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Candy Cane Lollipops — Winter Indoor Activity for Kids

January 2, 2015 by Janice

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This is Janice here with a fun, simple craft to use up those extra candy canes while keeping your kids busy on a cold winter day.

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Your kids have torn through all their Christmas gifts, they have clocked enough hours of Minecraft to last the entire New Year, and you still have a few more days until school starts again…

The after Christmas season might be my favorite time of the holidays – the rush is over, the fridge is stuffed, and my kids are so tuckered out they sleep in every day.

But, at some point in the day, my kids get a little bored, (or I decide that responsible parenting probably dictates turning off their Netflix and video games,) and I need some fun activities to keep them busy.

My kids love to cook and be creative in the kitchen. They love to “make” their own recipes and if it involves sugar, then they are all the more excited.

Before Christmas, my seven year old daughter Olivia and I spent hours on Pinterest, looking at all the fun Christmas crafts and recipes. We pinned on a couple of my personal boards, Christmas and Christmas Crafts. I also started a Pinterest board for Livvie to pin Christmas crafts and recipes she wanted us to make together. Olivia loves candy canes and so was very excited by all of the candy cane recipe ideas.

Candy Cane crafts

So, we melted some white chocolate, grabbed some candy canes and pretzels, and started having some sweet fun.

Candy Cane crafts

We dipped pretzels and sprinkled sprinkles, we stuffed marshmallows on candy canes and dressed them up in chocolate, and we made candy cane hearts and little candy cane lollipops by filling with melted chocolate.

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Candy Cane crafts

Candy Cane crafts

For our lollipops, we simply positioned our candy canes onto lollipop sticks and poured on melted white chocolate to form the lollipops.

To melt our chocolate, I prefer to use a double boiler rather than microwaving. I find it difficult to monitor the melting in the microwave and have had to throw out a bowl of white chocolate when it started to burn in the microwave.

If you don’t have a double boiler, no worries. Simply position a heat safe bowl on top of a pot of water on the stove and bring the water to a gentle boil. Don’t allow the bowl to touch the water and stir the chocolate until melted.

If you want to form your lollipop hearts into a better heart shape, One Little Project and Sprinkle Some Sunshine! suggest you pop the candy canes and sticks in the oven for 3 minutes to soften the candy canes so you can mold them into heart shapes. Unfortunately, I read those after we made ours. But I think ours are still pretty cute and they tasted fabulous.

Candy Cane crafts and recipes for kids

Candy Cane crafts and recipes for kids

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Written and photographed by Janice Croze, co-founder of 5 Minutes for Mom.

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4 Comments

  1. Lynda Hardy says

    January 4, 2015 at 1:01 pm

    These are adorable! I’d like it so much if you’d share this post with our Awesome Life Friday Link Up. http://rchreviews.blogspot.com/2015/01/awesome-life-friday-no-1.html

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  2. Jennifer Sikora says

    January 2, 2015 at 10:17 am

    5 stars
    Those are SUPER cute and would make adorable Valentine craft and decorations. I learned the trick to melting chocolate in the microwave this year. I used to always burn it too. Instead of doing at 20-30 second times, I moved it down to 10 seconds and take it out and stir it every single time. The minute that the chips start to melt, I stop sticking it in there and just stir it like crazy. The heat from the other melted chips melts the other chips and it doesn’t burn!

    Hope you guys had a Merry Christmas

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    • Janice says

      January 3, 2015 at 11:59 pm

      Thanks Jennifer! Great tip about the microwaving. I just find it easier to do it on the stove – I hate having to check it every ten seconds. lol

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