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.
Sue says
I would also spray the baloon with pam
Robin says
I just made this Egg Wreath and it turned out beautiful, I just love it. Thanks for the idea, very Eastery!!!!! Blowing up my balloons was pretty easy just stretch them a few times and blow them up! I will probably be making another one to give to my Mom.
Vanessa says
OMG! This is too cute! Im from Brazil, and just saw this project! Congrats for the work and ideas!
Thanks Vanessa!!
Linda Parker says
Lisa,
A couple of weeks ago I saw a wreath similar to yours in a magazine when I was at the drs. office. It used STIFFY for glue and it was just one row with a big bow. I couldn’t find the magazine so started to search the web and came across yours. Where did you get this idea? I am in the process of making the wreath but I would love to know magazine I saw it in and wondered if that is where you saw it. Very cute!
Thank you,
Linda
Linda, I never saw the magazine :) This post is actually from two years ago, and just came from the depths of my brain :) I got help making the eggs from the blog I reference in the post.
Jessie says
Hi Lisa,
I tried using white glue but it didn’t work. The starch+flour method didn’t work too. Any ideas what went wrong?
I can’t speak to the white glue method, but the starch and flour method worked like a charm for me. What kind of starch did you buy? Also, I’m guessing you did this, but just to be sure, was the thread 100% dry when you popped the balloons. Mine took forever to dry, and I had to rotate them.
Brenda says
Do I need to heat starch when adding flour. Tips on mixing plz?.
I didn’t heat mine. I just whisked it together
Jessie says
This was a great project to do with my granddaughter. I will always think of her, when I look at our wreath . Thank you
Jessie, this was one of the sweetest comments I’ve gotten in a long time. It totally made my day. Thank you!
carol says
how did the YARN work? I want to use Yarn too because I have a lot of it
Jojo says
I wonder why people don’t read all the previous comments before replying. I feel compassion for you and your frustration as you repeat the same information over and over, and your responses are always gracious and appreciative. I enjoy reading the others’ comments and usually learn from them. Thank you for this great, timely craft which (I plan to do w/6, 7, &9yrs. old granddaughter& her 2 friends this weekend.
Oh, Jojo. Thank you. This was full of so much kindness (and you might notice if you read comments on blogs, that that’s not the norm). You made my day.