star wreath

One of the projects I made this past week was a giant star wreath.

I got the idea from Little Bit Funky, but I used thin wood dowels rather than yardsticks.

I bought 5 dowels (5/8 inch/orange tip) at Hobby Lobby for $0.59 each, and a tube of yellow paint for $0.99. That means this was a $4 project. Gotta love that!

And it was super simple. I just painted the dowels yellow, then added a brown wash on top (brown paint watered down). I wiped off most of the brown wash, then decided it was too dark so I used my finger to add more yellow paint in certain areas to brighten it up again.

 I played with the dowels until I liked the way my star looked. Then I hot glued the pieces together.  All that was left to do was add a ribbon and hang it up outside.

I had some extra popsicle sticks left over from another project, so now I'm working on making smaller stars to hang from a tree in the front yard.

It's a great project for little hands to work on also. None of  my kids wanted to help though (way to mature for that).  Just do the hot glue part yourself (I always burn myself with hot glue).

Hope your Monday is going great!