Teaching Wreath

My cousin is a school teacher and I wanted to give her something special that you can not just go out and buy this holiday season. I saw on Pintretst Teacher Wreaths as well I know someone that has one. I knew this would be the prefect gift for her, now I just needed to figure out how to make it. I could not find a How to on this so it was kind of going off photos I saw what I liked. The end product turned out amazing and I hope she will like it for years to come.

What you will Need:

-Box of Crayons ( I got 120 - Now I did not use them all but I wanted to make sure one I had enough and two I got all the colors I wanted - We had 48 left over)

-Hot Glue Gun

-Embroidery Circles (You will need two, one to fit in the other)

-School looking ribbon

Optional:

-Small Chalk Board

-Cut out letters (I went to a local scrapbook store and every Sunday they let you use the die cutters and all you have to pay for is the paper)

-Anything else you want to use to decorate the wreath with 

(For this I went to Michaels and found an Apple, School Bus and some Flowers made of harder wood all ready colored only 0.59 each, I also went back to the local scrap booking store and cut out a school house and books of paper)

How To:

1.) The first thing I did was to open all the Crayons and to put then in order from light to dark by color so when I put it on the wreath it would be in order.

2.) I then started lay everything out to make sure I had enough crayons selected and to see the spacing. I also had to put in small chalk board for placement as well.

Embroidery Circles - waiting for the crayons

3.) The next step would be to start to glue the crayons down after you lay it out with the hot glue. I lined up the back of the crayon with the back on the embroidery circles.

4.) After than you then add any of the optional things you wanted to add on. I have seen some where they put the name in blocks on the crayons - with her not being married I wanted to do a chalk board effect so that she could change it if she needed. I also added the books I cut and the school house.

5.) The final thing was to add the ribbon so she would be able to hang it and then it would be complete!

Happy Holidays!!!