Save your leftover cardboard boxes for this genius Christmas idea!

Grab a big piece of cardboard and draw two circles. The easiest way to draw a circle is tie a piece of string to a Sharpie, find the middle of the cardboard and hold the string there and then take the Sharpie and just spin it around in a circle, and make sure you keep that center point held tight with your finger.

Then I'm going to make this string a little bit shorter, and draw a second circle on the inside. Now I'm just going to use a knife to cut these out. I do want the round shape but I'm not too worried about the edges being perfect here because they're going to be covered up with lots of balloons.

Now we need to blow up a bunch of balloons. I have about 40 green balloons and about eight red balloons. These are regular-sized balloons, but I'm only going to blow them up about halfway so they resemble more circles than ovals. You can blow these up the old-fashioned way or you can grab a balloon pump like this for a couple of dollars from the party section, it makes the job a lot easier.

Grab a craft knife and cut little X's right into the cardboard. I want to make sure they go all the way through but I just need an X and I'm making an alternating pattern here. One X on the outside one on the inside and I'm gonna go all the way around the wreath to put the balloons in.

I'm going to take the end of the balloon and push it through that X I'm using just a popsicle stick you could use a chopstick or any kind of blunt tool that you have to push it through once I get the edge through I can pull until the knot pops through. That's going to hold the balloon in place.

Now I'm just going to repeat this until I have the whole wreath bowl. Now that I have all the green up on the wreath, I hung this up on the wall just on a Command hook so I can see where the gaps are. Now I want to add some red in there and I am using some strong adhesive glue dots to do this. You could also use double-sided tape, just stay away from hot glue or anything that takes too long to dry. This wreath needs a bow, so with a big piece of red poster board, I'm just going to draw kind of an oblong shape. It's going to have a squared-off edge on one side and a pointed edge on the other then I'm going to fold the poster board in half and cut out two of these shapes. I'm gluing the middle two blunt edges together using hot glue then I'm taking the pointed edges and I'm folding them over to the middle to create the bow. I'm just using a rectangle of leftover poster board to wrap around the middle to finish it off and finally, I'm cutting two smaller pieces of poster board to act as the tails of the ribbon. This bow can be attached to the wreath with those glue dots just, put a bunch of them on and you can attach it directly to the balloons.

This is such a fun and festive decoration and it would look really great on a mantel or anywhere that you want to add some color and some whimsy to your Christmas decor.

I hope this inspired you to create your own Christmas balloon wreath!

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