At home we are big M&Ms fans. What’s not to love about those little pearls of chocolatey goodness. As I shopped for groceries last week I was thrilled to discover the new holiday flavored gingerbread M&M’s, which are only available at Walmart. These are great for making gingerbread cookies, decorating your gingerbread house or just as a yummy sweet snack. I got inspired and decided to make some decorations using the gingerbread M&Ms.
M&M Topiary Centerpiece
I started off by creating a colorful topiary to use as a centerpiece. For the topiary you will need a foam ball, floral foam, glue dots, some red and green ribbon, a wooden dowel, a glue gun, gingerbread M&Ms and a square glass vase.
Step 1. Using the glue dots cover the foam ball with M&M’s.
Step 2. Wrap a wood dowel in green ribbon using a glue gun.
Ste 3. Secure a piece of floral foam in the center of the vase using the glue gun.
Step 4. Insert one end of the wooden dowel into the floral foam and the other end on the base of the foam ball.
Step 5. Fill the vase with M&Ms making sure to cover the floral foam completely so that it is no longer visible.
Step 6. Using the red ribbon tie a bow on the stem of your topiary.
M&M Tree Ornaments
The kids wanted to join in the fun so they helped me out by making some cute Christmas tree ornaments. For the tree ornaments you will need wooden popsicle sticks, crazy glue or wood glue, glitter pair, paint, jewels and gingerbread M&Ms and ribbon or thread for hanging them to the tree.
Step 1. Glue 4 wooden popsicle sticks together to make a snowflake.
Step 2. Once the glue has dried and the star is firm paint the snowflake any color you like. I used the silver glitter for mine.
Step 3. Once the paint is dry decorate with M&Ms, attach them to the popsicle sticks using the glue dots.
Step 4. Use the jewels to add some sparkle.
Step 5. Using the glue gun attach ribbon or string to the back of the ornament.
You can also check out the Life SoFab Magazine’s latest issue for great ideas to Taste the Season with Gingerbread.
Paula studied architecture and now makes a living as a freelance writer,traveler and amateur photographer.She started her writing & publishing career as the editor of Bebé y Mamá, the first parenting magazine in Guatemala.She is the founder of www.GrowingUpBilingual.com and www.365thingsswfl.com and writes articles in Spanish and English for both magazines and the web on travel,food and bicultural and bilingual parenting .
When she is not on a plane or road trip she likes to create recipes inspired in the flavors of her native Guatemala.
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These look pretty simple and fun. I know my daughters would love to make each of these – but the idea would be to use it as decoration and not to eat them first! Thanks for these – I will try them.
I so love gingerbread, any time of the year. I won’t be able to make these great crafts, though: I would eat them all before I could finish!
What a fab idea – its so effective as well – my only problem would be I would want to eat them! x
So clever of you to use glue dots to secure the M&Ms to your topiary. Your crafts are so pretty and festive. And like Sarah said above, those crafting with those gingerbread M&Ms is so tempting!
yummy cute
how cute though i may eat more then i decorate with
Such great ideas and I will be trying them with my two girls, thanks!
But now you can’t eat those M&M’s!! I mean, the crafts look great, love the colors. My favorite is the topiary M&M’s goodness.
THank you for sharing, I would love to do this to my kids.
Those are so cute, I think my youngest would disown me if I used glue on his M&M’s and he could not eat them though.
I would never get to do this with my kids! My boys would eat up all the bag before we can make the topiary! lol! But that’s very creative, would love to try that, then I guess I would have to make it alone. 🙂
This is such a cute project. How was it possible for you to get this done without munching away on all the M and Ms???????
Very great idea for this coming holidays, i don’t have Christmas center table but I am definitely going to consider that ideas…thanks for sharing.
That is so fun and creative! It is something that kids can help too that they would absolutely love. Hmmm.. my mouth’s watering. I want me some M&Ms and want to try some of the Gingerbread MMs. Christmas season is sure coming up.
I love doing crafts at all times of year but especially when it is cold and snowing outside, gives you a great outlet of creativity and the hours fly by while you are stuck in the house. These look great.
I love both of your craft ideas – how fun! The snowflakes would be so fun for kids to do too! #client
These are so pretty! Love the idea!
my son would enjoy making and eating that. LOL
That topiary is gorgeous! Think I might try to make one for Thanksgiving dinner! Wish me luck! Brandi from the Collective Bias team
Que linda idea ! Me encanta y como siempre tus fotos me fascinan, gracias