Star Anise Wreath In Three Steps Crafting With Nature

Star anise, with its elegant designs, and licorice scent mixed with store-bought basics like nutmeg, orange slices, soft vanilla, cinnamon sticks, cloves, and its spicy middle notes of cinnamon are all a cozy reminder of the holiday season. So, what’s better than making a DIY star anise wreath in three steps crafting with nature? These will welcome family and friends to celebrate the season and the winter months.

Star anise, with its elegant designs and star-shaped pods, isn’t just a culinary delight it also brings a unique touch to projects such as star anise wreaths: crafting with nature’s charm. Whether you’re infusing your living space with its warm, spicy middle notes of cinnamon or adding natural elegance to your crafts, star anise offers endless possibilities.

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Star Anise Crafting With Nature

Elevate our Holiday Decor With Rustic Charm and Elegance

Star anise offers endless possibilities, whether infusing your home with its enigmatic fragrance in a simmer pot or Christmas tree with its contemporary Christmas pattern or adding it to any easy craft.

Easy Craft Ideas

Star Anise Christmas Wreath and Charming Accents

• Christmas Wreath Idea: Star anise Christmas wreath
• Christmas Decorations: Small pine cones and anise stars
• Double Wick Candle: A large double wick candle wrapped with jute, and an anise star glued in the center
• Garlands:  Add these as motifs of Christmas garlands with holly, berries, cinnamon sticks, and pinecones

This spice’s iconic designs and rustic charm lend a visual appeal for the holidays. Before I share let’s talk about these iconic designs and how to add them to our homes.

Magic of Star Anise: Infuse the Home with Fragrance and Rustic Charm

This beautiful spice filled with spicy notes of cinnamon is, known for its contemporary Christmas pattern and adds a unique flavor to culinary delights. Have you ever tried hot cocoa with a star anise and a bit of nutmeg? It adds depth and flavor. Yum! No star anise no problem, add a tiny bit of ground cloves for added flavor and warmth. With its seasonal shade, enigmatic winter fragrance, and spicy middle notes of cinnamon, star anise can be incorporated into an array of craft elements and easy DIY projects.

Enhance Holiday Decor With the Charm of Star Anise

With its seasonal shade, enigmatic winter fragrance, and spicy cinnamon scent, star anise can be incorporated into craft elements and easy DIY projects. Scented sachets, mini wreaths, a smaller wreath made from fresh willow twigs, slices of orange for the Christmas tree, and garlands with white berry twists and other greenery as Christmas door decor. Their elegant designs add a visual appeal with their contemporary pattern and rustic charm to Christmas decorations or a rustic star anise Christmas wreath on the front door. These beautifully shaped rustic pods, cloves, oranges, and pinecones say Happy Holidays!

Festive Elegance From Sachets to Wreaths for Holiday Decor

Scented sachets to small wreaths made from fresh willow twigs, orange slices for the tree, and garlands with white berry twists hung as Christmas door decor. Their elegant designs add visual appeal with their contemporary Christmas pattern and rustic charm to decorations or a rustic star anise Christmas wreath on the front door. These star-shaped pods say Happy Holidays!

Scented Decoration Ideas: Infuse The Home With Holiday Charm

• Pinecones: Preserve these for indoor decor and add them to your fall, Christmas, and winter home decorations every year. Add pinecones to crates, baskets, and a decorative bowl. Add slices of dried oranges, faux or fresh greenery cinnamon, and star anise for a rustic centerpiece for a coffee table or dining table. Add a battery-operated candle for warmth and ambiance for the holidays through the winter.
• Wrap Anise Stars: Wrap jute or twine around a soft vanilla, large double wick candle. Add strong craft glue to the center of the star anise. Add this to the coffee table as a centerpiece with other craft elements such as pinecones, cinnamon sticks, and other seasonal foliage. Can you imagine the beautiful smell during the winter months? The combination will be AMAZING! 

Remember, star anise, offers a beautiful seasonal shade that makes it the perfect scent during the holidays and winter.  

Easy Craft Star Anise Wreath in Three Steps Crafting With Nature

Craft Supplies: 

• Star Anise 25 per wreath for an 8-inch wreath.
• Black wreath hoops, foam wreath forms, or metal wreath forms.
• Ribbon or burlap ribbon to wrap metal wreath hoop or Styrofoam wreath form.
• Hot glue sticks and hot glue gun rubber fingertips
• Velvet ribbon, silk ribbon, burlap ribbon, or lace ribbon for hanging.

Star Anise Wreath in Three Steps Crafting With Nature

Step 1: Wrap the Wreath Forms

First thing, these will take a couple of hours to make. Plug in the hot glue gun on the low setting. Add a dot of hot glue to the end of the ribbon. Place it on wreath form and hold it to set. 

Now wrap the metal or foam wreath forms with the ribbon and add a dot of glue to the end of the ribbon to attach to your star anise wreath base.

Top Tips

Cindy’s Top Tip: If you are using a foam wreath form, spray paint it with dark brown spray paint. If there are gaps between the star anise this will blend the Styrofoam. Burnt umber or brown acrylic paint will work. The painting and drying time will take longer and require more paint.

Cindy’s Top Tip: When gluing the anise to the wreath form add hot, strong craft glue to the back of an anise star and place it on the wreath base. Hold the anise stars for a moment until each piece is set. Because these vary in size there will be larger-sized star anise and smaller pieces to glue and an odd number. Offset each star as you are gluing them on the wreath. Try to get the anise point in between the space of each point close to the center. I recommend setting your glue gun on a low setting. 

