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By Carrie Ypma on December 6, 2015 7 Comments

Outdoor Christmas Wreath + Home for Christmas Ideas

Craft Ideas· Home Decor Ideas· Seasonal Ideas

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You’ll love this idea to decorate an outdoor Christmas wreath with ribbon, beads, and ornaments. It’s a beautiful holiday home decor for your front door! 

Update a faux evergreen wreath by adding ribbon, beads, and ornaments to make a pretty Outdoor Christmas Wreath. It’s a quick and easy holiday craft idea you can make in less than an hour. Plus today we’re also teaming up with HomeTalk.com, CountryLiving.com, and countless other bloggers to give you dozens and dozens of other ideas to decorate your home for Christmas!

Easy outdoor Christmas wreath

I love decorating my home for Christmas, don’t you? At the end of today’s post, you’re going to find a huge list of amazing DIY decor ideas to try this year thanks to the “Home for Christmas” event being hosted by HomeTalk.com and CountryLiving.com.

Please make sure you scroll all the way to the end as you do not want to miss any of these beautiful ideas. It’s chock full of inspiration to help you decorate for the holidays.

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DIY outdoor Christmas wreaths are so easy

Personally, one of my favorite things about decorating my home for Christmas is hanging an Outdoor Christmas Wreath by my front door. An Outdoor Christmas Wreath is the very FIRST thing guests see when they visit a home for Christmas. It sets the tone for the visit and gives a very warm first impression.

For years and years, I’ve hung a simple faux evergreen wreath with a red outdoor ribbon and a polka dot ornament hanging in the center:

A simple green outdoor Christmas wreath

Updating an old outdoor Christmas wreath

I initially liked the simplicity of my Outdoor Christmas Wreath. After years of use though, I thought it was starting to look a little sad and plain and really wanted to jazz it up a bit.

My outdoor wreath for summer is a burlap wreath using two different accent ribbons. I absolutely love it and thought perhaps I could use that same concept to spruce up my Outdoor Christmas Wreath. Only instead of using two ribbons, I decided to use one wide ribbon and a string of red Christmas beads.

Love this idea to decorate an outdoor Christmas wreath with ribbon, beads and ornaments. Beautiful holiday home decor for your front door! - Kenarry.com

I tucked a few extra embellishments on the side of the big red velvet bow and hung a penguin ornament from the center to finish it off. If you ever visit my home for Christmas, you’d know there are penguins EVERYWHERE. It’s only fitting I needed one outside my front door on the Outdoor Christmas Wreath too.

Love this idea to decorate an outdoor Christmas wreath with ribbon, beads and ornaments. Beautiful holiday home decor for your front door! - Kenarry.com

How to Make an Easy Outdoor Christmas Wreath

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This Outdoor Christmas Wreath is incredibly easy to make. With just a few embellishments, you can whip this craft up to decorate the door of your home for Christmas in less than an hour!

The best thing about wreath projects like this is that you can really customize them for your own tastes and preferences. I got all of my Outdoor Christmas Wreath supplies at a local craft store, but for your convenience, I’m sharing links below to where you can buy similar products on Amazon.

What You Need:

  • Artificial Christmas wreath, unlit
  • Red velvet outdoor Christmas bow
  • 2 inch wide wired ribbon
  • Red bead Christmas garland
  • Twist ties
  • Penguin ornament (or any ornament you choose!)
  • 2 Christmas picks

Instructions

Here’s how we made our easy DIY outdoor Christmas wreath.

1. Attach the red velvet outdoor bow

First, determine whether you want the red bow at the top or bottom of your wreath. Mine’s always been at the bottom so I left it there.

I like how the ends of the ribbon dangle down below giving the whole Outdoor Christmas Wreath a bigger, more dramatic appearance. Attach the bow to the frame of the Outdoor Christmas Wreath.

2. Weave the ribbon through the wreath

Next, it’s time to weave the ribbon. Flip the outdoor Christmas wreath over and tie one end of the 2-inch wide wired ribbon to the frame of the wreath near the red velvet outdoor bow.

How to weave ribbon through an outdoor Christmas wreath

Next, from the backside of the Outdoor Christmas Wreath, twist the ribbon to form a loop.

Then push a loop of ribbon through the wire wreath frame so it pops through on the front side.

Now twist the ribbon again and push another loop through a different spot on the wreath near where you put the first loop.

Love this idea to decorate an outdoor Christmas wreath with ribbon, beads and ornaments. Beautiful holiday home decor for your front door! - Kenarry.com

Continue to do this over and over again popping loops of ribbon through the wire wreath frame until you’ve gone all the way around the Outdoor Christmas Wreath.

Make sure you twist the ribbon each time so it changes its orientation. If your wreath frame is like mine, you’ll have four different wires on the frame with three spaces between each wire. Make sure you alternate which space you use each time too. This will give the pops of ribbon some variety when you look at it from the front.

Once you’re done, you can cut the ribbon and tie the end to the wireframe to secure it. Then fluff the ribbons with your fingers to spread them out and widen them to give a fuller appearance.

Love this idea to decorate an outdoor Christmas wreath with ribbon, beads and ornaments. Beautiful holiday home decor for your front door! - Kenarry.com

3. wrap the red bead garland around the wreath

The third step is to decorate it with the red beaded garland.

Use a twist tie to attach one end of the red bead garland to the wireframe of the wreath near where you knotted the ribbon.

