There is no better way to welcome fall than to make a wreath and display it on the wall or front door. With this easy DIY coffee filter wreath tutorial, you can learn to assemble a cheaper, quicker, and more durable one that looks oh-so-cute. It would be a great way to use old coffee filters and show off them as clever home decor.
Our fall wreath would feature coffee filter flowers in orangish red and skin color embedded on the farmhouse wreath from. There would also be a small decoration (containing pumpkins, leaves, branches & beads!) that symbolizes this season. So, if you are finding the same idea with step-by-step instructions, keep reading this guide.
Know what I like about this? That a few very simple, humble elements come together to make a lovely coffee filter wreath rather… This one is perfect for fall, but you could easily change the colors for any season.
Materials You Will Need For DIY Coffee Filter Wreaths
Natural Coffee Filters: No longer for brewing coffee only. We shall insert them in a particular way to adorn the wreath base. One pack of 200 coffee filters would be perfect for our coffee filter wreath to DIY. If you more tightly cover the wreath, almost 450 will be needed you can buy at dollar store.
Coffee Filter Flowers: Fold the natural coffee filter into a cone shape by folding it in half and then folding that half into half and cutting the scallops to look like petals. Make larger to smaller layers and assemble them. Then die them in fall or any event colors. You can learn in detail from a flower tutorial like I published.
Straight Pins: You can use any simple metal pins or nails with a sharp point on one end to secure the coffee filter flowers onto the wreath form. They would be hidden.
Fall Picks: You can use fall-themed items like leaves, small pumpkins, acorns, or other decorations.
Straw Wreath Form: On with 10-12 inches of straws would be perfect. We shall use it as the base to pin the coffee filters.
See, you need next to nothing to do this project! Let’s get started…
Skill Level: Anyone Can Do
How To DIY Coffee Filter Wreath For Fall?
Below are the the step-by-step instructions on how to make a wreath with coffee filters:
Step 1: Compress & Then Flaten The Coffee filter
Take your coffee filters, one at a time, and wad (or compress into a lump!) them up…then flatten out. This makes them look less like coffee filters and more like old paper…
Step 2: Shape The Coffee Filters Like A Flower
Fold, squeeze, and fold the filters (one at a time) like the picture (the video shows you how)… you aren’t making a detailed flower necessarily, just getting them in a form that needed to look pretty in the wreath! It would save your time.
Step 3: Insert The Pin Into Stem
Now, put a straight pin in the “stem” of the paper may retain the shape.
Step 4: Insert Filter Paper Into Wreath Form
Start making the row of the filter paper by inserting the stem inside and secure with the pin.
Because the wreath is a similar color to the coffee filters, you don’t need to go crazy pinning these all over the place. Go easy on the coffee filters unless you want a poofy wreath, and if poofy is what you’re looking for…then go nuts!
Step 5: Insert The Dyed Paper Flowers Between Filters Paper Flowers
Now take your coffee filter (watercolor) flowers and tuck and pin them here and there around your wreath…just add them in places you think the wreath needs a bit of color…
Step 6: Insert The Fall Pick Decoration
Complete three rows and After your wreath is ruffly, take your fall pick and put it anywhere you think looks nice… You’ll know just where to add a little color~
Ya know what I like about this? That a few very simple, humble elements come together to make something rather lovely…when I look at it, I’m reminded God can do that…
Step 7: Hang the Coffee Filter Wreath
Attach a hook at the top of the wreath and hang proudly at the front wall.
Video Tutorial For Fall Wreath
The video today is just over 2 minutes, see how quick this project goes!? And I take you to the dining room to show you where this cute little wreath will live throughout the autumn season…
At the end of all my tutorial videos, I always ask you to send me a photo of the project if you do one of your own…my sweet new friend Alena from Moscow sent me her version, which is SO beautiful and inspires me to want to make another one! Thank you, Alena xo
Sending love, my sweet friends
FAQs
How Much Coffee Filters Are Needed For A Wreath?
Here is the rough idea on how much filters needed to cover the wreath forms of various sizes for coffee filter wreaths:
- Small Wreath Form (12-16 inches): Approximately 200-250 coffee filters.
- Medium Wreath (18-24 inches): Approximately 250-400 coffee filters.
- Large Wreath (24 inches and above): Approximately400-550+ coffee filters.
Actually the final amount of coffee filters depend upon the size and thickness of the filters, how tightly you pack them, and the desired fullness of the wreath.
How Much Time Would It Take To Make DIY Coffee Filter Wreath?
It is much hard to say a sepaific time that would take to prepare a wreath. It depends upon the number of coffee filters you would use. For mine 200 filters, it did 4 hours (much time on making the flowers!). You can call the kids for this.
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