How to make a Grapevine wreath
(Craft project for all Sabbats)
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Directions:
Use a grapevine wreath of any size and thickness to decorate with seasonally appropriate dried or fake flowers. This brings into the home a sense of the seasonal changes. Suggested wreath decorations for each season:
- Yule: Flowers of red, green, white, silver, or gold; holly, mistletoe, pine cones; nuts, apples, popcorn strings; red, green, white, silver, or gold ribbons
- Imbolc: Flowers of white, orange, red, yellow, pink, or brown; snowdrop, bay, heather, first flowers of the year; small brooms
- Ostara: Flowers in green or yellow; honeysuckle, iris, peony, violet, all spring flowers; colored eggs, green and yellow jellybeans, rabbit decorations, spring flowers, butterflies
- Beltane: Flowers in green, soft pink, blue, yellow, white; strings of beads or flowers, ribbons, spring flowers (roses, bluebells, daisies, primrose, lilac)
- Litha: Flowers in blue, green, yellow, white, red, maize yellow, or tan; lavender, chamomile, roses, daisies, lilies; dried herbs, potpourri, seashells, summer flowers, fruits
- Lughnasadh: Flowers in yellow, orange, green, brown, or red; corn dollies, any wheat weaving crafts, shafts of grain; grains, grapes, heather, blackberries, sunflowers
- Mabon: Flowers in orange, dark red, yellow, brown, violet, or deep gold; acorns, pomegranates, pine cones, fallen leaves; hazel, corn acorns, oak, wheat stalks
- Samhain: Flowers in black, orange, red, brown, golden yellow; pumpkins, apples, fall leaves, autumn flowers, squashes, food from harvest; nuts, thistle, chrysanthemums, broom, oak leaves
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