These DIY cherry party cracker favors are wrapped in a band printed with a downloadable design celebrating the summery fruit. They don’t actually make a cracking noise, but they’re the same shape and full of fun treats. They’re an unexpected favor for birthday parties, bridal showers, graduation dinners, summer weddings, or any event that makes you think life is a bowl of cherries!
The fun favors are so easy to make with things you have around the house, like tissue paper and cardboard tubes. Toilet paper tubes work great, or you can cut a paper towel roll in half. If you’re making these as a project or group craft at a playdate, have everyone bring a tube. Or, if you’re making a larger number of crackers, you can order cardboard tubes here. Wrap one in white tissue paper, leaving the ends, fill it with small treats—foil wrapped candies, stickers, temporary tattoos, jokes, or whatever you like—and tie the ends closed. Then cover the body with cheery cherry paper you DIY by printing our cherry design onto cardstock.
Put one party cracker on each plate at a party—write names on top and they double as place cards! Or, line them up on a table as to-go favors. However you use them, they’re the cherry on top of a good time!
For more fun DIY ideas for a cherry party, click here.
What You’ll Need
- Downloadable Cherry Pattern Template
- White Cardstock or Paper
- Scissors
- Toilet Paper roll (If you need more than you have saved, you can buy cardboard craft tubes)
- Candy, stickers, or other small favors
- White Tissue Paper
- Tape (regular and double stick if possible)
- White Baker’s Twine (or string, ribbons, dental floss—anything you can tie)
How-To
Step One: Download Cherry Pattern Template, print onto paper or cardstock and cut along the lines.
Step Two: Cut tissue paper so that it extends three inches past the tube on either side.
Step Three: Wrap tube in tissue—leaving the ends in long “tails.”
Step Four: Seal one end of the tissue with tape.
Step Five: Fill tube with treats, pouring them into the open end. Then, tape that tail shut too.
Step Six: Attach the cherry-printed cardstock or paper to the body of the tube using doublestick tape.
Step Seven: Tie both tails with twine to secure.
