DIY Garland Ideas

Hey!! It's Lexa again. (Annamarie is on a vacation) So, the thing I hate the most on craft websites are things like the following example. Say I'm looking for craft ideas for gifts and I see a website for Best Brownie Recipe In a Jar. So I click it. And then they are all like, 'all you need is a jar and a pre-bought brownie mix. Put it in the jar and your done!' That would take me, what, 5 seconds? And now what?! So, I have some ideas I am going to use for garlands, and no, I am not going to tell you to go out and buy a tassel and some string, all though you will need certain stuff. This will be completely DIY.

Garland #1: Watermelon Garland

Supplies:

• Scissors
• glue
• tape or hole punch
• string in your color choice
• green paper
• pink paper
• sharpie or black marker

Step 1: To create the watermelons, you need the above materials. first, cut out as many pink triangles as you'd like.

Step 2: Cut long green rectangles, for the edge of the watermelon.

Step 3: Glue the green rectangle on to the pink triangle and let dry.

Step 4: After you let it dry, cut the edges of the rectangle so it matches up with the side of the watermelon. Put some black 'seeds' on the watermelon.

Step 5: Either put two hole punches in the top of the watermelon and to pull the strings through, have tape ready.




Now, the words...

Supplies:

• Paper in your color choice(s)
• Sharpie
• String in your color choice(s)
• Hole punch or tape

Step 1: Cut the paper into your choice of shape. I chose squares with a scalloped bottom.

Step 2: When you are finished with that, write your word on it. My word of choice was 'Love' but some other ideas are:

Love, Peace, Joy, Happiness, Faith, Believe, Live, Summer, or your name, Such as I could have replaced ;'Love' with 'Lexa'. Now write that word on your shapes. I did one letter per square.

Step 3: Tassels! Look up how to make tassels, or see a coming-soon video on DIY tassels.

Step 4: Either put two hole punches or have your tape ready.

Step 5: Sort your watermelon into two equal piles. Such as, if you cut 14 watermelon, put 7 in each pile.

Step 6 for hole punching: Hole punch both ends of your watermelon, (or shape) and pull the string through. Put half your watermelon on the string, equally spaced, and then put your words and tassels on. Then finish it by putting the rest of the watermelon on and hanging it up!

Step 6 for taping: Tape the string to the back of your watermelon or shape. Put half your watermelon on the string, equally spaced, and then put your words and tassels on. Then finish it by putting the rest of the watermelon on and hanging it up!

Garland #2: Sweet Treats Garland

Supplies:

• Colored paper
• Tape or hole punch
• Glue
• String
• Markers

P.S. Sorry for the poor quality of the Sweet Treats Garland Pictures.

There really aren't any steps for this. Just cut the paper out and glue it into treat ideas and then tape the string to the back of it, or hole punch it and string it, then hang it from your doorframe or on a wall.

Treat ideas: Ice cream, donuts, m&m's, cookies, cake, cupcakes.

Garland #3: Picture garland:

Hey, it's Lexa. Ok, before I explain the project (you might not even need explaining, you can sort of tell by the picture) I need to explain why the picture is how it is. So, this room isn't Lexa or Annamarie's, it just someone we know. We thought it was a good craft idea, so we decided to post it. However, the unnamed friend didn't want her identity in the picture, so we had to cover up the picture of her with friends and things like that, so, sorry about that. But, you can still tell what it is, so it's fine. Anyways, here is the craft...

You need:

• clothespins
• string
• something to hang this up with (Tape, sticky stuff you hang on a wall, whatever)
• Pictures 
• Optional: Cardstock paper

Directions:

1. Print off your pictures 
2. Optional: Glue the pictures to cardstock paper
3. hang a string on your wall by both ends
4. Put clothespins on the string, and clip the pictures to them
5. If you run out of space for pictures, you can rotate them. Use these 5 pictures this month, next month change them out for a different 5 pictures, etc. 

https://crazycraftsandcooking.blogspot.com/2017/09/picture-garland.html

Garland #4: Tassel Garland (with dry-erase flags!)

 Hey, it's Lexa! So, recently, I've been wanting a whiteboard, or something to easily display information and reminders on! And then I was thinking about making a garland for my bedroom door. And THEN I remember in elementary school, writing on lamented sheets of paper with white board markers. So I realized I could make some sheets of paper, have them laminated, and I'd have a whiteboard! But having a random piece of paper on my wall, lamented, might look kind of weird. So then I had the idea to combine them, and make a garland with some dry erase flags!                                                                                                                                             So, here's what you need for this project:         *Paper to laminate and make into flags                       *tissue paper in your color of choice                                *some sort of string or yarn to use you put the tassels and flags on                                                                                                                                                                                  

So, making the flags is pretty simple. Just cut the paper into the shape you want, laminate it, and hole punch it. Then you can put it on the string or yarn you are using. It should be easy to use dry erase marker on it, and erase it!
If you don't know where to laminate it, you can also use tape on a plastic binder tab thing, usually they are dry-erase. Then you should be able to cut it up. You could also cover your paper with strips of tape, which should work the same way.

For the tassels, I found a website that explained really well (with pictures!) how to make the tassels. Here is the link to that website. After that, put them on a string and put it up where you'd like! Comment below or send us an email with any questions or comments!

More coming soon!

Last updated September 14, 2018
Sorry The last time this was updated before then ^^ was almost a year. In fact, in two weeks it would be a year. Sorry to all y'all waiting and emailing, it's taken some time.