Christmas Mice with Candy Cane Tails

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Felt and glue are two of the best things to have on hand during Christmas time with your kids. I can’t even begin to count how many different ornaments and crafts we made up as kids to hang on our tree or give to friends using mostly those two simple supplies. It’s so important to let kids make gifts for friends because it really teaches them that the best gifts, the ones they should get excited about, come from the heart

These little mice are a great place to start with your kids. I know its difficult to find red and green felt this time of year so don’t worry about those colors, just think outside of the box. Why not make them in your favorite colors or school colors even? Think of your sports fan and how much they would enjoy a gift from your child in their favorite team colors!

Either way you go, you’ll have fun and your kid will be proud at the results. I’m including a template you can print off to trace onto your felt to make this a breeze. There ya go, excuses are gone and its time to get crafting with your younguns!

This is a fun little craft for kids and adults alike.

You’ll need: felt, little pom poms, googly eyes, scissors, glue, and the little template I’m using.

I am using Tacky glue but a glue gun and even good old school glue would work.

You really should print off the template if only to see what happens when you draw two shapes on a piece of paper, hand them to a mechanical engineer, and say “Can you make me a template of this in a pdf file so I can upload it to the website?”

~blinks~

Methinks he gets a bit technical!

(You can also click on that photo up there to print it and it will pop right up on your screen)

Cut out the mouse body and ear templates and trace them onto your felt. I like to use two different colors for ears and body but there isn’t a rule that says you have to!

Here is my little army of mice just waiting to be made.

All of my photos are a little off tint here because I did this tutorial indoors at night and because I haven’t a clue how to work photoshop or any other fancy schmancy program. And I’m cool with that…

Then cut two little slits for the ears to go through.

I have these marked on the template to give you an idea of where to put them and about how big they need to be.

Then you just slip the ears through the holes of the mouse.

Doing this creates a little pocket on the back that the candy cane slides through.

Then glue on little googly eyes and a pom pom nose to each one.

Katy Rose has been having fun gluing three eyes and two noses to some of hers. Let your kids have fun and create three eyed mice if they want!

It’s quicker if you just set up an assembly line, dotting little bits of glue for eyes and noses as you go along and then placing them.

Here are the little mice babies as they dry

Then turn all the little guys over and insert a little candy cane in the pocket the ears made.

They make  cute little set! Don’t forget to make some in your school colors!

You can hang them on the tree or use them as little favors.

These are great little gifts for your kids to make for their teachers and friends.

Print the template for making the mice by clicking here.

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It isn’t the size of the gift that matters,

but the size of the heart that gives it.

~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman

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  1. My daughter’s preschool made the cutest kleenex boxes covered with pictures that was a Mother’s Day present once. Even though she is much bigger now, I still keep that box and just refill the tissues.

  2. Last year my oldest son and I made white chocolate covered pretzels for his preschool teacher. The pretzels were shaped like Christmas trees, bells and snowflakes, so they were extra special. We used red and green sprinkles too.

  3. My 5 yo grandaughter loves the mice and wants to make them for her classmates!

    My favorite handmade gift is a box of handmade crocheted ornaments (stars, snowflakes bells etc) that my precious mamaw made us for the first year I was married. Thirty three Christmases (is that a word?!) they are still adorning our tree. I lost her in 1998 but her presence is still felt every year as we hang the ornaments on our tree.

  4. I love homemade ornaments my kids never do anything like that at school anymore, so every year we make something at home. I wonder if I cant edit your template a lil to make a deer. Mice scare me! lol

  5. Last night my cousin brought me early Christmas presents. One of them was a wood burning. She took the Christmas card from Mine and my husbands first Christmas together that had our photo on it and had a woman burn it into a piece od wood. It’s amazing!!!!

    1. Stephanie.. could you post a picture of it on the SP Facebook site, so I can figure out how they woodburned that card? I have some very special cards I’d like to do the same thing to & give to my sons. Thank you !!

  6. Those are so cute! My son made a neat ornament at Sunday school years ago using a dryer sheet, clothespin and a picture of his face. It was made to look like an angel. I still have it and love getting it out every year.

  7. Cute mice! My favorite handmade gift was a photo scrapbook I made for my mom
    and another for my dad for mothers / fathers day last year. It was especially memorable for me as she passed away earlier this year.
    I just love your website and the tips and humor! Have pointed my friends to it time and time again. Thanks for all you do ~

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