Then I remembered the Christmas Candy Sleighs I made for the boys teachers 2 Christmas's ago - they were very easy to make and used double sided tape.
These were the ones I made for the teachers. They look pretty good and the teachers liked them.
Que me going shopping for sweets and chocolate to make them. £19.81 later I have everything I need to make a new demo version and enough sweets for 19 children to make sleighs - that work out at £1 per child - when you put it that way you cant really complain especially as 4 bar kit kats are 79p each in my local shop. The sweets were from b&m, home bargains and poundland, all in multi-packs.
Take 1 huge pile of sweets:
And split them to what you need - 1 kit kat, 2 twix bars, 2 maoam blocks, 1 orange segment, 1 choc santa and 2 candy canes:
And you are almost ready to make the sleighs. You also need 2 pieces of christmas ribbon and either double sided tape or sticky glue dots.
Step 1. Take out your kit kat and 2 twix bars. Place the Kit kat right way up on the table. Take 1 of the twix bars and a glue dot to each end on the back, then push down onto the back of your kit kat. Do the same for 2nd twix and stick infront of the 1st one. You can add a sticky dot between the 2 twix bars to keep them together.
Step 2. Place kit kat on the table. Take 1 of your 2 maoam bars, add a glue dot to each end of it on the back and stick on top of the twix bars. Do this for the 2nd maoam as well. You can add a glue dot between the 2 so they stay together.
Step 3. Place your kit kat on the table. Take your orange segment and put a glue dot on each end on the base. Stick this at the back on top of the maoam blocks.
Step 4. Take your Santa and place a glue dot on the base and 1 on the back about half way up. Place Santa infront of the bars on the kit kat.
Step 5. Take 1 of the candy canes, put a glue dot on the top near the straight end, a glue dot in the middle and a glue dot near the curve. Stick this to one side of the base of the kit kat. Do the same for the other candy cane. The curves need to be at the front near Santa.
Step 6. Take 1 piece of the Christmas ribbon. Place a glue dot in the middle of the kit kat on the base and place the middle of the ribbon on it. Take the ends up and over the sweet “parcels” and fix with a glue dot on the top.
Step 7. Take the other piece of the Christmas ribbon, tie both ends of the ribbon together in a knot. Place a glue dot just infront of Santa and fix the knotted it to it (leave the knot to flap about like reins). Take the rest of the ribbon under the front of the sleigh, stick to the glue dot from 1st ribbon if possible and bring up the back of the sweet “parcels” and fix on the glue dot on the top.
You now have a sleigh with reins.
Some websites say to make these with hot glue or super glue - i dont reccommend this as the glue melts the plastic wrappers of the sweets and ends up touching the sweets making them un-eatable. Therefore it is safer (especially if being done with children) to use double sided tape of sticky glue dots.
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