Making a Holiday Wreath

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance outfitters in the pathfinder school what we're gonna do today is we're going to gather some materials and we're going to create a holiday wreath it's a very simple process but I think that understanding the utilization of resources historically and also understanding why things were used and why things were made like the wreath which has a long history of use cross culturally with lots and lots of people's not only with Christians but also with pagan cultures as well and if you look back in history the Scandinavian peoples made reach that they actually were very large and they set them on fire and rolled them down a hill to bring back the Sun the following year evergreen type trees were used generally speaking in Reis cross-culturally to signify everlasting life the Romans would hang wreaths on their front doors very similar to what we do today to signify victory ancient Germanic peoples made recent use them around the Yule season or the holiday season again to signify everlasting life and in Christianity we use the wreaths today you know on a table setting flat with four candles on the outside and one candle in the center and those candles are generally white and there's a blue candle I think it is in the middle of most of the time that she's during the Advent and you would like one of those candles each of the four Sundays prior to Christmas and in Christmas Eve you would like to center candle to signify the coming of Christ so I think that the wreath in general has a very interesting history it has a cross cultural history it's a very simple project that you can do with your kids around the holidays to help them appreciate the natural resources around them utilize the natural resources around them and help them become more aware of not only history but also their surroundings and the outdoors stay with but I think that making a wreath from natural material during a holiday season is a cool project and so I thought I'd work on that today and all I've done is and we're not collected a good length of grapevine to start as the base of my wreath and it just gives me places that I can shove pine boughs into in circular fashion to make my wreath and then I've taken lots and lots of pine boughs and I'm going to cut them off with a pair of nippers that I've got right here and shove them into this wreath is circular fashion so I'm just going to separate just like this just to come in and I'll just continue to do that all the way around this wreath leaving some of the pine cones and things like that exposed gives it a little bit more of a rustic look and we're just going to continue to pile those things in in circular fashion around this wreath okay once I've got the first layer around this going to take some brown jute twine here any natural cordial board for this and I'm going to lace around this thing to just hold this first layer together and also give me somewhere else that I can't put another layer on top of all of this to lace things into it's just gonna give it a little bit more structure and I want to pull that down fairly tight all the way around this is where you're gonna find out less or more on there than you really want because you'll see gaps as you wind this thing around got areas that you should have put more in to begin with because this is gonna be your final decoration or whatever you want to call it you're going to put on that for this and you're going to use this a structural face to weave into someone hangs like this it's not horrible the way it is well we can fluff it up a little bit more we can take some of these sprigs that we had cones attached to we can cut those off showing it's all we're really doing now is just taking small sprigs and figuring out where do they need to go they're gonna get this thing filled in the way one show in there but you've got enough structure of this thing now that you can get in there and put some of that stuff in and make it look a little more full that's what you want to do okay folks will appreciate you every day for this quick video on how to make a holiday wreath I think that you know simple projects like this that you can do with your children are exceptional things to do during any holiday season that you can utilize natural resources in the process so that you can get your kids outside I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for everything you do for our school for business for our family for all of our sponsors instructors and filling some friends and I'll be back with another video as soon as I can thanks guys