When I was 12 years old, my grandmother taught me how to make gum wrapper chains. It’s easy to do: you fold a candy wrapper into a rectangle with two flaps, fold it across the center, and thread another of the same through it. Do this enough times and you end up with a zigzag-shaped garland. I worked on it all the time, folding new sections from a bag of brightly colored wrappers saved for me by family and friends. By winter it was maybe 10 feet long, and we put it on the Christmas tree. My parents hung it on the tree every year after that, until the paper weakened from age and it separated into several pieces. I still have a section of it, packed away deep in a storage unit.
Holiday Traditions
Holiday Traditions
Holiday Traditions
When I was 12 years old, my grandmother taught me how to make gum wrapper chains. It’s easy to do: you fold a candy wrapper into a rectangle with two flaps, fold it across the center, and thread another of the same through it. Do this enough times and you end up with a zigzag-shaped garland. I worked on it all the time, folding new sections from a bag of brightly colored wrappers saved for me by family and friends. By winter it was maybe 10 feet long, and we put it on the Christmas tree. My parents hung it on the tree every year after that, until the paper weakened from age and it separated into several pieces. I still have a section of it, packed away deep in a storage unit.