Candy Cane Pipe Cleaner Garland

This pipe cleaner garland craft has a festive candy cane theme!

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Last year I bought some cute candy cane pipe cleaners and the other day I rediscovered them when unpacking the Christmas box. They are actually just a thin white and red pipe cleaner wound together, so it would be easy to make your own. I just love the effect!

I decided to make a garland from them with F’s help. Using the wire cutter part of some pliers I cut each pipe cleaner in half (don’t use scissors). I also added some plain white and red ones for variety.

I showed F how to create the loops then link a new pipe cleaner to it. This was definitely a joint effort as he found it hard to twist the ends together to complete the link, but he still had to manipulate the pipe cleaners quite a bit.

 

Once we had used up all the pipe cleaners we had a lovely long garland! I was going to add it to the tree (we have our fake one up already!) but F had other ideas!

 

A few days later the garland was stolen by our Elf – who made a swing from it!

Check out all the other fab posts from my co-hosts this week:

• Cute Mini Christmas Trees from Powerful Mothering
• Color Matching Reindeer Clothespin Activity from School Time Snippets
• Pouch Cap Wreath from House of Burke
• Christmas Scissor Skills and Craft Activity from Little Bins for Little Hands
• Christmas Lights on the Light Table from Still Playing School
• 3 Christmas Fine Motor Activities Using Coffee Sleeves on Lalymom
• DIY Fine Motor Kit from Stir the Wonder
• Scented Snowflake Sensory Soup from And Next Comes L

 

This activity is featured in my book 50 Christmas Crafts for Little Kids – get your copy today for more festive inspiration!  

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