The perfect way to give homemade Christmas candy is in a handcrafted box, bag, jar, or tin. Choose from easy packaging ideas that kids can help with, cute containers that double as Christmas decorations, and printable templates and clip art to help you create the perfect package for your candy.

This pistachio, dried cranberry, and toasted coconut bark is a riff on the classic holiday fruit-and-nut combo. Use our wooden box template or regular box template and bands to create gourmet-looking treats to give away as gifts.

Package this bark, made of almonds and white and bittersweet chocolate, in clear cellophane to show off the faux bois (false wood) effect. Tie it with a pretty ribbon and add a faux bois gift tag to complete the look.

Package this sweet honeycomb brittle in cellophane bags, and close each bag with this adorable fold-over "Season's Eatings" gift label.

Package this chewy ginger-sesame brittle in round chip-wood boxes and affix a pretty "Made with Love" or "Enjoy" gift label to the lid.

Package these pecan-sea salt drops in kraft ballotin boxes, and adhere a clip-art gift label with a message of sweet tidings for its recipient.

Adhere chocolate and hazelnut flavor stamps to a button-closure envelope for a package of chocolate-hazelnut toffee sure to delight its recipient. For our other brittles and barks, use these flavor stamps: dried cherries and orange zest; wafer cookies; crisped rice; macadamia nuts and lime zest; pretzels, raisins, and peanuts; peanut butter; peppermint; coconut flakes, pistachios, and dried cranberries; and graham crackers and marshmallows.

Red-and-white-striped peppermint candy sticks, jelly beans, jawbreakers, and foil-wrapped chocolates make easy, beautiful Christmas decorations and gifts. Save jelly, pickle, and spaghetti sauce jars to make this craft, or purchase containers at a discount store.

Egg-shaped boxes become roly-poly Santas with just paint, glitter, and clip-art faces and accessories. Fill Santa's belly with homemade caramels or a cellophane bag of toffee or peanut brittle.

Ordinary cardboard boxes and metal canisters can easily be turned into beautiful gift containers for homemade candy. Choose art paper, wrapping paper, or even wallpaper samples, and use a glue stick or craft glue to adhere the paper to the container.

Any box with a lift-off lid can become a memorable candy container. Paint the box any color you like and print your favorite photo to affix to the top.

Make these elegant folded card stock gift boxes using our template, which can be adjusted to any size. Filled with homemade candy, these boxes make wonderful stocking stuffers.

Wrap candy boxes in solid-color red or white paper and wind different colors and widths of ribbon around them. Fill out a simple white gift tag and thread the ribbon through it.

Miniature felt Christmas stockings or ribbon-wrapped jars make great gift containers for candy. Use our stocking template or print out our gift tags for the tops of the jars.

Choose any image and any paint colors you like to adorn lightweight wooden boxes. For a shimmery look, photocopy the images you use onto silver paper before cutting them out with a utility knife.

Use stamps, stickers, cutouts, rosettes, and ribbons to adorn plain gift bags. These bags are the perfect gift wrap for nut brittle, toffee, caramels, or biscotti.

Kitchenware tins make pretty and practical containers for giving homemade candy. Choose fancy-shaped molds, tart pans, loaf pans, or any shape you prefer.

Plain paper bags become pretty candy containers when adorned with ribbon and beads. Visit a craft or party store to find bags in different colors.

A simple glass jar with a painted lid makes a perfect container for homemade caramels or marshmallows. Print a label using scanned art or a personal photograph, or let children decorate the labels with colored pens and stickers.

A tart pan makes a charming container for homemade Candied Citrus Peels. Wrap the pan in glassine and ribbon, and then affix the clip-art label to the top of the package.

These beautiful bags are made by gluing decorative paper and strips of foil-embossed Dresden paper around low-sided boxes. Fill the bags with wrapped homemade candy or cookies.

Dress up fudge for gift-giving by lining candy boxes with waxed paper and colorful tissue paper. Alternately, you can wrap whole bars of fudge in glassine and a band of decorative paper, and finish the look with ribbon and a small ornament.

Decorate plain tins with clip-art doilies in three different patterns and colors. Simply size and print the doily onto a clear, full-sheet label, cut it out, and stick to the top of the tin.

This glitter-covered snowman has a sweet secret: His base is full of homemade candy! Use our templates and step-by-step instructions to create this two-in-one decoration and gift box.

Use our templates to create Christmas stocking- or dreidel-shaped crepe paper pouches to fill with candy. These make great decorations and party favors.