Most people throw away candy wrappers. But you can make a huge number of different and unusual crafts from them. You can involve adults and children in such a creative activity. After all, children love not only to eat candies, but also to look at beautiful wrappers and collect them.
Combine business with pleasure, spend time with your child and create a small or large craft from candy wrappers. Make toys from candy wrappers with your own hands to decorate the Christmas tree, a craft for school and kindergarten or decoration for any other holiday. Crafts from candy wrappers with your own hands will please with their originality and beauty and ease of use.
Materials and tools for work
To make crafts from candy wrappers with your own hands, you will need the following materials:
- Candy wrappers. Their quantity depends on the type of craft, large or small;
- Threads;
- Needle;
- Scissors;
- Stationery knife;
- Dry glue;
- PVA glue;
- Paper clips;
- Wide double-sided tape;
- Colored paper;
- Cardboard;
- Colored paper;
- Hole punch;
- Food foil or chocolate foil;
- Beads;
- Thin wire.
New Year's decorations from candy wrappers
New Year is a wonderful holiday when you want to decorate your home and Christmas tree with the most original, unusual decorations. For an original decoration of the Christmas tree, making crafts from candy wrappers with your own hands will not be difficult. Let's consider several original New Year's decorations - an angel, garlands, a star, a snowflake, a Christmas tree.
Little angel
To make an angel you will need:
- 2 candy wrappers,
- bead or food foil,
- threads,
- stapler,
- thin wire.
Execution:
- Take 2 candy wrappers. Fold each candy wrapper like an accordion, so that one is large - this is the angel's body, the other is smaller - the wings. If the wrappers are rectangular, then make one accordion along the length, and the other along the width of the wrapper;
- We fold the prepared accordions in the center of each one, with the edges down. We tie them with a thread;
- We glue the edges of the lower wrapper together with glue or staple them on the back side of the wrapper and straighten them out;
- Apply glue to the edges of the second candy wrapper, glue it to the body, and straighten it out – these are the wings of a Christmas angel;
- Roll a small ball out of foil - this is the angel's head, or take a bead. Sew the bead or foil ball to the body with a thread or glue it;
- We make a halo for the angel out of wire, thread the lower part of the wire through the bead, and make a small knot at the bottom so that the halo doesn’t fall off;
- To hang the angel on the tree, glue a thread on the back or glue a piece of New Year's tinsel. The angel is ready.
You can also make a garland out of the angels by connecting each subsequent angel by the wing and body.
Garland
Craftsmen making candy wrappers with their own hands make a lot of options, limited only by the imagination of the performer. Let's consider 4 options for DIY candy wrapper garlands. The sequence of actions is the same when creating any type of garland. To create you will need: candy wrappers, a needle and thread.
Expert advice: It is better to choose a rough or simple thread for the garland, folded 2-4 times. A garland 1.5 m - 2 m long will look more beautiful.
1 type. Garland "Accordion":
- We select candy wrappers and fold each one individually like an accordion;
- We put 5 candy wrappers together, find the middle of the “accordion” and sew one loop with a needle and thread;
- At the beginning of the garland, leave a loop, which will be needed to secure the garland to the tree;
- Step back 1 cm from the wrappers and tie a loop. This will allow you to fix the wrappers in this space so that they do not move along the entire thread;
- We repeat the steps again. We string 5 candy wrappers in an accordion and secure them with a loop;
- And so the actions are performed along the entire length of the garland;
- At the end of the garland, leave a loop to secure the garland to the tree.
2nd view. Garland “Tube”:
Creating crafts from candy wrappers with your own hands in the form of a garland of a tube is not at all difficult. The process of creation is repeated, as with the garland "accordion". Only instead of an accordion, tubes are twisted from candy wrappers.
The tubes are pressed slightly in the middle to make a loop. Once the loop is made, the tubes are straightened so as not to lose their shape. The garland turns out voluminous and very beautiful.
The next type of candy wrapper garland is the easiest to make.
3 type. Simple garland:
- The candy wrapper is folded into 4 equal parts and cut. This is done with all candy wrappers, cutting into 4 equal parts;
- Collect 10 pieces and string them tightly onto a needle and thread;
- Every 3 cm of the garland, make a small loop to reduce the movement of the candy wrappers along the length of the thread;
You can make such a garland by cutting out any identical geometric shapes from candy wrappers – circles, stars, hearts, etc.
4 type. Garland with balls:
- Roll small balls from food foil or chocolate;
- Fold candy wrappers like an accordion;
- Prepare a thread and a needle;
- String the ball one by one, piercing it in the middle, then the accordion-shaped wrapper (in the middle or on one edge);
- We string until the thread runs out.
