A Peek at the Fun: Here’s a fun DIY gift for your neighbors this Christmas season-a cute Elf and Santa candy pot that is filled with candy. Grab a flower pot and paint and decorate it, then fill it with candy and it’s a great gift!
My friend texted me the other day to show me the fun holiday crafts she’d been working on all day and I was a little bit jealous of her fun day of working on a Christmas project! What’s better than listening to Christmas music or watching a fun holiday movie while working on something for the holidays in a warm, cozy house?
Fun projects at Christmas that you can sit down, dig into and spend a few hours enjoying are the best! And when you can take them to friends AND fill them with chocolate-even better! I had fun creating these cute Santa and Elf themed candy dishes made from flower pots.
And I think they make a perfect gift when you package them up with a cellophane bag and a tag:
It’s a perfect project for the holidays. You can use them as a gift and you could also use them as a candy dish at a party (like this one).
Santa & Elf Candy Pot Gift Idea:
These are pretty easy to make! Here’s how.
Supplies Needed:
- Flower pots (we got ours here)
- Paint-you can use an All Purpose Craft Paint or a spray paint, whichever you prefer (affiliate link)
- Paintbrush
- Ribbon for Santa
- Belt Embellishment for Santa-we found this in the sewing notions department
- Red felt for Elf
- Bells for Elf
- Hot Glue
Instructions:
Start by painting your pots. They may need several coats. All these to dry completely.
Santa Pots:
To make these, simply cut your ribbon a little bit longer than the diameter of the top of your pot. Slide your belt embellishment onto the ribbon and then glue your ribbon in place, overlapping just a little bit in the back.
Elf Pots:
For the elf pots, cut your felt in a triangle pattern to make it the full length to fit around the top of the pot. If you need to you can piece together more than one piece of felt. Hot glue this in place. Then hot glue the bells to the end of each triangle.
Elf and Santa Pots Gift:
To make this a gift, simply put the candy in a cellophane bag and tie it with a bow and then add this cute tag:
You can either right click and save this tag to your computer and then open in a program like Word or Pages and size how you want to print. Or I have a PDF with a bunch of them on it ready for you to print.
Free Printable Christmas Gift Tags
Have FUN making and giving this Elf and Santa Pot Gift Idea!
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April says
I love DIY projects, this idea is perfect for centerpieces too!
Amber & Danetta says
True!
Caryn says
What size pots do you use?
Amber & Danetta says
You really could use any size. Ours are about 6 inches tall.
Gifty says
Really beautiful, I will recomend!
Jamie says
Can you help me locate the belt buckle? I’m not having luck.
Amber & Danetta says
What about something like this? https://amzn.to/2NeOyix
Susie says
Hi . . .love your pot, where CAN I GET THE ELF KISSES ?
Amber & Danetta says
We found them at Target a handful of years ago
Cheryl Farley says
How did you fold or lay felt on elf pots to make points?
Amber & Danetta says
You cut out the little triangles before you stick it on the pot
Di says
I cut out a paper trinagle and moved it on the felt until I had a row. I jused a marker and did it on the back side of the felt. I cut it out and glued it on.
Diane says
I did’t cut out each triangle I layed a triange on top out of paper and copied with a marker then cut it out.
diane says
Well I figured out how to do the felt. Now I need to get the bells. Then the candy and do it for Christmas theme. Guess I will have to eat the candy and refil at Christmas. LOL
Rachael says
Hi,
What size bells did you use please?
Danetta says
I used 1 inch craft bells.
Rachael Hine says
Thank you 😆
Sherry says
How did you glue the bells on the felt? Did you hot glue the felt on the upper back side of the bell?
Danetta says
Yes, I used hot glue. It held the best and was easy to hide. The trick is to only use a small amount of glue on the back of the bells.
Cindy says
These look really cute. Did u paint the top of the elf planter black or did y use an insert?
Danetta says
I painted them.