leaf wreath

I am a volunteer for the activities division of the nursing home that my husband resides in and I help come up with ideas for projects that the residents can make each week.  It is difficult to pick a project for all as some are able to do advanced work and others are physically or mentally challenged.  They love to have a project that can be hung in their rooms or on their doors. When I first saw Bitten by the Bug's challenge, I immediately thought of making leaves to put on wreath forms, but money is tight and we couldn't afford the forms; so I cut a six inch wreath from the Cricut Christmas in a brown color. Then the Maple leaf from  Cricut and Close to my Heart Art Philosophy.  I have Cricut Design so I have many designs to choose from.  I cut the basic leaf pattern in yellow and orange CTMH Paper.  I then drew on the veins of the leave with CTMH art pencil in Oak Brown.  I have a very old set of pencils and not sure that they still have Oak Brown.  A piece of raffia paper in green was cut, spread out and glued on the top of the wreath.  Of course all Close to my Heart items are purchased from Katie's Corner.

The patients loved  the project and some made very intricate vein designs on the leaves and others simply glued the blank leaves on the wreath.  For the nursing home, I made several colors of  leaves and they could choose what they wanted to use and they all loved their finished project.