Indian Corn Thanksgiving Favors
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Make Indian Corn Thanksgiving favors with this step-by-step tutorial. Stamp the tags with words of Thanksgiving or guests’ names for place cards!
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It is November – yay! I can hardly wait for Thanksgiving! It is one of my favorite holidays though it tends to get overlooked sandwiched between Halloween and Christmas.
The delicious roast turkey, tasty herb stuffing, pumpkin pie, turkey gravy, I love the entire feast! I especially love getting creative when with Thanksgiving crafts and new treat recipes like our Mayflower munch or these adorable Indian corn party favors.
I for one love watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, splurging on a great breakfast and then heading to the kitchen to cook with my mom and the boys. Since we are heading out to my mom’s house for dinner this year, I thought it would be fun to bring these Indian Corn Thanksgiving party favors with me.
Aren’t they cute? I can just see these waiting by the door to greet your guests before dinner or a parting gift for them to take with them for the drive home. If you stamp the tags with your dinner guests’ names, they are the perfect place cards for your Thanksgiving table!
Supplies
- Autumn Sixlets – I’m a big sixlet fan but you could also use Indian Corn Candy Corn or Harvest/Fall colored M&Ms or Reese’s pieces
- Pretzel bags
- Kraft wrapping paper – you can also use tissue paper, brown paper lunch bags, or grocery bags
- Scissors – these are my favorite crafting scissors of all time! They are super sharp and have a really fine, sharp tip for cutting in small, tight spaces
- Twine
- Kraft paper tags, alphabet stamps and ink pad – this is a great deal for a set of alphabet stamps (I use them ALL the time!)
Step by step
- Fill each pretzel bag about half way full of Fall Sixlets – each favor has about 1/2 cup of Sixlets but you can adjust this as needed. The pretzel bags are longer and thinner than regular cello bags.
- Use a small length of twine to tie the bag closed and cut off most of the excess bag. Leave about 1-2 inches so the twine doesn’t slip off.
- Cut a 5 x 5-inch square from your kraft wrapping paper. Crumble it into a ball and flatten it back out several times. This will be the corn husk and crumpling it gives it a more realistic look.
- Using your scissors, cut long strips into the kraft paper and stop about 1 1/2 inches from the bottom of the kraft paper square.
- Wrap the kraft paper ‘husk’ around the top of the bag where you tied it closed with twine. The paper husk will wrap around several times.
- Use another piece of twine to tie the husk on. You want this twine long enough to tie and knot the husk on and also to attach the tag, so give yourself a little extra length. Tie the husk on tightly and make a small knot. (You could also try hot glue, but I just stuck with twine.)
- Stamp words of Thanksgiving on each kraft tag: thankful, bounty, gratitude, etc. If you are using these for place cards, stamp your guests’ name on the tags. Tie the tag on and trim any excess twine.
I really love the colors, the simplicity and you know how much I love stamped kraft tags. I can’t wait to surprise our family with these Indian Corn Thanksgiving gifts!
You’re bringing them with you? Jumping up and down, hand over mouth making Indian sounds – woo woo woo!!! Turning cartwheels in the living room. Then silently walking to get a cup of tea with a smile on my face.
These would be cute with those cone shaped bags also!
Wow!! What a great idea!!
That is SOOO cute! Sixlets have the perfect colors for this!
That’s great getting all that candy to distribute for holidays. Smart idea using candy the way you figured it out. Such an adorable way to give them out with the corn husks on bag. You are so talented. Love this idea and pinning. Happy week and seasons
This is such a cute idea! Adding to my “Thanksgiving” pinterest board! Visiting from the HomeWork link party.
Ohhhh this is so adorable!!! What a cute & creative idea!!! Love it!
These are all kinds of perfect!
Such a great idea! Fingers crossed that the bag of Sixlets I have open on my craft desk last until Thanksgiving for me to make these!
Super cute, Keri!!
<3 Christina
Dang girl! You come up with the best ideas. These are adorbs!
Oh my goodness! These are absolutely darling! That’s some fun happy mail! Pinning! I’d love for you to share this at my Creative Ways Link Party if you get a chance. It is live on Wednesdays at 8pm central. Hope to see you there!
Blessings,
Nici
Very cute idea! Found your creation on Wednesday Whatsits and pinned! Thanks for sharing!
So Cute!
Love these favors! Pinned. Those Sixlets are absolutely perfect for fall!
Love this idea and sooo cute. I think it’s one the Chazman and I will make and take with us to visit my sister and her family. My youngest niece will love it!!! (if I can keep the Chazman from eating them before then…hehe)
Featured you at Project Inspire{d}… thanks for sharing! xo
Those are seriously so adorable!!! I love Sixlets…they always have such fun colors for cute projects like this!!!
Oh my gosh … your guests would be so pleased to receive these cute favours. What a great idea. So fun!
LOVE these Thanksgiving treats!! found you on Take a look Tuesday and will be following your great ideas. I’m going to try reeses pieces too! Here’s my latest craft for the kids. http://satsumadesigns.com/diy-kids-birthday-wrapping-paper/ best, jen
These are so adorable!
So cute!! I’m hosting a link party on Saturdays- please stop by and link up! It’s at 8 PM called “Found & Foraged.” Hope to see you there! Laura
These are great and so easy to make – just what we need when things are hectic – an easy, clever, colorful party favor. Putting them in a basket with some raffia will give it that “fresh from the farm” look to decorate your table before the turkey arrives, or, as you suggested, have one by each place setting with the guest’s name.
Found you on Jill’s Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons.
Tavette – S. Florida
I love your idea! Definitely using this Thanksgiving season. How many individual corns does one package of Sixlets make?
How much candy do you need for one pretzel bag? I’m going to do this for an entire class and not sure how much candy to order. Also, what is the size of the pretzel bag? Thanks.
Hi! Can you tell me how many bags you were able to make and how much sixlets candy you used? Do you think a 5lb bag of candy would make 40 corn favors?
Thanks
Love these! Made them last night but with fall M&Ms I’d bought. They look just as cute!
Super cute! Although I think a better name for this would be ”Thanksgiving Corn.” “Indian” isn’t the right term for indigenous people.
“Indian Corn” is one of the correct names for ornamental corn. I don’t think the corn finds this name offensive.
I am just wondering how many treat bags could you fill out of 1 bag of sixlets? Thanks!!
Hi Julie – I used about 1/2 cup of the Sixlets to fill each pretzel bag, so it will just depend on what size bag of Sixlets you purchase. You can also use harvest colored M&Ms or Indian Corn Candy corn as well. Happy crafting and thanks so much for stopping by Shaken Together!
So with a 2 pound bag of candy how many bags would that make?
Thank you for this idea! Just made these with fall M&Ms and candy corn (discounted after Halloween sale) and added name tags so they will double as placecards at our Thanksgiving table. Thanks again.
These came out really cute BUT if you drop them they WILL explode.
Are you SERIOSULY using the term Indian. Indians are people from India