What do you do when your husband brings home a bag full of miniature hats? That is after you peel yourself off the floor because your husband came home with a bag of hats! 😮 He also came home with an Ashland wreath form that he found at Goodwill for $3. I mean really, the DIY summer straw hat wreath almost made itself.

Handmade Summer Straw Hat Wreath

This is such an easy peasy handmade wreath craft idea. My hot glue gun and I became the best of friends and the worst of friends. Ouch!

I still had my DIY Dollar Store Spring Garden Wreath hanging on the front door so it was time to finally switch it out for a summer door wreath. Nothing like waiting until the middle of summer, better than never as they say!

So here's where we started with the shopping bag full of assorted miniature straw hats.

I used a good majority of them but still have a few leftovers for future crafting potential.

What You'll Need To Make It

These are the other supplies I used to make the wreath. An 18-inch wreath form, and carnation floral picks and ribbon from the dollar store. The wreath cost less than $10 to make and what's not to love about that.

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Here's How I Made It

Seriously, this is going to be one of the shortest DIY tutorials I've written on the blog. Hot glue the mini wreaths onto the wreath form. BOOM, we're done!

Okay, maybe it's not THAT simple.

1. Arrange the hats so they are balanced on each side.
2. Place the largest ones towards the bottom of the wreath.
3. Fill any voids with the smallest hats.
4. Remove any old ribbon and embellishments from the hats, unless you like them of course. I kept the two pink ribbons because they go well with the florals and ribbon I'll be adding later. Plus they are unexpected with the rest of the hats being ribbonless.
5. Wrap the rim of the largest hat with a pretty summery ribbon. Make a bow and glue it in the center.
6. Arrange the faux carnations either in groups of three or odd numbers on either side of the bow and we're done.

See I told you it was easy!

Now I get that not every husband comes home with a bag full of hats. Nor is it commonplace to find miniature hats en masse. But if you keep your eyes peeled you may hit the jackpot at a crafter's garage sale. You can always collect them over time during thrift store jaunts.

But if your quest for miniature hats is unsuccessful, I've got more handmade wreath ideas for you either on my DIY Wreath Ideas page or my DIY Seasonal Wreath Ideas board on Pinterest.

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