4 SUMMER WREATHS FOR 2026 | HUGE POPSICLES DIY | EASY DOLLAR TREE SUMMER DIYS | BUDGET FRIENDLY DIYS

Welcome back to my channel, The Crafty Quinn. Today we're making four colorful summer wreath DIYs with some extra sweet inspiration that are perfect for adding a fun pop of color to your home for summer. Let's get crafting. For this first DIY, you're going to need four of these jumbo popsicles from Dollar Tree and then you're going to need four different kinds of spray paint. I'm using Rust-Oleum spray paint. I found all of these at Home Depot. They were super easy to find, but the color choice is up to you. But these water bottles are definitely a necessity for this craft. I couldn't believe I found all of these at Dollar Tree and I grabbed one of every color and I really thought these would be the perfect jumbo larger-than-life popsicles. So first I just grabbed some larger-than-life shears, if you will, so garden shears, and we snipped off four of these metal signs for your lawn and I decided to use these because I figured I could craft with all of these afterwards, but we had to just cut all of these with some shears first and they did come right off because these are from Dollar Tree. They're super, super easy to cut. The metal is just super malleable. And then we took off the lid of each of these water bottles and I used my drill, well my husband used my drill, but I just got this pretty pink drill that I've been excited to use and this was the perfect craft to start with. But I took the rubber lids off of each of these popsicle water bottles, if you will, and the part that you're supposed to drill is inside of it, but there's a little circular part and we're trying to drill through that piece because we need to make a hole because the metal spike is going to go right through there. So once it comes out the other side then you're good to go and the little like rubber pieces are going to get everywhere, which warning that part is annoying, but it's so worth it. The end result is so worth it. I'm so excited for this craft. See, so we have our little hole established in the top of this popsicle stick and so what we're doing is we're just making sure that the metal piece can get through there because we did use the tiniest drill bit that we have for this. So if you just keep messing at it, it does poke through and that is perfect. That's exactly what we want. And then we're just making sure that it did come out the other side and that it's easy to go through there. And this part is super important because this is how the pole sticks to your water bottle. But of course we want to make sure the popsicle part is together. This part's supposed to be the popsicle stick, so we just made sure to stick that part around it and then we put it back into our water bottle just like this. Everything fits into place and it fits inside the straw and that's how this is going to stick in your floor arrangement. So obviously we don't need these straps. These were super annoying and I was thinking I could hammer them off. You might still be able to do that, but my husband, his go-to thing is, you know, I'm going to use a power tool for everything. So he's using a Dremel tool for this and so he's just testing out the different speeds on this, but he did use a high speed. And so he's just trying to get as close as he can and the plastic pieces do come right off. So this was the perfect tool for this because we were able to get it as close to the water bottle as we could and then they just come right off. But I thought these are, these are, these water bottles are pretty adorable because I like the strap and, you know, you can just wear it. So, you know, if you don't want to use it for your floral arrangement, you could just use it as a water bottle. So I got to play around with it too and I did cut off this part because this is supposed to be used as extra support to stick in your lawn, but we don't need that. So I did cut off this part too. It was a lot harder for me. I'm not as strong as him. And then once we Dremeled the sides of these off, there were some really annoying pieces that I did have to cut off, but it's just like melted plastic. So I did use my finger sander and I just sanded this smooth, but I did have to just keep cutting it and then using my finger sander. And really you're just trying to get it as flat as you can, but also what's great was me sanding this also allowed the paint, I feel like, to soak in more to this, but yeah, because this plastic is a pretty smooth surface. So I did this for all sides of all four water bottles. And then, you know, you can see our backyard in its current state, but we used some clips from Dollar Tree and we hung them up on like a clothes line using some yarn. And this way we could just spray paint it. My husband is like a master spray painter. He's really, really good. When I spray paint, I just get drips everywhere. So I wanted to show you his technique because it's amazing. He knows how to layer it just perfectly. I'm still practicing. So then we hung them up to dry, but this was the perfect way to do this. We didn't have to worry about flipping sides. We were just spray painting them in the air and just kind of letting them dry overnight. And then when they're good to go, you're just sticking them back. You're sticking the pole back in the straw and it holds everything in place. There's my pup Moon. But this is exactly how you want them for the floral arrangement. So then I grabbed this bucket from Hobby Lobby and it was actually on sale right now because it was from their floral shop, their spring