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.
stacy says
Great job.. looks like this mommas surgery recovery will be spent making all kinds of things..
carol says
Can I use regular YARN? ONLY because I have alot of it and want to use it up
BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER YOU HAVE
THANKS LOVE LOVE LOVE THE EGGS. I WANT TO INCORPORATE THEM IN A DECO WREATH
Hi Carol! I can’t speak to how yarn would work since I’ve only used the embroidery thread. I would suspect that yarn would work, but I would really make sure that you use your fingers to wipe off any excess liquid, and it will probably need more drying time.
Tiffany says
Yarn works.. We made big ones for the kids Easter basket years ago. They turned out soooo cute:)
Loretta says
This is going to be my Saturday project this weekend. I love it!
Rhonda K from Ma. says
I couldnt blow those things up for the life of me! I used an air compressor carefully! It worked perfectly!
I’m so glad it wasn’t just me Rhonda!
Amber says
What is the best way to wrap around the balloon? I did a couple last night as test Ines and tthere is a hole at the bottom :(
Hmmmm, I’m not really sure what you mean Amber . . . I just kind of went all over, no rhyme or reason.
Claire says
So I am a couple years behind on finding this, but I LOVE this wreath idea. My husband and I are in our first house and it’s become my mission to make cute wreaths for all the different holidays…and I just found Easter! :) Quick question, how fragile is this? I want to make a wreath I can use over and over again and I wasn’t sure if this would be too fragile. Thoughts?
Mine has held up really well, and it’s been three years! I would say just make sure that you store it by itself in a sturdy container.
Elizabeth says
I am currently working on these know!! It is very fun and creative. I am using Elmer’s glue, is that ok?
Elizabeth, that’s not how I made mine, so I can’t really speak to how it will work. I hope it turns out for you!
Anna says
i love this but how do u get the eggs to stay in egg form after popping the balloons
Anna, I know that some people have had trouble with this, but honestly mine worked fine. I think that the biggest thing is to make sure that the string is absolutely dry. You need to flip the eggs at some point in the process so that the bottom can dry too.
Jo says
This is the problem I had-they weren’t even egg shaped when I blew them up-had like 2 or 3 out of almost 30! I had water balloons and pd $1.60 for 100 I believe it said. They are cute-extremely messy-was so glad I wore disposable gloves!! ha! Not sure what you mean by add your url-if you mean where I am reading or if I have one-which I don’t :) Added the site I am on.
Hi Jo! I’m sorry these didn’t totally work out the way you wanted them to. I’m sure it’s different balloon to balloon. When I remade this this year I used normal sized balloons and just didn’t blow them up all the way.
Pat says
i can not find St-flo at my local JoAnns or Michaels. :(.
Hi Pat! I actually bought mine at my grocery store with the laundry supplies!
Sandra Tennant says
I absolutely love this me, my son, and niece are going to make one of these to hang on the door.
Thanks Sandra!