Quick Craft for Patriotic Holidays

My neighbors decorate for all the holidays. I've been wanting a unique patriotic wreath for my front door to use during July 4th, Memorial Day, or Veteran's Day. This wreath cost me only $9 to make and took about 2 hours to finish. (Of course I was watching tv as I worked too - ha)

Materials:

• 2 red bandanas
• 2 white bandanas
• 1 blue bandana
• 1 foam wreath (12")
• grab a pair of scissors

Directions:

• Cut the hems off the bandanas
• Take the blue bandana and cut about 3/4" from the edge then rip it until you have a single strip. (repeat)
• Take a blue strip, wrap it in half around the foam wreath and tie a bow. (or you can tie a double knot and cut the ends later - I rather liked the bows look

• After you are satisfied with your blue section, continue with the red and white

• I 'reused' 3 of the hems I cut off by braiding them into a loop hook to hang the wreath

• Finally, I tied 3 white bows in the blue section to represent stars



Ta-da...Ta-done!

How cute is that? I'm very satisfied.