Plastic Candy Tree Decorations

Decorate your tree with pretty candy decorations made from melted beads.

Posted by Cat Morley

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You Will Need (7 things)

  • Mould
  • Tin Foil
  • Scissors
  • String
  • Clear Cellophane Wrap
  • Plastic Bead(s) (Clear & Solid)
  • Jewellery Wire

Steps (11 steps, 40 minutes)

  1. 1

    Before you start, you will need to find something appropriate to melt your beads in. I recommend metal cupcake baking trays, but for this I used oven-safe, rubber mini muffin moulds.

  2. 2

    Line your moulds with tinfoil so that you don't wreck them, this also gives the plastic a nice cracked-candy look.

  3. 3

    Fill each mould with coloured beads, so that the bottom surface is completely covered. I used a mixture of clear beads and solid beads to make different kinds of 'candy'.

  4. 4

    Melt down in the oven, set at it's highest heat. This should take about 30 minutes, but keep checking to make sure they don't burn.

  5. 5

    When the plastic has completely cooled, remove the tinfoil. You should be left with little, round, plastic plates.

  6. 6

    Cut a long rectangle of cellophane and two lengths of jewellery wire.

  7. 7

    Place a plastic candy in the center of the cellophane and wrap up.

  8. 8

    Twist either end of the cellophane, as you would do with real candy, and wrap the wire around to secure in place.

  9. 9

    Repeat this with the other side and cut off any unwanted cellophane from either side.

  10. 10

    Make a whole bunch of these.

  11. 11

    Attach a length of string to your candy and hang on your Christmas tree.