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- Best Overall: Frolic! Flower School With Chelsea Fuss
- Best for Beginners: Wreath Making 101 From Good Housekeeping
- Best for Fall: Fall Wheat Wreath From Garden Answer
- Best Floral: Kippi at Home
- Best for Christmas: Online Wreath Workshop with Triangle Nursery
- Best Bauble Wreath: Dainty Diaries
- Best Foraged Wreath: Local Kitchen Witch
Most of us have seen wreaths before—those circular objects traditionally made from foliage, twigs, branches, and even fruit, used for decorative purposes mostly at Christmas time. Wreaths can actually come in many different forms including ovals and squares, can be made from artificial materials, and are used quite often outside of the holiday season.
Adding a wreath to your home is sure to bring a festive mood to your indoor or outdoor decor no matter the time of year. Buying one from your local florist or nursery could certainly serve that purpose, but trying your hand at your own DIY version is a much more affordable—and creatively satisfying—option.
We’ve put together a list of the best online wreath making classes that you can take at home. So, if you’d like to learn the basics of building a wreath from scratch with simple items from the craft store, or want to experiment with a wreath that’s a bit more artistic, we have a lineup of online workshops and classes to get your creative juices flowing.
Best Overall: Frolic! Flower School With Chelsea Fuss
Chelsea Fuss
Overview
You’ll learn how to make a classic green holiday wreath, a wreath using fruit, and an all-natural foraged wreath from your own surroundings. Technique, conditioning, and modern and classical wreath making methods are covered in the class.
Why We Chose It
Chelsea is an extremely experienced florist having opened her own flower shop at 23 and apprencticed with some of the best.
Key Specs
Cost: $45
Learn three different styles of wreath making: classical green, fruited, foraged
Chelsea Fuss, the owner of Frolic! and Frolic! Flower School, apprenticed with a variety of floral designers in London and at gardens in the English countryside, as well as florists in the United States, before opening her own flower shop at age 23.
Now based in Lisbon, Portugal, her aesthetic is a mix, according to her website, of “English country style with modern simplicity.” Fuss also hosts a variety of online floral arranging courses. Join her Online Wreath Masterclass where you will learn three types of wreath making methods that you can create with ingredients local to you.
Once you purchase the course (the cost is about $45), you’ll receive an email with a link to the online classroom within 24 hours. Then you’ll be all set to get started.
Best for Beginners: Wreath Making 101 From Good Housekeeping
Good Housekeeping
Overview
In this almost free two-hour class, Erin Phraner from Good Housekeeping TV demonstrates seven different versions of DIY wreaths on the magazine’s YouTube channel.
Why We Chose It
This video gives a breakdown of wreath fundamentals and provides detailed information on every step of the wreath-making process.
Key Specs
Cost: Free
Comprehensive
Phraner begins by breaking down the various types of wreath bases: Wreath types range from the budget-friendly classic styrofoam base, an extruded light foam base (good for wrapping things around), and wood or cardboard bases to wire bases (especially good for burlap wreaths), wire wreath bases with ties (aka EZ wreaths), and wreath bases constructed out of two pool noodles for the ultimate jumbo wreath.
After setting up her station with tape and scissors, Phraner starts each individual wreath tutorial. First up is the rustic and cozy Burlap Candy Cane wreath, featuring a technique that can easily be customized with different colors for different holidays throughout the year, such as Valentine’s Day. Next is the Ribbon Ring wreath, where you can play with the color and texture of your chosen ribbons for a professional look. Also spotlighted are wreaths constructed of evergreen (you can use real branches or faux), painted pinecones, and more.
Best for Fall: Fall Wheat Wreath From Garden Answer
Garden Answer
Overview
This video shows how simple it is to make a wreath using a single organic material like wheat.
Why We Chose it
In only 7 minutes and 10 seconds you can learn how to make something that looks like it took you forever.
