Fun Christmas Craft Ideas Featuring a Candy Cane Theme

Do you and your loved ones adore candy canes and similar sweet, colorful peppermint candies? Perhaps you’d like to make some holiday crafts that either involve actual candy canes or were inspired by the look of eye-catching red-and-white-striped candies. This list of candy cane crafts offers you some fun possibilities, and you can use our free instructions to make these projects for yourself or to give as gifts.

Christmas Candy Cane Dispenser: Free Crochet Pattern

This Christmas candy cane dispenser is a fun and affordable craft project to consider if you have one of more boxes of actual candy canes to craft with, and you’re in search of ideas for crafts with candy canes. You can make this project using dollar store craft supplies plus inexpensive kitchen cotton yarn.

• Find the free project instructions for the candy cane dispenser HERE.
• Grab the free crochet pattern for the box shape HERE.

Candy Cane Lane Christmas Card Making Idea

If you’d enjoy making your own Christmas cards, check out this Candy Cane Lane Christmas card making idea.

Potholder With Candy Cane Stripes: Free Crochet Pattern

Red and white diagonal stripes are the focal point of this festive holiday potholder.

Christmas Candy Cane Ornaments From the Book Classic Christmas Crochet, Published by Trafalgar Square Books

You can crochet these lovely candy cane Christmas ornaments, plus bunches of other Christmas ornaments, if you get yourself a copy of a book called Classic Christmas Crochet by Heidi B Johannesen and Pia H. H. Johannesen. Wouldn’t these ornaments look delightful on your Christmas tree?

You can check out my book review of Classic Christmas Crochet HERE, or head to Amazon to shop for the book HERE.

So there you have it: That’s our list of candy cane crafts. If you’re interested in making some candy cane-inspired Christmas projects, I hope you found these ideas useful.

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More Christmas Crafts

You’re invited to check out more Christmas craft ideas and other craft ideas, linked below:

• Christmas Patterns
• Snowflake Patterns
• More Holiday Crafts

This page was last updated on 11-2-2024.