You'll be surprised when you learn how to make garland and see how easy it is! Play around with it by adding your own items (like paper snowflakes!) and have fun with this holiday craft!
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time1 hourhr
Total Time1 hourhr10 minutesmins
Course: Crafts
Servings: 1
Author: LittleCooksReadingBooks.com
Equipment
Scissors
Yarn needle
Ingredients
Natural twine
Dried orange slices
Dried apple slices
Pine cones
Other nature finds or dried fruitoptional
Instructions
Cut a length of twine to the length of garland that you want to make.
Thread the twine through the yarn needle. Tie a knot in one end of the twine (big enough so it doesn't slip through) and pull the knot up to the eye of the needle. You should have a single layer of thread. [To learn how to dry fruit, see the dried apples post and the dried oranges post]
Starting with a dried orange, carefully thread the needle in one side of the orange and then out the other so that the dried orange slices hang evenly. Slide the orange close to the other end of the twine, but not at the very tip.
Next, carefully thread the dried apple on one side and then out the other (like you did for the orange slice). Push the apple as close to the orange slice as you want. Some people like their fruit garland tight, but we like it loose and left about 4-6 inches in between each element.
From the twine roll, cut a piece of twine about 3 inches long. Tie a pinecone onto the garland twine next to the apple.
Repeat the same pattern, dried orange, dried apple, pinecone, until you've created the garland length you want.
Remove yarn needle from twine and tie a knot in each end of the garland to prevent your items from sliding off.
Carefully hang garland on Christmas tree, fireplace mantel, on stairs or even as mobile art projects on a branch (like we did), twig, or wire drying rack.
Notes
We used our homemade nature garland for our homeschool room, so we tied the pinecones hanging down from our dried fruit (instead of threading it beside the apples and oranges).