Everyone in this house just LOVES Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas. Everything from it’s stop-motion to it’s characters and story are just amazing! Even Miss M and Miss S fell in love with the book, movie and ride at Disneyland. I will be honest I was a little worried how a 4 year old and a 2.5 year old were going to handle the movie due to it’s darker tones. But I think that the way that my husband and I slowly introduced the story to them, they were able to handle it very well.
I have been wanting to make one of these wreaths for awhile but kept it on the back burner until I felt that they wouldn’t be scared of it. So, with their new found love of the movie I decided to put my creation to work this year!
So, lets get on with my Nightmare Before Christmas wreath, shall we?!
Supplies:
- Wreath
- Red ribbon for the bow (I used a wired ribbon so you can shape it how you want)
- Sprigs of red berries
- White foam sheet for the teeth
- White modeling clay for the eyes (I used Crayola’s Model Magic)
- Black Marker or Paint (to put the dots on the eyes)
- Hot glue gun
- Scissors
Step 1: The first thing I did was fluff my wreath. They always come a little matted and blah.
Step 2: Put white paper behind the wreath and draw out the teeth.
Step 3: Cut the paper teeth out and trace them onto the white foam.
Step 4: Cut the foam teeth out carefully. Don’t worry about the straight edges too much because you will probably shape them a little bit more while you are putting them on the wreath.
Step 5: Make ribbon bow to the size that you want it and tie it onto the lower part of the wreath. I used a red pipe cleaner to attach the bow to the wreath. This will allow you to reposition the bow once you get all the rest of the stuff on it (I ended up moving it lower once I put the teeth on).
Step 6: Flip wreath over and glue teeth onto the underside of the wreath. I had to cut pieces of foam off in order to fit them onto the wreath nicely due to the framing.
Step 7: Turn the wreath back over the correct way and re-fluff the branches and bow if needed.
Step 8: Form the eyes using the modeling clay and dry using the required method. The modeling clay that I used just had to be left out over night to be hardened enough to the touch. This allowed it to be glued onto the wreath perfectly. It will continue to harden for the next 72 hours.
Step 9: Pull berries off of sprigs to glue randomly on wreath. Glue eyes (when dry) to the wreath. Make sure you position them so that they look angry so, slightly downward in the inside.
Step 10: Draw/paint the dots for the eyes very carefully so that they are even.
Then wallah you are done! Go and hang that bad boy on your door! I am sure it will be a conversation starter when someone comes to your door. Plus, in the story Jack Skellington finds Christmas Town the day after Halloween (my favorite holiday) and starts planning his take over of Christmas shortly after. So, I take that as I can have this wreath up from November 1st until the end of December! One wreath for two months, hells yeah!
Crafting Mommy of Three 