Poor student me discovered last year that I could make a Christmas wreath for my dorm door with minimal and very cheap supplies - mainly, an Amazon delivery cardboard box, old issues of my university newspaper, and some tissue paper.
This project was inspired by another blog I found while searching for paper wreaths on Google. This is the blog - it has instructions on the writer's own method, although I made some modifications to my project.
For one, my base is not round as I didn't have a big enough piece of cardboard for that (it was one of those single-book Amazon cardboard sleeves), so I compensated by cutting one inch wide rectangular strips, and making a rough hexagon (six-sided shape) by laying the pieces at roughly 60 degrees to each other and stapling the ends together. Then I folded my newspaper sheets with an accordion fold and proceeded to cut out a lot of leaf shapes (I didn't count them, I just cut more when I ran out). The good thing about using newspaper was that it was so thin, it was easy to cut a lot without too much difficulty.
However, the thinness of the newspaper meant that the tip folding and twisting had to be done a bit more carefully. I didn't bother with glue, I just stapled the leaves onto the hexagonal frame and arranged them to cover up the base- it turns into a circle eventually if you arrange the leaves properly.
The paper flowers are made using the Martha Stewart pom-poms method - Tissue Paper Pom-Poms - it's ridiculously easy and I use it for many decorations. Here, I made several in apple green tissue paper and nestled them in between the leaves randomly, gluing them in place. Then I punched a hole through the cardboard and threaded yarn through it to hang it up.
Unfortunately this wreath was stolen from outside my door at some point during the year. Perhaps someone crashed into my door and wrecked it and was too afraid to own up? :(
