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Bottle Top Candy Cane

October 28, 2016 by Nadia van Zyl 2 Comments

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It is time for Project Recycle & Create! (Have you seen our sock snowmen from last month?) This month we are recycling bottle tops and we made a candy cane one can use as a tree ornament too!

  bottle top candy cane   

We have been collecting bottle tops for a while now, but we only used the red and white for the candy cane(there are 2 more ideas later in this post too). 

I made holes into the tops with this metal kebab stick. Most plastic was quite soft, so not too difficult.

bottle tops   

I gave my 3.5 year old a white pipecleaner with the instruction to find a red top(visual discrimination skills, listening to instructions) and thread it on. The threading is great for fine motor skills too!

threading   

The threading was done on the straight pipecleaner and the it was bent to the shape of a candy cane. The top end of the pipecleaner was bent so it could hang on the tree.

candy cane   

We also made a “tree” with the green tops, and a wreath, made with the green, red and gold tops:

tree and wreath   

A simply way to recycle and create with bottle tops- together with pipecleaners it can become Christmas shapes/Ornaments for the tree!

candy cane   
Also see what my blogging buddies made with their bottle tops:

Bottle Caps Caterpillar by Our Whimsicle Days
Easy Bottle Top Mandalas by the Gingerbread House 

  project  

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  1. Emma says

    October 28, 2016 at 5:38 pm

    What a perfect use for those holiday-colored caps! I agree that these would make awesome ornaments!
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