Star Wreath From Cereal Boxes

I am so excited about the way this project turned out. A few months ago I saw a picture on Pinterest of a star made out of a cereal box. It took me awhile to decide what I wanted to make with these stars, but I finally settled on a patriotic wreath.

Here's what you'll need:
Empty cereal boxes. (It used 3 boxes)
Paint
Ink for Distressing
Wreath
Hot Glue Gun

Luckily Husband goes through a lot of cereal, so I had plenty of empty cereal boxes for this project. I started by cutting out a star pattern with my Cricut, and then I traced that on the inside of the cereal box.

 

I cut out the stars and drew on the lines. Each line goes from the tip of the point, through the middle to the corner across from it. In the end I used about 15 stars.

I folded the star in half on each line and made sure to give it a hard crease.

 

After each line had been crease I kind of smushed it together so that it would take on a 3D look.

 

I spray painted the stars. I found that the white paint didn't stick very well. It kept soaking in. I was using cheap paint so that may have had something to do with it. In the end I finally just used a sponge brush to paint acrylic paint on the white ones. The red and blue stars turned out better. I did have to do a few coats. Again, I was using $1.50 cans of Walmart spray paint. If you have nicer spray paint it might go on a little better, but in the end I was happy with my cheap paint.

I also antiqued the edges by running them along a pad of black ink.

 

 Then I used hot glue to attach each star to my Dollar Store wreath.

 

I didn't really have a plan for how I overlapped them. I just started gluing. And finally after picking off all the leftover hot glue strings, I have my beautiful patriotic wreath!

 The only downside to this wreath is that if it gets rainy I'm afraid my stars will be ruined. I might have to look for a place inside to hang it.