Knex Christmas Wreath

This is a small wreath that will look good with your other Christmas decorations :-). It's mostly made of green connectors and white rods, plus red "berries" and a red ribbon at the bottom. I also included some fake lights. This only took a day to build. Fun fact: this Instructables uses 149 pictures.

This is an entry to a Knex contest. EDIT: it won 1^st place in the contest!

This was also a first prize winner in the Homemade Holidays Contest, thanks to everyone who voted!


Enjoy!

Step 1 Parts List

Before you begin building, gather all of these parts. There's only 10 kinds of pieces.   

Rods: 227

• green-153
• white-74

Connectors: 140

• dark gray-1
• light gray-4
• red-22
• green-109
• white-4

Other: 15

• Y clip-5
• metallic blue clip-1
• head cap-9

Total:  382

If you have all of those pieces, then let's get building!

Comments

[cupcake43]

hmmmmm i will have to check if i have enough green connectors


hope i do:)

[Shadowman39]

I built it again this year, in metallic green connectors. It's hanging up in the library my mom works at. :-) I'll get pictures once I get it back.

[MegaMetal8]

Cool

[Shadowman39]

I posted pictures. :-)

[MegaMetal8]

Hmm i prefer the original

[Shadowman39]

Me too, but I still like it. :-P

[MegaMetal8]

Yup

And you just got my 1900th Comment!!

[Shadowman39]

Yay!

[MegaMetal8]

:-)

[salomon1996]

sorry all that the pics were SOOO late! :( I got rely busy, but hear they are! :D

[Shadowman39]

Nice, I like the purpleness! I put it on the last step.

[salomon1996]

hehehe! :P thanks! I had good instructions! :D

[Shadowman39]

Thanks! I was a bit worried that the instructions would be confusing, since each section looks alike. :-P

[salomon1996]

they were a tad, (no offense) but, i like a good challenge! :D

[Shadowman39]

Haha. :-P

[salomon1996]

ok, i was thinking the gray conector bellow the red connector, but i think i will run string through both, and put it on a nail! :D

[Shadowman39]

Okay, good luck!

[salomon1996]

suggestions on how to hang it up?(gona post pics tomaro(hopefully!))

[Shadowman39]

The red connector at the top can have a nail going through it.

[(YOUR N]

loce bis is amzimng

[Shadowman39]

If you're saying that it's amazing, then thanks!

[salomon1996]

i was gona build this, but than, counted the peices, and.... NOT ENOUGH GREEN COUNECTERS!! NOO! so sad! :C GOOD INSTRUCTABLE! would have liked to built it!

[Shadowman39]

Thanks! If you want, you can replace most of the green connectors with purple connectors. It would be cool to see a purple (or gray metallic) wreath.

[salomon1996]

thats a good idea!! i will make it in purple! :P ill post pics once done!

[Shadowman39]

Nice, good luck! I may try a yellow wreath.

[salomon1996]

quick quistion, are the head caps necisary?

[Shadowman39]

No, they are just for looks.

[salomon1996]

COOL! :D thanks for all the helps, ill post pics once done.

[Shadowman39]

Cool! I'll put the pictures on the last step when you post them.

[salomon1996]

POST PONED: gona build next month

[Shadowman39]

Probably a good idea, since it'll be closer to Christmas.

[slithien]

Ive been waiting a whole year to build this ( i found it after christmas so there was no point building) and now i can... Although im still a bit earlie!!

[Shadowman39]

Good luck building it!

[slithien]

Finished!!! The only bad part is that its a bit weak while its not a full circle. The only bad part for me is that my box with all the fake lights in was right at the bottem of my toy wardrobe (yes i have a wardrobe for toys) so when i pulled it out everything came crashing down on me!!! And then my large wallet full of knex and lego manuals opended up and spilled all over the floor!!! When i had finaly put it all back i opened the box that i needed and all i found was 2 yellow fake lights!!! I later found two more in the original knex box witch hurts to open! I added more red connectors and glowing green connecters to make it look more coulerful because i had no red fake lights.

[Shadowman39]

What a mess! :-P Do you have a picture?

[slithien]

No, but i would be able to show you everything in there but my laptop wont work and i got school (groans) with a english exzam im not prepared for.

[KnexFreek]

 uhm can u take a pic og it from far away? like from 20ft away outside??
Thankyou so much. ALso... stars to you my friend! Wonderful job, keep on building :)

[Shadowman39]

Thanks! I can't get any more pictures, since I took it apart already.

[KnexFreek]

 That stinks :(

[Shadowman39]

I did have one of it from far away outside, but noticed it had my address in it. :-P I deleted it.