This candy wreath is a fun holiday decoration and makes a tasty treat when it’s time to pull the decorations down — if it lasts that long! Making the wreath is pretty simple once you get the hang of wiring on the candy.
To make the candy wreath you will need:
- Heavy gauge wire
- Lighter florists wire
- About 21 ounces of wrapped candy
Make a circle with the heavy gauge wire, use two layers for extra strength, and bind together with the finer wire. I made a circle about 20cm across.
Wire each piece of wrapped candy individually onto the wire loop, pushing them together on the wire as you go along until the wreath is full.
Hot glue on a few extra candies to fill in the gaps if you need to.
Finish the wreath off with some curled ribbon or a holiday decoration and hang somewhere festive (and out of sunlight if it’s summertime!).
Cute! I might try this with peppermints 🙂
You can totally use a wire coat hanger to do this if you want to make a large one – you bend the wire into a circle and leave the hanging hook at the top and then you have a way to hang it from a door/nail!!
I’ve found in the past a wire coathanger isn’t strong enough – unless you wire two together – they gradually go oval shaped
Ha, with a wreath full of minties, here in NZ, it wouldn’t LAST long enough to go oval! 🙂
Love this! Did you poke the wire through the candy wrapper to secure each one? I can’t figure it out from the photos, but it’s quite possible I’m overlooking something.
The wire is just wound around the twisted paper at the end of the candy then wound around the wire to secure it in place
Ok, thanks. Then it’s easier to pull off without leaving a piece of the wrapper.
I had a teacher in 2nd grade who had one of these in the classroom. She would play Big Rock Candy Mountain and let us take a piece off if we got 100 on a big test.
I wish I’d had a teacher like that!
Um… MINTIES!!!
OMG Minties!!! Fantales would work equally as well too : )
I’m currently living in the states and just brought back two huge bags of Minties after a trip home, might surprise the other half with this next week.
Ah ha! It’s moments like these!