How To Make a Pipe Cleaner Candy Cane Bouquet

A candy cane bouquet makes a wonderful centerpiece. It can also be used to decorate your Christmas tree, wreaths, garland or to set in containers around your home. Pipe cleaners team up with some other basic craft materials to form these beautiful and unique holiday decorations.

Things You'll Need

• Red and white pipe cleaners
• Red or green ribbon
• Sprigs of fake holly or red berries
• Scissors
• Magnets with adhesive backs (optional)
• Decorative container (optional)
• Fake snow confetti (optional)
• Glitter (optional)

STEP 1:

Lay one red pipe cleaner and one white pipe cleaner parallel next to each other.

STEP 2:

Pinch the top ends of the pipe cleaners together and twist them into a small ball to secure them to one another.

STEP 3:

Gently fold one pipe cleaner over the top of the other like a braiding motion. Do this until you have twisted the whole length of them together and have red and white candy cane swirls down the length of the pipe cleaners.

STEP 4:

Twist the bottom ends of the pipe cleaners together into a small ball to keep them from coming unraveled.

STEP 5:

Form the two twisted pipe cleaners into the shape of a candy cane.

STEP 6:

Repeat the previous steps until you have at least five pipe cleaner candy canes made. You can make as many candy canes as you would like for your bouquet, but you need at least five to fill out the bouquet.

STEP 7:

Hold the pipe cleaner candy canes in your hand and arrange them into a circle, with the bent parts of the candy canes pointing out.

STEP 8:

Cut a piece of green or red ribbon to use as a bow for your bouquet.

STEP 9:

Tie the piece of ribbon around your pipe cleaner candy canes and make it into a nice bow.

STEP 10:

Insert sprigs of fake holly or red berries in between the pipe cleaner candy canes to make your bouquet a little more creative.

STEP 11:

Place the bouquet into a decorative holiday container, and pour fake confetti snow around the base of the bouquet to form a nice centerpiece or shelf decoration. Or apply adhesive magnets to the back of the bouquet to apply it to your fridge or other metal location around your home. Visit the resource below for more candy cane holiday crafts.

How to Make Candy Bouquets for Christmas

The Christmas season is filled with get-togethers that call for a gift for the host or hostess. Flower bouquets are common, but a more personal touch can be shown by creating a holiday candy bouquet in festive Christmas colors. Any chocolate fan will appreciate this gift, as will any children in the vicinity.

STEP 1 :
Choose small Hershey kisses and bite-sized candy bars that have Christmas foil wrapping. Pierce each kiss and candy bar with a skewer, so that the candy is right-side up when you hold up the skewer.

 STEP 2 :

Thread two Christmas taffies onto one skewer, one after the other. Make sure that the top taffy is only half way onto the skewer so that the point doesn't stick out. Make several more of these sticks.

 STEP 3:
Thread four Christmas-colored gumdrops onto a skewer, all in a row, sliding each gumdrop down the stick and ending with one gumdrop halfway pierced and sitting on top of the stick.
 

STEP 4: 

Place florist foam in the bottom of the vase. Begin to stick the candy skewers into the foam, starting with the larger pieces and filling in with the smaller and thinner ones.

 

STEP5: 

Fill the vase with marbles or stones when all the candy sticks have been arranged so that there will be more weight at the bottom to help hold the vase upright.

 

STEP 6 :

Pull lengths of curling ribbon along the blade of the scissors to make them curl. Arrange masses of ribbon curls around the base of the sticks at the top of the vase to simulate foliage.

STEP 7 :
Hang candy canes from the edge of the vase, hanging them close enough to touch each other. Continue adding candy canes until they go all around the edge of the vase and you can't fit any more in.