Craft Corner

We are smack in the middle of the decorationheavy months of the year, and these fall projects will get you into the spirit of the holidays. While I try to use the simplest materials, things you hopefully have around the house, sometimes these projects take additional materials. In this case, fake leaves, beads, thread, and a needle. I like to use felt balls on my garland as well, but those can get pricy! Believe it or not, Dollar Tree tends to have beads, fake leaves, needles, and thread! If you can’t find something on the list, I encourage you to visit Crooked Beauty in Felton. We have everything to make this project in our studio or we have take-home Fake Leaf Fall Garland Kits.

Leaf Garlands

Here are two ways to make a colorful fall leaf garland that you can reuse every year. These lovely and simple garlands will look beautiful along your mantle, or maybe in a window, or archway. You could do short strands and hang them vertically like a curtain in front of a window.

Garland One

Fake Leaf Garland

MATERIALS

Fake leaves, needle and thread, beads, felt balls or anything that would add a personal touch!

1. Cut thread the length you want your garland to be. You can also do short ones and tie them together. 2. Thread the needle

3. You can do this two ways; you can either lay out in the order you want the items strung, or pick randomly without order. Either way looks beautiful, and if you have a little helper, they might have fun picking what goes next. 4. Use the needle to poke through the leaves and beads and whatever else you use until you’ve strung up all the components. 5. Hang it up!

Of course, you can always do a thankful tree - draw a tree and color it or cut one out of brown construction paper. Cut out leaf shapes from the template provided, color them, or cut them from colored construction paper. Before dinner, write what you're grateful for on the leaves, and tape or glue them onto the tree.

Garland Two

Paper Leaf Garland

MATERIALS

Construction paper, fake leaves, needle and thread, beads, felt balls or other bling

1. Cut thread the length you want your garland to be. You can also do short ones and tie them together. 2. If you have a copier at your disposal, you can copy a leaf outline onto the colored paper. If you don’t have a copier, cut out each leaf, and use them to trace on the colored paper, then cut them out.

Pro Tip: Using paper is fun because then you can paint or draw on the leaves, making it even more special and unique! 3. Hang it up!

Another version of this is using small white x-mas lights and wrapping the garland around them so they hang off the lights!