Looking for creative ideas for the holidays using your favorite mouth-watering sweets? Here are some popular Christmas candy combinations sure to please everyone including; educators and their students, parents and their children, Sunday school and much more. Need an idea for your upcoming church bazaar or stocking stuffers, look no further build ornaments that are easy, fun to make and can be used well after the holidays.
Tootsie Pop Santa [1] – A Tootsie Pop Santa would be a perfect gift for a small child at Christmas in their stocking that the child can play with and eat. They also make great Christmas tree ornaments when you tie a string to the them.
For each Tootsie Santa pop, you will need the following:
- cardboard square (approx. 2×2 inches)
- scissors
- hot glue gun
- felt (red and white)
- pompom, small (white)
- Sharpie marker
- wooden bead (1 inch)
- acrylic paint (light pink)
- Tootsie pop
- pipe cleaners (black and metallic gold)
- glitter
Instructions:
- Paint wooden bead light pink. Let dry. Slide bead onto stick of Tootsie Pop.
- Hat: Cut triangle (approx. 1.25 inches wide x 1.75 inches high) out of red felt. Trim: Cut thin strip (approx. 2 inches long) out of white felt. Glue trim to “hat” leaving a little over hang on both sides of “hat”. Glue pompom onto tip of “hat”.
- Wrap “hat” around bead “head”. Put glue on ends of “trim” and attach to “head”. Draw “eyes” on “head” just below the bottom of the “hat”.
- Cut a triangle (approx. 1.5 inches wide x 1.5 inches long) out of the white felt. This makes his “beard”. Cut a “U” shape out of the top of the triangle. Fold triangle (lengthwise) and snip a small triangle out the “beard” for his “mouth”.
- Glue the “beard” to the sides of the “head”.
- Cut a piece of black pipe cleaner long enough to wrap around the Tootsie pop. Cut a small piece of gold pipe cleaner, wrap around the center of black pipe cleaner to make the “buckle”. Twist the ends of the “belt” together to secure it to the pop.
- Cut two two “L” shaped pieces of red felt to make the “arms”. Cut two small pieces of white felt and glue to the ends of the “arms” to make the “cuffs”.
- Glue the “arms” to the sides of the Tootsie pop.
- Glue the Tootsie pop to the piece of cardboard OR attach a string to it and make it an ornament. (Optional) Paint cardboard white and sprinkle glitter onto the wet paint!
Candy Cane Sleighs w/ Chocolate Palmer Santa’s [2]
For each candy sleigh, you will need the following:
1 Kit Kat Candy Bar (1.5 oz.)
12 Hershey Miniature Candy Bars
2 Candy Canes
1 Chocolate Santa (used Palmer brand)
3 Chocolate Presents (Palmer brand)
1 Clear Cellophane Bag
Star Tinsel or Ribbon
Low-Temp Hot Glue Gun
These fun Christmas crafts will you keep you busy and may become a holiday tradition that will add joy and cheer to your winter festivities. Great for Christmas gift exchange, stocking stuffers or for that holiday craft bazaar or celebration.
Source:
[1] http://www.thriftyfun.com/Christmas-Crafts-Using-Lollipops.html
[2] http://www.happybirdscraftinghaven.com/2013/11/diymake-inexpensive-and-super-cute.html
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