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Primitive Easter Garland DIY

March 9, 2023 By: Linda @ Mixed Kreations4 Comments

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Hi all! Today I am sharing a Primitive Easter Garland project. I had so much fun making the St. Patrick’s Lucky Beaded Garland, with things made from the Dollar Tree that I decided to make some garland for Easter as well. The items used for this Easter garland is a mixture of things from the Dollar Tree and some that I had on hand.

Diy Easter garland

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Making primiive Easter garland

Supplies for Easter Garland

36 square wood beads
5 wood carrots
5 wood bunnies
6 wooden spools
6 strips of scrapbook paper
Acrylic paint – pink, blue, orange, green, burnt umber, white, black, and dark brown
Mod Podge
Paint brush
Twine
Muslin fabric
Annealed wire
Wire cutters
Toothbrush for splattering
Small tub with lid
Wood glue
Scissors
Bail making pliers

Primitive Easter Garland

Start off by staining the bunnies, spools, and Easter eggs with watered down brown paint.

Wood parts for primitive easter garland

Once dry take five Easter eggs and put them in a small tub with a lid and add a couple drops of pink paint. Put the lid on and shake. You don’t want them completely covered so check on them and remove them when some of the brown stain is still showing.

Speckled Easter eggs

Pink eggs

Take the other five eggs for the primitive Easter garland and do the same as above except use the light blue paint on these.

Diy speckled eggs

Easter eggs for garland

Take strips of scrapbook paper and Mod Podge and attach to the center of the wood spools.

Scrapbook paper for spools

After the paper dries go back with and old paint brush or sponge and dab on some brown paint to tone down the bright colors of the scrapbook paper.

Making Easter garland primitive

Seal with a coat of Mod Podge and set aside.

Primitive spools for Easter garland

Paint the carrots orange and the tops green. Use burnt umber for the detailing on the carrots. Add a dab of white paint to the tops of the carrots.

Easter carrots

carrots for primitive easter garland

Splatter with black paint and an old toothbrush.

Splattered carrots

Drill holes in the top of the bunnies.

Bunnies

To attach the Easter bunnies cut five pieces of annealed wire approximately 2 ½” and form a loop at each end with bail making pliers. Make one loop larger than the other then attaching the bunnies to the larger loop.

Annealed wire

Making wire hooks

Wire. Hooks

Wood bunny

Let’s start stringing the primitive Easter garland. Cut a piece of twine 55” in length then start stringing the beads, spools, eggs, and bunnies onto the twine in the same order. Leave the same length in loose ends, and set aside.

Diy primitive garland

Making the Tassels

For the tassels cut some pieces of muslin fabric about 10” long and 4 or 5 inches wide.

Muslin

Then dip the fabric in a watered down coffee mixture, and let dry.

Age fabric with coffee

Aging fabric

Fabric for tassels

Once dry start cutting the 10” pieces of stained muslin into ¼’ to ½” strips.

Strips for tassels

Make two piles of the strips stacked together, and leave to strips set aside for tying the tassels.

Strips for tassels

Now fold one pile of fabric strips over a paintbrush or pencil then use one of the strips that was set aside to tie around the top of the tassel just under the paintbrush that was used to form the tassel. Wrap around a couple times before tying. Do the same for the other pile of fabric strips to form the second tassel.

Diy primitive tassels

Pull the paintbrushes out and insert the loose ends of the twine from the primitive Easter garland. One on each end of the garland.

Diy primitive tassels

Pull tassel up tight to the bead ends and tie a knot.

Diy primitive tassels

Cut the twine off to about 1 ½” and add some Mod Podge or glue to the ends of the twine and let dry. This will make it easier to hide the ends.

adding primitive tassels

Run the stiffen ends of twine up through the first, second and third beads until it is all hidden.

Diy primitive tassels

Diy primitive tassels

Next, lay the bunnies down flat and glue the carrots onto the sides of the wood bunnies and let dry thoroughly.

Easter garland decor

Deciding that I wanted the primitive tassels darker I dipped them into some more of the watered-down instant coffee.

Title Primitive easter garland

That’s it for this primitive Easter garland project, and I am loving how it turned out! Comment below and let me know how you like my Easter garland.

Diy primitive easter garland

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  1. Michelle Leslie says

    March 11, 2023 at 2:18 am

    Would it sound completely crazy if I said I could see myself wearing something like this as a necklace, without those cute bunnies, of course 😉 I’ve always had this thing for prim decor, and this garland is one of the most interesting examples I’ve seen, Linda. All the attention to detail and the ageing methods you used work so beautifully together.

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    • Michelle Leslie says

      March 11, 2023 at 2:54 am

      Typo alert… I meant bunnies, not bubbies

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      • Linda @ Mixed Kreations says

        March 15, 2023 at 3:40 pm

        LOL I will correct it.

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    • Linda @ Mixed Kreations says

      March 15, 2023 at 3:43 pm

      No your not crazy, I think it would be a cool necklace as well. I was a little worried that I had made the tassels a little to dark.

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