How to make a gift-wrapped tube for holiday baking
Present your freshly baked treats in this cute treat tube. It's the perfect wintertime craft for little ones.

Photo: Ryan Szulc
Cute craft for homemade treats
Great for gifting homemade crackers
For a great gift, whip up our Cheddar and Thyme Coins and recruit your kids to help decorate a festive treat tube.

Supplies
Here’s what you’ll need:
paper towel or toilet paper roll, bark-patterned, paper, scissors, spray glue, X-acto knife, twig, bird, ornament with clip, pine cone, glitter, Cellophane

Step 1
If using paper towel roll, cut in half. Cut out a 15-cm x 10-cm piece of paper. Spray roll with glue; wrap in paper.

Step 2
Poke a hole with X-acto knife on each side of roll, about 2 cm from bottom. Push twig through holes and clip bird on.

Ta-da!
Spray pine cone with glue; sprinkle on glitter. Wrap coins in Cellophane; seal with tape. Place in roll; top with pine cone.
Add a special printable gift tag.

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How to make easy decorated mason jars
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