Key Specs
Cost: Free
Super simple to follow along
Celebrate autumn’s harvest with this wheat wreath demonstration from Laura of Garden Answer, who has been filming garden tutorials since 2014. The supplies you’ll need are simple: a wire wreath form, paddle wire, wire cutters, wreath hanger, and the main event—wheat.
While Laura creates this stunning organic design with wheat, feel free to use any other materials you may have in your garden, such as cattails, flower seed heads, grass plumes, or even pine cones. If you use materials in your own yard or garden, or source from your local farmers market or nursery, this wreath is an inexpensive and easy project.
Laura recommends using a 12- or 16-inch wreath form for a large wreath (she demonstrates on a 16-inch form), but you can use an 8- or 10-inch form for your base if you prefer a smaller wreath. Laura walks you seamlessly through the process of beginning your wreath, starting with using the paddle wire to attach to one spot on your wreath and wrapping it around the form.
Then, place bundles of your wheat, wrap your wire around, cutting off the excess, and repeat. You’ll have your wreath in no time.
Best Floral: Kippi at Home
Kippi at Home
Overview
If you’re interested in making a wreath for spring or summer or just want to bring a burst of florals into your home year-round, try this easy-to-assemble, minimal floral wreath from Kippi at Home.
Why We Chose It
Directions are clear in this voice-over video, and materials are inexpensive and easily obtained at any craft store.
Key Specs
Cost: Free
Short and simple
The free video is brief, at roughly eight minutes, and has clear instructions to keep you on track as you follow along. Kippi begins with the foundation of the wreath, a gold hoop form that she customizes with rose gold spray paint. After putting a couple of coats of paint on the hoop form, Kippi hangs it to dry overnight.
Using the place the hoop metal has been soldered together as the bottom base of the wreath, Kippi lays out her floral wires and wire cutters and gets ready to start adding to the hoop base. There’s no right or wrong way to arrange the florals and greenery—it’s totally your preference.
She walks you through arranging them in a mirror image fashion, clipping, trimming, and playing with different sizes and textures of greenery to finalize the design before attaching a few silk peonies to punctuate the wreath.
Best for Christmas: Online Wreath Workshop with Triangle Nursery
Triangle Nursery
Overview
Not only does this tutorial use 100 percent organic materials for the decorative aspect of the wreath (minus the ribbon and base), but it uses multiple organic materials that are fresh and no doubt, super fragrant.
Why We Chose It
Debbie from The Triangle Nursery is a highly-experienced florist and a very engaging teacher. The tutroial was recorded live so an online audience of students was able to ask many clarifying questions about materials and technique in real time as the wreath was being made.
Key Specs
Cost: Free
Comprehensive
Based in the village of Martlesham in Suffolk, England, Triangle Nursery is a family-run business and one of the largest online cut flower wholesalers in the United Kingdom. There are a variety of seasonal educational how-tos for flower arrangements and other projects on the company's YouTube channel.
If you’re looking for a wreath to create for the Christmas season, get started with Triangle’s 45-minute Online Wreath Workshop, available to stream for free. Debbie will lead you throughout the class. The supplies you’ll need include a wireframe wreath and natural English moss (or moss ring), a spruce bundle, one bunch of conifer, and one bunch of eucalyptus, as well as Gossypium cotton and a bag of pinecones. Snow spray, gold berries, and cinnamon sticks also add to the wreath.
You can even make a group project out of the workshop with friends or family—just add mulled wine and other holiday goodies. For other seasonal-specific projects, check out the company's Dried Hops Wreath or Christmas Wreath with Eucalyptus videos.
Best Bauble Wreath: Dainty Diaries
Dainty Diaries
Overview
Catherine of Dainty Diaries creates a rose gold-, copper-, and burgundy-hued bauble wreath specifically for the Christmas season. Wreath is a mix of repurposed and new, sparkly and shiny ornaments. Feel free to customize the colors of your baubles to fit whatever theme you’d like.