Advice from craft masters: The garland will be lush and neat if you string it in the middle of the accordion.
Star
A star made of candy wrappers can be made in two versions. One simple 8-pointed, the second 16-pointed star. For the 16-pointed one you will need 16 candy wrappers, scissors, a cardboard circle or a laser disc.
Execution:
- Fold the wrappers diagonally, cut off the extra piece. If you now fold back the corner, you will get a square wrapper;
- Fold (inside the wrapper) diagonally, first on one side, then on the other. Smooth each side well with your fingernail to form folds, at the intersection of which the middle (the center of the wrapper) will be visible;
- We unfold the diagonal. We fold 4 corners one by one to the center of the square. We will get a smaller square;
- We fold it diagonally;
- We fold the entire figure in half from the side of the large triangle. We get a right-angled triangle with a tongue;
- We carry out the same actions with the remaining candy wrappers;
- When all the candy wrappers are folded into separate rays of the star, they need to be glued with the tongue into a right triangle.
For a 16-pointed star, the process of creating rays is the same, but in the end, one star is glued to one side of the cardboard or laser disc, and the second to the other side.
Expert advice: For a star-shaped craft, it is better to choose paper-based candy wrappers, they are easier to fold and glue.
Snowflake
It is very easy to make a snowflake - from candy wrappers. With your own hands or involve children, friends, relatives in such an interesting activity. You get bright and unusual snowflakes. The easiest option is to cut snowflakes from candy wrappers according to a template, but it will not turn out voluminous. For a voluminous craft in the form of a snowflake, you will need 3 candy wrappers, a stapler and a thread.
Execution:
- Fold the candy wrappers diagonally, cut off the excess so that you get square candy wrappers;
- Starting from one corner, fold the candy wrapper into an accordion and do the same with the rest of the candy wrappers;
- Connect all 3 candy wrappers in the middle and tie with a thread;
- Fasten the edges of the candy wrappers together with a stapler;
Straighten the snowflake a little and glue a thread to hang the snowflake on the tree.
A beautiful and fluffy snowflake can also be made from candy wrappers rolled into a tube.
For this you will need 5 candy wrappers:
- Roll all the candy wrappers into a tube;
- Gather everything together and press slightly in the middle, tie tightly with a thread;
- Carefully, without unrolling, straighten the edges of the tubes around the entire circle of the snowflake.
Tip: Make small cuts or slits on the accordion snowflakes..
You will get an openwork snowflake. To decorate it, glue beads, sequins and New Year's tinsel on top of the snowflakes.
Christmas tree
The New Year tree is made not only from candies, but also from candy wrappers.
Execution:
- Fold a cone out of cardboard in advance and glue it well;
- Cover the cone with double-sided tape;
- Roll candy wrappers into tubes or cones (like for sunflower seeds);
- Prepared candy wrappers should be glued from the bottom up;
- Attach a star or a cone made from candy wrappers to the top of the tree;
A simple version of a New Year's tree is made using a sushi stick, a hole punch, candy wrappers of different sizes, a plastic cup with sand or plasticine.
Execution:
- Sort candy wrappers by size (small, medium, large);
- Use a hole punch to make a hole in the middle of the candy wrappers;
- Insert a sushi stick into a glass of sand;
- String candy wrappers on it, starting with the largest ones and ending with the smallest ones;
- Glue a star, bead or cone on top.
Dress made of candy wrappers
Making a beautiful dress from candy wrappers is a painstaking task that requires perseverance, creative talent, and a lot of money to buy candy. To make a dress for a child aged 8-10, you will need at least 5,000 candy wrappers. To quickly collect the required number of candy wrappers, involve your friends, relatives, and acquaintances.
Before making a dress, you need to decide what technique the dress will be made in? Basket weaving - such a dress will be strong, suitable for frequent wear. The dress will be very light and not durable if it is glued with glue. As an option, candy wrappers are used in the form of a finished dress trim made of fabric.
When creating an exclusive dress for a child, you must adhere to the following steps:
- Select the model of the dress that will be created;
- Decide on the technique for creating a dress from candy wrappers;
- Before starting work, sort the candy wrappers by color, shape, thickness;
- Carefully smooth out all the candy wrappers through gauze or a thin cloth at a low temperature;
- Fold the prepared candy wrappers 8 times (one candy wrapper 3 times in half);
- We fold the ends of the candy wrapper into the middle and fold it in half again so that the ends are inside the blank;
- We put the blanks inside each other, intertwining them. We get a zigzag row;
- We sew each row together with a strong thread of a suitable color. Gradually, we will get a fabric from which we form a dress of the required size.
