I don’t know when I became someone who gets genuinely excited about a front door, but here we are. 😁
That feeling of coming home to a wreath you made yourself, hung on your own front door, hits differently than anything you’d pick up at a store.
Fall is honestly the best season for this. The colors practically do the work for you: burnt orange, deep burgundy, mustard yellow, and warm browns.
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Working with a handful of faux leaves from the dollar store or a full floral arrangement from your local craft shop, a DIY fall wreath is one of those projects that looks way more impressive than the effort involved.
I’ve pulled together 23 of my favorite DIY fall wreaths, from simple leaf wreaths you can throw together in an afternoon to showstopping door wreaths that will carry you all the way through to Christmas.
Every budget, every skill level, and every front porch is covered.
1. Harvest Yarn Wreath with Bunting
A pool noodle from the dollar store, a skein of gray-brown-colored yarn, and a handful of fall picks from Hobby Lobby. The real charm is the tiny handmade bunting spelling out “Harvest” in stenciled letters, strung across the front and hot glued into place.
2. Lush Leafy Wreath Without a Wreath Form
No wreath form, no cutting your stems, no wasted supplies. This one uses faux fall stems bent and wired into a circular shape, layered and attached with craft wire until the whole ring is covered in foliage. A copper velvet ribbon finishes it off and gives it an elevated look that punches well above the effort involved. Great if you want to reuse the stems for other decor projects after fall ends.
3. DIY Fall Woodland Wreath
A grapevine wreath base layered with faux ferns, succulents, a dried lotus pod, burlap acorns, and a tiny straw squirrel hot-glued right onto the front. Earthy, textured, and genuinely charming in a way that feels more collected than crafted. The squirrel is optional but honestly makes the whole thing.
4. Dried Hydrangea Wreath
Cut your hydrangeas at the end of the season, pop them in a vase with water, and just leave them. No changing the water, no special tools. They dry out naturally on their own, keeping that gorgeous muted color, and then you tuck the stems straight into a grapevine wreath base.
5. Paper Leaf Wreath with Wool Acorns
Download a leaf template, print about 24 pink paper leaves, cut them out, hot glue them onto a small grapevine wreath base, add wool balls topped with real acorn caps, and weave a ribbon around the whole thing. The fact that it looks this pretty using paper is genuinely impressive, and the whole project costs next to nothing.
6. 10-Minute Grapevine Wreath with Berry Garland and Sisal Owl
Two five-foot berry garlands wrapped and wired around an 18-inch grapevine base, a velvet-look faux pumpkin hot-glued on, and a sisal owl wired on beside it. The whole thing comes together in under ten minutes and costs almost nothing from the craft store. Proof that the simplest wreath on the list can still be one of the most satisfying to hang up.
7. Garden-to-Door Dried Flower Wreath
A basket and whatever your garden is still giving you at the end of the season. Sunflowers, celosia, amaranth, hydrangeas, seed pods, ornamental grass plumes, and freshly cut red berries all go straight onto a grapevine base, no pre-drying required. They dry naturally on the wreath over the next couple of weeks, which means the finished result is a little different every time depending on what your garden had to offer that year.
8. Cupcake Liner Fall Wreath
About 400 mini cupcake liners in fall colors, scrunched up one by one and pinned into a foam wreath form until the whole thing is completely covered. No glue gun, no wire, no floral picks. The texture it creates looks surprisingly lush and the fact that it’s made entirely from baking supplies makes it one of the most unexpectedly clever wreaths on this list.
9. Felt Leaf Wreath for Fall
Wool-blend felt in burnt orange, deep red, purple, and soft gray cut into leaf shapes using a downloadable template, pinched at the center to give each leaf a natural fold, then hot glued in overlapping layers onto a twig wreath base. The color combination is unexpected and completely gorgeous, and a few leaves glued to the outer edges give the impression of leaves caught mid-fall in the wind.
10. 15-Minute Floral Grapevine Wreath with Bow
Faux sunflowers, mums, and a long berry stem woven directly into an 18-inch grapevine base without a single drop of glue, finished with a double wire ribbon bow at the top. The no-glue approach is actually the smartest thing about it since you can swap the florals out season to season or rearrange them any time without starting over. Under $20 and done in fifteen minutes.
11. Faux Foraged Fall Wreath
A small 12-inch grapevine base layered with faux foliage and florals in deep greens, burnt orange, and purple to create that freshly foraged-from-the-woods look without setting foot outside. The faux materials are doing a lot of heavy lifting here and honestly look surprisingly convincing. A full video tutorial walks you through every step, which makes this a great pick if you’re more of a visual learner.
