The boy is always up for helping with my crazy ideas...this year I decided the naked tree in the front yard needed some sparkle so I made peppermint candy to hang in the tree. These were easy to make, and cheap and at night when they are lit up (with green and red spot lights) they will look very festive! Here's what you need:
One package of these dry insulation styrofoam panels (available from Home Depot for about $9), it comes with 6 pieces of foam which gave me 18 circles (3 circles per piece.) Trace the circles, cut out using a sharp knife, saw or what works really great is an electric knife - slick as a whistle!
Don't worry about the edges being a bit wobbly - they won't show. Along with the foam you will need a can of red spray paint, cellophane wrapping, red ribbon and wire.
Out of craft paper or cardboard - whatever you have handy - cut a template to put over the foam circles so you can spray and have a nice edge. I used the template for about half of the circles I sprayed and then I got tired of it so I just used the spray and was able to get them to come out pretty good! At first I thought these might look a bit like swastikas so I added another line of paint...
This pic is without the extra line of red paint - but they are all sprayed and ready to be wrapped with cellophane!
Sorry, blurry pic but I wanted you to see the extra line of paint I added - made them much more candy-like I think. Oh, just so you know...when I used the spray paint close to the foam the paint actually "ate away" at the foam! So keep it a bit back!
I mentioned the boy is always up for helping - actually anything that makes the mister more of a Grinch he is all for...so this was right up his alley! We do like torturing the mister at Christmas with as much Christmasing as we can! We had a break in the clouds so it was the perfect time to hang the candy, which we did by wrapping wire around one end of the cellophane and wiring to the tree branch.
These were the last of the Christmas decorations so now we are done and ready for Santa...who has already arrived and is looking out my living room window! Time for the Whobilation to begin!
