Easy Easter Candy Creations

by Michele Cheplic | More from this Blogger

28 Mar 2009 10:42 AM

What does the Easter Bunny stuff your kids' baskets with? My daughter typically scores mass amounts of chocolate, jellybeans and a farm's worth of Peeps. While candy is a staple in eggs and baskets around the holiday, it's also great Easter craft material.

The following simple candy crafts are ones my preschooler looks forward to making each Easter. They are an ideal way to keep kids busy for a couple hours, plus they are relatively inexpensive to make. The best part: The leftover candy can be stashed away for the bunny to use on Easter Sunday.

CANDY CRITTERS

Materials for Critters:

Multi-color pipe cleaners

Googly eyes

Feathers

Mini Butterfly wings (available in bags at craft stores)

Felt or foam sheets

Small bag of Hershey Kisses

Craft glue

Chocolate Kiss Butterfly

Directions:

Glue one pair of butterfly wings to the flat side of one of the Hershey kisses (this is the butterfly's body).

Bend a 2-inch piece of pipe cleaner in half and curl both ends.

Glue folded point to top end of butterfly's body.

Glue second kiss flat end to flat end with the other kiss, securing the wings and antennae between them.

Glue on googly eyes.

Chocolate Caterpillar

Directions:

Curl a 6-inch piece of pipe cleaner around a pencil. Glue one chocolate kiss to each end of the curled pipe cleaner.

Fold a 1-inch piece of pipe cleaner in half and glue to top of one chocolate to form antennae.

Cut two sets of feet from felt sheets and glue to bottom of each chocolate.

Glue on eyes.

CANDY EASTER CARDS

Materials:

Greeting Cards (use computer generated Easter cards, store bought, or have your kids make their own from construction paper scraps of ribbon, lace, doilies, markers, buttons, glitter, etc.)

Glue

Bag of Hershey Kisses or Hugs or other colorfully wrapped Easter candy

Directions:

Embellish cards by gluing on wrapped candies.

Examples: Candy-centered flowers, candy rainbows, candy-eyed animals, candy trees.

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Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism.

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