This is quite possibly my favorite project of the candy party. We were cleaning out a storage unit and came upon a big bucket of whiffle balls. The darling daughter wondered aloud, "If we paint them, won't they look like candy with polka-dots?" Why, yes. Yes, they would. Or...
I still had a string of Christmas lights hanging around, the cellophane wrap was a candy party staple already, and the solid color tissue paper was easy to come by. I was a little leery about wrapping tissue paper around the lights since some lights can generate quite a bit of heat. I plugged in my strand and left them on all day to see if this was the case. Nope! I was in luck! I had a string of stay-cool lights. (Probably paid extra for that little feature, and I was glad to have it!)
The string had 100 lights, but I only wanted to have six candy balls since they'd be taking up valuable tabletop space. I counted twenty lights from the plug and then shoved three lights, one at a time, into one of the whiffle ball holes. When I got those in, I skipped nine lights and then shoved three more lights into the next ball, and so on. Once they were all lighted, I wrapped each one in a piece of tissue secured with tape. The cellophane wrap is next, also secured with a little piece of clear tape. Curling ribbon on both sides of each ball completes the candy look. Fun!
Do you think the cellophane and tissue paper would do ok outside during the winter?
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