DIY Floral Garland From Dollar Tree Items

Here is a quick, easy and thrifty way to create a floral garland when you can't find the one you need for a special occasion or home decor.

Above: 2 stems of roses (6 on each stem), a yard long vine, and one stem carnations or other filler type flower.

The Dollar Tree has a variety of ivy and green leaf garlands that can be turned into floral garlands by adding roses and hydrangea, gypsum, or lilac together, and it is relatively easy.

To make this lovely floral garland , first remove the tag and any packaging from the greenery vine and straighten it out as best you can. It is about 3 feet (1 yard) long, which is good for draping across a shelf, a mantel, on a head board, the top of a piano or down the middle of a table.

Remove the flowers from the two rose bushes, leaving the stem and green plastic sections, as you see here.

There is a small bit of stem on each leaf of the garland. You can insert the roses on top of each leaf, as you see right, above. 

As you can see from the length of garland, there will be some bare spots, so you will need some hot glue and some filler type flowers for that. I used white lilacs, also from Dollar Tree, but you could use hydrangea or any other type of flower, as I've shown you here. 

Sometimes floral garlands are used to fill in the spaces of a candle holder to give a seasonal color.

This is an easy craft, and if you don't have a hot glue gun, you can tape the filler flowers on to the bare areas of the vine. 

Materials and Cost:

2 rose bushes 

1 vine, leaf or ivy

1 filler flower, hydrangea, gypsum, lilac or carnation

1 hot glue stick (optional) or tape

Total expense approximately $4.50

Time needed (besides the shopping trip) 20 minutes.

It is possible you already have these materials and can use them in a different way to make the garland.