Toys
Developing children's imagination, incredible toys are made from candy wrappers. The simplest ones are fish, butterflies, and a doll.
Fish
To create a fish, you will need 3 candy wrappers. The large candy wrapper is the fish's body, the small candy wrapper is the fin, and the medium candy wrapper is the fish's tail. Fold all the candy wrappers like an accordion and bend them in the middle. 
Place the medium candy wrapper into the large one and glue them together. Once the glue has dried, straighten the candy wrappers a little and glue the fin to the large candy wrapper.
Butterfly
For the craft - a butterfly, choose 2 square candy wrappers. Fold the wrappers like an accordion from one corner to the opposite corner. Bend 2 candy wrappers in the middle and tie with a thread. 
Bend one candy wrapper upwards and spread the wings, bend the second downwards and spread them. Cut a thin long ribbon from colored paper or a candy wrapper. Tie it to the butterfly – these will be antennae.
Doll
A doll made of candy wrappers is a very beautiful, simple and miniature toy for a child. You can involve a child of 3-4 years in its creation. Choose 2 identical candy wrappers. Fold the first candy wrapper 8 times to get a thin strip. Fold the second one like an accordion. From the strip of the first candy wrapper, make a loop - this will be the head and arms of the doll.
Pass the second candy wrapper through the loop, folding it in half. Tie the dress under the doll's arms with a thread. Straighten the doll's dress, bending it a little from the inside, like a bell.
Keychain
Candy wrappers can be used to make beautiful keychains using the quilling technique – for a bag, keys, mobile phone or pen case. Snowmen, flowers and an owl can be made beautifully. You will need: glue, candy wrappers, a thin wooden stick.
Execution:
- Smooth out candy wrappers well;
- Roll up the tubes;
- Cut into 1 cm strips;
- On one side of the ribbon, glue is applied in dots and wound onto a wooden stick;
- The resulting circle is carefully removed from the stick and glued to other similar figures, forming a finished product - a keychain. Thread a beautiful chain, cord or thread through the middle of the product.
Flower
To make flowers you will need: glue, candy wrappers, threads, wire, twigs or a wooden stick, a stapler.
Execution:
- Prepare 4 candy wrappers, fold each one like an accordion;
- Fold everything in half;
- Glue all the candy wrappers together along the edges, folding them towards the center;
- Place a piece of cotton wool inside one candy wrapper and apply glue – this will be the middle of the flower;
- Glue the candy wrapper with cotton wool to the branch;
- Place the flower on the branch with the middle and secure it with wire from below.
You can also create a flower by folding candy wrappers like a bag for seeds. You need to fold 10-12 of these bags (these will be the petals), then the flower will be voluminous. Prepare the middle with a branch, as in the previous flower. Attach the bags - petals should be corner down, one by one using a strong thread.
Basket
For the holiday of Christmas, you can make a good craft with your child in the form of a basket of candy wrappers with your own hands, in order to collect sweets and gingerbread after carols. The number of candy wrappers depends on the size of the basket, you will need threads with a needle, cardboard.
Execution:
- Smooth out the candy wrappers and fold them in half 3 times;
- Fold the edges inward and fold them in half so that the ends are inside the workpiece;
- This is how all candy wrappers are folded;
- We put the blanks into each other, intertwining them. We get a zigzag row - a tourniquet;
- For a small basket, each bundle should consist of 35 candy wrappers; The approximate size can be calculated as follows: each folded candy wrapper is 1 cm, a bundle of 35 candy wrappers is 35 cm, if you fold it into a ring, the diameter of the basket will be about 10 cm;
- The depth of the basket is adjusted by the number of made bundles. One bundle is 1 - 1.5 cm wide. For a shallow basket, you need to make 10 bundles;
- The bundles are sewn together, then folded into a ring and sewn again with strong thread;
- Cut a circle of suitable diameter out of cardboard and cover it with candy wrappers;
- Sew the bottom with thick thread using an overlock stitch;
- For the basket handle, it is better to weave 2-3 bundles;
- The edges of the basket and handles should be trimmed with a beautiful thread or braid.
Hat
A great idea for making a craft from candy wrappers is a hat. A child can make a hat for himself or for a doll with his own hands, developing creativity, perseverance and patience. Such creative work of a mother with a child will allow to spend more time together.
The following materials will be required:
- candy wrappers,
- threads,
- needle,
- cardboard,
- centimeter,
- scissors.
