Category: Winter Crafts

These cute little candle coasters will help keep the wax off your tables and bring a warm, wintery scent into your house all at the same time. Use just a dab of hot glue to help hold the cinnamon sticks in place while you tie them with the twine or thread to make things easier.

Things you’ll need:
Cinnamon Sticks
Embroidery thread or bakers twine
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Scissors

Things to do:
1. Line the sticks up to create a tight, solid square. Add a dab of glue between each stick to hold them in place while you work.


2. Cut a length of twine or thread about six times the width of your coaster. Tie it tightly on the underside of one of the end sticks.
3. Weave it in and out of the sticks, about 1/2 and inch from the ends, until you have surrounded each stitch. Pull the thread tightly and tie off, also on the bottom. Repeat with the other side.

This wreath looks AND smells great and is perfect for the holiday season. Use any size jar ring that you have, larger rings make for a larger wreath, of course, as do longer cinnamon sticks.

Things you’ll need:
Cinnamon Sticks
Mason jar ring
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Twine

Things to do:
1. Heat up your glue gun. Set the ring so the flat side is up on your work surface.

2. Add a generous dollop of glue to the end of one of your cinnamon sticks and press onto the flat surface of the ring. Repeat three more times so that you have a stick at each quarter of the ring. This helps keep the sticks even all the way around.

3. Fill in the rest of the wreath by fitting in and gluing the sticks in the remaining space.

4. Once you have cinnamon sticks all the way around, add a second layer on top, settling the new stick into the groove between sticks on the first layer.

5. When the glue had dried on the second layer, add a loop of twine to hang the wreath from.