AT A GLANCE
How can I improvise an Advent wreath?
To create an improvised Advent wreath, you need four candles or light sources, a suitable surface (e.g. B. plate, tray or baking dish) and decorative materials from nature or the household. Place the candles on the base and drape greenery and decorations around them.
How can I improvise an Advent wreath?
A conventional Advent wreath usually has the following components: blank as a base, fir branches, Christmas decorations and four candles. It is ideal if you use it for your DIY improvisation an adequate replacement for all components own or can obtain quickly and easily. But even with four light sources grouped next to each other, you can create a minimalist design. Candles, of course, but also tea lights can be used as a light source, and even LED lamps can be converted into Advent lights.
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Which base is suitable for the improvised Advent wreath?
Suitable itself Household items that match visually and give the candles enough space and stability. They don't necessarily have to be round. Some examples:
- beautiful baking dishes and casserole dishes
- one tree disc or round pizza board
- a flat plate, salad bowl, tray
- a square wooden box
- several glasses put together, clay pots, candlesticks
You can also use an old Advent wreath as a basis for your improvisation and combine it with a few available decorative elements spice up.
Where can I quickly find decoration material?
Outsidein the nature there are sure to be fresh green branches. It doesn't always have to be the fir tree, they like it anyway needles. Even the bush tree bears leaves in winter. Alternatively, moss can provide fresh green. You can also find small red fruit stands, cones, beautiful stones and other interesting decorations outside. At home in the closet a few nuts, cinnamon sticks, red apples and decorative gift ribbons may be waiting. Maybe you can also borrow some colorful baubles and stars from the Christmas tree.
What is the best way to improvise?
- Start with the lights. Without them, no Advent wreath can be conjured up, even with a rich imagination. Also, the rest has to align with them. Candles of different heights are allowed in an improvisation.
- Then find a suitable base and place the candles on it.
- Place the found greenery around it, fill deeper containers completely with it.
- Distribute the decorations on top, starting with the largest or most striking pieces.
Tip
Use wonderfully fragrant Christmas cookies as a decoration alternative
If the decoration is tight, reaching into the cookie jar also helps. Cinnamon stars, vanilla croissants and Linzer cookies conjure up a fragrant, festive atmosphere for a few days with candlelight. You don't have to wear such an Advent wreath at the end of the Advent season dispose. Candles burn down, decorations are eaten, fir trees are composted.
