I love all of the coffee filter wreaths I’ve been seeing over on Pinterest (check out our boards!) lately, and they inspired me to create my own version for Halloween. Candy corn was an easy choice of inspiration for my wreath because even though I can’t stand eating candy corn, I do love the look of it! I just needed three different colors of coffee filters: yellow, orange, and white. I used ordinary, cheap, basket style coffee filters (not the cone ones), and since they are already white, I didn’t have to do anything at all to one third of them! For the yellow and the orange, I took about 50 filters at a time and dipped them into some water that I tinted with regular food coloring. I allowed the color to soak about halfway up the filter before removing them. Then I just left them to dry.
For the wreath frame, I started by cutting a candy corn shape out of some brown wrapping paper. Then I traced the shape onto a piece of foam I had leftover from some packing material. I cut my shape out of the foam (making a huge mess everywhere!) and then I was ready to start hot gluing my filters. To keep from burning myself repeatedly with the hot glue, I wrapped the coffee filter around a pen, put a dollop of super hot glue in the middle, and then stuck it in place on the foam.
I started with the yellow on the bottom and placed the filters around the edge. Then it was just a matter of gluing, gluing, gluing, until the whole thing was covered!
I love how it turned out! It’s so fun and festive, and not nearly as fragile as you might think. The filters are nice and stiff. Looking at it finished, I also realized that I could probably use coffee filters to decorate a pinata. I’ll have to try that one day.
17 comments so far:
LOVE this tutorial, thank you! I have a candy corn obsession… don’t like to eat them, just love to decorate with them.
Just the thing to try my hand at coffee filter crafting. Love this wreath for fall. Thanks for sharing your awesome talent.
Cute!!!!!!
I Love It!! and I Will Have One by this weekend! Thanks for the great tutorial!
This Candy Corn Coffee Filter Wreath is AWESOME!! I have to make this, I just love it, you guys are so good!!
Love, love, love this! My head is spinning with ideas. I’m curious – How many filters did it take?
I love this! Not only do I love to EAT candy corn, I love the look of your wreath. Great job!~~Robyne~~
I am having some problems making this and need advise please. My orange coffee filters keep turning peach when dry. I have made three batches adjusting the mix and also bought new food coloring to see if that helped. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you!!!
Karen, I used Wilton Orange Icing Color to do mine. I don’t know if it is because it is a gel color and so the color stays truer or what. I did not try it with liquid color.
Thank you very much. I looked at that and did not buy it because I was nervous about it being a gel. I will be going after work to buy it and try. Thank you again!!!
Love this!! I’m going to have to do one for myself!! Thanks for the idea ladies!
The gel food coloring made all the difference in the world. My candy corn will no longer be peach. Thank you!!
Hi i was wondering if this could be applied to a christmas wreath idea? just trying to get some cool crafts done since this will be our first christmas just my hubby our two boys and me!
It would be easy to make a tree, you can even use the same basic candy corn shape. Just dip your filters into green instead and then add a pretty, glittered start to the top and you are good to go!
aww how inventive of you! So original, i can imagine many people ask where you perchaced it from, then you get the thrill of telling them you made it yourself!
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Hi..LOVE the coffee filter candy corn wreath, but it seems it’s taking FOREVER for the filters to dry..maybe I got them TOO wet…hopefully, they will dry soon…love it..