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For the last few years on my husband’s side we started the tradition of a white elephant gift exchange. Normally white elephant gifts are supposed to be tacky and sometimes even obscene, but we’ve all decided that we have enough crap lying around our homes that we’ll never use (and be too lazy to just throw out or take to Goodwill) so we play a completely different way!
We are given a limit of $20-$25 to spend on a GOOD gift that mostly anyone would like. Since we’re all married or are in a relationship usually the men buy a gift they’d think another man in the family would like and the women do the same. Actually, let me rephrase that…The women do the shopping for a gift that they think another man in the family would like and they buy another gift that they think another woman in the family would enjoy. To give the men of the family credit, the purchasing of said gifts is usually done with their money.
In past years I’ve done a AAA 42 Piece Emergency Road Assistance Kit
What is it?? Well, I’m glad you asked!! It’s a CANDY WREATH! Yep, a wreath made entirely out of candy. Swoon! Also included in the manly man gift package is a movie – one of my new favorites: “Saint Vincent”, and three mini bottles of alcohol (Jagermeister, Jim Beam Fire, and Jack Daniels). All for roughly $25!!
I had such a blast making the wreath and got a little too excited about the project to be honest. It was a lot quicker and easier to do than I initially thought which was a huge plus!
Christmas Candy Wreath: What You’ll Need
-14in foam wreath form
-3-4 bags of assorted candy
-LARGE bow
-Hot glue gun
-Strong enough willpower to not just eat all of the candy instead of gluing it to the wreath form (this one is very important)
I glued the bow down first and candy second just to make sure that I had enough room for the Christmas-y bow, which I felt really tied it all together nicely. The hardest part about this project is gluing the candy around the sides of the form. Be sure to not use too much hot glue because you don’t want to melt the chocolate, granted I’m sure a little melting is bound to happen, but try to keep it to a minimum. Even better: this project took me only about 30-45 minutes to complete! How great is that?!
View “Part II” of the series here!