Easy Christmas Crafts: Paper Basket Cone

This Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Basket Cone Ornament is very inexpensive and easy to do.

Many of these can be made using just a few simple steps and readily available materials.

These small Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Basket Cone Ornament are fun to make and to fill with a variety of goodies to hang on your tree.

Take a look at the simple yet pretty finished ornament.
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone finished hanging on tree
The ornament's finished size falls between 2.75 and 3.5 inches in height and width (not counting the hanging loop).

Easy Christmas Crafts: Paper Basket Cone Materials and Tools:

Paper - two pieces cut 2 inches by 6 inches. The paper can be the same or different colors. 
Yarn or ribbon - two pieces 10 inches long
Ruler    
Scissors  
Hole punch (optional, you can use point of the scissors to cut the holes) 
Treats to fill the cone (candy, nuts, small toys, etc.)
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone materials
Paper suggestions include construction paper, gift wrapping paper, craft paper, computer printer paper, paper bag, junk mail paper or other type of paper.

(Note: if using two different types of paper, they need to be the same weight and strength, otherwise the weaker paper may tear too easily as you weave them together.)

For an additional fun activity for children, have them color the paper before cutting it into the strips.

The Steps for How to Make the Easy Christmas Crafts: Paper Basket Cone:

Cut two pieces of paper 2 inches by 6 inches and two pieces of yarn (or ribbon) 10 inches long.

Fold the paper in half across the length. The new dimensions should be 2 inches by 3 inches.
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone fold paper in half
Starting at the folded edge, cut four 1/2 inch wide strips 2 1/8 inches long into each folded shape. Be careful not to cut longer than 2 1/8 inches.
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone cut strips from fold edge
Begin weaving the Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Basket Cone Ornament by inserting the first red folded strip into the first green folded strip.
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone insert red fold through green fold
Next, insert the adjacent green strip through the red strip making the red strip go around the green fold.
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone next insert green through red
Continue alternating the red and green strips around and through each other until the first red strip is completed.
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone end row with red around green
Follow similar steps for the second red strip except start with the red strip going around the first green strip.

When completed, the second strip alternates the weave pattern from the first. 
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone alternate second row
Begin the third row the same as the first with the next red strip inserted into the first green strip.
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone begin third row same as first
The fourth and final red strip of the Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Basket Cone Ornament becomes more challenging to weave.

Be careful not to tear the paper as you wrap the red strip around and insert it through the green strips.
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone last row more difficult to weave
With all four strips woven, your Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Basket Cone Ornament is almost complete.
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone finished weave
Cut a curve around the opening of the Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Basket Cone Ornament either free-hand or using a semi-circular template.

To make a paper template semi-circle, use a round object such as a can or a dish roughly four inches in diameter. 

Draw the edge on a scrap piece of paper and cut around the drawn edge.


Next, use the rounded template edge to cut around the opening of the basket.
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone cut curve around opening
With a hole punch or scissors, make a hole on each side of the Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Basket Cone Ornament for the yarn (or ribbon) hanging loop.
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone make holes for yarn
Insert one piece of the yarn cut 10 inches long on one side and the second piece on the other side.

Here, the red yarn goes into the green side and the green yarn into the red side.

Knot the yarn ends to complete the loop at the top of the Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Basket Cone Ornament.
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone insert yarn and make loop
Your Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Basket Cone Ornament can now be filled with treats - candy, nuts, small toys or other small treasures.
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone fill with treats
Once filled, the Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Basket Cone Ornament can be easily hung on the Christmas tree.
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone hang on tree
Take a look at another Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Basket Cone Ornament using scraps of gift wrap and shiny curling ribbon.
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone gift wrap version
Or how about a brown craft paper Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Basket Cone Ornament with red and green curling ribbon for the hanging loop.

(Note: cut the curling ribbon 24 inches long in order to have enough to curl.)
Easy Christmas Crafts paper basket cone craft paper version
The materials for this Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Basket Cone Ornament can be scraps or small bits of paper from other activities. This project is simple, fun, fast and inexpensive for anyone to do.

Have fun!

People of all ages can enjoy this Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Basket Cone Ornament.
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