To be completely honest, I don’t like candy corn very much. I’ve always thought it tasted weirdly sweet and artificial. However, the candy corn garland I whipped up is a perfectly fun way to get into the spooky holiday spirit without having to actually take a bite of candy.
All you need for this project is some felt, yarn, hot glue, and some optional decorative felt balls. I made this one a no-sew project to keep it simple and fast, but you could definitely modify it and sew the pieces up instead of hot gluing them. I think it looks great strung up on a mantel or across an entryway table.
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Candy Corn Garland
Materials:
- One piece of 9×12″ orange felt
- One piece of 9×12″ yellow felt
- One piece of 9×12″ white felt
- Hot glue gun and extra hot glue sticks
- Darning needle
- White/tan felt balls (I used small balls like this because I didn’t realize how tiny they were. These larger ones might work better)
- Thin cotton yarn
- Paper and pen
Instructions
- Start by creating a template for your candy corn pieces. I made a rough sketch of a rounded triangle and divided it into thirds. I then cut it out from the paper to use as a template for my shapes.
- Using this piece, I pinned it to the yellow felt and cut 6 base pieces.
- Using your template, cut your top and bottom pieces off to create new template for the top and bottom pieces that will be white and orange, respectively.
- Cut 6 of each template. Now you can start assembling your candy corn pieces together with hot glue. Take one yellow base piece and hot glue the top white piece on top. Then hot glue the orange piece to the bottom.
- Take your yarn and cut it to about 5 feet in length. Make a loop at one end and arrange your candy corn pieces and felt balls to your desired distance.
- Begin to assemble the garland by gluing the back of your candy corn pieces to the yarn.
- Optional: you can thread your yarn with a darning needle and alternate the candy corn with white felt balls.
- Continue in this pattern until all candy corn pieces have been attached.
- Make a loop at the end and it’s ready to hang.
