The jelly bean is the traditional base for candy-filled Easter baskets. Parents typically use the inexpensive gummy bear for most treats and accent baskets with more expensive items like chocolate bunnies and malted eggs. Unfortunately, Easter comes only once a year. However, you can enjoy jelly beans all year long using these 10 great ideas!
1) Jelly Belly offers gourmet beans that are great for making wonderful favors for weddings, birthdays, and more. There are so many colors of jelly beans available that you’re sure to find some that will match your wedding colors, which isn’t necessarily true of, say, Jordan almonds.
2) Mix up some jelly beans and spice up your normal trail mix. The added sugar will give you an extra boost. It’s as easy as mixing up one part peanuts, pretzels and jelly beans.
3.) Use jelly beans to decorate iced cakes and cupcakes. Since there are countless colors, the decorating ideas are limitless. Plus, you can give your cupcakes a pop of color without having to deal with mixing icings and messy icing bags.
4) Adding red and green jelly beans to a popcorn garland will create an old-time effect on your Christmas tree. After the holiday season, you can eat your Christmas garland while putting away the decorations.
5) Jelly beans serve as colorful “tiles” and “rocks” for the roofs and chimneys of gingerbread houses.
Gummies can be used in many ways besides satisfying your taste buds.
6) Instead of poker chips, you can use jelly beans for penny poker. Colored jelly beans are great to work with, because you can assign values to colors (unlike matchsticks).
7) Are your bingo chips few and far between? Jelly beans make great placeholders for bingo squares as each number is called out.
8) Anyone would love to see jelly beans as a vase decoration. Place a vase inside a transparent one. While the inner vase will hold the flowers and water when complete, create a color-coordinated pattern between the two vases using jelly beans of various colors.
9) Jellies as a means of artistic expression! The glow beans have been used to build serious works of art. Watch your own creations unfold before your eyes. A foam core board can be used as a solid base on which you can glue the jelly beans to produce your artwork.
10) Most girls would love to have jelly bean bracelets strung with nylon string as party favors for their birthdays. Craft stores sell brooches at very reasonable prices.
Well there they are! These may be silly, but novel ways to use jelly beans. This candy can be purchased at any time by visiting various candy stores on the Internet, if you want to use them for your purposes.
