DIY Under $5: Phone Book Wreath

It is just taking up space in your cupboard and all the info you need is online anyway, so pull that dusty phone book off the shelf and make use of it! You've seen the book page wreath, but have you seen the gray and yellow loveliness of the phone book wreath?!

Phone Book Wreath Tutorial

Supplies needed:

• Phone book
• Yellow Marker
  
• Wreath form (mine was covered in burlap from another project)
• Hot glue
• Door hook (optional)

Total cost for me: $1 for door hook
Total cost if you buy everything: $4

1. Find a phone book with gray pages and a few yellow highlights. (Ours was just dropped off a few days ago. I had been waiting and waiting for the right one!) Color the edge of the gray pages with a yellow marker.

2. Start rolling the pages by ripping out a page, folding it in half and then rolling it in to two circles by rolling the ends opposite ways into the middle forming sort of an S.

Here is a video of how I did it.

Did you catch the glimpse of my massacred laptop in the background? Yep, she has been disassembled and will soon be selling in parts. Poor Bubbles, she was good to me for a while there.

3. Start with the back layer. Roll and glue them on one at a time. Just put a line of glue at the end of each roll and glue it to the form. Then, turn it over so it is the back.

4. For the next row, do the same thing, but fold the end of your roll so it is a bit shorter and glue the bottom of the fold to the wreath.

5. Continue with rows until you almost cover the whole form.

6. For the last row, do the roll as usual, but do not bend the end. Glue the bottom of the tube shut and glue them on to the middle of the wreath form like in the video.


a shout out to my fave thrift store. ;)

7. I hung mine using this hook from the dollar store. I just hooked it right on the wreath between some of the rolls and put the door part on my shutters.

I love how my phone book wreath turned out!! All fluffy and made from recyclables. :)




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