them, decide if that is how you want them or not. Once you have them set the way that you want them, go ahead and take your glue gun, run a bead of glue on the back, place it carefully where you want it. Be sure you place it carefully because once the glue is set, if you try to take a piece off, it will take the finish off and you will have an unprotected piece. Then when you are all finished, you might want to put some of the little gold balls around, or a little red or little green balls and then make sure you make some kind of a hanger in the back so that you can hang your ornament on the tree or on your wall wherever you would like to hang it. So this is a very traditional Merry Christmas wreath brought to you by Simply Beautiful Crafts."