DIY Conversation Heart Wreath for Valentines Day
A DIY Conversation Heart Wreath for Valentines Day uses wooden hearts painted like candy hearts glued to a wreath. Cardstock can work as well.
Servings: 1 wreath
Cost: $12.50
Equipment
- Paint brush
- Hot glue gun and glue
Ingredients
- Heart shaped wreath (OR heart shaped wreath cut from poster board)
- Wooden hearts cut in a variety of sizes from flat wood
- Acrylic craft paint in pastel colors (pink, blue, green, purple, yellow- your choice)
- White Puffy paint (could use a white paint pen)
- Ribbon- about 3-4 yards (I used purple 1” wide ribbon)
- Package of conversation heart candy
Instructions
- Start with painting the wooden hearts with the various colors of craft paint you have chosen. I chose the pastel colors of the conversation hearts I purchased. The colors were pastel pink, blue, purple, green and yellow.Paint several hearts each color. I painted 6-7 of each of the five paint colors.
- While the paint is drying, wrap the wreath with ribbon. Wrap the ribbon all the way around and tie the two ends together with a knot. Tie these ends in a bow.
- I dumped out the box of conversation hearts and read the messages on them.Using Puffy white paint, I wrote short messages on the wooden hearts. Messages are in capital letters, write small!!
- When the paint on the wooden hearts is dry, hot glue a layer of the larger hearts all the way around the wreath.Then hot glue a second layer of the smaller hearts between and around the larger hearts.
- Randomly hot glue the conversation hearts onto the wreath. Space them out and vary the colors.
- Add a short or long piece of ribbon at the top of the heart wreath to be able to hang it.
Video
Notes
Tip: I used a heart shaped wreath about 10-11 inches wide and high as the base of this project. If you don’t have a wreath, you could cut a wreath shape from colored posterboard or even plain cardboard (and then paint it a good background color). If you don’t have wooden hearts, cut hearts of cardboard in various sizes and paint these instead.