How to Make Christmas Garlands
When I’m decorating for the holidays, I try to use as many natural materials as I can. The choices are virtually endless from the grocery store to the garden. Some of the most effective decorations you can make are garlands. You can hang them over windows or doors, over the mantle or even on Christmas trees. Some of the ones I’m making since they’re all natural will have a use after the holidays. Let’s take a look at some of the possibilities.
This one I’m working on calls for a few cranberries, dried sliced apples and cinnamon sticks. This is really simple to make. I’ve just created a pattern by using three or four dried apple slices, a small stick of cinnamon and a few cranberries all strewn on a thin wire.
Now these apple slices were dried in a food dehydrator, or you could use an oven at a low temperature. This next garland involves some chestnuts, bay leaves and some dried citrus. I’ve chosen this combination but use your imagination. There are a lot of things that will work just as well. In place of the bay leaves, you might try dried pressed leaves say from the ginkgo tree and as far as the chestnuts go you might try acorns or pecans.
One tip, if you used some of these hard shells guys, drilling a hole in them first will help. Probably the simplest garland to make is just to string small red apples along a fish stringer like this. They looked great hanging over a mantle.
And after the holidays, I’ll take all of these garlands and hang them outside to benefit wildlife. From the garden, I’m Allen Smith.
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