First, drink LOTS of wine! 😉

Collect corks. I bought these at a flea market. I guess they belonged to Cork! Apparently Cork liked bad coffee... But I digress...

You will need a large cardboard square. I cut this one from a shipping box. The larger the square, the larger the wreath you can make.

For the inner edge, I traced around a hat box lid. A large round tray or plate would work too. Or use the pen/string/compass trick with the string shortened.

Here's what you're aiming for: a giant donut shape. Again, the size is up to you and it doesn't have to be a perfect circle.

The inner edge is best cut with an Xacto knife. Be careful. Best to forgo the wine and the coffee for this step!.

This is what you are aiming for. Not an exact circle, but that's ok!

Start by gluing the corks without red ends around part of the inner edge with the glue gun.

Next add the corks with red wine stained ends. These resemble holly berries!

Work in small adjacent patches. Do not do the whole inner or outter edge, as doing so will make the project hard to handle, and will result in a too orderly placement of the corks.

Keep glueing and adding plain and red tipped corks as you work around the cardboard. I like to cluster the red tipped ones toward the middle and place only plain colored ones at both edges as shown.

As you complete the glueing, and come back to where you began, you'll have to work the corks in a bit to make them fit. You may even have to cut some or whittle them down with the Xacto knife.

Add a bow to cover this area (I made my bow out of vintage atlas paper) but any bow will do!