Candy Cane Reindeer {Easy Kids Craft Ornament}

Do you have a favorite craft this time of year? One of mine is candy cane rein­deer! It’s a great Christ­mas craft to do with the kids and they love them!!

I fea­tured these a cou­ple of year’s ago in a post about a whole bunch of home­made orna­ments, but I love them so much that I thought they deserved their own post! Candy cane rein­deer bring back fond mem­o­ries of mak­ing them with my grand­par­ents as a kid! Their church used to have a spe­cial night they took me to & I vividly remem­ber mak­ing candy cane rein­deer with them there. In fact, up until a cou­ple of years ago (when the candy canes finally broke), I still had some of the rein­deer I had made with them as a kid!

To make your candy cane rein­deer, you need some candy canes, brown pipe clean­ers, pom-poms, goo­gly eyes, any other embell­ish­ments you’d like (bows, bells, etc.), and hot glue. If your kids are too young to make these all by them­selves (like mine), then get out all the sup­plies and let your kid­dos make choices about the rein­deer’s look. They can choose what size/color nose, what kind of antlers, and what other embell­ish­ments to add, like bows or bells, etc.

Big Brother is quite in to the orig­i­nal Rudolph movie. So, we made “Rudolph & Clarice”.  But, now they’re beg­ing to make all of Santa’s rein­deer so I think we might end up with a tree full of these guys! Fun!

 

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