An autumn paper plate leaf wreath is the perfect fall activity or craft to make with your kids whatever their age. Paper plates remain one of my favourite ways to make wreaths with kids due to their affordability, but also their flexibility.
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What you will need to make your paper plate wreaths
- Paper plates – we used large ones
- Leaves – Ours are fake, but real ones would look ace too (UK Link/US Link)
- Glue – we used Bostik Extra Strength Sticki Dots (UK Link/US Link)
and a Low Melt Glue gun(UK Link/US Link)
- Scissors
- Ribbon for hanging
How to make your Wreath
As my boys are older they cut the middle from the paper places leaving the outside ring, this step is something you can do for younger ones.
They then decided on which leaf they would use where and Mini stuck his on using a Bostik Extra Strength Sticki Dots
Maxi being a little older is getting more and more proficient on using a glue gun. We use a low melt glue gun.
Both carried on round until the wreath was covered in leaves and you couldn’t see the paper plate at all.
Using some ribbon from my stash me made a loop and secured it on the back of the paper plate with sticky tape.
Variations:
We love these tissue paper fall wreaths from Happy Hooligans, they are great for preschoolers and toddlers as they love to scrunch and stick tissue paper.
Real leaves look stunning too and Buggy and Buddy show you three ways to preserve leaves in this post. You could also laminate your leaves to make them last longer.
Simply designing shows us how to make stunning paper plate wreaths with real leaves.
Don’t have either of these then take a look at these stunning wreaths made with paper leaves and Mommas fun world takes it one step further by colouring in the leaves.
I love how the colours really pop on this Fall Leaves Wreath by Honey and Lime.
The addition of gold glitter is just fabulous on this paper plate fall wreath by Glitter on a Dime.
I can not tell you have much I love this handprint paper plate autumn wreath. It is amazing.
The addition of happy little acorns makes me so happy – this is delightful.
I love how the paper plate has been coloured in on this paper plate wreath with free printable leaves.
This is absolutely brilliant, it looks so professional x
So simple but effective! Love it! I always end up faffing with lots of awkward bases for our wreaths but I never thought to just use a paper plate! Stealing that idea from now on!
Wow that looks SO effective! Really impressive and so easy!
Oh I do love these. We’ve got some leaves pressing at the moment – this might be just the thing to do with them 🙂
I’d never believe this was done using a plate, it looks incredible! I might need to source some of these leaves for my own projects.
Sara | This Girl Loves
looks great- paper plates make such great wreath bases don’t they?!
I almost did one the other day like this.x
This looks so effective. I love it. I have a wreath in progress using a cardboard template, I had never thought to use a paper plate.
That is so clever and really effective x
These look so pretty nad beautifully made.
The colours are amazing! Such a simple yet attractive craft x
These are beautiful and could be adapted for any holiday or season, thanks for the great idea 🙂
I saw this on social media and immediately loved it. Such a simple but effective craft idea. One I am going to make time to do with my boys.
Oh that looks simply gorgeous – lovely idea.
What lovely craft activity to do and you can adapt it for Christmas as well.
Great post, I cannot wait to try this.
Dominique x
That wreath looks so pretty. Such a lovely way to get some autumn colour indoors.
Love this, it’s such a simple idea, but really effective and lots of options for the leaves 🙂 #pintorials
I love this SO much. I will have to try!
What a fun craft! And absolutely something the kids can do!
Such a great idea, I’m sure the kids would love to make one of these
Super creative way to create an Autumn wreath, I absolutely love it! Thanks for stopping by our Facebook share day, pinning!
This is such a clever idea and so simple. Your wreath turned out beautifully. Love all the autumn colours x
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That looks amazing – love the colours
Oh my goodness that’s amazing…gorgeous colours!
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These are lovely! Creative and economical, indeed! Thank you for this post.