Want to make a DIY BB-8 wreath for Christmas? This Star Wars-inspired ornament wreath uses pool noodles for the base and white, silver, orange and black ornaments to recreate everyone’s favorite little droid.
I made this wreath back in 2015 when everyone was excited about Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I loved the idea of making something a little different from a traditional Christmas ornament wreath, and BB-8’s shape and colors were perfect for the project!
He’s cute, right? A little Christmas-y (with the wreaths), a little BB-8-ish with the color scheme and shape. Fair warning he takes almost a million ornaments and 1/2 million hot glue gun sticks to create.
BB-8 Wreath Materials
- White ornaments (I used foam)
- Silver ornaments
- Orange ornaments
- Black ornaments
- Pool noodles
- White duct tape
- Silver ribbon for wreath bow
- Black ribbon for hanging
- Glue gun and glue sticks
How to Make Orange Ornaments for a BB-8 Wreath
The biggest challenge is finding orange ornaments. For some silly reason, no decorated their Christmas Tree with orange ornaments. I ended up pouring orange paint into clear plastic ornaments and swirling them around. It was budget friendly but time-consuming and messy. I suggest ordering orange ornaments on Amazon for sanity saving sake. 😉
I picked up a ton of white foam and plastic silver ornaments at my local 99 Cents Only store. I bought the silver in various sizes, unfortunately, the white foam were only available in one size but it worked ok. I also grabbed a pack of black ornaments for BB-8’s eye.
How to Make a BB-8 Wreath Base with Pool Noodles
I started with a pool noodle base for the wreath. I did a little research and figured out that you need to bend, twist and manipulate the pool noodles to “loosen” them up before trying to shape them into a wreath. I used duct tape to secure the pool noodles into a BB-8 body and head. Luckily BB-8 is mostly white, so I attached the head to the body and then completely covered the wreath in white duct tape.
Decorating Your BB-8 Christmas Wreath
Now we’re ready to start gluing on the ornaments randomizing the color and placement. Then you keep going and going and going until you run out of ornaments and have to go buy more. 🙂 Seriously, I had to run back out and even then *just* had enough to finish the BB-8 Wreath. I added a few black ornaments to create BB-8’s optical lens. The final step was a cute silver bow to make it festive!
Looking for another way to decorate for the holidays with BB-8? Check out my easy BB-8 wreath tutorial using a premade wreath base instead of pool noodles.
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