Candy Garland

Make a garland from hard candy.  Strings of gold or peppermint, hundreds of tiny gifts hanging from your tree.  Merry Christmas!

Using double-twist wrapped hard candy, you can weld together the treats into a tasty decoration.  I used ~150 candies and made a garland more than 18 feet long (~6 m).  Although this worked well for a small tree, I suggest using 250 candies for a typical 6 foot tall tree.  I completed my shorter garland in about 30 minutes.

Step 1: Materials and Tools

Hard Candies  (~ 250 pieces) in double twist wrappers.

Choose a wrapped candy that will be attractive, some examples:

• Toffees in gold foils wrappers (used in this Instructable).
• Peppermints in clear wrappers.
• Christmas candies in red and green wrappers.

SAFETY EQUIPMENT :

Fan to remove fumes.
Bucket of water for potential burns.

FABRICATION EQUIPMENT :

Soldering Iron, preferably old / spare.
Coffee mug or soldering iron stand.
Shallow catch pail for the garland in progress.