Craft Corner: Candy Wrapper Jewelry

This is a great alternative to traditional friendship bracelets and the tools to create them are super simple! On a weekend where your daughter has friends over, collect the wrappers from their sweets (Starbursts, Tootsie Rolls, gum wrappers, Now or Laters, etc.). The only other item you’ll need is a safety pin!

Collect candy wrappers! Take the edges (lengthwise) and fold them to meet in the middle.

Fold the wrapper in half lengthwise and repeat this step twice.

You should have a long, skinny piece of wrapper now. Fold this in toward the middle “hamburgerbun style” so the short ends meet.

Repeat steps two-five for each wrapper. Once you have enough wrappers folded, you can start to create your jewelry! You can make a choker, bracelet, anklet, keychain, or even a belt!

Now it’s time to assemble! Hold the first folded wrapper in the middle where the two ends meet.

Take another folded wrapper, and insert each side into the corresponding part of the original wrapper. Push this all the way through. Continue doing this until your chain is long enough

Poke a safety pin through both ends of the chain to serve as the clasp and then you’re done!