Make Candy Pacifiers
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When it is time to plan a baby shower, every detail is important. Even little things like the favors you use during the shower or give in the gift bags all go to make the shower festive and fun. One cute idea that many baby shower planners use is to put out pacifiers made of candy as fun and tasty decorations around the tables or even as part of a centerpiece or cake decoration. You can easily find decorative candy items like pacifiers at baby supply stores where you might have gone to get the other decorations. But you can just as easily make your own which is more fun and less expensive to boot.
The ingredients for cute pacifiers made of candy are cheap and easy to get. Pick up a roll or two of lifesaver candies along with a bag of jellybeans and some canned frosting. Now take one lifesaver and carefully fill the hole of the candy with the frosting. Actually, overfill it so there is frosting sticking out on both sides of the candy. Hold the lifesaver by the sides so you avoid getting very much frosting on your hands. Yes, you can lick it off but lets save the sampling of the ingredients until later.
Now take a jellybean and attach it to one side of the lifesaver. The excess frosting will bind the jellybean and the lifesaver together like a candy glue. Because all of the candies in this craft come in lots of bright and cheerful colors, you can experiment with green jellybeans going on a yellow lifesaver or a blue lifesaver along with a red jellybean. After all, you are making your candy pacifiers at home so have fun coming up with your own combinations.
We are not done yet. Now take another lifesaver and position it sideways on the first candy so the edges of the lifesaver set against the candy as well as the hole filled with frosting. This lifesaver becomes the handle of the pacifier. That’s all there is to it. Now you should handle the freshly made candy pacifier carefully because you want the frosting to "set" and harden to hold the entire creation in place. You might set each finished pacifier on a cookie sheet covered with wax paper. You can get a lot of ornamental pacifiers on one sheet. Then you can put the cookie sheet in the refrigerator to help the frosting harden better so the pacifiers are all ready to go when the day and hour of the baby shower comes around.
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You can expect exclamations like "isn't this cute?" When the ladies coming to the shower see your adorable candy pacifier ornaments. Because the ingredients are inexpensive, make plenty in case a few get eaten during the shower. You will want to send some home in the thank you bags as well. And be ready to hold a little seminar after the shower is over so the inspired guests can learn from you how to make their own candy pacifiers the next time they are attending a baby birthday party or shower.
