Theresa’s red-and-white holiday candy wreath

Making a candy wreath is an easy craft that’s fun for the family.

Wreaths are as old as the Romans, and while we don’t usually wear them on our heads any more, we still use them to celebrate.

And I may have started my own holiday wreath-making celebration-obsession this past Halloween. I used candy corn to create a candy wreath for our front door, and it delighted me every time I saw it. Well, until the temperature got unseasonably warm, and the little candy corns started to melt and leave pools of orange and yellow at my doorstep.

So, I shelved the candy wreath, removed all the surviving candy corn. And then started on my mission to create a Christmas wreath out of red-and-white mints. I used the same process, gluing each little candy to a black duct-tape covered cardboard cut-out. But, after I proudly hung my holiday wreath on our front door, it didn’t take long for the little candies to start falling off. The reason this time was the temperature, again. The temperature is too cold to keep the bond between the hot glue and the candy.

So, my candy wreath is living inside our unfinished mudroom, where I can see it when I come home through the mudroom, and while I’m in the living room and kitchen.

For my next holiday candy wreath (yes, Mark, there’s another candy wreath coming), I am planning to try an unconventional bonding material: Bondera. It’s really designed for tiling, but the artist in me just has to see if candy loves it.