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Christmas Craft Project - Christmas Candy Tree
Kindly contributed by: Lydia Lydia_bryant@hotmail.com
This is a good and quick project for a Christmas raffle prize or even as a centerpiece.
My mother used to do this a lot for people she didn't know very well but felt
she would like to give a little something to.
Christmas Candy Tree
You will need some brightly wrapped sweets (the type which have the
twists at either end), a coconut, a cup (brightly colored or with a Christmassy
theme), a bow, cling-film and cello-tape.
Instruction:
Start by wrapping the coconut in cling-film, taping it securely in place.
Place the coconut, tapered side down, into the cup and tape into place, making
sure the coconut can not easily slide out - this can take some perseverance!
Place a piece of tape on the paper end of the sweet and tape to the coconut,
hanging down over the edge of the cup. Do the same with more sweets until a row
of sweets completely surrounds the base of the coconut. Repeat this but a little
higher so the next layer overlaps the first layer, obscuring the coconut.
Continue building layers until the whole coconut is covered and the sweet papers
meet at the top. To cover the final layer of sweet papers either loop some cello-tape
and stick a sweet on the top or stick a bow to the top.
This looks fantastic, specially if you can convince people, when eating the
candy, not to pull the papers off and instead to just untwist the bottom end of
the candy leaving the paper in place.
As you can imagine you can create a number of patterns, different colored
stripes around the coconut, or running up the coconut in swirls or, one year
when my mum was feeling particularly creative, the initials of the person who
was to receive it.
To Finish it off get a large square of cellophane and site the cup in the center.
Gather the edges up over the top of the bow and tie with several colors of
ribbon.
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