FUN CHRISTMAS MAKE: DIY CHRISTMAS COCKTAIL GIFTS
Cute cocktail picks are great DIY Christmas cocktail gifts
Cocktail picks — for appetizers or cocktails — are so easy and fun to make. My daughter and I spent an afternoon making all kinds of picks as DIY Christmas cocktail gifts, using new and vintage items. We also used the same things to make wine stoppers. Keep reading for directions, supplies, tips and inspiration.
What we used for DIY Christmas cocktail gifts
Over the years, I’ve collected all kinds of miniature Christmas knick knacks from garage and estate sales. People often used these to make ornaments or other crafts. New items work great, too, and are easy to find at dollar and craft stores.
Supplies for DIY Christmas cocktail gifts
Here’s what you’ll need for these DIY cocktail picks:
1. For picks: Wooden skewers of various sizes. I really loved these with the red balls at the end.
2. For wine stoppers: Wine corks for craft supplies, like these
3. Miniature Christmas knick knacks and ornaments. We used miniature trees, vintage ornaments and toys and teeny tiny deer.
4. Wooden disks, 1 inch in diameter, like these.
5. Craft glue, like Aleene’s Tacky Glue.
6. Other items you might want to use: cotton balls (for snow), Christmas colored beads or wooden beads.
HOW TO MAKE DIY CHRISTMAS COCKTAIL GIFTS:
Here’s how to make these fun Christmas cocktail picks:
1. For some items, you can glue them directly to your wooden cocktail skewer or wine stopper. If you need to, first glue a wooden disk to the skewer or wine stopper and then glue your item on top of the disk.
2. For the tiny reindeer picks or stoppers: Glue a wooden disk to one of the cocktail sticks with a ball on top. Glue a small amount of cotton ball to the disk, and then glue the teeny tiny reindeer on that.
For the Pomegranate Moscow Mule recipe, go here.
