Remember when I said I was posting Mexican food today? Yeah, just in case you couldn’t tell from the title, this isn’t Mexican food. It’s Friday. I’m tired. It’s been a long week filled with those “Aw, crap, I’m a grown-up now” moments (believe me, when I was 18 and told my parents I couldn’t wait to move out, applying for a new sewer tap was not #1 on my list of things I envisioned myself doing). I am highly motivated by sugar, cuteness, and easy food-related crafts and de-motivated by marinating pork loins and cutting up whole pineapples. I’m a promise-breaker, what can I say?
In case you didn’t know, unless I’m struck by magic craft lightning, I glean pretty much all of my crafty ideas from other people. That’s okay as long as I fully acknowledge that fact, right? I saw these little St. Patrick’s Day rainbows here at Maple Memories and decided to make some of my own. My kids thing they’re pretty dang awesome, even if (okay, especially that) they contain about 10 days worth of sugar in one little package.
You’ll need Rolos, Rainbow Twizzlers, crafty cellophane treat bags, and green ribbon.
I also made some “clouds” out of cotton candy,
but because I live in a freaking unventilated shower stall, unspeakable things started happening to my cotton candy. They were cute while they lasted. They didn’t last for very long.
The awesome thing about the Rainbow Twizzlers 
(and Twizzlers is not paying me with money or Twizzlers for saying this) is that they are actually in equal amounts of rainbow colors–like you really do get your red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, and violet
(which was a tough pill to swallow for a girl who grew up thinking the rainbow colors were red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue). And, because you have equal numbers, you can make a whole bunch of your own little complete rainbows.
So…these are super tricky. Totally my kind of craftiness. Now…you can use cotton candy here if you want, either as a little cloud at the bottom of the rainbow, or as a backdrop for your rainbow. Then take a handful or Rolos and pop them into a cellophane treat bag. With the bag laying flat, fold the purple piece of licorice into a rainbow shape and slip it into the bag. Repeat with the blue, green, yellow, orange, red pieces of licorice, making your rainbow.
Tie the bag with a piece of green ribbon…
and voila! Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In 15 days!
If you want to make these extra cute, check out some of these rainbow printables that you could cut out and tie onto the bags (some of them may need to be re-sized):
Simple as That
It Is What It Is
The Swell Life
Happy March! Happy spring (I know it’s technically not spring, but March is spring in my book)! Have a great weekend!
Questions & Reviews
My mom used to sing that song to me all the time. Sometimes I think about that song and could never remember all the words. Thanks for the link and the trip down memory lane.
Adorable! So So cute 🙂
Oh my goodness! Crack me up with the rainbow song! I grew up in Utah, but live in Idaho and started to wonder if I made up a lot of my childhood memories because no one here knew what I was talking about. Thanks for a little validation. Love this craft/snack idea
Adorable idea!!!
I am making these for my cheerleading squad they are soooo cute!!!
Kindergarteners are going to love these!!
Picked up what I needed to make these! If you live in Texas HEB has these twizzlers on sale for $1.50 a bag.
I would like to send you a recipe to taste test…I just put it together today. Actually embellished on one that I stumbled across….I think it turned out really good and am making your garlic sticks to serve with it tonight.
I live in Savannah, GA and St. Patty’s Day is a BIG HUGE deal down here. Being a non-drinker myself but definitely a sugar indulger, these will be a perfect way to celebrate. 🙂
I teach preschool and this is the perfect little St. Patty’s Day treat to send home with them! Soooo stinkin cute!
Too cute! I’m going to share your blog out with my peeps.
Wynn
What a super cute idea! 🙂
Love this idea! Super, super cute!!!
This is driving me nuts. Do rainbow twizzlers really only come in six colors?! It’s the first thing my 3 year old noticed while reading this with me.
I’m pretty sure they’re not going to make the distinction between purple, indigo, and blue and are striking for a happy medium somewhere. 🙂
I learned the rainbow song when I was little and I have never met anyone else who knew it!
Oh and for a less sugar-laden treat, we used food color to dye milk and “painted” a rainbow on toasted bread last St. Patrick’s Day.
Just had to laugh about your comment about thinking the colors of the rainbow were that… made me think of the song from Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. I had to add, though, that you are missing blue in your list – it’s ROY G. BIV – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
These are so cute! I am thinking of using them as favors for a Willy Wonka party, and maybe taking them to my son’s kindergarten class for St. Patty’s Day too! 🙂
Quote: “but because I live in a freaking unventilated shower stall, unspeakable things started happening to my cotton candy.”
Though I live nowhere near you, we must have had the same builder 😉
Great idea!!! Simple, adorable and my children love Twizzlers so that is just topping of the cake! Thanks for the idea!
So very cute!
how many finished bags were you able to make with only buying 1 bag of twizzlers?
I’m not 100% sure–there were lots of little fingers sneaking pieces of licorice along the way and I don’t have the bags anymore. 🙂 I’m thinking about 6.
One thing you could do, especially for kids, is cut the licorice in 1/2–that’s still PLENTY of sugar, haha!
5. There are 30 pieces of Twizzlers and 6 different colors.
These are too cute! I’m a teacher, so I’m frequently looking for sweet (but super cheap and easy) crafts to make for my kiddos. I just might have the guts to try this! Thanks for the idea!
These are great. My kids love St. Patrick’s Day! Weird, I know. We try to catch a Leprechaun in a trap we made a few years ago. So for a week or so before St. Paddy’s Day the Leprechauns are always doing naughty things like dying our milk green (which ends up really grossing me out to drink). On the actual day they decorate our house with green stuff and usually leave something in the trap or near it. I did something similar to your rainbows a couple years ago, but had the licorice going into two mini pots of gold candy (I also like the use of Rolo or Werthers or something, the coins are just too gross for me!). I like this idea of having it in a bag, especially because we’ll be out of town this year. My kids were so disappointed about that! Anyway, I’m sure you wanted to know all about our St. Patrick’s Day traditions! Haha!
Great assortment of candy!
Awesome. Bonus is both candies are peanut free and on the Peanut and Tree-Nut free candy list! Perfect for peanut free schools.
My wife teaches 4 and 5 year old in Sunday School. She usually makes layered jello for the creation story, now she may resort to twisslers for the rainbow.
I love, love,love these. Where can I find the colored licorice? I am having a St. Partrick’s Day party and these will be awesome favors.. Thanks.
I just get it in the candy section of grocery stores, but if you’re having a hard time finding it there, you can buy it in bulk on Amazon.
Love this!!!!! Thanks for this idea.
These are so cute, to give as gifts! I love it!