My family, like many families, does a name exchange for Christmas. I love exchanging names, but I have a love/hate relationship with the price - $10! That's all we can spend on the gift. It is really hard to spend $10 and not give a really bad gift. Thanks to Pinterest, I decided to give the gift of alcohol. Who doesn't need alcohol during the holidays?
Below is the picture I used as my inspiration. If you type in "Reinbeers" as a search on Pinterest, there are many to choose from!
The supplies for this project are very simple. I purchased my brown pipe cleaners, wiggly eyes and jingle bells at Wal-Mart. I had a very tired toddler with me, so I really do not know how much this project cost. I do remember the pipe cleaners costing .77 cents because my husband laughed about them being cheaper than at the dollar store. (Long story short... I checked out the dollar stores and found items were not cheaper and I had little luck. Very rotten experience.) I did re-purpose the eyes and jingle bells for my next post, so I got two projects out of my supplies!
I simply tied the pipe cleaner around the beer bottle and cut the antlers to match in length. I took a few pipe cleaners and cut them to the same size to complete the points of the antlers. Again, I tied those on. This took no time at all!
And here is my finished product! I hot glued the eyes and bells on for noses. I used all red noses for the bottles so it looked consistent. I think the jingle bells add an extra layer of fun to the project. I think this took me maybe 15 minutes and that was with lots of help from my little guy. This idea would be perfect for a white elephant exchange!
And your cousin loved the result too. I have a picture we can post if you want with him holding them.
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