Christmas Felt Candy Holders
Is it too early for Christmas? I don’t think so. I mean, it’s not tree putting up and carol playing time, but if you’re planning a homemade Christmas, you’ve got to get a head start. These cute little candy holders are a great way to get started. These make a great neighbor gift, and are pretty darn easy to make. The Christmas tree took me less than 10 minutes (I timed it!). Some of the others probably verge more on the 20-30 minute side, but that’s just because there’s more pieces to cut.
There are two methods here for making these. I did a video for the glue gun method, which is no-sew. I did the tree, but you can do any of the designs with the glue gun, just like you can do any of the designs with the sewing method. The instructions for the sewing method are under the elf tutorial. The only reason I didn’t make a sewing video is that I couldn’t figure out how to hold the camera steady with the sewing machine going. You’ll have to be content with stills (sorry!).
Anyway, without further ado, here’s your instructions, templates, and materials broken down by design:
Christmas Tree
Materials:
4 – 6″ pieces of yarn
small pompoms
scissors
2 pieces green felt
1 piece yellow felt
glue gun and glue sticks
Instructions
This is the one I made a movie for! Can you tell I’m a little proud and excited?
Elf
Materials
2 pieces green felt
1 piece yellow felt
1 piece cream (or pink, or brown) felt
1 piece brown felt
1 large white pompom
1 small pink (or brown) pompom
2 medium wiggle eyes
5 small jingle bells
Instructions
Start by cutting out two bodies and one base out of green felt using the provided template. Cut a slit 1″ from the bottom of one of the body pieces. If you are using the glue gun method, put the body and base together just like the Christmas tree above. If you’re using the sewing version, pin the base to one side of the body and sew them together.
Next, pin the other side of the base to the other body piece and sew them together. This would be a good time to mention that the base and the bodies are somewhat tricky to line up perfectly. I don’t let it worry me, and if something doesn’t work out, I just fix it with scissors at the end. It won’t mess with how your finished product looks. You’ll end up with this:
Now you’ll pin the sides together and sew up each of them. You’ll can pin the ears along the sides and sew them in, or glue them on later. That’s all the sewing! Now you get to use your trusty glue gun to decorate your base. Start with cutting a face from cream, pink, or brown felt and gluing it on.
Now cut out hair from brown (or black, yellow, or red) and glue on top. Cut a collar from yellow and glue that over the bottom edge of the face.
Cut two boots from brown and glue them to the bottom of the elf and add a white pompom to the top of the hat.
Now add a pompom nose and two wiggle eyes to make a face. Glue the jingle bells to the points on the collar.
And that’s it! Fill your elf with candy and gift it to a neighbor or set it on your mantel!
Santa
Materials
2 pieces red felt
1 pieces black felt
1 piece green felt
1 piece pink felt
1 piece white felt
large white pompom
small pink pompom
2 medium wiggle eyes
Instructions
The base of the Santa is done just like the Elf and Christmas tree (For the glue gun method, see the tutorial under Christmas Tree. For the sewing method, check out the tutorial under Elf). You’ll want to either sew or glue the mittens into the seam. Once you’ve gotten your base together, you’ll glue the other pieces in this order: face piece, beard, nose and eyes, pompom on hat, boots. And that’s it!
Reindeer
Materials
2 pieces dark brown felt
1 piece light brown felt
1 piece black felt
1 piece red felt
1 piece white felt
1 large red pompom
1 large white pompom
2 medium wiggle eyes
Instructions
The base of the Reindeer is done just like the Elf and Christmas tree (For the glue gun method, see the tutorial under Christmas Tree. For the sewing method, check out the tutorial under Elf). You’ll want to glue or sew the arms and the antlers into the seam.
Once the base is sewn or glued, glue the face and hat pieces to the front.
Add the brim of the hat and glue the legs to the bottom. Also glue the hoof pieces to the end of the arms and legs.
Last you add the pompoms and wiggle eyes to make that cute face. Fill him with candy and gift him to a neighbor!
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Don’t forget to pin!
Thank you for the patterns for the Candy Holders. I received one years ago, and recently decided to make them for my grandchildren. Of course I couldn’t find the one I have so I looked on Pinterest and was thrilled to find my Santa and also the Elf, Reindeer, and Christmas tree.
How fun! My family used to make the Santa and sell him at craft fairs — I wonder if you were gifted one of those 🙂
Very cute I made Santa’s years ago and there was a cute poem that went with it I have the pattern and all but can’t find the poem. Does anyone have it?
I don’t have a poem with this project, but good luck finding it!
What do you do with slit after filling it with candy
I leave it open — easy access for when you want to eat the candy!
I was given the santa pattern years ago and it made a great gift. I was so excited to see on Facebook that there were more to make. I now have the patterns and the fun begins. I hope to figure out how to do a gnome. I think it would be cute also. Thank you for the great ideas.
A gnome would be adorable!