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DIY Farmhouse American Flag Wreath

Wanting to make a patriotic wreath for your front door? Follow this simple tutorial to make an easy DIY farmhouse American flag wreath!

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

This simple, beautiful, rustic Farmhouse American Flag Wreath is a sweet way to dress up your front door, especially for patriotic holidays and occasions, and welcome guests to your home! (And the fact that you can make this for about $20 or less is pretty awesome, too!)

I love the cotton stems in this wreath – to me, they’re reminiscent of “the good ‘ole days” and simpler times; times that are full of spending slow evenings on the front porch with a glass of sweet tea and shootin’ the breeze with family and friends.

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

They also remind me of my family – much of them are from (and still live in) west Texas where cotton is a chief crop. I know my dad grew up with his siblings and cousins working in their grandparents’ cotton fields, and he has tons of fond memories of spending quality time with family while growing up.

If you’re nostalgic with your home decor, too, you’re in great company! 

Let’s go make this wreath together, ok?

Here’s what you need to make this adorable patriotic wreath:

If you buy the materials when they’re on sale at 40-50% off (which is probably every other week for each of these items), you can easily make this wreath for about $20!

Step 1: place the cotton stems where you’d like to position them on the wreath.

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

 

Step 2: Wrap the cotton stems around the wreath and secure them with some floral wire. 

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

I just secured each stem with floral wire in one spot.

I tried securing them in the same area so I could cover that one area with ribbon to hide the floral wire (see later pictures).

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

 

Step 3: Place the berry cluster stems on top of the cotton stems and wrap them around the wreath & the cotton stems

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

I wove some of the berry clusters around the cotton stems so they’d be a little more secure and didn’t stick out of the wreath too much.

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

You can secure the berry stems with floral wire, but you may not need to if you’re able to wrap the actual stem around the wreath pretty well.

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

 

Step 4: Place your flags where you’d like them in the wreath

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

This part actually took me a few minutes to really position them where I wanted them and get them to actually stay. I ended up cutting off part of the stick of the flag so they didn’t stand up too much from the wreath.

Step 4: Secure the flag poles with hot glue

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

This may seem to get a little messy, but don’t worry – you’ll be able to cover it up with ribbon. 

Step 5: Wrap ribbon around the area with the floral wire and where the hot glue shows on the flag sticks

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

 

Step 6: Tie a bow with the ribbon & glue middle of the bow to the ribbon on the wreath

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

(Sorry, no pictures of how I made my bow. I am AWFUL at bows and it’s a whole mess of a process as I try to get the perfect bow. Bow tying and teaching how to tie bows are not my calling in life. If you’re an awful bow-tier too, hop on Pinterest and look up some tutorials for how to get that perfect bow!)

 

Step 7: Hang on your door and enjoy!

Look how adorable! This just makes me want to walk on through my front door!

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

A perfect piece of decor for patriotic holidays & occasions – Memorial Day, Flag Day, 4th of July, Veteran’s Day, or as an everyday wreath! It is totally acceptable to decorate with American flags year-round.

Do you know who you’re talking to?

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

And the fact that you can make this wreath for about $20 is such a bonus!

Happy crafting!

Farmhouse American Flag Wreath, complete with cotton boll stems and red berry stems. A beautiful, simple, rustic patriotic wreath to welcome your guests through your front door!

Love this DIY project and want to save it for later? Be sure to pin it to your favorite Pinterest board!

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2 Comments

    1. Thank you so much, Lani! I’m seeing American flags all over in my neighborhood right now (actually, that was one reason Aaron and I ended up buying in our neighborhood – when we were house hunting, we noticed this particular neighborhood seemed to have a lot of houses that were flying American flags, and that to us was a visual that this is probably a pretty communal and friendly neighborhood!), so it seems so appropriate to have this wreath on my door, especially this time of year! 🙂

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