| Decorating a child's birthday cake is a lot of fun. | | | | surprises. |
| Candy is probably the easiest decorating tool for | | | | A few popular choices in candy are: M&M's, |
| you to use, as well as the most popular type of | | | | Skittles, Oreos, licorice, animal crackers, pretzel |
| decoration as far as children are concerned. Have | | | | sticks, teddy grams, gummy bears, gummy |
| you met a child that doesn't like candy? Me | | | | worms, jelly beans, gum drops, mints and mini |
| neither. Candy is colorful, and as everyone knows, | | | | marshmallows. If you have a bulk food store, |
| children love color. Candy tastes good (why else | | | | take a walk down the candy aisle and you are |
| would they eat it?), and is a treat that they | | | | sure to be inspired and amazed at the choices |
| probably don't get very often. All of those factors | | | | you have available. |
| make candy very appealing to children of every | | | | By using candy to decorate with, you can get the |
| age. | | | | birthday girl or boy involved in the process and |
| Besides candy being extremely easy to decorate | | | | have them decorate it how they please. It might |
| with it is, obviously, edible. Edible means not having | | | | not turn out exactly as you planned, or as you |
| to remove it from the cake before cutting and | | | | wanted it to, but think of how proud they'll be |
| serving, as must be done with plastic decorations. | | | | that they did it themselves or had the chance to |
| Remember searching through the cake for those | | | | be your "big helper" as my son of 3 often boasts. |
| tiny, plastic eye decorations before cutting into it | | | | Please eat responsibly. Those little teeth are just |
| so a child (or adult!) wouldn't accidentally choke on | | | | as susceptible to cavities as adult teeth. Brush well |
| it? Using candy means not having to hunt for | | | | after enjoying the cake, candy, and maybe a bit |
| plastic. Just give your guests warning that there | | | | of ice cream. |
| might be small pieces of hard candy, to avoid any | | | | |