• Use Easter candy to create colorful crafts.Jack Flash/Photodisc/Getty Images
  
  Creating Easter crafts is one way to decorate your home and the process can help keep children busy during their time away from school. While you can use standard crafting materials such as colored paper, fabric or felt, using candy makes the process a little more fun for those of us with a sweet tooth. Before you get started on your Easter candy crafts, make sure you have enough candy to complete your projects and allow a little snacking while you work.
  
  

Easter Candy Creatures

• The Hershey's website suggests using jelly beans or other egg-shaped Easter candies to create Easter bunnies and chicks or even other animals like snakes or frogs. Use the candy as the body of your animal and use felt, pipe cleaners, googly eyes, construction paper or feathers to decorate your creatures. Attach the decorations with a low temperature glue gun to avoid melting the candy. While your finished Easter candy creatures might look good enough to eat, the glue is not edible, so they should only be used for decorative purposes.
  
  

Easter Candy Jewelry

• Create colorful jewelry or decorations for your home with Easter candy and 22 gauge craft wire. The Good Housekeeping website recommends threading jelly beans onto the wire to create napkin rings but you can use the same process to create necklaces, bracelets or even candy garland to decorate your home. Thread the candies onto the wire until you are satisfied with the length of your item and then use pliers to gently coil the ends of the wire. This prevents the candies from slipping off the ends. You can also use gummy or marshmallow candies for your crafts. Chocolate candies may crumble or break when you attempt to thread them onto the wire but try using assorted types of candy to find out what works best and achieves your desired results.
  
  

Easter Candy Topiary

• Assemble a candy topiary to decorate your home during Easter. Form your topiary by securing a wooden dowel inside a small flowerpot with a piece of clay. Push a Styrofoam ball onto the top of the wooden dowel to complete the base of the craft. Now you can use low temperature hot glue to attach wrapped Easter candies to the Styrofoam ball. Leaving the candies wrapped will keep them edible as long as the candy itself is not exposed to the glue. Apply enough candy to completely cover the Styrofoam ball and then decorate the flower pot and wooden dowel with craft paints and ribbons.