We love to give away edible party favors.
Besides the fact that consumable treats don’t fill our homes with disposable plastic doo-dads, it’s fun to make something together with children to give away. Sometime we make the treats before the party — like these chocolate lollipops — and sometimes we let our party guests make them at the party and then bring them home — like our favorite bon-bon cookies.
My son, Mark, has an Easter birthday, so for the past few years, we’ve made these jellybean carrots. That’s a lot of sugar, so I borrowed event planner Lorelee Lewis‘s idea and have been making them with also-fun cheese balls.
Jellybean Carrot Party Favors
- 1 cup of orange jellybeans (about 7.5 oz.) per carrot, or other orange snack
- 12-inch disposable icing bags
- 2 feet of green ribbon per carrot
Fill the icing bags with orange snacks or candies. (It takes about one cup of treats to fill a 12-inch decorating bag.)
Cut ribbon into 24-inch lengths and tie up the bags of treats.
We used apple green 3/8-inch grosgrain ribbon with Swiss dots, but you could also use green ric-rac ribbon (as shown in the Goldfish cracker example), or any other green ribbon you have lying around the house.
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I love the jellybean idea, I have seen people put M&M’s in containers like that but I never thought of doing it with jellybean! Thanks for the ideas! :)