Have fun making this Felt mouse candy cane holder. This is an excellent Christmas craft that's fast, easy and makes a great ornament for anyone's tree.

What you'll need:

* 6 inch candy canes

* Red and/or Green felt, Pink felt

* small Wiggle eyes

* White yarn

(with silver laced through, optional, nice touch)

* Sewing needle with large eye for threading yarn

* Hot glue gun or white craft glue

* Scissors

* Plastic pink jupe or pipe cleaners for whiskers

(Jupe, or lanyard, is the flat plastic craft string that the children
use to make friendship bracelets.)

* Polyester stuffing

How to make it:

1. Cut two 3 inch pear shaptes from red/green felt. This is the mouse's body.
2. Cut two small circles
3. Cut two slightly smaller pink circles for ears
4. Place ovals together for sewing or gluing.
5. Using white yarn, sew a blanket stick around the ovals leaving a one inch opening at one end of the oval. (You can also glue together)
6. Stuff the oval pillow with polyester stuffing.
7. Stack small circle, pink on top, and glue approx 1/3 from other end
8. Glue two eyes at the other end of the oval.
9. Thread through two 3 inch pieces of pink jupe under the eyes, these are the whiskers.
10. At the open end, carefully place in the candy cane, this is the tail.

Tips:

Makes a great little gift for folks who just drop by during the holidays unexpected. Also great gift for groups of children i.e.: classmates, Scouts, etc.

• Scissors
• Pieces of light tan faux fur, each 24 by 13 inches
• 2 pieces of dark tan faux fur, each 24 by 13 inches
• Sheet of dark brown felt 9 by 12 inches
• Long sewing pins, Large-eye sewing needle
• Dark brown embroidery floss
• Clear tape
• 9 inches of tan twist cord.