Candy Christmas Trees

These Candy Christmas Trees are so much fun to make and super easy too! It’s a great craft project and lots of alternatives if you are making them with the kids! You can use frosting instead of a glue gun or leave the wrappers on if you want it to be an edible centerpiece! I went the glue gun route for easy and fast assembly, so if you do it this way be sure to keep out of reach of small children and pets.

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You can purchase almost everything you need from the Dollar Tree or from Amazon. I bought most of the candy from Dollar Tree and a few of the smaller cones and ice cream cones from Dollar Tree, the rest I purchased from Amazon (affiliate links below)

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You will need:

For the Craft Candy Cones

Craft foam cones

Starlight mint candies

Gumdrops

Sour Belt Streamers in assorted colors

Glue Gun

Wooden Star Stickers (from Dollar Tree)

Unwrap candy.  Starting from the bottom of the cone, place a line of glue with the glue gun going horizontally around the side of the cone and immediately place a piece of candy on top of the glue. 

Repeat the steps until the entire cone is covered in candy.

Place  a wooden star sticker or a piece of candy on top of the tree

Cut candy streamers into about 2″ strips

Fold over and glue ends together

Overlap and glue the candy to the cone.

For the Sugar Ice Cream Christmas Tree Cones

You will need:

Sugar Ice Cream Cones

Cookie Icing (you can also use white frosting with a piping tip) store bought or you can get my royal icing and buttercream icing recipes here and here.

Assorted Icing decorations, candy and sprinkles

Pipe little dots of icing around the bottom and middle of the cone and attach the sprinkles, candy, and icing decorations with the icing.

Decorate with more little dots of icing or your own designs!

These Candy Christmas Trees make the perfect backdrop for my Easy Graham Cracker Gingerbread Houses! Click here for my easy directions!