Crayon Wreath for Queso's Teacher

WOW! It's been a long few days. I had all these ideas for end of year gifts in my head for months now. As per usual these days, I looked up and it was the end of the year and I didn't have a single one even started.

So, I poured through Pinterest as I had pinned several ideas I had in mind. This wreath was a MUST do for me, it is just so stinkin' cute. The problem was, no one pinned properly and it took FOREVER to find any tutorials. When I finally found some, several said they used 2 embroidery loops to make the frame. I didn't have the correct sizes and on an extreme budget, I found this fabulous tutorial at PerpetualBlinddates blogspot and I loved not only that she used cardboard but that she covered it in glitter for a little extra bling behind the crayons.

Since she didn't really give any measurements, I laid out crayons the way I wanted them spaced and found a hat box that was exactly the right size for the inside of my cardboard circle.I only laid out 1/4 of the wreath for this) The I held my crayon up to it and decided about 2 inches was what I needed for workable space.

I also figured the crayons would be heavy, so I doubled up my cardboard rings and hot glued them together.for more support. I wish I had the foresight to hot glue my hanging ribbon in between those but, next time.

Moving on, I then covered it in a pretty turquoise craft paint and sprinkled that with glitter.

Then, when it was dry, I hot glued some ribbon around the outside edge in case it ended up being visible, which it wasn't, but, oh well.

Now every one I saw said to lay them all out first to make sure of you spacing and they all used hot glue. I am doing about 5 projects this evening and didn't want to lay them all out then worry again when gluing them down getting the labels all facing the right way, so I didn't use hot glue, I used this adhesive I found at the dollar store called Amazing GOOP Household. It was AWESOME, dried slow enough to let me move the crayons around if I needed to as I worked around but quick enough that I was able to finish my project this evening.

I found this adorable little "flip letter" toy at Goodwill for under $2 and this cute little apple that was more country colors so I just covered it in more vibrant red & green.

Now I cut little pieces of cardboard, put hot glue where I wanted my ribbon connected, placed the ribbon, added more hot glue, then put the cardboard on top of that and put 2 staples over it before it dried. Probably over kill but I didn't want it to fall and be destroyed.

Now I took apart the letters and spelled out his teachers name, I am lucky, there were no repeat letters. I have wooden craft letters from Michael's so my plan had been to paint those and spell it out..So, I placed everything and when happy, hot glued those bad boys down and there you have it, an ADORABLE wreath for her classroom door! (Had to save the apple for another craft) 

There it is, adorable as it could be and aside from not really being happy with the ribbon hanger placement, I am madly in love with this wreath! :)

Stay tuned only about 5 or six more coming, hopefully tonight...