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!
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. Candy wrapper light switches
4. Save it for decorating ginger bread houses
5. Make a November advent calendar
8. Make a candy card and send to Grandparents
9. Make and hand out butterflies
10. Candy wrapper pencil cube
12. Oreo turkeys
13. Make a pinata and fill it with candy!
14. Hand out turkey toes to neighbors
15. Decorate a cake (and bring it to a nursing home, police station, or fire station!)
16. Make candy sushi
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18. Peanut butter Snicker brownies
19. Chex 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
26. Deep fry a Snickers bar, because you can.
28. Make 2 ingredient cookies!
31. Skittles vodka
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32. 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!
33. Send it to Operation Gratitude… This candy will get sent to our troops in care packages! How awesome is that?!
34. Freeze it! You can add a few pieces of candy to milkshakes, ice cream, or cookies throughout the year!
35. Add a chocolate (or 3) to your morning cup of jo!
36. Bring it to your office and share!
37. Send some snail mail packages to college age kids in your family!
38. Send candy to Operation Shoebox. They also send care packages to our troops!
39. Use candy as BINGO pieces!
40. Save some to make s’mores all winter long! A Resses Peanut Butter Cup makes a s’more magical. True.
41. Donate your wrapped Halloween candy to The Ronald McDonald House!
42. Use candy to teach little ones estimation, patterns, sorting, graphing, or word problems!
43. Do sink versus float test with your candy!
44. Host a candy eating contest!
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