Candy Corn Crafts for Preschoolers

Home Decor

• Create a candy corn luminary by first painting an entire glass jar with cream-colored acrylic paint. Allow to dry, then paint three-layered candy corns on it. Tie a piece of taffeta around the mouth of the jar and insert a tea light candle or battery-operated flameless candle for preschool safety.

  Purchase a small floral foam wreath, glue candy corns all over it and hang it with a piece of ribbon threaded through the wreath and tied in a decorative bow.

Edible

• Poke a flat toothpick into the wide end of a piece of candy corn and press it into one side of a small apple to make a turkey feather. Repeat the toothpick candy corn feathers and add between 10 and 20 more on the apple. Poke another toothpick onto a small marshmallow and press it into the front of the apple appearing as the turkey face. Adhere one more candy corn to the marshmallow with a dab of peanut butter.

  Make an edible candy corn necklace by pressing a dull sewing needle and thread through the large end of the candy. Tie the thread ends together in a knot.

Paper

• Instruct preschoolers to cut one large yellow triangle, one medium white triangle and one small orange triangle. Teacher-made templates are an appropriate idea for those who are not yet savvy with shapes or scissors. The teacher staples all three triangles together in the shape of a candy corn and the children decorate each colorful layer with hand-drawn images of fall or Halloween. Cut out the letter "C" from a piece of white construction paper and instruct the students to color the top third orange, leave the middle third white and color the bottom third yellow because "C" is for candy corn.

Gifts

• Lay two wooden craft sticks parallel to each other on your work surface and glue two more, connecting the ends of the parallel sticks to make a picture frame. Glue candy corns onto the frame and adhere a photo of each student on the back of the frame so that the image is visible from the front.

  Chinese restaurant take-out containers can be purchased at a discount store and covered in candy corn stickers as a gift box for a bag of candy corn.