When you’re getting ready for Halloween, sometimes you want to come up with fresh new ways of surprising your trick or treaters, other times you just want to use what you have to make new decorations. Whatever reason, you’re looking for a new way to use those pounds and pounds of Halloween candy and boy have I got a treat for you!
Here are some of the most fun and exciting ways to show off your candy crafting skills.
- Candy skewers are a great way to put a quick dessert together for guests are your Halloween party. Just add a few gummy skulls, worms and eyeballs or witches hats to a bamboo skewer.
- Candy pie is a fun way to top a plain chocolate cream pie for a community celebration. If you’re going to a big barn party, the kids will love your pie the best. Topped with Butterfingers or M&Ms, it’s sure to be a hit.
- Candy bark can be made before or after Halloween so that your guests get delicious treats in every bit of chocolately goodness.
- A candy topiary is a great entryway decoration. Here, trick or treaters can take candy from the decoration itself, or just see it tantalizing through the doorway.
- A candy wreath is a great edible decoration that you can put up on your front door if you’re headed out with your children to treat or treat. Just make sure to put up a sign that visitors can take a piece out of it.
- A cake made entirely out of wrapped candy may seem like a dream to many children, but if you are looking for ways to surprise your party-goers, this is a fun way to do it. You can hold the bars together by using ribbons and even scotch tape to build it into the perfect three-tiered cake.
- Candy bouquets are excellent party decorations. They can act like table centerpieces for your Halloween dinner party and then be taken apart for dessert.
Whatever you decide to do with your candy this Halloween, remember to have fun with it.
