Vintage Sheet Music Wreath Tutorial
Create a beautiful and unique holiday wreath using old sheet music, cardboard, scissors, and a glue gun in about an hour!
Yield: 1
Calories:
Equipment
- Pair of scissors
- Glue gun and glue sticks
Materials
- 50-60 pages sheet music, vintage, copies, or new
- 1 piece cardboard, desired size
- 1 yard ribbon, twine, or yarn, or desired length
Instructions
Cut the Music Sheets
- Larger cones: Cut the music sheets into squares to roll even cones. Mark the longer edge at the same spot of the width of the paper and cut across (if it's an 8.5x11 page, then you'd want to mark at 8.5 inches to make an 8.5 inch square).
- Smaller cones: Cut the paper into 6.5 inch squares for the smaller cones, though you should cut one and see how you like it, adjusting the size square as you'd like.
Cut the Cardboard
- Determine the size you want for your base* and use a large plate (or protractor) to draw a circle on the cardboard for the wreath base. Cut around the line.
- Draw the inner circle using a small bowl (or protractor) about six inches or so in diameter, laid in the middle of the cardboard circle and draw around it. Cut along this circle and for your wreath base.
Create the Music Sheet Rolls
- Roll the larger squares into cones. Make sure there is a point at the largest open end and that it has the best part of the sheet (be sure it's not blank, but that there is music showing) and make the smaller end as tight as you can.
- Unroll a bit of the bottom of the cone and use hot glue to glue them closed so they won't unroll. (You may need an added a piece of tape if the hot glue needs time to dry.)
Attach Cones to The Base
- Once the cone is glued closed, use more hot glue to attach it to the cardboard base. Make sure BOTH ends of these larger cones hang over the base on each side - you don't want any of the base showing.
- Glue your first cone to the base and then use it as a guide for placing the cones next to it and then all around the base, making one cone at a time (making one at a time lets you roll the cone bigger or smaller as needed to fit them evenly around the base).
- After the first row is complete, use the same method to attach the smaller cones of the second row to the first row. Again making them one at a time and placing where they look best to make the inner row.
Attach Hanging Ribbon
- Use ribbon, twine, or yard to make a holder for the wreath by one of two methods: 1) For wider ribbons like my wreath, you can simply staple the ribbon ends to the cardboard base. 2) For thinner ribbon or twine, you can make a hole in the cardboard and thread it through to create a holder.
Notes
*Note: The cones will hang over the cardboard base so you don't need to make the base as large as your finished wreath. The plate I had was 16.5 inches diameter, so that's the size of my base.
STORAGE: Use a wreath holder box or shallow cardboard box big enough to hold the wreath without bending the tips. It will last for years when stored this way in an attic or garage (I've stored mine in both places for many years).
