Advent is here, the wreath is not. If you don't want to miss out on this beautiful custom, you'll have to improvise quickly. What has to be is four candles. The rest is a question of taste and what is available. Homemade Advent lights!
How can I improvise an Advent wreath?
To create an improvised Advent wreath, you need four candles or light sources, a suitable base (e.g. B. plates, trays or baking pans) and decorative materials from nature or the household. Place the candles on the base and drape greenery and decorations around them.
How can I improvise an Advent wreath?
A conventional Advent wreath usually has the following components: blank as a base, fir branches, Christmas decorations and four candles. It is ideal if you have an adequate replacementfor all components for your DIY improvisationor can get one quickly and easily. But you can also create a minimalist design with four light sources grouped next to each other. Of course, candles, but also tea lights, can be used as a light source, and even LED lamps can be converted into Advent lights.
Which base is suitable for the improvised Advent wreath?
Suitable areHousehold items that look good and give the candles enough space and stability. They don't necessarily have to be round. A few examples:
- beautiful baking dishes and casserole dishes
- a tree slice or round pizza board
- a flat plate, salad bowl, tray
- a square wooden box
- several assembled glasses, clay pots, candlesticks
You can also use an old Advent wreath as a basis for your improvisation and spice it up with a few available decorative elements.
Where can I quickly find decorative materials?
Out in naturethere are certainly fresh green branches. It doesn't always have to be the fir tree that likes to needle anyway. The bush tree also bears leaves in winter. Alternatively, moss can provide fresh greenery. You can also find small red fruit clusters, cones, beautiful stones and other interesting decorations outside. At home in the closet there may be a few nuts, cinnamon sticks, red apples and decorative gift ribbons waiting. Maybe you can also borrow some colorful balls and stars from the Christmas tree.
What is the best way to improvise?
- Start with the lights. Without them you can't conjure up an Advent wreath, even with a rich imagination. In addition, the rest must be aligned with them. Candles of different heights are permitted during an improvisation.
- Then find a suitable surface and place the candles on it.
- Place the greenery you have found around it; deeper containers will be completely filled with it.
- Distribute the decorations on top, starting with the largest or most striking pieces.
Tip
Use wonderfully smelling Christmas cookies as a decoration alternative
If you're short on decorations, reaching into the cookie jar can also help. Cinnamon stars, vanilla crescents and Linzer cookies conjure up a fragrant, festive atmosphere around candlelight for a few days. You don't have to throw away an Advent wreath like this at the end of the Advent season. Candles burn, decorations are eaten, fir trees are composted.
