Miniature Evergreen Wreath Ornaments (From Real Plant Clippings)

With just a snippet from an outdoor evergreen, you’re well on your way to making these miniature wreath ornaments. You can hang them on the tree, use them to decorate the outdoors, add them to gifts, or even use them as napkin rings! No matter how you use them, they are a fun and simple project to bring the outdoors in.

Miniature Wreath ornaments made with real greenery

Every year, I make a large fresh wreath to adorn my front door. By the end of creating, I have endless bits and pieces of fresh evergreens covering my feet and work station.

Why let them go to waste when you can create even smaller, miniature wreaths? I’m obsessed with all things mini, and I love how easily you can make these miniature wreath ornaments with some leftover plant trimmings.

Let me show you how I made these!

Make a miniature wreath from nature — Adorn your miniature wreath with a pinecone or other dried elements.

DIY Real Miniature Wreath Ornaments

I don’t really know why, but this holiday season I’ve been making everything in miniature. It started with these tabletop Grinch trees, and now miniature evergreen wreaths.

The idea for mine came from finding this floral wire with red berries on the ends. I thought it would be a quick and easy way to make plenty of decorations from garden clippings.

Materials

Evergreen clipping
Bypass pruners
Scissors
Floral wire with red berries
Miniature decorations: ribbon, pinecones, seed heads, holly.
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Ornament hooks

Make It!

Miniature wreath ornaments — I used ornament hooks to hang my wreaths on.

Start with a fairly pliable clipping from an evergreen. Leaves from cedar and false cypress are soft and easy to form.

Bend the clipping around so that the tip overlaps the cut end. Wind floral wire tipped with red berries around the two ends to secure it.

how to make a real miniature wreath step (2) — Secure the one end first. Then we’ll wrap the rest.

Continue wrapping wire around the wreath until you have all the little leaves tucked in.

how to make a real miniature wreath step (3) — Don’t worry about some small pieces still sticking out.

Trim the wreath with scissors to clean it up and make a nice, round form.

how to make a real miniature wreath step (5)

Add decorative elements like seed heads, miniature pinecones, and other things found around the garden with a hot glue gun.

Finished miniature wreath with real evergreens, pinecones, and seed heads — Pinecones are great, as well as dried flowers.

You can also use ribbon to decorate the wreath. This raffia ribbon makes an easy bow as you simply need to tie it in a knot, then unfold the ends of the ribbon.

Miniature wreath with raffia bow — Red raffia bow.

You can also find ribbon that looks like tinsel, which I wound around another miniature wreath.

DIY Miniature wreaths from real evergreen clippings

Add ornament hooks to hang them on the Christmas tree or around the garden.

Or tie them to gift wrapping and add a little outdoors to your presents.

Aren’t these miniature wreaths just adorable? In my experience, they also dry well and can be stored again for the next holiday season once fully dried. Happy crafting!