Felt Mouse Candy Cane Holder
Difficulty: Easy
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Parental supervision is recommended
Parents and kids can will have fun together making this Felt mouse candy cane holder. This is an excellent Christmas craft that's fast, easy and makes a great ornament for anyone's tree.
What you'll need:
- 6 inch candy canes
- Red felt
- Wiggle eyes
- White yarn (with silver laced through, optional, nice touch)
- Sewing needle with large eye for threading yarn
- Hot glue gun or white craft glue
- Scissors
- Plastic pink jupe or pipe cleaners for whiskers (Jupe, or lanyard, is the flat plastic craft string that the children use to make friendship bracelets.)
- Polyester stuffing
How to make it:
- Cut two 3 inch ovals from red felt. This is the mouse's body. Place ovals together for sewing.
- Using the white yarn, sew a blanket stick around the ovals leaving a one inch opening at one end of the oval.
- Stuff the oval pillow with polyester stuffing.
- Glue two eyes at the other end of the oval.
- Thread through two 3 inch pieces of pink jupe under the eyes, these are the whiskers.
- At the open end, carefully place in the candy cane, this is the tail.
Tips:
Makes a great little gift for folks who just drop by during the holidays unexpected. Also great gift for groups of children i.e.: classmates, Scouts, etc.
