Christmas candy can be turned into fun and enchanting decorations that children will love to help create. Candy canes, gumdrops, and peppermints become Christmas tree ornaments, snowmen, reindeer, cottages, and much more.

Gumdrops, gummy worms, sour tape, and other gummy candies don't need any royal icing or glue to be assembled into ornaments. The candies are cut with a plastic knife to expose their sticky interiors, which provide all the sticking power you need to create snowmen, Santas, carolers, birds, and more.

This enchanted peppermint cottage starts out with Chocolate Cookie Walls, which are coated in royal icing and peppermint candy dust. The house is decorated with peppermint candies, white wafer candies, licorice twists, and pretty red-and-white royal icing swirls.

Turn gumdrops into adorable Christmas pops that look like Santa, snowmen, decorated trees, holly, and toadstools. Older children will love to make these gumdrop pops themselves.

Use card stock, ribbon, and glitter to make small candy basket ornaments to hang from your Christmas tree. Fill the baskets with peppermint candies or foil-wrapped chocolates.

Kids will have fun making these easy, adorable candy snails and mushrooms. Use them to decorate the yard of a gingerbread house or set up a miniature winter scene on a plate covered in sugar "snow."

These candy carolers are made from chewy striped peppermint candies, gumdrops, gummy worms, and nonpareil candy sprinkles. Turn the carolers into Christmas tree ornaments or place them by the front door of a gingerbread house.

White fondant makes sweet snowmen that will last throughout the season. Dye small amounts of fondant orange and red to create the carrot noses and scarves.