DIY: Paper-Bag Spring Wreath

My place needed some Spring spice and thanks to maryjanesandgaloshes.com, I found the perfect crafty solution. I love the fact that this wreath is made from paper lunch bags. It makes me grin every time I see the wreath.

To start, I nixed the suggested foam wreath form and made my own from cardboard. Then I glued on flowers made from circles of paper lunch bags. (This took forever, I must admit. Lots of time to think about all the bag lunches I ate in elementary school.) To finish, I cut out and glued on blue and yellow butterflies — plus some I cut from sheet music I printed.

Flower technique: Put the eraser end of a pencil in the center of a paper circle and gather the sides of the circle up around the pencil to make a flower. Glue each flower onto the cardboard back. Go to maryjanesandgolashes.com for more details.