Why We Chose It
Another simple tutorial, this time using inorganic materials that are heavy on the glam side.
Key Specs
Cost: Free
Short and simple
Start with a basic styrofoam wreath base you can purchase at any craft shop. You’ll also need a number of medium- and small-sized baubles, some tinsel garlands, and whatever extras you’d like to incorporate into your wreath. (Catherine uses a bird ornament.) For this wreath, using a glue gun is ideal, though Catherine employs a simple craft glue.
In the free video, she walks you through the process of creating the wreath, beginning with wrapping some of the tinsel around the base (an alternative would be to spray-paint your base in whatever color you like or use ribbon to wrap around) and securing it with glue. Next is building up the layers of baubles and adding any finishing touches to your taste.
Best Foraged Wreath: Local Kitchen Witch
Local Kitchen Witch
Overview
In this tutorial, you'll walk along with Kristen of Local Kitchen Witch as she forages through the woods, gathering materials straight from nature in order to fill out her wreath.
Why We Chose It
This is the only tutorial that takes you into the forest to choose materials.
Key Specs
Cost: Free
Short and easy to follow
Kristin mostly shares recipes and cooking how-tos on her YouTube channel. In this free video tutorial, however, she demonstrates how to enhance your home for the fall season with a festive foraged wreath. If you’re not familiar, foraging is the practice of searching for materials in nature.
Kristen begins with materials she’s gathered from a hike in her local area, and part of the video tutorial takes you along. You’ll not only get an explainer on how to forage responsibly, but you’ll see what she selects, including rose hips, pine cones, old flowerheads, and orange berries.
Kristen shows you how to start building the wreath, starting with an oversized embroidery hoop as a base, which gives a natural feel to any part of the base peeping through. Her approach is freeform, experimenting with her finds, braiding stems of certain vegetation, and attaching to the base with wire. You’ll be sure to find a ton of inspiration for your own version.
Frolic! Flower School with Chelsea Fuss earned our title for best overall for its variety and thorough and detailed approach to methods and techniques of wreath making. Triangle Nursery stood out for its Christmas wreaths and Kippi At Home was a draw for its selection of floral options.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Materials Do You Need for Wreath Making?
There are various materials that you will need for making a wreath. These include a wire wreath frame, pruning shears, scissors, wire cutters, florist wire (No. 22 or 24 gauge), and the greens and foliage you want to use. Don't forget to pick out the decorations you want to add to the wreath, such as ribbons and bows, pine cones, fruits, etc.
Where Do You Buy Wreath Making Supplies?
Grab the supplies you need to make a wreath from hobby and craft stores, such as Michael's or Hobby Lobby, supercenters including Walmart and Target, and dollar stores. You can also purchase the supplies you need at online retailers. And you can forage for natural materials in your own yard, too.
What Foliage Is Best for Wreaths?
The type of wreath you're making will determine the foliage you want to use when creating the wreath. For the holidays, foliage such as evergreens, holly, or ivy works well. While for seasonal wreaths, you might choose autumn leaves for the fall and grapevines or flowers for spring and summer.
How Much Do Online Wreath Making Classes Cost?
The only online class on this list that you’ll have to pay for is the Online Wreath Masterclass with florist Chelsea Fuss, which costs about $45. All other courses listed here are free and available to stream on YouTube. However, there is also an additional cost for supplies.
Methodology
We selected the best online wreath-making classes with specific criteria in mind. Most important was expertise. We sought out experienced crafters and florists who not only knew their stuff but could share their knowledge in a clear, accessible way with those following along at home.
Wreath making is also a craft tied to personal preference, so a number of tutorials on this list included methods that weren’t so prescriptive, but rather jumping-off points for you to get creative on your own. And lastly, accessibility regarding cost was a major factor in narrowing our picks. Other than one class taught by a professional florist, all others on this list are available to stream for free on YouTube.
