Occasional Wreaths- Dried Flower May Day Wreath
Without the labours there would not be any masters. So to honor the labours worldwide we celebrate the May Day also called Labour’s Day on the first day of the month of May every year. Most of the outdoor celebrations and festivities of this Day includes, the infamous Maypole, the Morris dance and the May Day Parade and Pageant to name a few. Indoors people usually celebrate it by relaxing, as May Day is public holiday. Other than the usual, people celebrate this day by having a family feast, merry-making and the most important of all decorating their homes with the May Day wreaths.
You can make a May Day wreath with any variety of flowers, but the best will be with dried flowers. As dried flower last for many years preserving with it all the fine memories of the May Day celebrations. So if you are thinking of making a May Day wreath with dried flowers you will need the following requirements along with the flowers of course.
- A grapevine wreath base.
- Dried flowers of your choice.
- Floral wire.
- Green floral tape.
- One pair of scissors.
- · Satin ribbon.
Take your dried flowers of your choice and bunch five or six of them together by wrapping it with green floral tape. You need to make many bunches of this kind according to the size of your wreath. Arrange these bunches along the grapevine wreath by inserting their stems into the vine gaps.
Then step back and take a look at your arrangement of flowers, if they appear nice and full and more important if their arrangement satisfies you, then you can go ahead and secure the dried flowers permanently to the wreath using floral wire. If not then rearrange your flowers as to how you want them to appear.
After you have the wreath of dried flowers ready, then take the satin ribbon make a simple bow out of it and secure it to the base of the wreath. Now, you can hang it or place it anywhere you prefer and start your May Day celebrations.