Execution:
- We measure the child's head with a centimeter;
- Iron the candy wrappers through cheesecloth;
- Fold the candy wrapper 8 times, bend the edges inward and fold it in half so that the ends are inside the folded candy wrapper;
- We form bundles of the required length by placing one candy wrapper into another candy wrapper;
- We determine the required depth of the hat. For example: 10 strands is 10-12 cm, which means the depth of the hat will be 10-12 cm;
- Sew the bundles together to make a small piece of fabric. Roll it into a ring and tie it tightly with threads, or a bright, beautiful ribbon – this will be the back of the hat;
- Measure the diameter of the resulting ring. Add the width of the hat brim to this diameter. For example: The diameter of the ring is 12 cm, we will make the brim of the hat 10 cm. Then you need to cut out a circle from cardboard 12 cm + 10 cm (front) + 10 cm (back) = 32 cm; Inside the hat, cut out a circle with a diameter of 11 cm, i.e. 1 cm less than the diameter of the ring made of bundles;
- On the inside of the cardboard circle, make cuts along the diameter at a distance of about 1 cm from each other. Fold these cuts upward and sew them inside to the hat made of cords;
- For the brim of the hat, prepare strands of candy wrappers and glue them on;
- For the top of the hat, cut a circle of the required diameter out of cardboard and cover it with cords or just candy wrappers.
Craft masters advise: Sew all the parts of the hat together using an overlock stitch and thick, strong thread.
Bookmark
To make a bookmark from candy wrappers you will need: candy wrappers, scissors, tape or dry glue. Bookmarks for books are made in two ways.
The first method is “Weaving a tourniquet”:
- Fold the wrapper 8 times;
- Fold the ends of the folded wrapper inward towards the middle;
- Fold the wrapper in the middle again, the ends should be inside the wrapper;
- Make 15 of these blanks and fasten them together, placing them one inside the other.
The second method is "Weaving a braid":
- Cut 1 candy wrapper into 16 strips of equal width;
- Use tape to fasten 2 strips lengthwise;
- Glue the second strip parallel to the first strip on top;
- Glue the third strip to the first strip on top of the parallel second strip;
- Glue the fourth strip parallel to the first strip on top of the third strip;
- Next, we weave the strips together using the braid principle;
- We bend the second parallel strip perpendicular to the first one, butt-joining it;
- Then we bend the strip from the opposite side;
- We weave to the end of the strips, fasten with tape or glue.
Stained glass
To make a stained glass window with your own hands from candy wrappers, you will need: cardboard, marker, candy wrappers, stationery knife, scissors, glue, scotch tape. For the craft, think over the drawing in advance. To create a stained glass window with a 3-year-old child, you should choose simple drawings with large details - a flower, a fish, a ball, a turtle, a boat.
Execution:
- Apply a design to the cardboard using a marker;
- Cut out the design with a utility knife;
- Cut out stained glass details from candy wrappers;
- Glue the candy wrappers one by one to the edges of the stained glass design;
- Place the prepared drawing in a frame under glass.
Panel
It is very easy to make a panel from candy wrappers; you will need:
- cardboard,
- candy wrappers,
- glue,
- scissors,
- colored paper.
Execution:
- Glue a background of colored paper onto thick cardboard;
- Come up with a plot for creating a panel from candy wrappers;
- For the painting "Sea World" you will need to create several fish, an octopus, a starfish, and seaweed;
- Sort the candy wrappers by color and smooth them out well;
- To make seaweed, you need to roll the candy wrappers into tubes;
- Octopus. Wrap a piece of cotton wool in the middle of the wrapper, tie it with a thread, cut the edges of the wrapper into 8 parts. Glue to the background;
- Make a fish from 3 candy wrappers of different sizes. Fold the wrappers like an accordion and fold them in half. Put a medium-sized candy wrapper into a large candy wrapper with the middle folded and glue them together. Make a fin from a small candy wrapper and glue it on;
- Cut out a starfish from a candy wrapper and glue it to the panel;
- Roll the candy wrapper into a tube using the quilling technique - you will get a beautiful shell.
Curtain
There are two ways to create a curtain from candy wrappers: by weaving bundles and using paper clips.
Execution:
- To weave from bundles, the candy wrapper is folded 8 times, the edges are folded inward and folded in half again. All candy wrappers are fastened by placing one inside the other; The prepared bundles are sewn together from above in one row or sewn to the tape;
- To weave with paper clips, fold the candy wrapper 8 times, bend the edges inward and fold in half again. Insert a paper clip into the middle, fastening the edges of the folded candy wrapper;
- The edges of the paper clip should stick out a little from the candy wrapper to make it easier to fasten them together;
- The number of paper clips and candy wrappers depends on the length and width required for the curtain;
- Make loops from tape or ribbons and sew them to the top clips to make it easy to hang the curtain on a curtain rod or clothespins.