Love this idea to decorate an outdoor Christmas wreath with ribbon, beads and ornaments. Beautiful holiday home decor for your front door! - Kenarry.com

Now wrap the red bead garland around and around the Outdoor Christmas Wreath. Once you’ve gone all the way around the wreath, secure the other end of the red bead garland with a twist tie. At this point, here’s what the back of your wreath will look like:

Love this idea to decorate an outdoor Christmas wreath with ribbon, beads and ornaments. Beautiful holiday home decor for your front door! - Kenarry.com

4. Add Embellishments

Now you are ready for embellishments.

Use ribbon, wire or a twist tie to attach an ornament to the top center of the Outdoor Christmas Wreath so it dangles down into the middle. Be sure to choose an ornament that can withstand outdoor conditions.

Love this idea to decorate an outdoor Christmas wreath with ribbon, beads and ornaments. Beautiful holiday home decor for your front door! - Kenarry.com

Tuck Christmas picks into either side of the red velvet ribbon. Mine have multi-colored ornaments on them which coordinate beautifully with the colors on the wired ribbon I chose.

If you’re not sure what I mean by Christmas picks, check out these examples of Christmas picks on Amazon. You can find them at any craft store around the holidays or they could also be with floral arranging supplies.

Love this idea to decorate an outdoor Christmas wreath with ribbon, beads and ornaments. Beautiful holiday home decor for your front door! - Kenarry.com

5. Hang up your wreath

That’s it!

You’re all done! It’s time to hang your beautiful Outdoor Christmas Wreath outside your home for Christmas.

I have a three-foot space with board and batten to the left of my front door so I choose to hang it on a nail there. If you want to hang it directly on your door, there are numerous wreath hangers you can get, including magnetic wreath hangers for steel doors and suction cup wreath hangers if you have a glass window on your front door.

Once you hang the Outdoor Christmas Wreath, you may need to fluff the branches and move them around to give the wreath a fuller, more natural appearance.

Love this idea to decorate an outdoor Christmas wreath with ribbon, beads and ornaments. Beautiful holiday home decor for your front door! - Kenarry.com

Your gorgeous new Outdoor Christmas Wreath is going to be admired by your family and friends when they visit your home for Christmas. They won’t believe you just whipped it up quickly in less than an hour.

While you’re here, be sure to check out how to make a designer Christmas wreath using magnolias and glittered pinecones or how to make a Scrap Fabric Christmas Wreath using old pajama pants. If you liked this Outdoor Christmas Wreath idea, please share it with your friends or pin it for later:

Love this idea to decorate an outdoor Christmas wreath with ribbon, beads and ornaments. Beautiful holiday home decor for your front door! - Kenarry.com

Home for Christmas with HomeTalk.com and CountryLiving.com

Need more ideas to inspire your “Home for Christmas”? Look no further, my friends. Today we’re sharing our Outdoor Christmas Wreath as part of the “Home for Christmas” event with HomeTalk.com and CountryLiving.com. Bloggers from around the globe are sharing their very best DIY home decor and decorating tips to help you create a beautiful Home for Christmas.

Home for Christmas with Hometalk and Country Living Magazine

You will find dozens and dozens of the very best, most beautiful ideas and Christmas decorating trends right here at the “Home for Christmas” event. I encourage you to hop around and check out all of these incredible ideas. You can also search HomeTalk.com and other social media for the hashtag #homeforchristmas to find and share the ideas you see here.

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Which one (or two or five!) are you inspired to try this year? Please comment below and share – or better yet once you make it, share a picture on social media with the hashtag #homeforchristmas and tag us in it too so we can see what you created!

While you’re here be sure to check out other Christmas ideas on Ideas for the Home by Kenarryâ„¢ –

  • Scrap Fabric Christmas Wreath Craft: Easy Holiday Gift
  • Rustic Christmas Decor: 10 Burlap Ideas for Holiday Decor
  • How to Make Easy Christmas Napkin Rings with Leather

Updated November 2019.

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About Carrie Ypma

Carrie is the chief writer, crafter and cook here at Ideas for the Home by Kenarryâ„¢. She's an optimist by nature and enjoys sharing recipes, trying new craft ideas, planning for parties and events as well as organizing and decorating. She and her husband, Kent live in Michigan. She also loves to hide away in a castle under the stairs reading to her two young boys and help guests plan vacations at Sunshine Villa at Glenbrook Resort, their short term vacation rental home in Orlando near Walt Disney World.

Whether you’re cooking, crafting or creating for your family, follow Carrie on Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to get inspiring ideas for your home. For home organization tips and ideas, check out her other website, Clutter Keeper or follow her on Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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Comments

  1. Marie from The Interior Frugalista says

    December 7, 2015 at 1:16 pm

    Very cute wreath Carrie! I love the colors, especially in the ribbon and that adorable penguin ornament hanging from the center. Pinned to share 🙂

    Reply
    • Carrie says

      December 8, 2015 at 8:09 pm

      Marie, thank you so much for pinning our Outdoor Christmas Wreath. We really appreciate it.

      Reply
  2. Vanessa says

    December 7, 2015 at 3:40 pm

    The wreath is beautiful. I love the bright colors and the penguin. Too cute!

    Reply
    • Carrie says

      December 8, 2015 at 8:08 pm

      Thank you, Vanessa! I’m so glad you like it and am thrilled you stopped by.

      Reply

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