DIY Lavender Wand Making Tutorial

Here’s a lavender wand making tutorial that is sure to get the kids involved, is lovely, fragrant, and will remind you of summer all year long.

It’s DIY Time again, where I post something you can do yourself rather than buy, which is a money saver, and can be VERY REWARDING.  Some of these posts are crafts, sewing projects, homemade cleaners, homemade health aids, tutorials, and the like.

DIY Time

Is there a flower that is more fragrant and beautiful than lavender?  Okay, may be the rose rivals lavender, but they are both pretty amazing flowers.  What a stunning work of God’s creation lavender is!

Lavender has so many different uses, and it’s essential oil is phenomenal!  Lavender is great for decorating with its fresh flowers, drying them, eating them in salads and drinking them in tea, making lavender sugar, making sachets, and the like; I am currently making lavender oil (not essential oil) which is good for massage and even repelling insects.

The lavender wands are great for putting in linen cabinets and clothing drawers.   You can hang them by an open window to use as an air freshener.  They also make great gifts, so you can be thinking about Christmas and birthdays now.  And of course, they also make great play wands for lovely little ladies.

My friend, Debbie had me and some other friends over to her house to teach us the art of making lavender wands.  She used to teach the skill at a local lavender farm.  I loved gleaning from her wisdom.

What You Will Need:

• An odd number of fresh lavender stalks
• Ribbon
• Garden Shears

Take all of the leaves off, and line up the base of all of the flowers evenly.

Tie the ribbon around the base of the flowers tightly.  You can leave the ribbon on the spool and cut it later so you don’t waste if you wish.

Carefully bend all of the stems down.   If they break, you can carefully try to pull them out and replace them, or you can just weave them in.  Weaving is forgiving.  When all of the stalks are down, you can cut them and make them even.  I forgot to get a picture of that.

Getting the weave going is the most challenging part, but it didn’t seem that bad. Take the ribbon and put it under a stalk, and then over the next one and go until your flowers are covered. Make it tight, as the lavender will shrink upon drying.   Some people tuck all of the buds in and some don’t.  We weaved with two stalks of lavender to make it stronger, so I think I had 22 stalks instead of 11 (but 22 divided by 2 is still an odd number, which is what you need).  I hope that makes sense!

When your flowers are completely covered by the weave, wrap the ribbon around the base of the flowers several times.  You can tie it, and end it here.

Or you can wrap the ribbon around and down the rest of the stalk.  Tie the ribbon at the bottom of the stalk.

Enjoy the beauty and aroma!  Thanks Debbie for sharing your skills!

Have you ever made lavender oil or lavender sachets?

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