Halloween Bottle Brush Tree Wreath

Make a cute Halloween bottle brush tree wreath with items you can find at the thrift shop and some fabric dye. I love repurposing old wreaths to give them new life and this one is so spooky good! Once you go through the process of bleaching and dying your bottle brush trees you will be hooked and want to create your own for all the holidays. No more buying expensive trees from the big box store.

Supplies:

Twig wreath
Bottle brush trees
Bleach
Buckets for bleaching and dying in
Newspaper
Black Spray paint
Fabric dye
Hot water
Rubber gloves
Hot glue gun

First you will prepare your wreath for spray paint. Remove any silk flowers or other adornments. You can reuse your silk flowers in this bike basket decoration.

I always use spray paint outside. Be sure to protect your surfaces and if it is windy you put your wreath in a large box and spray it in there.

Once your wreath is painted on both sides let it fully dry according to the directions on your spray paint can.

Next prepare a bleach bath for your bottle brush trees. Use hot water enough to cover your trees. I used about one cup of bleach.

Let the trees sit in the bleach until the color is removed from the trees. For me it took about a half an hour. Once they are bleached take them out and rinse well.

Once the black trees were finished I repeated the process with the orange dye and added the rest of my trees. The sat in the dye for at least a half an hour. Take them out and rinse thoroughly.

Let the trees dry on a protected surface.

Now that everything is dry you can put together your wreath. Remove the plastic bases if your trees have them.

Arrange the trees how you want and use your hot glue to secure them in place. Flip the wreath over and add some glue to the base of the trees on the back too.

This wreath was definitely not a quick one but I think it is so worth the time!