Greek Wreath Using Real Leaves

• 1). Collect a large bendable branch with varying sizes of leaves. Make sure that you can bend the branch into a circle without it breaking, and make sure that it fits around your head. A palo verde tree or olive tree will produce bendable branches, but anything bendable should work fine.
  
  
• 2). Cut off any smaller branches that are poking out from your branch.
  
  
• 3). Wrap the branch around your head and cut it to the correct size, leaving 1/2 inch extra at each end for tying.
  
  
• 4). Secure the ends together with a twist tie or zip tie.
  
  
• 5). Press a hot glue stick into the back of your hot glue gun. Plug it in and let it heat up for 5 minutes.
  
  
• 6). Glue the leaves onto your wreath so that they are overlapping and all facing in one direction.
  
  
• 7). Spray paint the entire wreath gold. Hold the spray paint can about 6 inches from the wreath.
  
  
• 8). Allow the wreath to dry for at least 3 hours.
  
  

Ivy Vine Headdress

• 1). Cut off a 24-inch piece of green bendable wire and shape it to your head. Leave the headband open at the ends, as this one will not be a full circle.
  
  
• 2). Measure the ivy vine to the length of your wire headband and cut it.
  
  
• 3). Cut 1-inch wide strips of green tissue paper and wrap them around the wire. They should be about 1 foot in length. Secure with tape. Do this all the way around the wire so that it is completely covered.
  
  
• 4). Heat up your hot glue gun for 5 minutes.
  
  
• 5). Glue your silk vine onto the headband, starting at one end and moving to the other. Press firmly and let dry for an hour.
  
  
• 6). Spray paint the wreath with gold spray paint, holding it 6 inches from the wreath. Allow it to dry for at least 3 hours.
  
  
• 7). Wear the wreath on your head with the opening in the back.