How to make a Starbucks Yarn Wreath

As most of you know, I recently walked into Starbucks and saw this bad boy. A beautiful ornament yarn ball wreath at Starbucks, and I got smacked over the head with a big ol' case of "Hey, I can make that!"

So I did. And I'm going to show you how to as well!



What you will need:
- A wire wreath form found in the floral section of the craft store. I got mine for only $2.47
- Two packages of Styrofoam balls. You can use all the same size, or varying sizes. I went for all the same
- Two colors of yarn. I found great "eco friendly" soft yarn for only $2.86 at Wal-Mart. This may be wrong but I'm not huge on red and green for Christmas. I'm more of a gold and muted green kinda gal, so that's what I went for.
- Two packages of Holiday ornaments from Wal-Mart. They are $5.00 a pack
- Your trusty glue gun
-LOTS of glue sticks.

Step One:

Start wrapping your yarn over the Styrofoam balls. The trick is to wrap in several directions to get the actual yarn ball feel. Only wrap enough to cover any white surfaces, or else you will have larger than life yarn balls. Tuck your loose ends neatly under a strand of yarn already wrapped around the ball. They will hold just dandy.

Your yarn balls should start looking like this...

Step Two:

Repeat step one with your other color of yarn.

Step Three: Roll out some wrapping paper on your bedroom floor, put on some HGTV and lay out all your goods.

Step Four:

Start by gluing your yarn balls, alternating colors to the wreath form. You can probably do a better job at evenly placing them then I did.

Step Five:

Start gluing in your ornaments. I glued two on the wreath form on each side, at the base of each yarn ball. I used a small drop of glue to also affix the ornament to the side of each yarn ball after it was places. So you will have three glue spots-

1- At the top of the ornament (where it usually hangs from) to the base of the wreath

2- One on the left side of the ornament touching a yarn ball

3- One on the right side of the ornament, touching the other yarn ball it was next to

Then, I just plopped an ornament in between each yarn ball on the face of the wreath.

Step Six:

Start admiring your wreath because you love how it's turning out and you love the colors.

Step Six:

You will have a handful of leftover ornaments. Just layer these in wherever you have little gaps, It will give the wreath a fuller look.

Then, You are finished!!! Hang that sucker up and ENJOY your copy cat Starbucks Wreath!

Let me know if you make one! I would love to see how it looks!

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~Kara