Fall is a time for slowing down, enjoying incredible weather and time with friends! Today we are going to show you how to create this adorable fall thankful bucket garland…
What a perfect way to celebrate the season of fall! Each little bucket can be filled with little notes on what you and your family are thankful for!
Let’s get started with the thankful bucket garland tutorial….
Supplies Needed for Thankful Bucket Garland…
- Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
- Floral Wire
- Adhesive Hooks
- 2 9ft Twig Garlands
- 2 6ft Oak Leaf Garlands
- Chipboard Alphabet Letters
- Chocoalte Brown Extra Fine Glitter
- Martha Stewart Glitter Glue
- Wood Spring Clothes Pins
- 8 Metal Buckets
- Faux Maple Leaves
- Burlap
Simply stretch out your two twig garlands and attach to your mantel. We used adhesive hooks. You will need to play around with the loops in the garland to get the look you want. We wired some of the loops together to get the garland to hang the way we wanted…
Take your two leaf garlands and wind them through the twig garlands. Don’t worry about bare spaces, we will take care of that in another step…
Apply the glitter to your chipboard letters { THANKFUL } using the Martha Stewart Glitter Glue and allow to dry. While they are drying, trace some leaf shapes or use a die cut machine to cut out leaf shapes out of your burlap. Glue the burlap leaf shapes to the front of the buckets with your glue gun…
Look how sweet all your buckets are after attaching all the letters with your glue gun…
Next, attach the buckets to the garland with the clothes pins…
Attach leaves with your glue gun on the twig garland where you have some bare spots…this is the fun part where you can make it your own! We also added a few burlap leaves to the garland as well…
That is it! Now your mantel is ready for the fall with this fall thankful bucket garland and what a special way to celebrate with your family!
I love this! The buckets are a wonderful idea!
What a beautiful mantle, Trish and Bonnie. I believe that this is a great interactive decor piece. Such an amazing new tradition, that for years your children/family will look forward to this, great memories for a lifetime.
Are you going to be reading them after supper on Thanksgiving?
Now I can’t wait to start a new family tradition this year. Thank you both so much for the inspiration to create thankfulness within my home. I am going to see if i can find some acorn and pine-cone to add to it as well. I think that the burlap leaves gives it a ‘natural’ look as well as adding great textures.
Kylara H.H.
What a sweet idea!!
Love the buckets of thankful!