Cute Christmas Craft

My crafting ability is pretty much confined to words, but I always find it fascinating how people can come up with craft ideas from ordinary things. I appreciate art in most mediums that I can think of, yet the variety of crafts is amazing. Sure, I did the make stuff out of popsicle sticks when I was a kid (under careful instruction) and I guess everyone made animals with Styrofoam cups, but actually coming up with an idea of something is not my strength (nor is usually executing the craft, but that’s another issue).

When a friend of ours gave us this cute Candy Sleigh, it was easy to see how it was done and in looking at it, you think – well, sure, that makes sense. If, however, someone had given me four bags of candy and told me to create a sleigh from what I had, I doubt I would have figured it out. Part of that, of course, is because I am not a visual person. The individual who did these acknowledged that glue is an important component. In actuality, we have a hot glue gun that hubby wisely does not allow me to touch.

Anyway, back to this cute thing that uses a Kit Kat bar as the base of the sleigh, classic curved peppermint sticks as the runners, and stacked chocolate miniatures to complete the look. We’ll disassemble it at some point and devour the candy, but we do want to keep it intact for at least a little while.