How to Decorate a Christmas Tree with Candy

Using sweets to decorate during the holidays brings a child-like element to the season while filling the air with delicious scents. Gingerbread houses and candy canes bring this sugary motif alive; learn how to decorate your Christmas tree with candy and sweets. Does this Spark an idea?

Instructions

    • 1

      Hang candy canes and other peppermint pleasures from the branches of your tree for a sweet red and white effect.

    • 2

      String caramel corn, gum drops, caramels, dried candied fruit or other soft candies along a string to use as a garland about the tree.

    • 3

      Pin varieties of candies to a Styrofoam sphere, covering all sides of the ball. String an ornament hanger to the ball and have a three-dimensional candy ball.

    • 4

      Make popcorn balls and add a ribbon or string to make the crunchy balls into ornaments. The light color will contrast nicely with the dark tree.

    • 5

      Bake cookies. Gingerbread or shortbread cookies are ideal. Use cookie cutters to shape your cookies. Use the end of a pencil or pen to create a small hole at the top of each cookie before it bakes. You'll run a string through that hole and hang the confections from your tree. Use colorful, edible glitter icing to top off each cookie.

    • 6

      Use fine wire to attach giant colorful lollipops to your tree's branches.

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