The jelly bean is the traditional base for Easter baskets filled with candies. It's typical for parents to utilize the economical jelly bean for the bulk of the goodies, and to accent the baskets with the more expensive items like chocolate bunnies and malted eggs. Alas, Easter comes but once a year. However, you can enjoy jelly beans all year long by utilizing these 10 great ideas!
1) Jelly Belly offers gourmet beans that are great for making wonderful party favors at weddings, birthdays, and more. There are so many colors of jelly beans available that you are sure to find some that will go with the wedding colors, which isn't necessarily true for, let’s say, Jordan almonds.
2) Toss in some jelly beans and perk up your normal trail mix. The added sugar will give you an additional boost. It's as easy as mixing one part each of peanuts, pretzels, and jelly beans.
3.) Use jelly beans to decorate frosted cakes and cupcakes. Since there are myriad colors, the decorating ideas are limitless. Plus, you can give your cupcakes a little color boost with out having to deal with mixing frostings and messy frosting bags.
4) Adding red and green jelly beans to a popcorn garland will create an old time effect for your Christmas tree. After the holiday season, you can eat your holiday garland as you pack away the decorations.
5) Jelly beans serve as colorful "roof tiles" and "stones" for ginger bread houses' roofs and fireplaces.
Jelly beans can be used in many ways in addition to satisfying your taste buds.
6) Instead of poker chips, you can use jelly beans for penny ante poker. Colored jelly beans are great to work with, because you can assign values to colors (unlike with matchsticks).
7) Are your bingo chips few and far between? Jelly beans are great place markers for bingo squares, as each number is called out.
8) Anyone would love to see jelly beans as decoration for a flower vase. Nest one flower vase inside of another clear one. While the inner vase will hold the flowers and water when complete, build a color coordinated pattern between the two vases using various colored jelly beans.
9) Jelly beans as a medium of artistic expression! Bright beans have been used to construct serious artwork. Watch your own creations unfold before your eyes. A foam core board can be used as a sturdy base that you can glue the jelly beans upon to produce your work of art.
10) Most little girls would love to have jelly bean bracelets strung with nylon thread as party favors for their birthdays. Craft stores sell clasps at very reasonable prices.
Well, there they are! These can be goofy, but novel ways to use jelly beans. This candy can be bought at any time by visiting various candy stores on the internet, if you wish to utilize them for your purposes.
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