Every few months two girlfriends and I love to get together to craft for upcoming seasons or holidays. We like to stick to a budget and it's a lot fun brainstorming and pinning different ideas on Pinterest to try. (Thankfully, the majority of our Pinterest crafts have worked out!) Over the weekend we went to the Dollar Tree for the supplies we needed for our craft day.
Here's one of the crafts that I made for a whopping $4 total.
The candles were each $1 and I bought a pack of 20 mini bells for $1. I already had the twine on hand from other crafts over the years, along with the hot glue gun and glue sticks.
For this craft, you'll need the following materials:
- Candles
- Twine
- Hot glue gun + glue sticks
- Bells
It's extremely easy to make!
- Place a dab of hot glue on the candle and wrap a piece of the twine towards the bottom of the candle. From there, you continue to wrap the twine around the candle, adding dabs of hot glue as you move through each layer of the twine.
- When you're happy with the amount of twine you have used - you're ready to cut, add your last dab of hot glue to keep the twine secure and snug, and you're done!
- To add additional decoration, I made little ribbons out of raffia (or you can use the twine that you have) and hot glued bells on the bottom of the strings.
- Once you're done making your ribbon, add another dab of glue to the twine and secure your ribbon to the front of the candle.
That's it! It's a little time consuming (and beware - your fingers will most likely get burned a few times from the hot glue gun) but for only $4, it spruced up a little shelf in my house, and it was fun to have a craft day with the girls!
Click here to read about Sharon's craft that she made (and made one for each of us girls) - we loved the way they all turned out! :)
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