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:

  1. Paint the canvas unevenly with textured paste, allow to dry. Then paint green. Spread a few swabs of structure paste on it.
  2. 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.
  3. Paint the gyroscope with structure paste gold and dab. Let dry.
  4. 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.
  5. The 4 gyros are then painted with craft glue on the bottom and come in their place.
  6. If they are stuck, spread very thin craft glue on the surface and carefully scatter glitter dust. Let dry.
  7. Wrap the edge of the stretcher with gift ribbon and glue the ends together. Then the cord comes around twice.
  8. 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.

How To Make an Advent Wreath | March 2024