DLTK's Christmas Crafts for Kids
Reindeer Candy Cane Craft

This is a cute reindeer craft that you can hang on the tree as an ornament or attach to a gift as a special decoration.  This is a great project for an older sibling (9 thru 13) to make for their little brother or sister for Christmas.

The project requires use of a hot glue gun (a low temp craft version works great).  Children should be supervised one on one by an adult while using the glue gun.

Materials:

• candy cane,
• red or brown pipecleaner,
• small wiggle eyes,
• small red beads,
• red ribbon, 
• hot glue gun - you could try using regular white glue, but it would be a real challenge to get everything to stay stuck on.

Instructions:

• Fold the pipe cleaner in half and twist it around the top of the candy cane.
• Bend some zig zags in both sides of the pipe cleaner to make it look more like an antler.
• Put a dot of hot glue where the pipe cleaner touches the candy cane to hold it in place.
• Hot glue the red bead to the tip of the candy cane.
• Hot glue the wiggly eyes just under the antlers.
• Tie a piece of red ribbon in a bow around the long part of the candy cane about half way up.  Again you could put a dab of hot glue to hold the ribbon in place.

Printable version of these instructions