Craft . . . Holiday Candy Trains - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 (16-inch) lengths 3/8-inch wide red or green ribbon
glue gun and glue sticks
12 pkg. gum (5 sticks each)
80 hard peppermint candies
12 rolls ring-shaped hard candies
4 foil-wrapped milk chocolate kisses
4 vanilla caramels
assorted candies (mini candy canes, mini candy bars or raisins)

Preparation

For each train, glue end of 1 ribbon onto wide side of 1 gum package.
Glue 4 peppermint candies onto side of gum package to make wheels.
Glue roll of ring-shaped candies onto ribbon-topped gum package to make engine.
Glue 1 chocolate kiss and 1 caramel onto engine.
Glue peppermint candies onto sides of 2 rolls of ring-shaped candies and 2 gum packages to make train cars.
Glue remaining ribbon onto top of gum and candy train cars, spacing cars about 1/2-inch apart.
Glue assorted candies onto top of ribbon on gum and candy train cars.
Makes 4 candy trains.