Choose the colors, shapes, and sizes that suit the objects or animals you wish to create. Just remember to choose candies with a gummy consistency and to connect them by their sticky surfaces.
To make the candy caroler below, we used a chewy red-and-white column for the body, a sour gummy worm for the scarf, a gumdrop for the head, an uncoated gumdrop for the hat, and nonpareils for the eyes and mouth.
We used just six techniques to create all sorts of ornaments.
1. CUTTING: Use ordinary scissors to cut out chewing-gum ears. Snip licorice twists, which are hollow, to form candy beads. Cut thin strips of the twists lengthwise to make skinny antlers and legs.
2. SLICING: Use a plastic knife to slice through a gumdrop, exposing its stickiness so another candy (if its gummy, slice it, too) will adhere. When possible, apply sticky to sticky.
3. POKING: A toothpick is best for poking a little hole in candy before adding nonpareil eyes and mouth. The toothpick's tip will turn sticky- helpful when transporting the nonpareil. Use a clean toothpick to remove the nonpareil from the sticky toothpick.
4. COOKIE-CUTTER CUTTING: Use a cookie or aspic cutter to cut shapes from gum and sour tape.
5. SLITTING: To stick flat candies into a gumdrop for ears or leaves, make incisions in drop with a plastic knife and then insert the candy.
6. HANGING: Parents should help with wires. Insert wire (we used 24-gauge) through ornament, from top to bottom, until end pokes out. Using your fingers, or needle-nose pliers, bend the bottom at a right angle and clip off the extra with a nail clipper. Bend the top end into a hook. Let heavier ornaments set for three days before hanging; they will harden, tightening around the wires.
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