Materials: one 18" straw wreath, two oranges, 50 pinecones various size and shapes, peanut butter, birdseed, various dried herbs or flowers from your garden, raffia, U shaped floral pins, glue, three yards of two inch wide ribbon, your choice of color
Directions: Cut the oranges in half and scoop out the pulp. Allow a day or two for them to air dry. While you are waiting for the oranges to dry take your ribbon to form a bow. Leave long streamers for the ends of the bows. Attach the bow to the center top of the wreath. Once your orange halves are dried, with glue and floral pins, attach the halves to the wreath at various places. Make sure that your orange cups face upward like a bowl. Cover twelve to sixteen of your larger pine cones with peanut butter. Roll the pine cones in birdseed, leaving one side of the pine cone without peanut butter or birdseed. This will enable you to easily glue the cones to the wreath. Glue these pine cones equally spaced around the wreath. Fill in around the seed covered pine cones with your plain pine cones. Break off clusters of your dried herbs or flowers to glue them around the wreath. Loop the streamers of the bow around your wreath. For a final touch weave lengths of raffia throughout your wreath.
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