Making A Cardboard Snowflake Wreath: a house log

Let us get wreath the program, shall we? Forgive the bad pun, I am simply a little (ok, a lot) hyper about our latest holiday project. You may remember Cardboard Safari from our recent Sponsor Shout-Out post. Well, they generously sent over two of their remarkable white cardboard snowflake wreaths and we could not wait to put them together. One of the most lively things about everything from Cardboard Safari is that it arrives flat in a box, and all the laser cut pieces of recycled cardboard can then be punched out by the lucky recipient and put together, like a highly entertaining 3-D puzzle for adults.

It truly is our idea of a good time. Especially since we enjoy anything Hands-on, anything recycled, and anything white. Seriously, can you say jackpot? Here is how our lively little cardboard wreath began out, simply a series of laser cut cardboard sheets simply waiting to be punched out and assembled:

Here is the wreath as it began to take shape (the directions were in fact truly plain, simply the same two steps over and over again). And yes I did make it in bed since I was quarantined in the bedroom while John worked away on this little project.

Here it is as nearly completed about ten minutes later:

And here is the totally wrapped up product…

… which we happily got to make twice since Cardboard Safari generously sent two over. As you can see even animals like their stuff. Likely because many of their products feature animal likenesses but no four-legged (or two-legged) creatures are hurt in the making of these lively cardboard creations. Heck, no trees are even hurt since they are made from 100% recycled and non-toxic cardboard (that is local to boot, so no energy is spent shipping things overseas).

And here we have our lovely little snowflake wreaths hanging in the two windows of the den. All it took was some ribbon looped over the curtain rod and we were in business.

And simply because we enjoy seasonal decor that can multitask, we also hoped to show you how else you can use these lively little cardboard creations. Check out this little holiday breakfast set-up we whipped up with one of the wreaths as the centerpiece. We imagined a little pancake breakfast around it with the candle in the hurricane softly flickering. Mmm, pancakes.

So what would you folks do with one of these babies? Do not you enjoy that they are paintable (and otherwise pimpable) so you can spray them with glitter spray, coat them with a bright glossy candy apple red color, or even hang edible treats around them (would not candy canes hanging off of a few of the snowflakes look cute n’ tasty?). Let us chat about how you would customize your own (which you can grab right here by the way). And while we are at it, let us talk about wreaths in general. Do you enjoy fresh pine ones? Modern ornament-riddled ones? Architectural square ones? Do tell.