3 Taffy Food Craft Project To Do With Kids
The hardness and flexibility of taffy candy make the treat unique to work with. Instead of just eating your favorite flavors of taffy, you can plan out some fun food projects to do with kids.
Each project explores creativity, fun themes, and new family traditions.
1. Taffy People
Whether the candy is in or out of its package, you can easily stack the taffy up into groups of three. With a look similar to a snowman, children have a lot of creative freedom when making taffy people.
Children can use a marker on the outside of taffy wrappers to draw faces, clothes, and other details. Add mini-chocolate chips or cake frosting on unwrapped taffy to create edible decorations.
Children who make multiple taffy people can create a taffy family or a whole community.
2. Taffy Flowers
The colorful pastel look of taffy is ideal for making edible flowers. Use lollipop sticks, sugar sticks, or licorice as the stem for flowers.
Select a piece of green taffy for the center of the flower. Add colored pieces of taffy around the stem to form the petals. Every child can pick their favorite colors.
Create a rainbow theme, a patterned theme with alternate colors, or a single color. A large order of taffy will give you a lot of color options to select from.
After the flowers are finished, place all the flowers together and take some unique overhead pictures of the flowers.
3. Taffy Ice Cream
Children can enjoy the unique flavors of taffy in more ways than just the candy. If you reduce the taffy down, you and your children can mix the flavors into other treats. One option is flavored ice cream.
Place multiple pieces of taffy into a non-stick saucepan. Cook the pieces on low heat until the sugar melts down and forms a liquid. Let the liquid cool so the ice cream doesn't melt too quickly.
Mix the liquid into a plain ice cream flavor like vanilla or chocolate. Mix thoroughly, until you have no more excess liquid. You could add some extra taffy pieces to the ice cream as a fun topping.
Ideally, when you melt down the taffy, stick to one flavor at a time so the flavors do not mix. Each flavor would only take a couple of minutes to reduce down.
Try out all the different food ideas and choose which one the family likes the best. The more taffy you have, the more you can play around with different ideas.