I saw this wreath of plenty idea in the November issue of Family Fun magazine and loved it. I wanted to try it this year with my family. Best part for me…I had everything I needed on hand, so I spent no extra money. Love that! Here are the supplies you need:

straw wreath
fabric strips (I cut up an old burlap potato sack to use on mine!)
straight pins
cardstock

Begin by cutting your strips of fabric or burlap. I just measured how much it took to wrap around the wreath and allowed an inch extra. I cut the strips 2 inches wide. They are probably 4 inches long or so. I didn’t count how many I cut, I just did a bunch. Then wrap each strip around the wreath and pin in place! Easy. Keep doing that, overlapping each strip a bit as you go, and when you are done, the wreath looks like this:

Cut out leaves (I used my Silhouette SD machine to cut out my leaves) using different colors of cardstock. Then have each person write on one leaf each day, then pin to the wreath! You can bend each leaf for dimension. It looks so good when it starts to fill up. Here is our wreath so far, only 7 days into the month! What are you thankful for right now?

Here is a bonus cabinet door project; I had completely forgotten about this one until this weekend when I put away the Halloween decor.  No real tutorial – it’s pretty easy!  This door is actually the brother of the door I painted blue and attached my house numbers to (blech.  Fuzzy pic…).

I painted this one a basic neutral tan.  I painted chip board letters from the craft store with black craft paint and a foam brush, then stuck them on to spell “Thankful”.  Play around with your arrangement before you stick them down and make sure your words will fit.  I originally wanted this sign to say “give thanks” but it was too long.  Thankful was just right though, so that’s what it became!

These letters are self stick, and by the end of the season last year, they were starting to pull up.

I scraped them all up carefully with a spatula and used spray adhesive on the back.  Save yourself some work and just use the spray adhesive to begin with!

Spray adhesive is SO messy, but sometimes it really is just the best way to go.   When I am spraying a lot of little pieces like this, I will just pull a magazine or newspaper out of the recycling bin, lay it out, spray and adhere one piece, turn the page and spray the next one.  Keep going with a clean page or sheet of paper for each item you are spraying and you won’t get glue on the front of anything, and you can just pick the whole mess up and throw it away when you’re done.

Here it is in its place in the front entry display at my school.

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