Candy Crafts and Games for Kids’ Parties

Children’s parties run more smoothly with a mix of making and playing. The Sugar Shop’s party menu, as archived, offered a list of candy-themed activities suited to different ages. Here is a summary, which also works as inspiration for parties at home.

Candy crafts

• Sugar cookie decorating (ages 2 and up). Decorate a jumbo sugar cookie with frosting and sweets to make an animal, a funny face or anything you like.
• Candy airplane (ages 4 and up). Assemble a plane from candy and decorate the wings with stickers and markers.
• Candy Lego (ages 4 and up). Build with candy bricks, then eat the result.
• Candy jewellery (ages 5 and up). Design a necklace with your chosen colours and wear it home, unless it gets eaten first.
• Sugar art (ages 5 and up). Fill tubes with layers of coloured sugar and candy to make sweet sand art.
• Lollipop butterfly (ages 4 and up). Use a lollipop as the body and add cut-out wings, stickers and marker details.

Candy games

• Pin the gummy bear (ages 2 and up). A sweet version of pin the tail on the donkey, where players pin clothes and costumes on a gummy bear.
• Candy colouring page (ages 2 and up). Crayons and markers on a themed sheet.
• Licorice limbo (ages 3 and up). The familiar limbo game with a candy twist.
• Sweet shop bingo (ages 4 and up). Instead of numbers, the caller names sweets.
• Freeze dance (ages 3 and up). Dance until the music stops, then freeze.
• Bubble blowing contest (ages 5 and up). See who can blow the biggest bubble.
• Jelly bean tasting contest (ages 5 and up). Guess the flavours of different jelly beans.
• Candy hunt (ages 7 and up). A scavenger hunt in which riddles lead to hidden sweets.

Choosing activities

Mix a quiet craft with an active game, match the activities to the youngest guest’s age and keep allergies in mind. See also the party packages that these activities belonged to, and the home page for more on the shop.