How to Make Christmas Candy Wreaths

Peppermint Christmas candy wreaths are great crafts to make and eat. You can create a melted peppermint candy wreath or use unopened hard peppermint candies for this project. Here's how to make a Christmas candy wreath.

Things You'll Need

• Peppermint candies
• Aluminum pie tin
• Cookie sheet
• Ribbon

Instructions

1. Pre-heat the oven to 250 degrees.

2. Open a bag of hard, round Christmas peppermint candies and open each individual candy piece.

3. Lay the candies around the edge of a pie tin. Make sure that the pieces are about a 1/2 inch from the edge of the tin and that all the pieces touch each other. Put the pie tin onto a cookie sheet.

4. Place the cookie sheet in the oven for 3 to 5 minutes. Watch the candy as it heats. As soon as the candies melt together, remove the tin from the oven.

5. Allow the wreath to cool for 15 minutes.

6. Use a spatula to remove the cooled candy wreath from the pie tin.

7. Tie a bow with ribbon onto the wreath and a piece of ribbon around the top of the wreath to hang it for decoration.

Tips & Warnings

• Use different colors of peppermint candies and alternate the colors if you choose to make it multicolored.

• You can make smaller wreaths in your pie tin and use them as Christmas ornaments.

• You can also make a wreath without melting the candies. Make a circle with a coat hanger by twisting the ends with needle nose pliers. Tie a piece of ribbon around a piece of peppermint candy and tie the ribbon onto your wreath. Keep doing this until you have a full wreath of candy.

• Children should be accompanied by an adult when making this craft.

Resources

• Mail Santa Claus
• Christmas Recipes