Looking For Something New: Try 7 DIY Fall Swags

Easy Fall Door Swag Using Dried Naturals

This fall farmhouse swag uses two overlapping layers of dried botanicals to create a unique y-shape. The result is a tall and inviting swag that fills your entrance with homespun elegance.

The secret is zip ties which hold the bundles together.  

Create the first bundle with dried grasses to establish the swag’s height. The second bundle adds wheat, lotus pods, and South African Cynara flowers to create color and focus.  

You arrange them in a Y-shape before you zip-tie them together. 

Finally, you hide the zip ties when you bind the two bundles together with a simple raffia band.

You’ll need faux dried grasses, lotus pods, Cynara flowers, wheat picks, a raffia binder, and some zip ties.

It will take you about half an hour to complete this Easy Fall Door Swag Using Dried Naturals.

Fall Swag for Your Front Door

This swag is a teardrop shape. But this time, the teardrop is upside down. 

It uses a rectangular styrofoam wreath base. You will have to create a wreath hanger using floral wire just like you would for any styrofoam wreath base.

This swag is built from the center out. First, build the focus using faux pumpkins, gords, and acorns. Once you create a focus, flesh it out with fall leaves.  

Next, use the fall stems to add length at the bottom of the base. After you have created the first layer, you will add a layer of seasonal flowers.

Finally, you round out the head of the wreath with picks of seasonal flowers.

You will need faux pumpkin and gords, fall floral picks, some autumn leaves, and acorns.

The Fall Swag for Your Front Door is a nice variation on the teardrop.

DIY Deco Mesh Fall Swag

Deco mesh wreaths are built on a wire-frame base using chenille stems to hold the mesh in place. You will start this project by creating your own wire-frame base.

Stretch the wire hanger into an oval. Then tie the chenille stick to the frame. Use the Deco mesh to create the first layer using the poof technique to space the chenille stems evenly.

Once you establish the basic swag shape, you will add double ruffles at each chenille stem to create volume. Next, make zig-zag loops with the wired burlap ribbon to add more volume.

Hot glue the fall leaf picks onto each of the chenille stems. Finally, tie a bow using two colors of ribbon to give it a festive fall focus.

You’ll need a wire coat hanger, Deco Mesh, chenille stems, wired burlap ribbon, two colors of wired ribbon, and a faux fall leaf pick.

It is an easy and inexpensive project – DIY Deco Mesh Fall Swag.

How to Use Flowers for a Beautiful Fall Door Swag

You can build a swag on a wire base, just like a wreath. Since swags are taller than they are wide, you will need an oval base.  

Start this project with a wire coat hanger which you form into an oval. Since it is a single-wire frame, you will use floral wire to attach your picks.

Create several long bundles of faux greenery, then attach them to the bottom half of the oval. Follow this by layers of shorter bundles. Layering gives the swag its height and establishes its crown placement.

Next, move to the top, where you will add assorted fall floral picks to balance the lower half. The flowers fill in the focal point of the swag.

Finally, create a hand-tied bow from red and gold wired ribbons. The bows finish the crown.

You will need a wire coat hanger, long greenery picks, assorted fall-colored floral picks, and red and gold wired ribbons.

You can finish this swag in about an hour when you learn How to Use Flowers for a Beautiful Fall Door Swag.

Catalog Floral Swag Knock Off

Swags like wreaths depend on their base. This wreath starts with a sturdy rectangular styrofoam base.   

First, add a wreath hanger to the base. Because the swag is symmetric, you will build the top and bottom using faux greenery with some floral picks for accents. Make sure that they match each other.

Once the top and bottom are complete, build the center. Start with a layer of faux pale pink ranunculus. Then crown them with pink roses. Make sure to create depth here to give the whole swag a pleasing shape.  

You’ll need a styrofoam base, a command hook, faux lamb’s ears and dusty miller picks, some white floral picks, and a crown of pink rose and ranunculus picks. 

You won’t have to spend a fortune to create your version of this Catalog Floral Swag Knock Off.

Wheat Sheaf Fall Wreath

This Minimalist-style wreath uses one of the classic symbols of fall and the harvest, a sheaf of wheat. 

You’ll need some faux wheat picks to form the bundle. Use a strong rubber band to hold the bundle together. 

Finally, bind it with a simple ribbon or perhaps a raffia binder. To me, you want to echo a natural sheaf. Plus, less is more in the world of Minimalism.

This swag can easily hang from a door or adorn a wall. It could be the focus of a spare fall tablescape.

It will only take you a few minutes to create this Minimalist Wheat Sheaf Fall Wreath.

Fall Door Swag

This Coastal style swag uses grasses that remind me of the American Beachgrass that grows along the Atlantic coast.

You’ll need pampas grass, wheat, and berry floral picks to make the base of this swag. Then some finishing coastal touches like lotus pods and scallop shells.

You start by making two bunches of pampas grass fronds. Then you tie them together with raffia. Next, you make a layer with the wheat bundles and the berry floral picks.

When you bind everything together with a ribbon, you have formed the basic structure of the swag.

You add the finishing touches by hot-gluing embellishments like lotus pods and scallop shells to the swag.  

Finally, hang it from a 3M command hook.

It should take less than an hour to create your version of the Coastal style Fall Door Swag.