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62 DIY Fall Wreath Ideas to Spruce up Your Front Door
A little crafting goes a long way to creating the best fall wreath.
It's officially time to get your house ready for fall! That means taking down your summer wreath and putting up something fit for the new season. Any one of these DIY fall wreath ideas will do the trick! Whether you're keeping it simple or planning an all-out fall porch decorating extravaganza there are ideas here for all tastes and styles. Greet the season with a flurry of faux leaves—or welcome guests with a hint about what’s on your fall dinner party menu, such as a cheery, harvest-inspired apple wreath. We know you'll find a unique wreath idea here for any occasion.
If you're looking for a wreath that will last from the first day of school to Thanksgiving, the cute and colorful plaid wreath or the felt flower wreath are two of our favorites. But if you’re one to give October its due, try a candy-covered trick-or-treater’s delight or one of our spookier Halloween wreath ideas.
Whichever you choose, your creativity's bound to be noticed—after all, your front door gets the most traffic of any area of your house, and it's the first thing your friends and family members will see when they arrive for a glass of your famous fall sangria. So gather your fall wreath-making supplies and spend some time putting leaves, flowers, gourds, and sweet greetings on display. Just like mixing up homemade pumpkin pie spice makes fall goodies all the tastier, crafting a handmade autumn wreath will help welcome the season.
Just getting started? We’ve got plenty more fall decorating ideas to turn your home into a seasonal escape.
Loads of Great Fall Decorating Ideas
Silver Tray Wreath
Repurposing a silver tray as a base limits the amount of natural materials needed to fashion this wreath, making it inexpensive and super fast to put together.
To make: Wrap a few short branches of magnolia leaves together with green floral wire. For contrast, turn a few of the leaves around so the back side is showing. Insert real or fake bittersweet branches throughout the magnolia, holding it in place with hot glue. Make a bow from plaid ribbon and thread a piece of wire through the back of the top knot; wire to the magnolia. Hang the tray from a screw or nail. Attach the magnolia bundle by wrapping the wire around the screw or thread it through the handle of the tray and attach the wire to the back of the tray with several pieces of gaffers tape. Alternatively, use a wreath hanger.
Preserved Moss Wreath
This wreath is just the right amount of spooky. If you want to up the creepy factor for Halloween, nestle plastic spiders in the moss.
To make: Attach preserved forest moss to a
grapevine wreath with hot-glue, then mix in Spanish
moss (we used dried and artificial). Leave a few strands
of moss hanging down for a dripping effect.
Dried Hydrangea and Leaf Wreath
A conical-shaped hanging basket makes the perfect vessel for displaying dried hydrangea and fall leaves.
To make: Place a piece of dry floral foam, cut to size, into the the basket. Fill with dried hydrangea stems and fall leaves, pushing them into the floral foam so they stay in place.
Bittersweet Wreath
This dramatic and colorful wreath only takes a few supplies to make and can adorn your door all season long.
Live Apple and Boxwood Wreath
Nothing says fall like load of fresh apples, apple cider, and apple cider donuts (a personal favorite!). If made with with fresh apples this wreath will last one season. If you want to display it year after years opt for fake apples.
Get the instructions for the Apple Wreath.
Grain Sifter Wreath
A vintage grain sifter makes the perfect base for a colorful and textured fall wreath.
To make: Attach a piece dry floral foam to the bottom inside, slightly to the side, of a vintage grain sifter with wire. Cover the floral foam in preserved floral moss, holding it in place with hot glue. Insert fall leaves, feathers, Hypericum berries, dried wheat into the foam. Attach acorns with hot glue.
Wheat Wreath
Use two different varieties of crafting wheat to make a wreath that has an added layer of texture and color.
To make: Attach pieces of dried wheat (trimming the ends as needed) to a wooden craft ring with hot-glue, overlapping the pieces as you work your way around the form.
Felt Flower Wreath
Make or buy felt flowers in fall colors that coordinate with your front door paint to create a wreath that surely impress the neighbors.
To make: Make or buy felt flowers and leaves. Hot-glue flowers and leaves to a grapevine wreath form and hang with a length of ribbon.
Braided Rope Wreath
The natural hues of this braided twine wreath insure that it will fit right in in any setting.
To make: Wrap a wire wreath form in thin jute rope. Cut six long lengths of the same rope you used to wrap the wreath form. Hot-glue one end of three lengths together. Repeat with the second set of three lengths. Braid rope bundles together. Hot-glue braid to the wreath form. Attach an oversize bow, made from upholstery jute webbing, with hot-glue.
