| How to Make 'Traditional' Lolly Baskets | |||
 1. Cut the bottom off a milk carton leaving about 4-5 cm of the sides to make the base. Edges are 7 cms. |
 2. Make a handle 1.5 cms wide by about 20 cms long of card. |
 3. Staple the strip of card inside each side to make a handle. |
 4. Cut 5 cm and 2.5 cm wide strips across a whole package of crepe paper. |
 5. Gather the strips by pushing the crepe towards the needle to make the gathering or you could pleat it in the same way. |
 6. Cut off enough of the frill to go all the way around a base. |
 7. Stick on the frills with a small amount of glue. Take care because the colour in crepe paper runs. |
 8. Decorate further, if desired, with extra frills or stick on scraps or stars and fill with home made lollies. |
| How to Make Tulip Lolly Baskets | |||
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1. Cut the bottom off a milk carton leaving about 4-5 cm sides to make the base. The edges are 7 cms each. |
2. Make a handle 1.5 cms wide by about 20 cms long out of card. |
3. Staple the strip of card on to make a handle. |
 4. Cut 10 cm wide piece across a whole package of crepe paper. Measure out 84 cms of this piece and cut down 5 cms of the height at 7 cm intervals. |
 5.Roll the cut edges of the crepe firmly around a knitting needle in a diagonal
direction to form petals. |
 6. Squeeze the crepe paper on the needle towards the centre to give a crinkly effect . |
 7. Wrap the length of curled paper around the base, securing it with a small dab of craft glue |
 8. Decorate further, if desired, with stick on stars or ribbon and fill with home made lollies. |
Scraps were lovely little shiny Victorian style
pictures which you could buy by the sheet, and still can. The pictures were joined together by links but you cut them off and used the pictures for
decorating books and craft projects or you could just collect them for themselves and put them in 'scrap' books. My favourites were flowers
further decorated with glitter along the edges. (Google images: Victorian scraps)
Here is a word document with some good lollies to put in the baskets. Beware of cooking with sugar-It is VERY HOT
In the 1950s, most milk still came in bottles not in the square prism paks we have in 2013, which I have used for the lolly baskets, and we didn't have personal staplers. The bases of lolly baskets were originally made from card.
Page created 9-10-2008, updated 2-4-2013