Modern DIY Candy Cane Ornament

An easy DIY candy cane craft idea using dollar store supplies. Add a modern DIY candy cane ornament to your tree this year!

Christmas is my favorite time of the year. I love everything about it and I love decorating for the season! I wanted a Scandinavian-style vibe for our Christmas decor. These DIY candy cane ornaments turned out perfectly to fit that style.

You all know how much I love Dollar Store DIYs! I love taking cheap items from the dollar store and make them look like expensive home decor. There is no reason to purchase high-dollar decor items when you can get the look you’re going for with a little creativity and a few items from the Dollar Store.

Today I’m joining some other talented bloggers who wanted to share their DIY ornaments! Make sure to check out all of the projects at the end of the post.

Let’s make a DIY candy cane ornament!

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How to Make a Candy Cane Ornament

Supplies Needed

Candy canes
Velvet fabric ( I used white and beige) – or velvet ribbon!
Best 3-in-1 Craft Glue

Step-by-step Tutorial

I got some ugly, red and white candy canes at the Dollar Store. They’re plastic and they look cheap so I wanted to do something else with them. Plus, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a modernized version of the traditional candy cane ornament! It was overdue.

The first thing I did was spray paint them white with a primer. I’m going to be wrapping them in velvet fabric and I didn’t want the red to show through the velvet fabric. As I side note, I can’t believe our dollar store had velvet! I snatched that up so fast!

In order to put the velvet on and make it look like a candy cane, I needed to cut the velvet into strips. I cut the white velvet and tan velvet using my rotary tool into 1/2 inch strips. I only needed four, but I cut a few extra just in case.

If you have velvet ribbon, you can also use that instead and skip the entire cutting phase!

Once everything was cut and prepped, I used my favorite craft glue and got ready to glue the strips onto the candy canes.

I started by placing some glue on the end of each candy cane and added both colors of velvet strips side by side. Then I waited a minute to make sure that the glue was set. Once it was set, I started wrapping the velvet strips around the candy cane.

I wrapped the velvet around the candy cane one piece at a time, one strand after another, adding glue every couple of rounds to make sure that the velvet would stay in place.

I did both colors at the same time because if I had done one color first, it would have sat completely under the other color and the balance would have been off. I really wanted them to overlap over the bottom edges.

When I got to the bottom, I just cut them up really short, added some glue, and tucked the velvet together nicely so it created a nice, smooth finish on both ends.

Our Finished DIY Candy Cane Ornaments

Here is how the candy canes look when they are finished. I was so happy with them. They matched the rest of our holiday decor beautifully and look so much nicer on the tree than the plastic dollar store version!

I absolutely LOVE these and was so happy with them when they were finished! I’m so happy to have a set of four DIY candy cane ornaments. I was pretty happy to make a version that I thought was modern and Scandinavian and actually pretty!

As I mentioned, today I’m joining some of my talented blogging friends who are also sharing their DIY Christmas Ornament ideas with you. Be sure to visit their posts by clicking on the links below the images!