My Friend, Tamona and I have come up with a brilliant plan! 
Y’all know I don’t cook much and that’s why Susan does my Tuesdays Tasty Tidbits. Well, so I thought about adding crafts, too – but, the only thing is I don’t craft, either!
You might be, at this point, asking what do I do?! lol I find deals for y’all!! That’s what I do!
So, anyway…Tamona is going to do Make Something Mondays for us here!
This week we are going to make a candy tree. This is great for a candy land type project for kids. You could do this exact same project with a snowman but a candy tree is probably the easiest candy land object. These make great centerpieces also. Let’s get started.
You will need:
- Styrofoam cone
- piece of a swimming noodle
- candy (suckers are great when dealing with styrofoam
- hot glue gun
- Large or different sucker aka lollipop
Hot glue your noodle piece as shown above to the bottom of the cone shaped Styrofoam. This gives your tree some height and makes it look like a real tree.
For the next step, I broke the sucker sticks so they would be somewhat short.
Next, put the suckers into the Styrofoam at an angle.
When you are done, make a topper or pop in a nice big sucker!
What are you making this Monday?
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Cindy says
This is cute. I think I will make this a project for the weekend and my daughter can take it to her class Christmas party!
Dian says
Cindy »
It is sooo cute & easy!
Thanks!
Dian
Tammie Renz says
When my children were little we made an “edible” Christmas tree; by that I mean the ornaments were edible. We strung popcorn and cranberries together with heavy thread or fishing line. In addition, snow flakes made of small colored marshmallows with toothpicks, same thing with gumdrops, and twisted pretzels hung by gingham ribbon. Starlight mints hot glued together to make more garland; I always made these because of the hot glue. Of course we hung candy canes. The edible decorations are endless.
I used a small tree, either live or fake and kept it in the kitchen. Now I will continue the tradition with my 2 1/2 year old grand daughter, and then her little sister, who is only 6 months, but as we know, they grow up REAL fast.
Dian says
Tammie Renz » What a precious idea and tradition! Thanks for sharing!
Dian
April says
Yay for this post!!! My girl scout troop is having a candy land Christmas party for a breast cancer start up foundation as well as themselves after. I’m going to look up all the ideas you just mentioned, thank you 🙂
Dian says
April » That’s great!!
DIan
Tamona says
I am so glad you guys love the tree. April you can do sooo much with candy. I love the candy land idea. Just imagine a candy train made of those swimming pool noodles. I love Styrofoam too because you can just get a template or print the image online and lay it on the Styrofoam and cut away. It makes everything so easy. This time of year just screams for candy and Styrofoam lol!
kristen t says
i have all this candy on hand in my house (halloween candy that was leftover, a huge bag of lollipops!) so all i need is the styrofoam and i will be making this as a decoration for my house!
Dian says
kristen t » Great! Sounds perfect!
Dian