Love this Giant DIY Pine Wreath! Learn how to make your own DIY Pine wreath for the Christmas holidays with foraged greenery and natural elements!

We have snow on the ground! This officially marks the start of the holiday season for me. I now have full permission to post all of the holiday-related things! Every year I make a new wreath – it’s not always for the front door, but every year I make something new to decorate with. This year I decided to try my hand a a giant DIY pine wreath! I used branches foraged from our own property and I love the natural elements in this wreath! I’ll share exactly how I made it.

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Over the years, my wreaths have gotten more and more minimal (as has the rest of my decor! lol), like this five-minute wreath. But this year my husband is making me switch things up again….

When we were putting away Christmas decorations last year, he said he missed the traditional red and green Christmas. I asked him if he wanted me to use red and green next time, and he immediately said “Yes!”. So here I am, adding more red to my decor than ever before.

The traditional colour scheme had me wishing I had a few other more traditional elements too, like a big pine wreath! So I decided to ditch my minimalist leanings for now, and try my hand at a Foraged Pine Wreath! I actually was inspired by my friend Jo-Anna from Pretty Life in the Suburbs for this wreath idea! She made a beautiful large wreath one year, and I loved the idea of making my own, so here’s my somewhat simplified take on one!

Materials and Tools Needed for Your Pine Wreath

• Grapevine Wreath
• Foraged greenery (or faux)
• Pinecones (optional)
• Floral Wire
• Wire Cutters
• Red Ribbon

I got the biggest base of grapevine wreath I could find. At about 32″ it’s too big for our front door, but I love how big it is! It would look perfect on a garage door or shed!

When it came to greenery, I decided to search around our property a bit. We live on an acreage, so we have a lot of pine trees, but we happen to have some cedar bushes too, so I was able to grab a little bit of each type of greenery.

How to Make Your Own DIY Pine Wreath

I started by arranging my greenery. Since my pine branches were so much larger than my cedar ones, I decided to layer the pine branches on the bottom and the cedar branches on top.

In order to hide stems, I would just “tuck” them into the branches that I’ve already laid down, as you can see in the photo above.

Having the stems stick out ruins some of the cohesiveness for me, so I try to keep them tucked away.

When you are ready and happy with your design, use floral wire to attach your branches. I cut my wire into 4-5″ strips and attached them with a simple tie, and then hid the ends or snipped them off.

I honestly didn’t pay that much attention to trying to make it all perfectly symmetrical or tucked in. I wanted it to be free-flowing and natural. I wanted to let this natural wreath stay perfectly imperfect, just like the tree it came from!

I often find that as I’m adding layers to my wreaths, I need to hold them upright to get a good idea of how they will actually look when gravity works its magic on the branches. It helps me see which branches need to get tucked in or tied down a little more.

When I was happy with the greenery, I added a few pinecones as well to the center. Simple wrap your floral wire around it, tucking it in as you go, and tie it onto the grapevine wreath in the same way that you added your pine branches.

You can finish the wreath off with ribbon bow if you like! To be honest, if I had a larger, wired ribbon, I would’ve done a huge bow on this guy! But I just didn’t have any in my craft stash, so I made this smaller red one, and let the ribbon tails hang down low to balance it all out.

Our Finished Giant DIY Pine Wreath

I love how this turned out! It’s perfectly imperfect, and made with real greenery, and will be absolutely beautiful on our garage door!

Welcome to the first week of the Seasonal Simplicity Christmas Series! Today a group of my blogging friends and I are sharing our Christmas DIY and craft projects to help inspire you for the upcoming holiday season. Click on the links below each image to be taken directly to my friends’ posts! Classic Christmas Light String Garland DIY at The Happy Housie DIY Hydrangea Christmas Wreath at Two Twenty One Chunky Knit Vase DIY at Craftberry Bush Holiday Place Card Wreaths with Printable Tags at Tatertots and Jello Easy Christmas Star Garland Gift Topper at The Handmade Home

DIY Winter Wonderland Snow Globe Forest at a Pretty Life DIY Cotton Ball Wreath at Hallstrom Home DIY Faux Etched Christmas Mirror at Confessions of a Serial DIYer DIY Christmas Book Craft Project at Happy Happy Nester DIY Christmas Place Setting Name Tag at She Gave it a Go

Elegant DIY Dollar Tree Christmas Village at The DIY Mommy DIY Safety Pin Christmas Angels at Zevy Joy DIY Wooden Advent Calendar at Jenna Kate at Home DIY Holiday Gift Wrap at My Sweet Savannah How to Make a Modern Christmas Wreath at Cherished Bliss

DIY Giant Pine Wreath at Love Create Celebrate Paint by Numbers Printable Christmas at Rambling Renovators DIY Winter Wreath at The Turquoise Home Christmas Art Work at Life is a Party Dollar Tree Rustic Glam Christmas Wreath at All Things With Purpose

DIY Vintage Whitewashed Nutcracker at Rooms FOR Rent DIY Drum Tree Collar at Sincerely, Marie Designs Line Art Christmas Tree DIY Acrylic Sign at Lemon Thistle Snowball Cookies in a Jar at Clean & Scentsible DIY Pink Ombre Ornament Wreath at We’re the Joneses

If you’re looking for other creative wreath ideas, check out these mini wreath ornaments!