Easy DIY Candy Cane Holder!

This DIY Candy Cane Holder is very easy to make, and all the materials can be found at your local dollar store. With some beautiful, sparkly Christmas trees and some painted doweling, you can have a fun candy cane holder. Place them on the dessert table, mantel, or by your front door. They even make great teacher’s gifts!

This blog post may contain affiliate links. What does that mean? We may get a small commission if you make a purchase using our links, which helps us to keep posting new holiday content every week.

We got our Christmas trees and doweling at a Dollarama but a Dollar Tree would work just as well. Any Christmas decor can work if you can’t find the same trees, but keep in mind they need to be taller than a candy cane and wooden, so you can drill a hole to add the dowels.

What do you need to make a Candy Cane Holder?

• Wooden Christmas decor (we used trees attached to a wooden log base).
• Wooden dowels.
• Paint (red and white)
• Sealer (such as ModPodge)
• Pipe cleaners
• Drill
• Glue
• Accessories (optional)
• Candy canes

How to make a DIY Candy Cane Holder

• Measure your dowels and cut any excess length off. You want the horizontal bar to be high enough to lift and hold the candy canes.
• Paint the dowels. We decided to paint the dowels white adding a red swirl to the vertical ones, similar to a candy cane.
• Seal the dowels once the paint has dried.
• Drill a hole in the bottom of the wood holder, big enough for the red and white dowels to fit.
• Using the pipe cleaners, secure the vertical and horizontal dowels together (see photo below).
• Insert the dowels into the drilled holes in the Christmas tree base.
• Glue any accessories such as small buttons, jewels or glitter (optional)
• Add your candy canes!

Easy DIY Candy Cane Holder Tutorial

Paint the dowels. We decided to paint the dowels white adding a red swirl to the vertical ones, similar to a candy cane. Seal the dowels once the paint has dried.

Measure your dowels and cut any excess length off. You want the horizontal bar to be high enough to lift and hold the candy canes.

Drill a hole in the bottom of the wood holder, big enough for the red and white dowels to fit.

Using the pipe cleaners, secure the vertical and horizontal dowels together.

Insert the dowels into the drilled holes in the Christmas tree base.

Glue any accessories such as small buttons, jewels or glitter (optional)

Add your candy canes!

We hope you like this Easy DIY Candy Cane Holder as much as we do! If you’re looking for more Christmas crafts, recipes and decor, certainly check out our Christmas page!!