shop. So I think it was 40% off. And then I grabbed these as well. These like faux branches. These were also on sale at Hobby Lobby. I did a mix of color. I did pink, purple, white, and they look like baby's breath. And I thought it's the perfect summer spring color. So I have our floral foam in the bottom and then I did also stick a whole bunch of rocks in the bottom of this as well and that is what weighs it down. So if it's moving around too much, it's not in the floral foam and that's what I realized. You just have to play around with it until you like where it's positioned. So I did want some to kind of be taller than the others and then I wanted some to be smaller because I really wanted to have that arrangement feel. I was turning around to make sure my husband was definitely filming. So I had a shorter one in the front and then we're going to do that with the last one as well. And there you go! You have the perfect summer bouquet floral arrangement for your front porch. I love how these turned out. These popsicles are larger than life and I couldn't believe Dollar Tree sold these because as soon as I saw them I knew I wanted to turn them into a craft. This was absolutely my favorite craft already from today's video, but I'm so excited to show you guys the rest of the wreaths that I have for you today. And I just wanted to show you guys all the colors that I used. Again, I just want to make sure that you guys know what I'm working with here, but these were all the Rust-Oleum colors and they're supposed to be good for indoors and out. But if you're worried about it you can do a layer of clear coat as well. So I don't know if you've seen these miniature popsicles at Dollar Tree, but they are also over in the summer section, the tropical section, whatever you want to call it. They're sold in packs of four. I grabbed about three packs of these and I think I grabbed an extra one in case, but for these, yeah, I did this a little bit backwards but I'll show you what we did, but I just laid down some painter's tape and I was drawing holes where I wanted this to go because I figured that hot glue was not going to be enough to attach these to a wire form, so I figured I'm going to drill the holes in the back of these and then I'm going to feed some wire through these and then wire them to the wreath that way for an extra hold. But I'm using E6000, I'm just putting a little bit on a q-tip here and these popsicles are supposed to be candy holders and I wanted to make sure the lids were not going to pop off of these, so I just did some E6000 just in the crease of each and then you're just going to put the lid back on. But what I should have done was left the lid off and then wired them this way when the holes were drilled, but we realized that after the fact. So now you guys know how to do this easier and faster than what we did. Again, I wanted to show my husband spray painting this because he did it really well, he layered them perfectly, he just kept spinning it and spraying it and I wish I could be this efficient, but we use double-sided tape and just tape them down to just some random recycling. We don't have a whole lot of great areas because we don't really have a backyard, not really anyway, so it was just kind of easier to do this on the side warehouse. So these are the last ones and then we're ready to move on to the next step. So once they're all spray painted, they're good to go. This is where I ran into the problem because I realized I should have wired this before all of these steps. I should have just wired them immediately after I drilled the holes in them and taken the lids off and all of that and just fed the wire through, but because I didn't do that I had to do it a more complicated way, but I still got the wire through the holes. I did have to, I needed some extra assistance but, and some extra assistance, but basically just doing a double loop at the top and just kind of feeding it through that way and then I did also use pliers and I swear it felt like I was doing like an operation because I was taking the tweezers to grab it as soon as the hole got close, the wire got close to the hole and I could just grab it that way. So once they're all successfully in the hole, the wire I mean in the hole, then you can just kind of twist like like um like twist it kind of like a twisty tie and then I did this to the two wires in the very center of each row. So I didn't do the outside wire form, I didn't do that for any of them, I just used the two wires in the center and then also the little metal bars, there's about a few sections of them and you could fit about three popsicles per section, but making sure that you have one popsicle on that metal bar part holding them all together because that was the perfect spacing between each section of little popsicles. So if you keep doing it like a twisty tie, that's what gets them tight and flush to the wire form. It's not going to be perfectly straight for all of them because you have 12 and so some of them get a little kind of curved at the end, but for the most part I felt like they were perfectly aligned. So I did have to figure out spacing. It's so hard to do that when they're all messy, but basically if I knew that each popsicle was going to be, if I knew you know it was going to be one popsicle per band, then I had the perfect amount of space in between each one. So I was just focused on hot gluing the the wire part to the wire form, not so much worried about the popsicle getting glued to the wire form, but the wire itself, the little skinny wire getting glued to the thick