Handbag
Materials for making a handbag:
- candy wrappers,
- fishing line or elastic threads,
- hairspray.
Execution:
- Fold the candy wrapper 8 times, bend the edges inward and fold it in half so that the ends are inside the folded candy wrapper;
- Place the candy wrappers one inside the other;
- Make bundles of the required size, which must be sewn into a fabric;
- Make 4 pieces of fabric. 2 wide pieces and 2 narrow pieces – these are the sides of the bag;
- Make 5 pieces - this is the bottom of the bag;
- Sew all the pieces together using an overlock stitch and elastic thread or fishing line;
- Sew handles from an old bag or from made cords;
- Sew on a zipper or buttons so that the bag can be closed;
- Spray the finished bag with hairspray, especially the seams. Leave to dry.
Photo frame
Creating a photo frame or decorating an old one with your own hands from candy wrappers is a painstaking task.
For this you will need the following materials:
- candy wrappers,
- glue,
- cardboard,
- colored paper.
Execution:
- Cut a rectangle out of cardboard that is larger than the photograph;
- Glue on some colored paper - this will be the background;
- Make corners from colored paper so that the photograph holds well;
- Make small bundles from candy wrappers. Fold the candy wrapper 8 times, bend the edges inward and fold in half again. All candy wrappers are fastened together by placing one inside the other;
- Glue 2 candy wrappers together lengthwise with tape and roll them into tubes using a thin stick. Stick the tubes onto the photo frame;
- Cover the edges of the photo frame with candy wrappers;
- You can make butterflies, fish, flowers from candy wrappers and glue them onto a photo frame.
Beads
Even the smallest child will find it interesting to make beautiful beads from candy wrappers with their own hands.
Option 1:
- Glue several candy wrappers together with double-sided tape;
- Roll the sticky end onto the handle to make a long tube. Cut it into small rings;
- Thread the rings onto a ribbon or strong thread.
Option 2:
- Roll circles from candy wrappers - make several of these beads;
- Roll up the cotton wool in the center of the candy wrapper, tying it with a thread so that it doesn’t fall out. You will get a kind of bead with a train;
- String the resulting beads onto a needle and thread.
Bracelet
Execution:
- Separate the wrappers by color and iron with a warm iron. You will need 25 wrappers for the bracelet;
- Fold the edges of the first candy wrapper inward and fold them in half lengthwise so that the edges are on the inside. (Fold the rest of the candy wrappers in the same way);
- Fold the resulting strip in half crosswise;
- Connect 2 blanks by inserting the first into the second. You will get a loop, which should be slightly larger than the width of the manufactured strip. On the other side there will be 2 edges of the blank;
Crafts made from candy wrappers can be combined with various beads, chains and other decorative items. - Fold the first edge parallel to the second strip - you will get a corner that needs to be folded over the second strip;
- The same actions are performed with the second edge. If the workpiece is turned sideways, the folds will look like an airplane. These folds are secured with a paper clip or clothespin;
- Do the same with the second strip - you will get 2 airplanes, the wings of which must be tucked into the first strip;
- Next, we insert subsequent strips one by one and carry out the same actions;
- Having finished weaving the strips, we roll the bracelet into a ring. We remove the clothespin from the first strip and tuck the airplane wings into the last strip, thus connecting the entire bracelet.
Bast shoes
Masters' Council: Candy wrapper bast shoes are made from 2 parts. 1st toe-foot, 2nd side-heel.
This is one of the most interesting DIY crafts made from candy wrappers.
Execution:
- Smooth out the candy wrappers and fold them 8 times;
- Fold the edges inward and fold them in half so that the ends are inside the workpiece;
- This is how all candy wrappers are folded;
- We put the blanks into each other, intertwining them. We get a zigzag row - a tourniquet;
- The toe-foot part consists of 3-4 bundles, they are sewn together with strong thread;
- The side-heel detail consists of 2-3 bundles, which are also sewn together;
- Sew a ribbon or strap to the toe-foot piece, with which the foot will be fixed. Sew the second side-heel piece on top of it.
Video on how to make crafts from candy wrappers with your own hands
How to make a garland from candy wrappers, watch the video:
Let's make a basket from candy wrappers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wda4Fem5zoQ