Craft Project: How to Make a Candy CD Christmas Wreath

Christmas wreaths are both traditional and fun. This shiny and sparkling Christmas Wreath is made from recycled CD's and looks good enough to eat. (However it is not edible, it is just decorative). This festive craft reflects the traditional colors of Christmas, green and red, and it is topped off with a golden painted pinecone and curls of ribbon gently and loosely draped for a contemporary yet elegantly simple effect.

This Candy CD Christmas Wreath is both a great conversation piece and very easy to create. The CD Wreath can be made from promotional CD's you've collected from junk mail, such as Netscape or Aol disks or earthlink, etc. Or, because CD's are so inexpensive, you can buy a cheap spindle to make a few wreaths.

This Candy CD Christmas Wreath bounces light and it shimmers and sparkles. It's so fun and easy to make, you will probably want to make extras as gifts. With adult supervision, children can help make these too. This Candy CD Christmas Wreath is a reflection of American Pop Culture and Christmas tradition with a sprinkling of nature.

Here's what you'll need:

You'll need:

14 CD's (if you want a larger wreath you can use more CD's)

green craft paint and a sponge ( a small bottle costs about 75 cents)

8 ounce package of hard candy wrapped in red cellophane, such as cinnamon discs. (costs about $1 at Walgreen's or Wal-Mart)

Some gold and green metallic curling ribbon or thin metallic green wire garland

metallic gold craft paint (or you can use red if you prefer)

Hot glue gun/glue

Scissors


Instructions:


1. Lay a large piece of cardboard or some open cut paper bags, so you don't drip any glue or spill any paint on your table.

2. Paint pinecone with a sponge dipped in metallic gold paint. Set aside to dry.

3.Remove the CD's from their cardboard mailers or plastic packaging and lay in a stack. Count out 14.

4. Lay CD's in a circle shaped wreath so you can guestimate where and how you will be gluing and overlapping. If you want to use a sewing pencil or crayon to mark lines to let you know where CD's will be joined, now is the time to do so. Write on the side with the advertising.