wire. So then once I had all of these glued and spaced, you can also use E6000 for an extra hold. That's what I was doing a lot with this, but I just used some kind of like, I called it like fair skin color paint. I don't know what color this is, but I found it at Hobby Lobby, but basically I just did that for each little wood popsicle because I wanted it to look like an actual wood popsicle stick. And this was the end result. I'm still trying to figure out what I can put in between each one that will go with each color, but that was basically how I wanted it. Last but not least, we're moving on to our watermelon wreath. So I was just using some painter's tape to split these up. It's not, and I wasn't worried about getting the painter's tape perfectly down the middle because I knew the bottom part had to be larger, and I'm using some white waverly chalk paint for this, but we're going to at least use this to divide it. But I needed a larger bottom half to this wood sign because the stencil was so big, but I got this from Amazon. It's an Amazon stencil, and then this wood round is one of Dollar Tree's brand new crafter square wood rounds. So right after I painted, I pulled that painter's tape right up so that it doesn't stick and pull the paint with it. Then for the top half of this, I put the painter's tape over the part that we just painted after it dried, and then I'm using a makeup wipe to distribute some antique waverly wax perfectly even for the top half of this. So I just kind of start in the middle and then work my way out that way, and then I feel like I just keep going back to the place that I started and then just kind of spreading it out. I felt like towards the end it was getting a little bit too light, so then I'd go back and I would add some more to my makeup wipe, but I love how evenly it's spread. It was definitely thinning at the top, so it's definitely time to add more wax to this, but I wanted this to be kind of a medium shade. So I just went back to all the parts that I thought looked light. I realized it was a little bit crooked, this wood round, and like the the two holes of the top of this wood round was not perfectly even to begin with, but it's fine. So this came from a pack of lemon stencils I found off of Amazon. I can link to this. So I don't need the lemon part and I don't need the summer part, the time part, but we're just going to use sweet summer. And so this is fire engine red folk art paint. Found this at Hobby Lobby, and I was trying to do the same method I've done before with stencils, kind of going in a circular motion and just making sure I don't have too much paint on my paintbrush, and then I realized it wasn't really going to work with this stencil because the stencil pieces were moving around too much. So then I realized I needed to dab it and just kind of taking it and just dabbing it as hard as you can, and then if it looks like you have too much in some spots, just going back and just kind of spreading it out a bit. But just dabbing it was actually the fastest and most efficient way to do this, and it also came out looking the best this way, and it did not move the stencil as much as if I was swiping it. And every stencil type I just feel like is different, you kind of have to just go with the flow and see if it's if it's the kind that's going to move a lot. I just felt like dabbing it and just kind of holding it down in places was really the best way to do it. So once you have it all filled in, it's time to pull up our painter's tape. And it came out perfectly. So then I grabbed two of these watermelon beaded garlands that I found at Dollar Tree, all in the brand new summer slash tropical section at Dollar Tree right now, and we're just putting that on the bottom there. Really I was trying to figure out where I should put this, but I realized that putting it on either side of this sweet summer would actually look good. I had plenty of room there, so just kind of mess around until it was where I wanted them. And then we are going to take some E6000 just for an extra hold. This E6000 that I'm using is actually specifically for outdoors, and it doesn't look like your typical E6000 bottle. So I can link to this one because this one was a little bit harder to find, but this is more supposed to be weather resistant than usual. So I did a mix of E6000 and hot glue. You don't put them on top of each other, but you can put them next to each other because apparently they kind of cancel each other out, I've heard, if you do put them directly on top of each other. So I kind of like to do a healthy mix of both. And then we're also going to steal this ribbon from the garland, the watermelon garland, and it kind of worked out perfectly that way because I was looking for this exact type of ribbon, but I just kind of threw together a little bow in like an X shape, and I just hot glued it down. And then I had this Christmas pack of raffia from Dollar Tree. I love how all of this stuff is Dollar Tree so far except for the stencil, but this is red raffia. It came in like a Christmas pack of like red, green, and the regular kind, but I figure some red and regular would go great together for this. I thought about adding the green in there too, but it looked a little bit too Christmassy, and the green didn't match the green that's currently on the watermelon. So I just doubled it up a whole bunch of times, and then I just wrapped the middle of it around. And I did, I tried to do E6000 in the middle and then a little two dots of hot glue, and it held it really well. So we have our bow, it's good to go, and then I