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Home » Halloween Crafts » 44 Ways to use candy

44 Ways to use candy

October 29, 2014 By Jamie Dorobek Leave a Comment

The kiddos are about to go trick or treating and bring home, excuse my french, butt loads, of candy. What do you do with all of that candy? I remember the insane amounts of candy my brothers and sisters and I used to bring home when we were little kids. There is no way any family should eat 26 pounds of candy! I’ve rounded up 44 candy recipes and crafts that anyone can make with the Halloween candy surplus! Plus a few other fun things to do with leftover Halloween candy like send it to our troops, save it for ginger bread house making, or make business cards with it!

Tons of candy recipes and crafts

What to do with leftover Halloween candy?

Here are 17 ways to use extra Halloween candy to craft or in recipes.

1. Starburst wrapper bracelet

2. Make candy trees for Christmas

3. Save it for decorating ginger bread houses

4. Make a Thanksgiving advent calendar

5. Make candy trains as neighbor gifts for December 1st

6. Candy wrapper headbands

7. Make a candy card and send to Grandparents

What to do with leftover candy

8. Freeze it

You can add a few pieces of candy to milkshakes, ice cream, or cookies throughout the year!

9. Experiment

If you have the kids home for virtual school this one is perfect. Hypothesize which candies will sink and which ones will float and then test out the hypothesis!

10. Rice Krispie turkey treats

Use your leftover Halloween candy to decorate Rice Krispie treat turkeys for Thanksgiving! Twix or Reeses Peanut Butter cups make great basses for the turkey heads and a Twizzler cut into a few small pieces are perfect for the wattle.

Rice krispie treat turkeys

11. Oreo turkeys

12. Make a pinata and fill it with candy

13. Candy bar S’mores

Save some candy bars for S’mores all winter long. I’d recommend Reeses Peanut Butter Cups!

14. Hand out turkey toes to neighbors

15. Decorate a cake

Or cupcakes! Donate your homemade treat to a nursing home, police station, or fire station.

16. Make candy sushi

17. Make business cards

Candy recipes and crafts

Recipes that include candy

18. Peanut butter Snicker brownies

19. Trail Mix

20. Candy bar pie

21. Make mud pies

22. Applesauce with red hot candies

23. Candy corn no bake cookies

24. Snickers caramel apple salad

25. Biscoff Rolo popcorn

26. Deep fry a Snickers bar, because you can.

27. Make owl brownies

How to make owl brownies

28. Starburst infused vodka

What to do with leftover candy

29. Skittles vodka

12 other interesting ways to downsize your Halloween candy stash

30. Sell you candy to your dentist! Most dentist pay $1 per pound of candy that you bring in. If you live in the Austin area, here is a great resource of dentists who participate!

31. Send it to Operation Gratitude… This candy will get sent to our troops in care packages! How awesome is that?!

32. Add a chocolate (or 3) to your morning cup of jo!

33. Send some snail mail packages to college age kids in your family!

34. Send candy to Operation Shoebox. They also send care packages to our troops!

35. Use candy as BINGO pieces!

Candy recipes and crafts

36. Donate your wrapped Halloween candy to The Ronald McDonald House!

37. Use candy to teach little ones estimation, patterns, sorting, graphing, or word problems!

38. Host a candy eating contest!

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