Candy Corn Coffee Filter Wreath
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I love all of the coffee filter wreaths I've been seeing over on Pinterest lately, and they inspired me to create my own version for Halloween. Candy corn was an easy choice of inspiration for my Halloween coffee filter wreath because of its iconic colors. Plus, I only needed three different colors of coffee filters to make it — yellow, orange, and white. I used ordinary, inexpensive, white basket-style coffee filters (not the cone ones). The white would work fine as-is, but to dye some of them yellow and orange, I mixed up bowls of water with regular food coloring.
I put bundles of about 50 filters at a time into the water, leaving them to soak until the color was about halfway up the side. Then I just set them aside to dry.
To create 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 and then I was ready to start hot gluing my filters. The foam made a huge mess, so I wish I had used foamcore or cardboard instead. Next time!
When the filters were dry, I separated them and glued them to the frame, one at a time. To make it easy to tuck them in AND keep from burning myself repeatedly with the hot glue, I wrapped the coffee filter around a pen and put a dollop of super hot glue at the end (the center of the filter).
Then I just stuck it in place on the foam, held it for a few seconds to set, then pulled away the pen.
I did around the edges first, then filled in, making it full and fluffy. In keeping with the colors of candy corn, I put a wide band of yellow across the bottom, then a band of orange in the middle, and of course white on top. I just kept on 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.
25 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!
Just stopping by to let you know that I have featured your project on Fun Family Crafts! You can see it here
http://funfamilycrafts.com/candy-corn-coffee-filter-wreath/
If you have other kid friendly crafts, I'd love it if you would submit them :) If you would like to display a featured button on your site, you can grab one from the right side bar of your post above.
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..
I love the candy corn wreath. I have made Valentine's day, easter and christmas wreaths with the coffee filters. Just cut in shape of heart and and egg and decorated them. Looked really nice. I will be making the candy corn wreath.
I have made a LOT of different wreaths with coffee filers I have found that Kool-aide works great for color too :)1 pack with 1 1/2 cups warm water stir until it dissolves. The name brand is a lot more colorful than the local store brands.
I have tossed mine in the dyer for about 10 to 15 minutes will help them dry faster just have to watch them every few minutes... when done just take a damp wash cloth an wipe out the dryer TADA :)
Can you use cardboard for this? Would it work the same?
Tiffany, not sure which part you want to use cardboard for. You definitely could not use it instead of the filters, because it wouldn't be flexible enough to form the fluffy little bunches. You could use it instead of the Styrofoam, but you would have to use strong glue or tape to attach the filters to it, which might be difficult.
Hi, I really love this! What I am wondering though is how well the coffee filters do in the weather! I want to hang it on my door but it will definitely get wet there. Will it hold up?
Mine hung on a door that had a covered front porch and the weather didn't hit it directly so it was fine.
I was thinking of using the thick poster board. I don't have any foam. but there is foam in the poster board. I will also try using the kool-aid for color. After you soaked your filters did you pull them apart to dry them? You didn't mention that in your instructions.
Joyce, I did not pull them apart to dry. I let the whole chunk dry, then just peeled them off one at a time as I needed them.