just decided to freehand some watermelon seeds on the bottom. I wasn't sure what I was gonna do with this, and then I was like, wait a minute, I'm gonna draw an ant. I've done that before for a craft a few years ago. I did like watermelon and like a little ant, but I did a watermelon with like cardboard paper, or not cardboard paper, um, construction paper. But then I just, I looked up a picture of an ant, and then I just kind of just freehanded it there. But I'm just, I used a skinny Sharpie marker for this, but I also got a Dollar Tree. We are almost done, but the ant needs some legs. I love how this turned out, you guys. This was just a fun random wreath that I just felt like was perfect for summer, but now I'm absolutely in love with it. So if you're enjoying these summer DIYs so far, don't forget to give this video a thumbs up because it really helps support my channel. And if you love Dollar Tree DIYs, make sure you subscribe to The Crafty Quinn and turn on your notifications so you don't miss my upcoming fall and Halloween videos. For my next DIY, I am taking this Dollar Tree mermaid wire wreath form that I found in the, over in the floral section with all the wreaths. Some of these are still left over from the nautical DIYs that Dollar Tree dropped. I used this spray paint to color it this aqua color, which was perfect. I wanted a color that was going to pop, so I just quickly spray painted this. I let it cure for about 30 minutes, and then I was good to go. So it does make it a very bright color, which is perfect. And then I took more of this fish net that I found from Michael's, and I just wrapped it around the wreath form. And I know this is supposed to be a mermaid wreath form, and a lot of folks have made mermaids with it, but I wanted to make it look more like a fish caught in a net. So that was the overall aesthetic that I was trying to go for. I just thought this net draped over it looked really cool, so I just kind of wanted to play off of that. So then I just needed to cut down my fish net to size. Had a little too much here, don't need all of this. So I'm just cutting through each individual rope, and then I needed to find a way to hold all of this on here easily, so I just went with trying some jute twine. I just grabbed a bunch of it, and just kind of clumped it together, and then I wrapped my jute twine around the net and the wire form. And I did do a double knot with the jute just to make sure it would hold. I don't need all those extra strings, and then I just kind of swing it around and try to make sure the jute is not shown. And then here at the top, I tried to just hot glue a bunch of it together. I would just bunch up some of the fish net and just kind of hold it against the wire and see if it would hold that way. And it seemed to hold up pretty good, but I wanted to hit as many sections as I could, so I just grabbed a bunch of the fish net and just held it up against the hot glue and the wire and just made sure it was holding before I let go. So I kept going. I just kind of spread it across the wire form as much as I wanted to go, and then I made sure that I was gluing on the back so none of the glue would show in the front. So I was making sure to do the hot glue on the wire on the back and the part I wasn't showing. So this is perfect. We have a draped effect, and then with all of these bags of seashells that I've gathered from Dollar Tree, I think it's time to use them. So we are going to take some large shells and just kind of place them throughout, but I was like this section here in the middle around the the part of the tail that starts I thought was perfect to kind of start laying some of the shells there. I don't want to do a whole lot of shells because if you do want to hang this up on the back of a door, I probably wouldn't do this on your front door, but you want to use some very light shells because this this net and you know the little bit of hot glue that you have is not going to hold a really heavy shell. So I just tried to pick the lightest shells from the bunch, and then if the shell was on the heavy on the heavier side, then I did kind of put it where there was a bunch of I thought it'd be safe. And then I did have this large starfish from the pack of starfish that I found at Michael's that I thought was perfect for kind of the the main feature embellishment on this wreath. So I just did a hot glue, a whole bunch of hot glue under it and around it, and then if I felt like it needed more, I just kind of went again underneath. But I just love this starfish and I thought, you know what, why not add a little one too. So I just tried to put this where there was a bunch of netting. I thought it was super cute. So I'm just gonna put more regular shells, but this wreath is so easy you guys. It took me like just a few minutes to put this together and I didn't really have to wait very long for the spray paint too. That spray paint, that Rust-Oleum spray paint was awesome because it really did cure within about 30 minutes or so and then it was good to go and I didn't have to worry about it coming off on the net. And I think we just got that from Home Depot, so really easy to find it. One last shell and this wreath is good to go. So here's the end result. So you can definitely hang this up on on your door on the inside, maybe on your bathroom door. Thank you guys so much for watching and I hope you all enjoyed today's video. If you want to check out more videos, watch them here on the left and let's keep in touch on social media like Instagram and Pinterest and TikTok. See you guys next week, bye!