Santa & Reindeer Hot Cocoa Cones (Easy Holiday Craft & Gift Idea)
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Brighten someone’s day this holiday season with these festive Santa & Reindeer Hot Cocoa Cones! These also make adorable party favors and are a super easy craft to put together as most of the contents can be found at your local dollar store. To make things even easier, I’ve also included free gift tags with instructions that you can print out and attach.
Reindeer Hot Cocoa Cones
Supplies for each cone:
- 2 disposable piping bags
- a handful of mini marshmallows
- 2 hot chocolate packets (from the dollar store)
- 2 tablespoons chocolate chips
- 2 brown pipe cleaners
- 1 red craft pom
- 2 craft eyes
- mini rubber bands (rainbow loom bands work great!)
- hot glue gun with hot glue sticks
- scissors
- white cardstock
- hole punch for printable tags
- ribbon or twine
Instructions:
- Place hot chocolate inside the first disposable piping bag and tie off with a mini rubber band. Cut off excess plastic.
- Place this first bag inside of the second bag and pour in chocolate chips.
- Next, put in the marshmallows and tie that off with a rubber band.
- Place pipe cleaners around the top for antlers. Glue on eyes and nose. If desired, print out the free gift tag and attach it.
Santa Hot Cocoa Cones
Supplies for one cone:
- 1 disposable piping bag
- 1 disposable sandwich bag
- mini marshmallows
- 2 packets of hot chocolate mix
- 2 tablespoons crushed candy canes or crushed candy cane sticks
- 1 craft pom for the nose
- 1 craft pom for the top of the hat
- 2 craft eyes
- 2 mini rubber bands
Directions:
- Fill a disposable piping bag with a few inches of crushed candy canes.
- Place hot chocolate mix inside a small plastic sandwich bag, twist, and tie off with a mini rubber band. Cut off excess plastic.
- Place that bag inside the piping bag and stack mini marshmallows on top. Glue the eyes, nose, and top hat pom. Print and attach our free gift tag with instructions.
These are too cute! Thanks! 🙂
CUTE!!!
https://www.amazon.com/DayMark-IT115435-Hand-E-Grip-Disposable-Dispenser/dp/B00RWZIDQO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449866371&sr=8-1&keywords=disposable+piping+bags
Hope the link works! Cheap piping bags as Wilton can be expensive. Trying to figure out cost per cone gift. Great for mailman, ups drivers, healthcare workers, etc.
Does anyone know offhand how much hot cocoa 2 packets are? I was looking at the canisters since I would be making alot of these… TIA
There’s about 2 tablespoons per packet in Swiss Miss. They are 6 packets for $1 at dollar tree. Hope this helps. 😀
We used the canisters. They were cheaper
You can buy, well last year, you could buy a canister of Swiss miss for $10
These are adorable!
Thanks for stopping by!
Super cute!
Thanks Lindsey!
Cute and brilliant!!
Thanks for the reminder! I tried to make these a few years ago, but couldn’t find any piping bags without a logo on them. Might be time to try again 🙂
I got our bags on amazon.
I ordered these bags- and they do have the Wilton logo on them. I will make the logo side the back of the bag.
These are so cute!
Please help hip2savers!!! I’m planning on doing hot cocoa mason jars as wedding favors for my upcoming wedding and need hot cocoa mix in bulk as cheap as possible! Any ideas??
Sams Club sells the giant size Swiss Miss hot coco mix.
Thank you!
Search for cocoa recipes online. I know you can make it with cocoa powder, inst. milk & sugar but don’t know the measurements.
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Homemade Hot Cocoa Mix
This homemade hot cocoa mix recipe in a jar makes a great DIY Christmas gift idea plus there are free printable labels with mittens for winter. You can also make a big batch to serve at a party.
This homemade hot cocoa mix recipe in a jar makes a great DIY Christmas gift idea plus there are free printable labels with mittens for winter. You can also make a big batch to serve at a party.
Kenarry: Ideas for the Home
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Kenarry: Ideas for the Home
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Homemade hot cocoa recipe makes a great gift idea for friends, neighbors, and hostesses. This also includes free printable labels.
Ingredients
Gluten free
Baking & Spices
1 1/2 cups Cocoa powder, unsweetened
2 cups Powdered sugar
1/4 tsp Salt
1 cup Semi-sweet chocolate chips, mini
Drinks
1 cup Coffee creamer, non-dairy powdered
Dairy
2 cups Powdered milk, nonfat instant dry
Desserts
1 Marshmallows, Miniature
This is such a cute and great idea. Thanks so much Lina! This is perfect for my daughter to make for her aunts and grandmas. This will definitely make their day and I get to do a little craft with my daughter. It’s so perfect!!! Thank you very much for all your creative ideas and the time you take to share with the rest of us!!
You’re welcome and thanks for the sweet comment! 😀
My kids made the reindeers for the craft fair this past month. They made 75 of them and sold out :). Wish I could post a picture. With ours the nose was down at the bottom of the bag.
Wow how fun!
Thank you for this. I am making these for my 4th grade students (all 103 of them) and some for my son’s class. I was hoping you could have the tags read for one serving not two so I only have to use one package of cocoa mix and use milk not milk or water? I can’t budget 206 packets of cocoa mix as the directions say .Can you tell me how to adjust the writing directions on the cute tag? thank you!
I love these so cute definitely going to make for my friends
Just made these with my 2 and 4 year olds as Christmas gifts for extended family members at our holiday parties. They loved measuring and sampling all the ingredients. Too much fun! Thank you for the great idea. We always make gifts to exchange and this is perfect for little hands.
You’re welcome! How fun, enjoy.
Would the hot glue not melt the bag? Or would it be better to use super glue?
How far ahead of time could I make these for Christmas? I’m thinking the marshmallows are going to dry out fairly quick?
Can I just ask… how do you then use them to make the drink? Do you have to cut a hole in the bottom of the reindeers? Surely otherwise you have to remove the other ingredients from the bag.
They are cute though.
Sure I’d just do that 👍
This is such an awesome idea…looking forward to making them for my niece’s classmates this year.
Does this make one cup of hot chocolate or two? And do the chocolate chips have to melt? They look so fun to make with my kids’ help!!
Hi there,
What can I use if I have trouble getting hold of piping bags?
Hmm that would be the best option I have seen. Don’t forget to check any craft stores in the cake supplies too or online.
I’m guessing a clear freezer bag cut into a triangle could work?
Michael’s sales triangle treat bags 25 for $1.79. I just bought some today.
i used these too instead of piping bags because they were crystal clear and i thought would look better. the only problem is the crushed candy canes kept slitting the bags and break open
I made these with my 7th graders at school – they were a HUGE hit!! Thanks sooooooooo much for the cute idea!!!
OHHH YAY!! So fun! Thanks for telling us! Merry Christmas 🎄
Can you please tell me how far in advance can I make these for Christmas?