How to Decorate Dry Grape Vines

Cut the vines right after the grapes are picked and after the first frost of the season while they are still pliable. Keep the tendrils, but remove all the leaves.

Soak them in a tub of water overnight if they break while coiling. This rehydrates vines so they bend easily. Grape vines that have completely dried will become pliable again by soaking.

Bind one end of the vines with twine or wire covered with brown paper found at craft stores. Coil vines into a circle to make a wreath by twining the vines in and out of each other. Add more vines to make the desired thickness, and connect with more twine or wire. Use wire all along the way to bind vines if desired. Hang to let the wreath dry.

Weave a length of ribbon through the vines all through the wreath, or just make a bow to hide where the wreath connects.

Take a small bunch of dried flowers, herbs, grasses or other dried materials, and attach the bunch to a floral pick with the attached wire by winding the wire around the stems tightly.

Insert finished floral picks by sticking and catching them in the vines. Dip in a little hot glue before inserting so they stick. Seed pods and other dried material with stiff stems can just be inserted with a little glue on the stem. Heavier objects, like pine cones, can have wire wrapped around them with the other end twisted around the vines of the wreath.

Affix the bow to the wreath using florist wire, and make a wire loop inserted through the vines to make a hanger.