Make Your Own Pride Paper Wreath

 

Celebrate Pride Month with this beautiful do-it-yourself paper wreath. We're going to show you how making this masterpiece using Paper Source ornamental documents in detail! Here are the materials you'll need to make this wreath: cutter of paper (preferably a slide cutter or guillotine cutter) scissors double-sided tape, foam wreath (1.4′′ x 9.8′′) decorative paper in.

Step-By-Step Tutorial

Here are the materials you will need to make this wreath:

• Scissors
• Two-sided tape
• Foam wreath (1.4″ x 9.8″)
• 14 Straight pins with ball heads
• A variety of coloured decorative paper (7 colours in total)
• Cutter of paper (preferably a slide cutter or guillotine cutter)

Guidelines:

• Begin by cutting down your paper strips. Each strip should be 1 inch wide by 12 inches long. Depending on the size of your wreath form, you'll need anywhere from 20 to 30 strips of each colour.
• You'll start by making accordion folded "snakes" with one colour at a time.

How to Fold an Accordion:

• Begin with two strips of the same colour.
• Strip 1 should be placed vertically on the surface.
• Place strip 2 horizontally on top of strip 1 and secure with double-sided tape.

Begin by folding the strips back and forth over each other in the order listed below:

• Step 1: Fold up strip 1
• Step 2: Fold strip 2 left
• Step 3: Fold strip one in half
• Step 4: To the right, fold strip 2.
• Repeat steps 1-4 until you've used up all of your paper strips.
• Remove any excess paper with scissors and secure the loose flap with double-sided tape.

Your accordion strips should look something like this:

• Continue making these with the remaining one-color strips and connecting them with double-sided tape to form one long'snake.'
• When stretched out, each snake should be about a yard long.
• Rep this procedure for each additional colour (i.e. orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink)
• You should have a total of seven snakes.

Once you've finished each colour snake, attach it to the foam wreath as follows:

• Use only one colour at a time.
• Attach the snake's tail to the wreath with a straight pin.
• Begin winding the snake around the wreath form, making sure that each rotation is snug against the previous one.
• When you've finished one colour, use a straight pin to secure the end to the wreath.
• Rep these steps with each colour until all 7 snakes wrap around the wreath form.

Remember:

You may need to make adjustments to fit all of the paper onto the wreath; the goal is for the accordion folds to nestle into each other so that no white foam is visible.

Your finished product should look something like this:

This wreath can be hung on your door or used as home decor. Change the colours of your paper according to the season, or make a graduation wreath using school colours. The options are limitless!

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