12. No Hot Glue Gun Leaf and Pinecone Wreath
Faux fall leaves and pinecones arranged on a willow wreath base using glue dots instead of a hot glue gun, which means no burnt fingers, no waiting for things to set, and no mess. The pinecones get wired together in small clusters first before being threaded through the wreath, and a sheer ribbon ties the whole thing together. A genuinely good option if a hot glue gun feels like one step too many.
13. $10 Dollar Tree Fall Wreath
A gold wire wreath form, eight floral picks in blush white and dusty blue, and a pack of zip ties. Every single item from Dollar Tree, total cost $10, and the finished result looks like something you’d pay $40 for at a boutique home store. The zip tie technique is the secret here since it keeps everything secure and takes about nine minutes start to finish.
14. Fall Embroidery Hoop Wreath
An embroidery hoop swapped in as the wreath base, faux leaves and flowers with wire stems curved to fit the hoop’s shape, a few small pumpkins, a “Fall Sweet Fall” sign hot-glued at the bottom, and a ribbon tied at the top to hang it. Ten minutes, a handful of supplies, and you have something that looks genuinely sweet on a front door. A great one for smaller spaces or apartment doors where a full-size wreath feels like too much.
15. Truly Foraged Fall Wreath
A spruce branch bent into a circle and tied with twine forms the base, then real clippings of aspen and red-twig dogwood in full fall color get wired on in overlapping layers until the whole thing looks lush and freshly plucked from the woods. Pinecones hot glued and wired at the bottom finish it off. The cost is essentially zero if you have trees in your backyard, and the fresh earthy smell on your front door is a bonus nobody talks about enough.
16. Fruit and Faux Hoop Wreath with Shiplap Frame
A copper-painted metal hoop with faux peaches, pears, artichokes, and dark berry stems arranged on one side, finished with a burlap bow to hide the stems, then hung over a pencil-lined faux shiplap board from Hobby Lobby for a built-in backdrop. The combination of the copper hoop and the harvest fruit colors is genuinely unexpected and looks far more elevated than the supplies suggest. One of the most original concepts on this entire list.
17. Apple and Pumpkin Grapevine Wreath
Pussy willow branches, eucalyptus, and green leafy stems woven and tucked directly into a grapevine base without a single drop of glue, then faux apples thrifted for next to nothing and Dollar Tree mini pumpkins wired in to fill the gaps. The whole thing has a loose, slightly wild quality that makes it look like it came together naturally rather than being perfectly assembled, which is exactly the charm.
18. Golden Floral Grapevine Wreath
Soft yellow craspedia balls, cream faux hydrangeas, and golden fall florals hot glued straight onto a grapevine base with zero fussing over placement. The color palette skips the traditional burnt orange entirely and goes for a warmer, more muted gold and cream instead, which means it works just as well hung above a bed or inside the home as it does on a front door.
19. Grapevine on Grapevine Pumpkin Wreath
A grapevine wreath base with a decorative grapevine garland wired across the front, then three woven twig pumpkins threaded and wired on for a completely natural, tonal look. No hot glue, no faux florals, no color at all — just layered textures in warm brown and natural tones that look rustic and intentional without trying too hard.
20. Wall Planter Floral Wreath
A rusted wall planter used in place of a traditional wreath form, filled with floral foam and layered with faux purple aspen leaves, olive branches, ferns, and lamb’s ear in a muted, moody palette that skips the usual orange and red entirely. The rust patina on the container does all the warm fall work, letting the florals stay cool and neutral.
21. Simple Pinecone Wreath
A $1.49 wooden ring from Michaels, a bag of pinecones from Hobby Lobby, and a hot glue gun. Glue the pinecones in the same direction all the way around the ring until it’s completely covered. That’s it. No ribbon, no florals, no fuss — just a wreath that looks genuinely beautiful and works just as well through winter as it does for fall.
22. DIY Painted Magnolia Leaf Wreath
The Magnolia store version costs nearly $100 and this is the dupe. Faux magnolia leaves painted in six mixed shades of dark chocolate, antique gold, and olive green, sponged at the tips for that subtle color variation, then hot glued onto a 12-inch grapevine base. The painting step is what makes it—it kills the plasticky sheen that makes cheap faux leaves look fake and gives the whole thing that muted, earthy, farmhouse quality you’re actually paying for at the store.
23. Oversized Floral Grapevine Wreath
The biggest grapevine base you can find, about 12 large faux floral stems in purple, burgundy, gold and rose cut into pieces and tucked directly into the wreath with zero glue gun or floral wire involved, finished with a long trailing wine-colored satin ribbon at the base. The no-glue method means the grapevine base gets reused every season with fresh stems. Rich, lush, and genuinely statement-making on a front door.