Painting with Candy: Nerds Watercolor Trees

I'm excited to be participating in Play~Learn~Imagine's candy series. Throughout the week, some great bloggers are sharing over 30 ways to create, learn, and explore with candy. Today's topic is painting with candy. Our contribution is colorful fall watercolor trees made with Nerds. They're fun to make and almost any colorful candy will do, so it's a great way to use up candy from your kids' trick-or-treat bags without actually eating it.

Instead of eating all that Halloween candy, kids can use it to make colorful fall trees.


This was a quick and easy art project similar to our sprinkle fireworks.

Paint a tree trunk with watercolor.

Instead of eating all that Halloween candy, kids can use it to make colorful fall trees.

Use a paint brush to apply plain water to the area where you want the leaves.

Instead of eating all that Halloween candy, kids can use it to make colorful fall trees.

Sprinkle Nerds or any colorful candy on top of the wet paper.

Instead of eating all that Halloween candy, kids can use it to make colorful fall trees.

Let your candy creation sit for a few minutes. Hopefully you'll see the colors have started to bleed onto the paper. If not, the paper wasn't wet enough and you can mist the candy lightly with water. Be careful not to get it too wet or all the colors will run together and your leaves will be brown.

Instead of eating all that Halloween candy, kids can use it to make colorful fall trees.

After a few minutes, brush the Nerds candy from the paper. If you wait too long, they'll become mushy. I'm not sure if they'll actually harden up again if you leave them dry long enough.

Instead of eating all that Halloween candy, kids can use it to make colorful fall trees.


Instead of eating all that Halloween candy, kids can use it to make colorful fall trees.


More ways to paint with candy:
And come back later in the week for some candy math and science!




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4 comments:

  1. UnknownOctober 7, 2013 at 1:34 PM

    So cool! I love how the colors spread just like watercolors...you'd never know that they started out as Nerds!

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  2. JenOctober 7, 2013 at 2:05 PM

    Oooh! So pretty! I was totally expecting to soak the Nerds in order to make a water colour paint, but I LOVE this method!

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  3. UnknownOctober 7, 2013 at 2:53 PM

    I have never seen anything like this before! So cool. Like Jen, I was expecting you to soak the Nerds in water. I can't wait to try this!

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  4. UnknownMarch 29, 2014 at 1:47 PM

    These look so fun! Perfect for an indoor activity for my preschooler!
    Renee @ CreativeMamaMessyHouse

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