Peppermint Candy Ornaments

You will love the simple beauty of Peppermint Candy Ornaments for kids to make this holiday season. These easy Christmas Craft Ornaments use this traditional holiday candy to make beautiful ornament crafts that are edible too. These Christmas ornaments for kids to make are perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students to make this December. So grab a handful of red and white or red, green, and white hard candy to make some pretty peppermint ornaments.

Peppermint Candy Ornaments

This simple Christmas Ornament Craft is one you can whip up in no time with just one ingredient – Peppermint candies! My kids loved filling our metal cookie cutters with these simple, easy to find mints and were AMAZED at the results we got. Make these peppermint ornaments with your toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1 elementary age kids for a fun, easy Christmas Craft for kids.

Christmas ornaments for kids to make

These DIY ornaments couldn’t be easier to make! Let me show you how to make peppermint candy ornaments. You can use either the red and white or the green, red, and white peppermint candies. Unwrap candies as you need them.

Peppermint Ornaments

On a parchment paper lined cookie sheet, I lightly greased the inside of several metal cookie cutters and pancake molds with butter. Then we put as many peppermint candies in each cookie cutter as fit. They will spread so don’t worry about the blank spaces.

Note: The pancake molds were the easiest to use as they had a nice handle that I could pull on to pop them out, but either work fine.

Candy ornaments

Cook the oven save cookie cutters/pancake molds filled with candy at 350 F for 5 minutes or so. Watch them carefully for the desired look. Remove from the oven and the them cool a minute or two so the candy starts to harden. Then carefully pull off cookie cutter. These peppermint Christmas ornaments are so pretty and can be made into so many different shapes!

Note: You can use a hot glue gun to attach an ornament hook, but if you prefer to make a hole, just poke a hole in the candy as soon as it comes out of the oven and continue to keep the hole open until the candy hardens. Now you can easily hang your peppermint candy Christmas ornaments. 

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