Lucky Wine Cork Gnomes

These lucky wine cork gnomes are a simple, festive way to use up extra corks and add a touch of handmade charm to your St. Patrick’s Day decor. They’re easy to make, fun to personalize, and sweet enough to gift.

Supplies

• Wine corks (here’s a link to buy on Amazon)
• Faux fur in orange or white
• Green scrap fabric or 2.5″ wide wire ribbon to make hats
• Ribbon or scrap fabric to wrap and decorate corks
• Shamrock buttons
• Beads for noses
• Twine to hang
• Scissors
• A sharp precision knife (X-Acto knife)
• Hot glue gun

How to Make Lucky Wine Cork Gnomes – 4 Easy Steps

STEP 1:

Start by hot gluing fabric or ribbon to cover your cork.

STEP 2:

Make a hat by cutting a scrap of fabric or wire ribbon about 2.5″ to 3″ wide and round as shown below.

You’ll also need to hot glue a loop of twine to the inside to hang your gnome. Hot-glue the twine ends along one of the straight sides. Then, hot-glue the edges together to finish the hat.

STEP 3:

Cut the faux fur beard. You only need a little scrap of fur. Cut a triangle about an inch wide along the wrong side of your fabric with the fur flowing downward.

Note: Do not use scissors to cut the beard because that will cut the long fur pieces along the edges which gives it a flowing beard look!

STEP 4:

Hot glue the beard onto the wine cork first, then the hat, then a bead for the nose. Sew (or hot glue) a shamrock button to the top of the hat for decoration (optional).

Looking for more ways to reuse wine corks? Explore these easy wine cork craft ideas.