Bead-and-Wheat Wreath
This classic stunner will look great on the door all season lone.
To make: Make six to eight bundles of dried wheat and/or dried pampas grass, holding the ends together with brown floral wire. Starting at the bottom, use wire to attach bundles to a beaded wreath form (each subsequent bundle will cover up the wire of the previous bundle). Cover the wire of the last bundle with jute ribbon. Use a second length of ribbon to hang the wreath.
Shaker Peg Wreath
Simple and elegant, this shaker peg wreath only requires two materials to create and is one of the more unique fall wreaths out there!
Make the wreath: Attach 2 1/2-inch Shaker pegs to a 12-inch biodegradable floral craft ring with hot-glue. Wrap a piece of floral wire around the top of the craft ring, and hang.
Tobacco Basket Door Hanging
Start with a tobacco basket base and layer fall foliage and pumpkins on top for a sure-fire winner!
Make the wreath: Using floral wire, secure bundles of magnolia leaves, bittersweet vines, and faux pumpkins or gourds to the lower half of a square tobacco basket.
Related: See more Thanksgiving wreath ideas.
Pecan Wreath
Sometimes less is more, which is definitely the case with the single material wreath.
Make the wreath: Cover a foam wreath form with in-shell pecans, attaching them with hot glue.
Napa-Inspired Olive Branch Wreath
Channel the California wine country with this stunner.
Make the wreath: Use floral wire to bundle five or six-inch lengths of fresh olive branches together. Attach bundles to a wire wreath form, making sure the branches go in the same direction. Add dried white statice flowers here and there with floral wire.
Chili Wreath with Paper Flowers
This easy fall wreath idea is made by simply nestling colorful paper flowers (you can hold them in place with hot glue) in a wreath of dried chili peppers. It adds a colorful addition to any door!
DIY Fall Pine Cone Wreath
When it comes to fall crafting, there's nothing easier than a pine cone project. These autumnal beauties are available right in your own backyard, and they're so easy to work with.
Make the wreath: Wrap a 16-inch wreath form with burlap ribbon and loop a piece around the wreath form for hanging. Paint the tip of 40 pine cones in fall colors such as orange, yellow, and beige with acrylic paint. Brush the tips of 10 pine cones with matte Mod Podge and sprinkle with gold and copper glitter. once dry, wrap an 18-inch length of floral wire around the base of each pine cone and twist tie around the wreath form to secure, layering and overlapping them as you go.
DIY Book Leaves Fall Wreath
A paper wreath is an incredibly lovely addition to any front door. With leaf shapes galore, this one's perfectly seasonal too.
Make the wreath: Draw a 3-inch-wide maple leaf shape on a piece of cardboard and cut out to create a stencil. Trace on original pages (or, preferred, photocopied pages) of a vintage book—consider a fall-themed title or mystery novel—and cut out approximately 100 leaves with decorative scissors that have a "torn paper" edge. Attach book page leaves to maple leaves with hot glue. Attach layered leaves to a 16-inch wreath form with hot glue, layering and overlapping them as you go. Hang with burlap ribbon.
DIY Corn Husk Wreath for Fall
Flint corn practically screams "fall," and it's so gorgeous, you won't have to do much to spruce it up. Here, dried and assembled into a ring, it makes for a decidedly stunning wreath.
Make the wreath: Detach husks from one side of 20 medium-size flint corn. Hot-glue the undersides of the corn to their husks. Lay out the corn in a circle with the tops pointing out, alternating colors. Hot-glue the corn to an 18-inch craft ring, and fill in any sparse areas with extra husks.
Ombré Fall Wreath
A pretty collection of yellows, oranges, pinks, and reds makes this wreath a perfect fit for the fall season—but we think it'd still look appropriate on your front porch come spring and summer.
Make the wreath: Set four medium plastic bins on a covered surface. In each, mix 6 cups of warm water, 3 Tbsp vinegar, and 1 cup Rit liquid fabric dye in desired colors. Note: It's good to wear gloves so your hands don't get stained from the dye.
Soak dried corn husk in the mixture for 20 minutes; rinse with water and let dry on newspaper. Place husks between
two thin towels and iron flat.
Hot-glue a few layers of dyed corn husks around a 12" foam wreath form to create a sunburst shape. Attach a loop of wire to the back with hot glue and use to hang.
Loads of Fall Foliage
Start with an olive branch wreath and layer in fall leaves and dried wheat to create this colorful fall foliage extravaganza.
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