Sugar sculptures/ornaments

Here's what we used:

1/2 cup sugar
1 ts water
glitter
food coloring
cookie cutter (one with one closed end, not the ones that go all the way through)

Mix sugar and water. Add glitter and/or a couple drops of food coloring if desired. Press into cookie cutter. Tap onto a plate. Let sit overnight. Once hardened you can tie or glue ribbon on to hang. Be gentle, they will be hard, but will still break if too rough.

Here is the finished product:

The boys loved doing this. They thought it was a blast! They wanted to do more and more. Unfortunately I only had organic sugar, a little expensive for a craft. So next time I'll buy some cheap white sugar. When picking a cookie cutter, make sure it has wide openings. In the picture above you can see a rocket and giraffe, those didn't work. Couldn't get the sugar mixture out of the small parts. But the big star worked great.