Merry and Bright DIY Felt Christmas Candy Door Decor

Christmas door decor in bright and festive colors will leave visions of sugarplums dancing in your head with this DIY felt candy theme.

“Elf” is one of my favorite Christmas movies and I love how he decorates the store overnight with paper chains and snowflakes. Simple Christmas decorations are always fun so I put together decorations for a colorful Christmas porch from felt and hot glue.

I started with my DIY rainbow wreath, which is easy to make and looks fantastic on its own. I’ve left it up all year and just added seasonal decor around it. You can make my rainbow wreath or start with any colorful wreath that you love.

I made some felt candy and a gingerbread man to attach to the wreath, plus a felt chain garland. And I finished off the look by painting some wooden snowflakes to hang.

The whole thing is super simple and you can easily DIY this Christmas candy door decor in a day.

How to make door decor

Supplies

• scissors
• ruler
• cutting mat (optional but handy)
• hot glue gun and glue sticks
• Christmas felt in red, white, and green
• other felt to match your color scheme – I used blue and yellow
• brown felt for the gingerbread man
• red pipe cleaner chenille stems
• 2-inch wooden snowflakes
• Patio paint in blue jay
• nylon jewelry thread (fishing line should also work)
• Command outdoor light clips

Make the Christmas candy

To make both kinds of candy, start by cutting the felt into strips that are 1×8 inches. Each piece of candy needs 3 strips in different colors.

I made 6 pieces of candy – 4 of the round ones and 2 ribbon ones – so I used 18 felt strips altogether.

To make the round candy, stack 3 strips of felt together and roll tightly. You’ll see that as they roll, the inside squishes out a bit. You can offset that by rolling the inside layers once before each additional layer. Alternatively, just trim off the excess at the end. I did a little of both.

After you trim the inside layers back, add a line of hot glue and fold the outside layer over.

Next cut a pair of 1×2 inch rectangles from scrap felt. Fold the felt in a W shape along the longer end and hot glue them to opposite sides of the candy roll.

To make the ribbon candy, start with 3 pieces of felt and fold them in a zig-zag pattern, adjusting the width until all the sections are about the same size.

Put dots of hot glue between each big section, and then between every layer on the ends, so that it holds its shape.

Finally, you need a way to attach the candy to your wreath. Cut a piece of pipe cleaner in half, then fold one of those pieces in half. Stick the folded end into the center of the candy. Bend the legs as needed to attach the candy to the wreath.

Do this for both kinds of candy and arrange them around the wreath until everything looks balanced. You can make as many or as few pieces of candy as you like, and you could even make some felt candy for other decorations, like ornaments or garland.

To make the gingerbread man, I folded a piece of brown felt in half and roughly cut out the shape. I unfolded the piece and trimmed a few bits so it looked even, then used the first gingerbread outline to make a second one.

I used pipe cleaner pieces to make a sort of skeleton and hot glued that to the center of one piece. Then I layered the second one on top and ran hot glue all around to seal in the skeleton. The pipe cleaner makes him flexible so that he can hold onto my wreath!

Make felt garland

I wanted my felt garland to look like the paper chains that I made as a kid, so this is super simple. Mostly it’s a lot of cutting and gluing!

My felt garland has a total of 63 links, but you can make your longer or shorter. That sounds like a lot, but I was able to cut them out a few at a time, so it went quickly. Cut each felt piece to be 2×8 inches.

Next, fold one piece into a ring and glue it closed with about a 1/4 inch overlap. Slide each piece into the ring and glue, repeating until you’ve used all of your felt pieces and your garland is the length you want.

Make hanging snowflakes

To make the snowflakes, I laid them out on newspaper and painted them all blue on one side. After about an hour they were fully dry, so I flipped them over and painted the other sides. They only needed one coat.

Cut the jewelry thread into 18 or 24-inch lengths. Tie the snowflakes along the thread and tie one end to a Command clip.

Colorful Christmas candy porch

Peel and stick the backings, then stick the snowflakes to the porch ceiling. Space out the hanging strands along the porch. I also put up 2 Command clips to hold the felt garland.

Use the pipe cleaner to stick all the felt candies into the wreath and wedge the gingerbread man into place.

I found the candy canes at Dollar Tree. They’re acrylic or something really sturdy. I stuck a few in a planter and lined the rest along the sidewalk to compliment my Christmas door decor.

To finish the porch, I dragged a table around from my back patio and set up a 3-foot tree, then decorated it with some metal outdoor ornaments I already had.

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