Christmas Tree Treats

Alison_B · 3 December 2005 at 3:48PM

We are going to put the christmas tree up this weekend. I have been looking at the cost of the chocolates that the kids love but they are very expensive. In the past I have bought funsize chocolates and put ribbon on those but wondered what else people who are moneysaving put on their tree as treats?

dorry_2 · 3 December 2005 at 4:52PM

hi, my next door neighbour used to make popcorn, then thread it on the tree, it smelt lovley and looked very os!!

Lillibet_2 · 3 December 2005 at 5:30PM

Home made biscuits (any kind), before cooking cut a smaller shape out of the centre & drop in half a boiled sweet, when cooking the sweet mealts & when cold it dries to form a kind of stained glass window. Works exceptionally well using stars with smaller star shape cut outs in the middle. Don't forget to poke a hole for the ribbon before cooking;)
Or ginger bread men with festive ribbon neck ties:D. Small chocs/sweets tied as parcels with parcel ribbon:j

Sugard fruit (dip in beaten egg white then caster sugar) tied with cellaphane & hung or just placed deeper intot eh tree on the brances;)

Oranges with a festive ribbon round the centre & stick with cloves:D

All to be avoided if you have a greedy dog, as we found to our cost:rotfl:

Jay-Jay_4 · 3 December 2005 at 5:35PM

Lillibet wrote:

All to be avoided if you have a greedy dog, as we found to our cost:rotfl:

.... on a similar note...... don't wrap dog chews and hang them on the tree :rolleyes:

(This tip was discovered by me aged 7

)

carol_a_3 · 3 December 2005 at 7:43PM

I sometimes buy a net of chocolate coins or chocolate footballs, tiny santas or similar and sellotape black cotton onto them to hang them, you usually get around 50 of the footballs for £1

frosty · 3 December 2005 at 7:49PM

we buy a box of celebration chocolates,then thread cotton through them and hang them on the tree.

catznine · 3 December 2005 at 10:14PM

frosty wrote:

we buy a box of celebration chocolates,then thread cotton through them and hang them on the tree.

We do that with some of the quality street! They look quite effective and you can colour co-ordinate them by just using the red and gold ones or the blue ones.

Becles · 4 December 2005 at 9:52AM

Lillibet wrote:

All to be avoided if you have a greedy dog, as we found to our cost:rotfl:

Unless you have a smart dog!

We had a collie/whippet cross when I was a teenager. We'd hung chocolates all over the tree, and the dog had been told off a few times for sniffing them. When we came to take the tree down, we noticed the chocs on the front were still there, but round the back of the tree, there were just bits of foil and string left :rotfl:

I don't bother with sweets on the tree now, as the boys get so many other sweets off other people. They normally last till Easter :eek:

FRUGALPIE_2 · 4 December 2005 at 10:30AM

Thanks for the ideas...think will try the biscuits one!!!!

Simba_25 · 4 December 2005 at 10:39AM

I love that biscuit idea!

sallypurple · 4 December 2005 at 9:10PM

In Tesco at the moment they've got a kit to make chocolate decorations for 2.49. It has got all the chocolate, moulds decorating icing and little cellophane bags to make about 40.

It will be fun to do with the DDs and woks out much cheaper than other bought decs.

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