DIY Wedding Craft: Cowboy Wedding – Wishing Well Tree

WELL WISHERS TREE 

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• 4 Branches
• 1- 30″ Planter Box
• 6- 5×5 Green Styrofoam Cubes
• 3- 2 oz bags straw colored Excelsior
• 7 Different colored Bandannas

INSTRUCTIONS 

1. Place the Styrofoam cubes into the planter box.
2. Cover the top of the cubes with Excelsior, spreading it out to cover the cubes and drape over the planter box just a little.
3. Evenly space and push the 4 branches through the excelsior  into the Styrofoam cubes.
4. Tie in a knot, 7 different colored bandannas onto the tree branches.

WELL WISHERS TAGS 

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL NEED 

• Heavy white card stock paper
• Delta Ceramcoat Acrylic paint-Burnt Sienna
• Fiskars,  Star or diamond hole punch
• Fiskars small, pointed nose  scissors
• Colored Yarn (choose one of  your wedding colors)
• Paint brush- #6  shader

INSTRUCTION    

1. Print out tags and copy as many as needed.  Fit as many as you can on a page and print in dark ink.
2. Paint each tag on the sheet of paper and let them dry, before you cut them out. The painting will go faster because you don’t need to worry about staying in the lines.
3. Cut out each tag.
4. Punch a hole in the upper left corner of the tag.
5. Cut as many 8″ pieces of yarn as you have tags and thread them through the punched hole. (No need to tie, your guest will tie them onto the tree after they write their message.)

• Tip: Have your wedding party write their messages ahead and hang them on the tree, as an example for the other guests. Tags can be placed in a feed bag or a box covered in a bandana.