Christmas Village Winter Wreath
This winter wreath is the most adorable wreath to adorn your front door or fireplace with its Christmas village that encircles the snowy flocked pine greenery! Make this simple winter village wreath and save hundreds over the Anthropologie version! This inviting wreath will make all your guests smile as they walk up to your door!
This wreath makes a statement on your front door! Mine is full of color and even though I love the neutral versions I was seeing all over Instagram like this village wreath from Liz Marie, I really loved the Anthro one and the color was what originally drew me to it! So mine had to be colorful! Lol!
I took pictures of the wreath on our front door because it was too busy in a photo on the mirrors where it will actually stay inside but in real life, it is perfection on these mirrors!
Gathering Supplies to Make the Christmas Village Winter Wreath
The anthro version of this wreath is 200 bucks, which is understandable because it is huge and beautiful! I was able to make mine for a fourth of that cost, I paid 45 dollars total for all the houses and trees, but I had all the glitter and paint on hand, if you have to buy those items, it will be a little more expensive!
Materials for the Winter Wreath:
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- Flocked wreath – or you can flock any green pine wreath you have on hand with the help of this flocked tree tutorial
- 8 paper houses – I used ornaments found at Walmart, but if you want to change them as I did, you will also need paint, glitter, and Modge Podge!
- 16 bottle brush trees – Amazon has sooooo many great options!
- Polyfil fiber – buy this at Walmart or Hobby Lobby because it is only 3 bucks, I just wanted to show you what it looks like!
- hot glue gun
Making the DIY Winter Wreath with Christmas Village
This wreath was a lot of fun to make because it was legitimately the easiest wreath I have ever made and nothing had to be perfect, well the DIY feather wreath I just posted was super easy too! Lol! Now, finding the exact houses I wanted wasn’t as easy though and so I ended up having to paint them, and then they needed that fancy snowy look, so I also had to add a little glitter!
The first thing to do is find a wreath form you LOVE, or you can make one! Totally up to you, but this one from Walmart is 24″ and $12.68…you can’t even make one for that price and if you can, it probably won’t be this big and pretty!
Painting the Christmas Village Houses for the Winter Wreath
I bought all the houses at Walmart as ornaments! They were $2.48 each (except the black and white one, it is from Hobby Lobby but only came out to 3.00 I think) and already adorable just not the right colors for what I wanted! This was nothing a little craft paint and glitter couldn’t fix! Check out the before pictures!
See how they don’t really coordinate that well? That is why I painted them! LoL!
I will show each house individually and the color of paint I used and the glitter color as well!
Barn
The barn is actually metal, the others are all paper! It started out brown, I took the wreath off before painting it, and painted it Apple Barrel Paints in Mermaid Parade on the walls and white on the roof!
Once the paint was dry, I painted Modge Podge onto the walls and roof of the barn and sprinkled the glitter all over it!
I also added a light sprinkling of glitter to the wreath and hot glued it back in place! Here’s the finished barn on the wreath!
Purple Houses
The next houses to makeover are the purple houses, they didn’t start out purple though, they started out this printed wood paper which wouldn’t have been that bad if they didn’t cover the whole thing in the faux wood paper! Lol!
The only before picture has one of them already painted white! With any of the lighter colors if I didn’t paint it white first, then the color was dingy no matter how many coats I put on it! So save yourself the time and hassle and paint them white first when you are using light colors!
After two coats of white paint, I painted the walls purple! I used apple barrel paints in Wisteria. I did not tape them off or remove anything, I just painted around everything! I left the roof white to look like a snow-covered roof!
Next I painted over the purple walls and white roof with Modge Podge and sprinkled white glitter over the whole thing! I used fine glitter on this house!
It was still kind of bright purple, so I added another layer of glitter after the first layer dried!
The other matching house to this one, I painted white at first as well, but then gave it solid silver glitter walls, and a purple (wisteria) painted roof to change it up a bit! I didn’t take pics of the step-by-step on this one apparently, but after using the silver glitter on the house, I couldn’t see the windows because they were essentially the same color, so I added a little mod podge to the windows and sprinkled gold glitter on them!
Green House
The green house started out a nice Christmas plaid! This was the one that I found out painting them white helps tremendously to get the correct color! Lol! See the house in the center of the wreath, that is the one we are painting green!
I painted this house with Apple Barrel Paints in Bright Green (affiliate link)!
Again, same as the others, the house really comes alive and starts to look like it belongs in a Christmas Village after adding the glitter!
I poked the window holes with a toothpick before the modge podge dried and then added another coat of glitter! I used fine glitter on this greenhouse as well!
Gold Church/House
The gold church (or house I am not 100% sure…LOL) I just gave it a little makeover so they had a little color I wanted them to be different from each other so I painted around the windows with Candy pink (affiliate link) and the same Mermaid Parade from the barn around the window frames!
House with mermaid parade windows!
I used a tiny paintbrush and painted mod podge just around the newly painted window frames and lightly sprinkled the glitter on the window frames!
Here is the house with candy pink windows! I took the bell tower off which is why I think it’s a church! Lol! I just wanted them to be a little different! I glued a tree on this extra space when I glued it on the wreath!
Turquoise house with pink roof
The turquoise house came with the colors that it is, I just added a little glitter to the roof! It had some glitter on the roof, it just didn’t match the rest of the houses!
Adding the Houses and Trees to the Christmas Village Winter Wreath
Attaching the houses is pretty darn simple! First I laid everything out to see where I wanted all the houses and trees to go!
Just an FYI, some of the trees I bought at Walmart did not have any snow on them, I just used white paint and added snow to them!
Once I had the layout and some snow on the trees, using hot glue, I basically just liberally applied the glue to the back of each house and placed it where I wanted it!
Make sure to also put hot glue along the bottom edge and the roof edge, then place it where you want it on the wreath!
Use hot glue on the trees that you want around each house as well!
Then, add hot glue to the bottom of the houses with a nice heavy coat!
Add a small piece of polyfill underneath each village house!
Repeat this until the wreath is full of adorable houses, bottle brush trees, and snow!
And it is DONE! Hang it up and ooh and aww every time you walk by!
Are you making any wreaths this holiday season? I’d love to see what you make!
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