It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around my home. I like to make as many Christmas crafts as possible and this year started with peppermint and candy cane wreaths for my kitchen windows.
One of my 7th grade boys crafted the small wreaths from ferns and brought them to me before Thanksgiving. Isn’t that the sweetest thing??
Want to make these for yourself? It’s really easy!
Supplies Needed:
10 candy canes
20 Star Bright Mints
Glue Gun
Scissors
Ribbon
Sealer
Remove wrappers from ten candy canes and twenty mints. Glue candy canes together to form hearts.
Glue two mints to each heart where the ends meet.
Make five hearts.
Overlap hearts and glue.
Continue to overlap and glue until you have a wreath.
I sealed my wreaths with some finish that I had on-hand. There may be a better choice to use if you shop around.
Cut ten pieces of ribbon to decorate the intersections of the candy canes and mints.
Wrap the ribbon around and glue into place. Here you can see one with ribbon and one without ribbon.
The ribbon adds a pop of color and it hides some of the glue.
I used fishing line to hang the wreaths in my kitchen windows.
This craft is quick and easy to complete and isn’t expensive. An older child could make one for their room or as a gift for a friend or teacher.
Kitchen windows complete, now it’s on to the rest of the house!
Have you been busy crafting for Christmas?
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so cute! I need to make one!
What a great idea! Will the sealer protect them enough to use again next year?
I love ‘em! The wreaths look good paired with the candy cane stars too. You’ll have to get that student to do a guest tutorial
Really cute, Paula. They look great in your window.
I showed these to my mom hoping she might make one or two…she said she would rather eat the candy canes…lol.
These are really cute Paula!!
Love it!! What pretty a pretty and festive addition to your kitchen.
These are wonderful, I really like them hung in your windows.
So cute!! I love how they turned out, and how you added them to your windows =)
oh my stinking goodness, how flippin’ cute! what a great idea, and the ribbons give it a little extra.
Oh my word how cute is this! Love the idea and definitely think I might have to make one too! xo
Wow, these came our great! Laura
So precious! Love how bright and cheerful your windows look. Even sweeter that your student made the wreathes for you.
These are amazing! Hosting a Christmas Tea Party next week and these would be ideal on the table!
Visiting from Home Stories A to Z!
Paula, these are great! I love them because they are so festive and fun. Thanks for the tutorial. I might try to make these!
xoxoxo,
RJ
HOW did I miss that on Pinterest? So stinkin’ cute! And what a sweet student you have to make those wreths for you. That is so sweet and he did a great job. So pretty!
Great idea. Even the hearts look cute!
I love this project – I hope you don’t mind, but I am sharing this over at my blog today – findinghomeonline.com. Thanks, Laura
I am so impressed! Those are incredible! My kids wouldn’t be able to leave them alone. They love peppermint candies.
Would you submit this to the Make and Takes spotlight page? I think the M+T readers would love this too. (http://www.makeandtakes.com/spotlight)
Fanciful and FABULOUS!!! I LOVE this!! If you want to show it off anywhere else, my Winter Wonderland party is open just one more day! I’ll be having a huge Christmas parade and I feature great projects like this on my facebook page, too. Either way, this is So Sweet and I hope you have a very happy holiday!!
<3 Christina
ooOOoooohh! I pinned this and it was immediately repinned 30 times!!!
This is too cute my kids would LOVE IT!! Thanks,Deidre~ Im a new follower:) http://simplysimplisticated4.blogspot.com
These are adorable and kids would love them. Mona
These are so cute! I will have to make some with my granddaughter this year!
O my goodness! These are absolutely adorable! You are so creative!
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Such a fun and easy project that looks so pretty in your beautiful windows.
Hopping over from the Christmas in July blog hop – #57.
Fondly,
Glenda
Plan to make some of these for our office windows.
Cathy <;)
I love these and tried to make them but can’t get them to stay together. I used a high temperature glue gun (Martha Stewart). I’m an inexperienced crafter so maybe don’t have my gluing techniques up to par. Any hints? I want to make another one. The one I made has a couple of pieces of scotch tape to hold the pieces that keep separating. Tacky!