Why do traditional when you can do unique? This Tea Bag Wreath is a fun gift to give or receive!

A tea bag wreath is a unique twist on a wreath. It's the perfect gift to give or receive if you are a tea lover. Makes a wonderful Mother's Day, Teacher Appreciation or Housewarming gift idea.

I’m not a coffee person (love the smell- don’t love the taste). Tea, however, is a hot beverage I can really get behind.

This passion for tea translates into a tea box that just can’t accommodate my collection and a tea drawer that is jumbled at best (since there’s no room for all of the boxes that the tea comes in, most of the tea bags have been relocated to bags… it’s an adventure). This situation is totally fine for me; I usually know what I’m looking for and can just paw through to find it. It’s not great for hostessing, though, as guests don’t know what’s available (why the heck not, right?) and I don’t really love the idea of putting 15 ziploc bags full of various tea varieties on my counter every time people come over.

Enter my newly crafted Tea Bag Wreath. With this little circle of goodness, my guests can easily see each kind of tea I have without having to sift through my massive, and sort of confusing, collection. Then, when people leave, I just replenish the wreath. It’s both easy for me and great for all the tea drinkers that frequent our house.

Tea Bag Wreath

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Supplies:
-two pieces of 12x12ish cardboard
-patterned paper that compliments your kitchen decor
clothes pins (I used 24)
hot glue gun
-ribbon for hanging

Tea Bag Wreath steps in photos

Step 1. Hot glue your two pieces of cardboard together (this is to give your base a little bulk since it’ll be holding a bunch of clothespins eventually). Cut the doubled up cardboard into a generally wreath-like shape (a circle, or if you’re adventurous, a square). Make sure the ‘wreath’ part is about as thick as a clothespin. I traced plates to make my circles (you can see that I didn’t like my first choice of inner circle and found something smaller to trace instead).

Step 2. Cover your circle with patterned paper. I traced my ‘wreath’ onto the back side of the patterned paper and then cut outside of my lines by about half an inch to give myself gluing margin. I then notched the margin up to my tracing lines and glued the little tabs around the outside and inside circles. I’m sure there are other ways to cover a cardboard circle- that’s just what I did.

Step 3. Cover your clothespins with patterned paper as well. I just cut long strips of paper about the width of the clothespin, hot glued the long strip on, and trimmed the ends.

Step 4. Start hot gluing your clothespins to your wreath. Continue until the whole wreath is covered in evenly spaced clothespins. Make sure that the ‘mouth’ of the clothespin faces the outside of the wreath (otherwise you’ll have a whole jumble of tea bags in the center of the wreath and people won’t be able to see which kinds you have).

Step 5. Tie a ribbon on your wreath for hanging. Clip tea onto each of your clothespins. Hang and enjoy!

This fun and super creative project was brought to you by Kojo Designs.

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17 Comments

  1. That’s super cute. That would be a great Grandparent gift with pictures. I really like it.

  2. Very creative! Would be cute to put pics of kids/family on the ends also….endless possibilities!

  3. So, so cute! I made something similar for our Christmas cards this year, and I loved how functional, yet funky and cute it was! LOVE the idea to use it for tea.

  4. Holy Cannoli that’s the bomb!!! I LOVE it and will make one for myself!

  5. Me too! I love to make it(for my hubby/guests) and the smell is wonderful.
    But I love love love tea! And this is a great idea.

  6. This is too cute…maybe I’ll try it for an upcoming present:)

  7. I love this idea! I have bookmarked it as a Christmas gift idea. Thanks for sharing that.
    I too love the smell of coffee but can’t stand the taste.
    amanda @ myramblings.ca

  8. I am so making this! Love it and we have so much tea, it will never be empty. What a great idea, thanks for sharing.

  9. How else could you use this wreath? What other things would you clip onto it? Just wondering and looking for other great ideas to use it as.

  10. Just came across this as I was looking through your blog! So cute!! I am just doing up a post on all the things to do with clothes pegs and will be featuring this if that’s okay! LOVE your blog!!

  11. Marisa Wells says:

    Love your idea, will use for a singers dressing room who request tea….. Thank you

  12. Thank you for sharing this great and practical project. Your instructions were very easy to follow and the photos very helpful. I just finished making one and will be suggesting this idea as a an item to sell at our CHRISTmas bazaar. Again, thank you very much.

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