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Christmas holidays
November 8, 2019

Christmas Tree Suckers {easy Christmas treat}

In today’s post: Turn a sucker into a Christmas tree for a cute holiday treat.

My kids like to give small gifts to their friends at Christmas time, but they have pretty small budgets. So they’re usually tempted to buy their friends a cheap trinket. As a mom, I’m trying not to collect (or give) any more cheap trinkets that clutter the house for a few weeks before they get trashed. A small edible treat seems like a better idea!

Christmas tree suckers are an easy Christmas treat for sharing with friends! Prepackaged Christmas treat.

Christmas Tree Suckers

Older kids could make these Christmas treats on their own, and younger kids that have good scissor skills could help you make them.

Now, each sucker only takes a few minutes to make, but I probably wouldn’t want to make an entire classroom’s worth of these. I mean, you certainly could, but that would be a lot of cutting and I for one would get really bored trying to make 30 of these in one go. But this would be a fun project to make 5 or 6 of with your child for his or her good friends.

Tootsie pop sucker sitting upside down, with stick covered with strips of green paper to resemble Christmas tree

One more note – in my photos you see the suckers standing up. Some of the Tootsie Pops in my bag stood up great on their own while others didn’t. If you want your finished trees to stand up, test your suckers first to see which ones to use.

Christmas Tree Sucker Supplies

Here’s what you need to make Christmas Tree Tootsie Pops:

How to make Christmas tree sucker: supplies

Tootsie Pops

Green paper (not heavy paper like cardstock, just colored printer weight paper)

Scissors

Adhesive runner

Narrow red ribbon (if you don’t want to mess with tying bows, you could glue a pom pom on top instead)

How to make Christmas Tree Suckers VIDEO

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Instructions

Step 1: Cut a green piece of paper in half lengthwise (you only need one half for each tree). Fold the paper in half lengthwise again.

Step 2: Cut the long side of the paper (NOT THE FOLDED SIDE) at an angle, so it’s smaller on one side than the other.

How to make Christmas tree sucker: cut paper

Step 3: Fringe the long side of the paper that you just angled. I cut my fringes about 1/8 inch wide.

How to make Christmas tree sucker: fringe paper

Step 4: Use a pencil to curl up the fringed part of the paper.

How to make Christmas tree sucker: curl paper fringe

Step 5: Turn the paper over and run an adhesive runner all the way down the folded edge (this is NOT the side that you curled up).

How to make Christmas tree sucker: add adhesive

Step 6: Starting at the wide end, adhere the folded end of the paper to the sucker stick, wrapping it around and up the stick. Fluff up the “branches” if needed.

How to make Christmas tree sucker: wrap paper around sucker stick

How to make Christmas tree sucker: fluff up paper branches

Step 7: Tie a bow at the top of the sucker stick with narrow ribbon. (Tying small bows can be a hassle, so you could glue a pom pom or star on top of the stick instead.)

Christmas tree suckers are an easy Christmas treat for sharing with friends! Prepackaged Christmas treat.

Look for more Christmas fun for kids? Visit these posts:

Christmas Juice Treats

Photo Snow Globe Craft for kids

Toilet Paper Snowmen

25 Christmas Treats to make with kids

 

Christmas tree suckers are an easy Christmas treat for sharing with friends! Prepackaged Christmas treat.

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  1. Starr says

    November 17, 2019 at 9:08 am

    Cute idea! How do the trees stand up straight? I can’t imagine how the suckers would stand up on the end.

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  2. shareit says

    November 22, 2020 at 1:30 am

    ank you so much for this. I was into this issue and tired to tinker around to check if its possible but couldnt get it done. Now that i have seen the way you did it, thanks guys
    with
    regards

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