Colorful Coffee Filter Wreath
Looking for a fun, cheap and easy craft to make with items from around the house? Look no further! The Colorful Coffee Filter Wreath from Annie for The Chic Country Cottage is an easy way to create something fantastic.
Materials:
- Food Coloring
- Coffee Filters (Box of 100)
- Wreath Form
- Baking Sheet
- Bowls for Food Colorig
Instructions:
- Coffee filters and food coloring?? Oh yes!! Gather em up!
- I used an entire container of 100 coffee filters for my wreath. Get some water in a bowl and add the desired food coloring. I started with just red. Dip the end of your coffee fiter in like so...
- The water sort of wicks up and colors the entire filter. I set mine on a baking sheet to dry.
- And I did not divide up my filters evenly. This looked like enough of this pink color so I went on to the next color...
- Next was green using the same method...
- I used the same baking sheet for all my colors and put a sheet of paper between each one. They did sort of bleed through a little. But the wreath turned out great so I would not worry about it if I was you!
- Next came a purple-ish color. Red and blue make purple! :)
- When you mix two different food colorings you can kind of see each color on the coffee filter....see the blue-ish tint on the tops of them. I thought that was extra cool!
- Then I did a green-ish yellow for my last color.
- Now to attach them to your wreath form. I have standard wreath forms that I have covered in strips of white cotton material. This makes it extra easy to just rip everything off when you are ready for a change and re-use the form. I took each coffee filter and put the eraser end of a pencil down in it.
- Put on some hot glue and started attaching. One row like this....
- Then the next row like this...I just randomly put on the colors. No rhyme or reason.
- Then the inside row.
- And the last row right on top. Then any extra filters I used to fill in any gaps. Go ahead and get your coffee filters! I know you wanna make one!
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Hannah
May 10, 2017
Easy! Very easy to find coffee filters and food coloring, considering they are just around your kitchen. You can put glitters on it to add up to it's attractiveness. And maybe add something that will add contrast to it. Darker food coloring will also be a great idea.
jsulewski2539 7691 133
Apr 06, 2014
Instead of coffee filters you could use colored Kleenex or tissue paper
AtlanticNanny
Jan 18, 2014
I used this idea to make a Christmas wreath put some picks of silver glitter balls and branches of red berries among the coffee filters. I left the coffee filters white for it but now I want to do the colours for an Easter/Spring wreath. It is so super easy to make but the result is absolutely gorgeous and I got so many compliments and also a lot of "You made this out of what?!" It's a wonderful way to impress your non-crafty friends and neighbors because it looks like something bought in a boutique store. Most of my friends had to actually be shown that it was made of coffee filters. I would recommend this even for beginner crafters because the result is so beautiful but the process is easy. A real confidence builder!
bcochranedaly 6365 079
Jun 27, 2013
I like the idea. I have two empty, but painted, by a special technique wine botttles, with a winter scene. When I have some spare time, I'm thinking of trying this on the neck of one of them. Of course, using Christmas colours because of the painted scene, with sub-title "Let It Snow". It will be just a trail, for I'm always looking for crafty things....
Lo
Jun 19, 2013
awesome! I love this idea for inexpensive wreaths, I'll be making lots of these.
pandorapoison 1560 585
Jun 09, 2013
Beautiful..I'm gonna make one for my friend who loves tye dye and bring it as a gift for her garden party this month..thank u sooo much!!
beelourob 9583089
May 27, 2013
that's a great idea for children or adult crafts, inexpensive, easy and non messy! love it!
maelinthayer 00901 96
Jun 11, 2012
Sounds like a blast my 9 yr old will love it A no brainer for an afternoon after school thanks
Crafter 7353580
Jun 11, 2012
I like this wreath. It reminds me of the tissue wreaths we made in high school. JCG1224
bobbylonardo 50143 99
May 28, 2012
I did something similar to this when my kids were very small. We used coffee filters that I sprayed with water and the kids used water color paints which spread and blended nicely. You could get a much wider range of colors and it will be more vibrant!
Nightpainter
May 28, 2012
I love this! Your colors are so feminine, my mother would love this for mothers day! Thanks for the idea!
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