10 Ideas for leftover Halloween candy

Now that Halloween is over do you find there is more candy in your home than one child could possibly eat? If so, I've come up with a few ideas on what to do with all that candy! 

1) Save some to use as stocking stuffers 

2) Save things like smarties and sweet tarts to use during the holidays to decorate gingerbread houses and cookies.
3) Add M&M's to a batch of sugar cookies
4) Add chopped up peanut butter cups to a batch of fudge brownies
5) Make an advent calender for the holidays. Each day, a different piece of candy.
6) Stick a fun size bar on every gift you give.
7) Bring it to your local fire/police station.
8) Participate in the Halloween Candy Buy Back (click here for more details)
9) Use any plain chocolate (think Hershey's bars) as a substitute for chocolate chips in your baking.
10) Check out Candy Experiments to find fun experiments to do with leftovers!

Halloween!

I planned on doing many crafts/activities for Halloween, and I was going to share all the great links I have found for projects and my own experience trying them out. But I've been dealing with a sinus infection for the past month! Yuck! The second round of antibiotics seems to be working and the steroidal nasal spray I use is also helpful. Sadly I've been in no mood to do crafts. Most things I did with my kids were store bought kits. Not very creative. Anyway, I still wanted to share some of the neat things I found in the blog-o-sphere. 

Super Easy Pumpkins from

While He Was Napping

Bottle Cap Coasters from

Just Drops in the Bucket

 

Glitter Pumpkins from

Everything I Love and More

 

The Changing Jack O Lantern from 

Ramblings of a Crazy Women

 

Witches' Hats from

Betty Crocker 

(ok, not a blog, but these look really cute and I've seen them on peoples blog)