Step 2: Gluing 

Use the hot glue gun to add an anise star to each wreath.

Add hot, strong craft glue to the back of each and place it on the wreath base. Hold it for a moment until each piece is set.

Cindy’s Top Tip: These are small and setting the hot glue gun on low temperature will avoid burns. If you are concerned, I suggest buying fingertip protectors. These work great.

Step 3: Hang The Finished Wreath

Hang each wreath with velvet ribbon, satin, or lace ribbon from the back of your dining chair, kitchen chairs, windows, or favorite place in your home.

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Easy Craft Ideas

Scented Decoration to Infuse the Home With Holiday Charm 

Here are a few scented decoration ideas that incorporate this contemporary Christmas pattern: 

• Christmas Door Decor: Make a natural rustic star anise Christmas wreath by attaching anise stars and other seasonal foliage with a hanger, willow twigs, or fresh willow branches made into a circular shape. Combine them with other natural elements and store-bought basics such as dried orange slices, cinnamon sticks, and small pine cones for a festive touch in the home. Attach these with heavy gauge floral wire. This Christmas wreath idea will be beautiful hanging on your front door. 
• Christmas Wreath Idea: A large anise wreath makes a beautiful Christmas wreath idea for a centerpiece. Add a flickering flameless candle to the center of your coffee table or dining table. Remember, star anise offers a beautiful touch of nature, making it the perfect scented decoration idea for the holidays and winter.   
• Scented Sachets: Want year-round home-fragrancing add star anise to sachets. Fill fabric pouches with this enigmatic winter fragrance or for a similar effect use fresh cloves. Add other store-bought basics like pine, cinnamon sticks, Rosemary, or dried orange peels to enhance their spicy middle notes of cinnamon, and a cotton ball with a soft vanilla essential oil. It’s an easy DIY for year-round home-fragrancing to add to drawers and closets for the winter months. 

Small Wreath

Small Wreath: Festive Easy DIY Decor Ideas for the Holidays

Buy craft elements such as a twiggy base or small embroidery hoops. Using a glue gun and strong glue add the star anise. Add these to gifts, seasonal foliage with berry twists, and slices of orange for pretty Christmas decorations. 

• Mini Wreaths: Buy craft supplies such as a twiggy base or small embroidery hoops. Mini Wreaths can be made in a couple of hours. Add strong hot glue to the star anise and hold to set. Hang the wreaths with a wired ribbon as on the Christmas tree. Imagine the spicy notes of cinnamon in combination with the pine from the tree for a couple of weeks when the family is celebrating. Add mini wreaths to gifts, with seasonal foliage and slices of orange for a scented decoration idea. Imagine receiving this on your presents.

Add These Star-Shaped Designs and Fragrance

• Fresh Herb Wreaths: Purchase store-bought basics, Rosemary, Thyme, and Sage for fresh herb wreaths. Make small bouquets with the herbs and create a circular shape with floral wire. Add the bouquets to a twiggy base or grapevine wreath and hang with your favorite wired ribbon. In a couple of weeks, you will have a dried herb wreath. Use floral wire and attach anise stars to a dried herb wreath using floral wire for easy removal. Use the herbs for cooking until they lose their aroma.
• Iconic Designs: Incorporating these iconic designs and easy craft ideas is a perfect way to complement dried slices of orange, acorns, nuts, small pine cones, and willow twigs or branches. I add oranges and pinecones to our home from fall through winter.

Imagine the spicy middle notes of cinnamon in combination with the scent of pine from the Christmas Tree for a couple of weeks when the family is celebrating.  

Contemporary Christmas Pattern These craft ideas complement, dried oranges, orange slices, acorns, nuts, small pine cones, and branches. I add these to our home from fall through winter.

Small Wreaths Add Seasonal Fragrance Throughout the Home

There are many places to hang a smaller wreath. Hang smaller wreaths from the back of dining room chairs. This was my plan for these star anise wreaths in three steps. A smaller wreath with these iconic designs will be pretty inside a wood or painted frame for year-round home-fragrancing hanging with velvet wired ribbon. 

Also, think about hanging a star anise wreath from doors and making the perfect Christmas door decor, a piece of a gate, or architectural pieces. For year-round home-fragrancing, this wreath with its spicy middle notes of cinnamon is perfect for hanging from a china cabinet or armoire, leaning inside a bookcase or open shelves for a rustic look. Hang a smaller wreath on decorative hooks in a mud room or entryway of your home with seasonal foliage for an enigmatic winter fragrance.

Step 2: Gluing

Top Tip: Add enough hot glue to anise stars when adding them to each wreath. Heat the hot glue gun on low, it will help to avoid burning your fingertips for this easy craft. When gluing the anise stars, offset for the correct spacing on each star anise wreath, pictured above on the right.

Step 3: Hang The Finished Wreath

Hang each star anise wreath with velvet, satin, or lace ribbon from the back of your dining chair, kitchen chairs, windows, or your favorite place in your home.

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Craft With Seasonal Shades: Adding Nature’s Beauty Star Anise

Crafting with this seasonal shade, small pine cones, and fresh willow, adds nature’s beauty to your home. Whether making small fresh herb wreaths, hanging fresh greenery on the front door, or simmer a pot with pine, store-bought basics such as cinnamon, cranberries, whole cloves, and orange slices. Or add a soft vanilla large double wick candle to a table or these rustic star-shaped elegant designs to bowls. I hope I inspired you to make a DIY star anise wreath
 in three steps crafting with nature for your home! Remember, make one project at a time and share your creations with me @clochesandlavender and I’ll cheer you on. Happy Crafting!

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