Fall DIY Project: Sugar and Spice Garland Craft

A garland made with all fruits and ingredients available during the autumn season may become the best of fall DIY projects that you can think of. The best thing is that this garland can be used to decorate both the inside and outside your home. Use it around the mantel, on the living room walls, or at the front door and it will bring a strong autumn flavor into your home. Check out this DIY garland from Save on Crafts:

Fall DIY Project: Sugar and Spice Garland Craft

Bring the aroma of the season to your home!

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Materials

6 raffia strands (each piece should be 1 yard of size)

24 pieces of dried orange ribbon slices

24 bay leaves

27 dried apple slices

24 cinnamon sticks

A large nail

18-22 gauge floral wire

How to Dry the Fruit Slices

This fall DIY project is easy to make but you have to prepare the dried fruit pieces before starting the actual making process.

1. Cut the fruits into ¼-inch slices and place them on a paper towels. Cover the slices with more paper towels.
2. Use four layers of paper towels to cover the fruit slices and put them in a line on a glass pie pan. Place the pan inside an oven and bake for three minutes at 50% power.
3. Some microwave ovens do not have a carousel. In that case, turn the dish a quarter-turn. After turning over the fruit slices, arrange on the dry areas of the paper towels. Bake them again for 2 minutes at 50% of power.
4. Now, take the slices out and put them on dry paper towels. Place them in a dry place and air dry for a day or two. Change the towels for a few times if you want to speed up the process.
5. In case of drying apple slices, follow the same instructions but dip them in lemon juice at first. It will prevent them from discoloring.

Directions

1. Take any length of wire that you deem suitable and make a small loop at one end. Take 3 strands of raffia and run them through the loop and tie a knot in the middle.
2. Crack each of the cinnamon sticks in the middle and make a small hole at the center of each of them with a large nail. The holes should just be big enough to pass the wire through.
3. To start weaving the garland, pass the wire through the middle of the apple slices. After that, add 3 cinnamon sticks, 3 bay leaves, 3 orange slices, and then another 3 cinnamon sticks. Start the pattern again with three more apple slices. Keep making the garland until you reach your desired length.
4. After finishing stringing, coil the wire into a loop at the end and pass another three strands of raffia through it. In the middle of the lengths, tie the raffia strands in a knot.
5. You can hang this garland horizontally or vertically.

This garland is suitable for both inside and outside use.

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You can easily bring some changes into this fall DIY project. For example, depending on the mood of the holidays, change the bay leaves with holly leaves or large pinecones. This beautiful sugar and spice wreath will definitely be your favorite fall DIY project to be around your home.