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What to do with all that Halloween Candy!

11/04/14 | Desserts and Treats, Fall, Halloween, Kids, Kids Crafts and Coloring, Recipes

I’m so happy Halloween is over. I am the Scrooge of Halloween. I really don’t care for it at all, but my kids love it, so I put on a happy face and go with it. But now that Halloween is over, I have one problem. All that candy sitting around my house. What to do with it? I can’t just let my kids pig out on it, I would feel like I was failing as a mother 😉 So I googled ideas and want to share with  you my favorites. Enjoy!

What to do with all that Halloween candy

1. These Candy Bar Cookies from Just Add Sprinkles look amazing! Whip some up for a pot luck and watch that candy fly out the door!

 2. Save it for a month and then use it to decorate Ginger Bread Houses.

Do Candy Science Experiments.

 3. Donate it to Operation Gratitude.

 

4. Make Halloween Candy Bark from Just a Taste.

5. Make an Advent Calendar Countdown to Thanksgiving from Alpha Mom.

6. Make Butterfinger Popcorn (or any other candy bar popcorn for that matter) from Six Sisters Stuff.

7. And these chocolate Candy bar cookies just looked too good to pass up! From Pip & Ebby.

Have fun with your kids with these ideas and involve them. That way they won’t suspect that you are trying to use up their candy 🙂

~Annette

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  1. Deborah @ mommycrusader says

    November 4, 2014 at 11:24 pm

    There are some fantastic ideas here, that’s for sure. Thanks for getting them all together in one place! 🙂 I particularly enjoyed the Thanksgiving advent calendar. Thanks for the post! 🙂

    Reply
  2. SpinninJenny says

    August 3, 2015 at 11:41 pm

    The day after Halloween, I let my kids eat all the candy they wanted for that one day (this was after we screened it to be sure it was safe). Then while they were at school (Hee-Hee), I sorted all their candy into types, chocolates, gum, lollypops, hard candies (Jolly Ranchers, Life Savers, etc.), and caramels. These were stored in zip lock bags and given out sparingly over the next several months. They didn’t always like all of the candy they received, or got tired of it after a couple of weeks. The remainder of the candy we used to decorate gingerbread houses, and tiny graham cracker houses. Decorating the gingerbread houses can get expensive and this saved me lots of money. This way I didn’t have to buy a whole bag of one type of candy just to use a few pieces for the gingerbread houses. AND my kids didn’t OD on sugar!!!

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    • tipsfromamom says

      August 4, 2015 at 3:08 pm

      Great ideas SpinninJenny!

      Reply

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