Advent Wreath rectangular: for large and small children
Rectangular wooden boxes with 4 red candles, which are now available as Advent wreath. When I discovered it, I wanted to make one myself. Why not even with red tealights and figures from my flea market trash box? Playmobil Santa, Kittens and Mini-Lock! Something else. Watch out! This tinkering is not difficult, but it takes a lot of time.
Material:
- Stretcher with canvas 18 x 24 cm x 2 cm
- Acrylic color green
- Structure paste gold
- Fimo modeling clay
- brush
- Craft glue (transparent drying)
- glitter
- 4 red tealights
- red gift ribbon and bright cord
- Christmas decoration (small Christmas tree balls, small straw stars, golden walnuts, etc.)
- small figures
This is how it's done:
- Paint the canvas unevenly with textured paste, allow to dry. Then paint green. Spread a few swabs of structure paste on it.
- Shape sausages with Fimo 4 and knead the ends to make gyros. Diameter slightly larger than the tealight: a good 4 cm. Heat in the oven at 110 degrees for 30 minutes. Then take out and let cool, then the gyros are hard.
- Paint the gyroscope with structure paste gold and dab. Let dry.
- Trying out where to put the tealights. For decoration that has wire for insertion or a neck like the mini-balls, you have to make holes in the canvas. The balls are glued in, wires simply plugged.
- The 4 gyros are then painted with craft glue on the bottom and come in their place.
- If they are stuck, spread very thin craft glue on the surface and carefully scatter glitter dust. Let dry.
- Wrap the edge of the stretcher with gift ribbon and glue the ends together. Then the cord comes around twice.
- Finally, the decoration parts are attached and glued. Then the tealights come in the gyros and the figures in their place. Ready is the rectangular Advent wreath!
Tip: If you want to change the figures, put them loose. Otherwise you take adhesive pads or plasticine for fixing.