Artificial Fruit Wreath

• 2-inch-thick, 25x30-inch florist's foam sheet or 21-inch-wide oval floral foam wreath
• Newspaper or tracing paper
• Marker
• Foam cutter
• 1/2 yard of white felt
• Pins
• 100 pieces of 1- to 2-inch artificial fruit (lemons, oranges, Clementine's, pears) in various shades of yellow, orange, and green
• Drop cloth
• Copper spray paint
• Spray adhesive
• Copper- and gold-color glitter
• Hot-glue gun and glue sticks
• 30 small, fresh evergreen sprigs

1. If using florist's foam sheet as a wreath base, make a pattern by drawing a 21x25-inch oval on newspaper and cut it out. Lay the pattern on the foam and trace around it with a marker. Use a foam cutter to cut out the shape and round off the edges.

2. Cut the felt into 2x18-inch lengths; wrap each strip around the wreath and secure with pins, overlapping the strips slightly.

3. Reserve one-third of the artificial fruit. Lay the rest on a drop cloth. Lightly spray-paint with copper, holding the can 15 inches away from fruit. Spray only to cover one side of the fruit. Let dry.

4. Cover the painted half of the spray-painted fruit with spray adhesive, then immediately sprinkle copper and gold glitter over the fruit while the adhesive is still tacky.

5. Hot-glue the fruits to the felt closely to one another, interspersing nonpainted fruit with painted fruit. Adhere smaller fruits on top.

6. Tuck evergreen sprigs between the fruits; hot-gluing the pieces as necessary.