We have a very strange candy minhag in my home every Friday night when my brother in law comes to stay with us…. which is pretty much every weekend! After the dishes are cleared and the table cleaned, out comes the candy. Mike and Ike’s ALWAYS make an appearance. When I was asked to come up with a craft using candy wrappers I was so beyond excited since I’ve been thinking about doing something with them for so long. I loved the idea of creating hair accessories out of the old boxes and wrappers. It’s such a great party craft for girls or the perfect mom and daughter project to bond over.
Supplies
- plastic hairbands
- clips
- hot glue gun
- hot glue
- empty candy boxes
- empty candy plastic wrappers
- scissor
- pen
Headband Instructions
Cut up plastic candy wrappers into small pieces. Hot glue them to the headband in an overlapping pattern. Have fun! Mix and match colors and designs. The more variety of labels used the more interesting it will look!
Flower Clip Instructions
Scroll to continue
More Love
Soft and Chewy Nougat
Are you searching for a truly soft and chewy Italian nougat recipe? I can tell you …
Deli Roll
I never heard of deli rolls until I hit the kosher Shabbos scene. It was apparent that …
Open the empty candy box length wise. With your pen draw large petals. You can either do a straight edge or a pointed one. Repeat the process again with a different color candy box, but this time make the petals a bit smaller.
Starting at the top, hot glue the petals one at a time in a clockwise direction. Once you have your base flower put together, hot glue it to you clip. Next, hot glue the smaller petals in between the larger ones. Scrunch up a bit of a plastic candy wrapper and glue onto the middle of the flower. A button would be cute too!
This post was sponsored by Mike and Ike, all opinions are my own.
Thanks for sharing this information.that looks cute.
Crafting is not one of my strong suites but I have fun trying.
My wife would love to do crafts but she doesn’t know where to start. She thinks it would be too hard.
Where do you find crafting inspiration?
I love recycling and I think crafting is a great way to incorporate that!
I love crafting thanks for the great idea!
That looks cute and creative
Cute, I think my niece would like these.
I’m not crafty but love see other peoples work
My favorite craft is sewing, I have tried other crafts but am not that good at them, thanks for sharing the ideas.
I love this idea.My girls are too old for it but am going to try to make some for friends kids.
It would be neat to glue a piece of candy on each petal
I bet you could make some cute keychains as well with this same concept.
I love this idea! I would love to sit down and do it with my daughters. I am not super crafty, but I would try.
this is a very cute headband, i just wish i had the time to sit down and make something like that.
not MY thing
Great idea! Makes me want to buy some candy to make these.
That looks so cute and creative!
Reminds me of Rareform (start up company that turns old billboard ads into surfboard bags…).
Really cute, great project to do with my 11year old daughter
How adorable!!! I love it!!!
Cool!
What a cute idea. I’ve been trying to find something to do with coffee bags. This would be adorable. What coffee fiend wouldn’t want a Starbucks headband!
you can add sparkle to the petals with colored or sparkly glue gun glue
love this. would def wear it.
This is a great idea to upcycle a previously thrown away item!
It would be a nice rainy day craft idea, I’ll pass this along!
I’m just not that crafty!
What a cute and fun craft. My daughter would love this.
Why use hot glue instead of super glue?