It’s the holiday season, which always makes me feel I should be creating homemade presents and cute craft items. I’m not sure why I pick the busiest time of the year to do this. Maybe it’s to relive the Christmas memories of my childhood when all the women in the family made mounds of homemade Christmas goodies to give as gifts. These days I try to keep my crafts simple. These easy Mason Jar Candy Christmas Gifts are a snap to make and use dollar store materials. They’re great to use as a centerpiece before giving them as favors at holiday parties.
Easy Mason Jar Candy Christmas Gifts
You’ll only need a few items to make these jars. I started with some gummy candy lollipops I found in Christmas shapes. Each sucker had four candies which I separated and removed from the lollipop sticks. I also used mason jars in various sizes, nonpareil candy in Christmas colors, and Christmas washi tape. If you can’t find Christmas nonpareil candies, you can use Christmas sprinkles.
For some of my candy Christmas gifts, I used one half of a DIY clear Christmas ornament to give the gifts a pretty snowglobe look. The only other item you might need is a small amount of prepared frosting.
Here’s how to make them
1. Begin with small mason jars. I used 4-ounce mason jars with “wide mouth” tops and 4-ounce apothecary jars. Tip: Use the clear jars with no raised patterns on the outside.
2. Place one gummy Christmas candy in the center of the jar. You might need to use a dab of frosting spread across the bottom of the candy to hold it into place.
3. Carefully place sprinkles around the candy.
4. Place the lid on the jar or, if using mason jars with wide mouth lids, add 1/2 of the clear Christmas ornament to the top of the jar.
5. Using a piece of washi tape, place a strip around the point where the lid and jar meet.
To make an easy centerpiece, just place them in the middle of your table and surround them with greenery or place them on small wooden blocks (or wooden coasters) and surround them with pinecones.
Printable Instructions
- 4 (4-ounce ) wide mouth mason jars
- 4 Christmas shaped gummy candies
- 1 cup Christmas nonpareils or sprinkles
- 1 teaspoon ready-made frosting
- 1 roll Christmas washi tape
- optional: two diy clear Christmas ornaments
- Begin with small mason jars. I used 4-ounce mason jars with “wide mouth” tops and 4-ounce apothecary jars. Tip: Use the clear jars with no raised patterns on the outside.
- Place one gummy Christmas candy in the center of the jar. You might need to use a dab of frosting spread across the bottom of the candy to hold it into place.
- Carefully place sprinkles around the candy.
- Place the lid on the jar or, if using mason jars with wide mouth lids, add 1/2 of the clear Christmas ornament to the top of the jar.
- Using a piece of washi tape, place a strip around the point where the lid and jar meet.
What are your favorite easy craft ideas for Christmas? Do you make anything similar to these Mason Jar Candy Christmas Gifts?
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Those are so cute! These would make great teacher gifts. So simple but handmade and thoughtful!
OMG, these are adorable. I know who I would give these to. I love the mason jars as is so I would definitely make these.
So cute what fun ideas! I love making my own gifts to give and know a few people who would love these!
What a wonderful handmade gift idea! I love that these are easy to make. They would be perfect as a gift for my cousin’s kids!
I love being able to give personalized gifts like this. Especially when you can have your kiddos help design them
Well these are cute! I love how you can do so many things with these and really personalize them! Great idea!
I like those cute ideas. I made some using empty candle jars, colorful candies are the best to use.
This is the cutest Christmas craft idea. I love mason jar gifts. We usually make soups and baked good mason jar gifts so candy would be a nice switch up
Gifts in jars are such a cute concept. This jar is so cute and easy to make too. I am sure kids are gonna love it.
These are just so adorable!! Love them!
Adorable! I need to make these for some of the people on our lists.
I think I would be capable enough to make these as gifts! LOL! I am not very creative but THIS I could do!
That’s a super cute candy jar. I like having a few of these gifts on hand for those occasions where you need a gift but no time to go buy one.
It’s fully come up with different ideas for Christmas. We need to think of some good ideas for our sons teacher this year. I want to get kind of creative than I think this would help a lot.
I love creating gifts inside jars and I like that yours are so festive and filled with candy. Plus, I always keep a stash of Mason Jars.
You had me a Mason Jar. I love any craft using them and these are just so darn cute!!
I love these ideas. I need to make a few and pass them out as gifts. I have lots of people I want to give something to, but not a lot of funds. So these are perfect.
Those are really different and very cute. The kids would have a fun time helping make these for different family, friends, teachers etc.