This Easter Egg Wreath is a simple and easy DIY! This Easter Wreath DIY is less than $10 to make, and is so pretty. It is delicate but holds up year after year!
I love spring!
Since seeing this idea way back in like January, I have wanted to use it to make an Easter egg wreath. There are tons of people out there trying their hand at this, but my absolute favorite is found here. More recently, Alissa, at Crafty Endeavor did this post about making an Easter Egg Garland. Alissa is smart, and she made this project about a million times easier for me.
Easter Egg Wreath Supplies
First, you need a lot of embroidery floss, about 20 to 25 skeins, in lovely pastel Eastery colors.
Next, you need to make your starchy bath. For that you need:
- 1/2a cup of all purpose flour
- 1 cup Sta-Flo liquid starch
Next you need some balloons. For this you have two options:
- Water balloons – they make the perfect shape, but they are very hard to blow up. Some readers have suggested using a pump, which is a great idea.
- Full sized balloons – they are very easy to blow up, but you have to be careful not to blow them up too much or you will get spheres instead of eggs. Additionally, you need to make sure you tie them very tight or they will leak and deflate before your string dries.
How to Make an Easter Egg Wreath
- Carefully put one skein of embroidery floss into the starchy mixture by unraveling it into the mixture in nice loops (pictured above). Resist the urge to just throw it in, or it will become a gloppy mess.
- Blow up your balloons.
- Working over wax pepper, begin to wrap the floss around one balloon, using your fingers to pull off excess liquid as you go. Make it go through two tightly pinched fingers before it makes its way on to the balloon. One skein will go perfectly around one balloon.
- Place the wrapped balloon on a piece of wax paper and allow to dry over night.
- In the morning, flip all the eggs over and let them finish drying for a few hours.
- Once the embroidery floss is completely dry, pop the balloons. (Note: It helps to push the balloon away from the dried floss a little before popping.) Carefully remove the balloons from the inside of the egg and use a needle or toothpick to work away any excess dried starchy liquid.
- Finally, set a bowl on wax paper and use it as a guiding shape to form to circles around with the eggs, hot gluing them together as you go. It helps to form the wreath completely, arrange the colors how you want them, and then remove one egg at a time to glue it in.
And here it is hanging up.
Easter Egg Wreath Cost
Your wreath shopping list:
- 20 skeins of embroidery floss (I ended up using 19) – they were $0.35 each at Michaels and I used a 20% off of everything coupon because I’m thrifty like that
- Sta-Flo – about $2.50
- Water Balloons – about $0.50 if you have good lung capacity
- Other things you hopefully have: Hot Glue Gun and Hot Glue, Wax Paper, Plastic Bowl, Flour, Ribbon for hanging
So if you’re keeping track, I did it for under $10. Not bad for a fancy looking wreath.
Anonymous says
You can make liquid starch using corn starch and water. just google it.
Anonymous says
LOVE THIS. How about a sugar and water mixture. Thats what i use on my snowflakes.
Lisa says
I don’t think that would work because of the balloon, though I certainly could be wrong. If you try it and it works, let me know!
Becky says
We always used sugar water.
Joy Hurst says
How much sugar and water per container. I tried that a few years back. It worked great. I just can’t remember the quantity of each.
Hi Becky! I’m a little confused. I didn’t use water or sugar to make this . . .
Anonymous says
Love this idea. Do you think it’ll last outside during rainy days?
Lisa says
Unfortunately, I don’t :/ I think that if it were in the open, but covered by a porch over-hang, it would be okay. But I don’t think it would survive a lot of direct contact with weather.
Kandace says
I think the sun will heat up the hot glue and it will fall apart. Might want to us string to tie them together after glueing it. I made a flipflop wreathe one and the hot glue melted in the sun and my flipflops were on the ground.
I disagree Kandace. Our wreath was hung in direct sun and did fine.
Carolyn says
I used my yoga ball pump to blow up the balloons. It made blowing up the balloons super easy, so the hardest part was tying off the teeny balloons.
Lisa says
OMG! Genius Carolyn!
Kate says
I found the water baloons at Walmart inside a can that was also a pump. It is called X-shot. Worked perfectly!
Kristi Wilson says
Fill the balloons with water first, makes blowing them up a breeze. Mine were super easy to tie… maybe because I took her advice and spent more than 50cents on the pack.
Maria says
What a cute project! I love it so much that I decided to feature it in our roundup of Easter crafts! Check it out here: http://kraftycardsetc.blogspot.com/2013/03/15-last-minute-easter-ideas.html.
Have a great day!
Tracy @ The UnCoordinated Mommy says
What a cute wreath!! I will definitely be trying this for my mantel!
And I couldn’t stop laughing about blowing up the balloons. LOL I will definitely not buy the cheapest. :)
Bethf says
If you try them on a wire rack with paper under it to catch drips it will help with drying.
Sue says
i am think twine and elmer’s with cake coloring would be cheaper….
Sue says
thinking not think