Baby Jar Christmas Crafts

There are so many good ideas for baby jars.  I think they make fantastic Christmas crafts and very cute gifts. 

Here are my 5 favourites:

1. Glitter 'snowglobes' using old toys as decorations.

2. I-spy jars using old toys and rice.

 3. Sewing jar with pincushion lids. 

4. Individual gift cupcakes. (easy option gift dry cupcake mix).

5. Christmas tree dioramas.

I am going to try out all of these I think.  Now I only need some baby jars....

An honorable mention goes to these Christmas trees that people seem to enjoy making.  Not sure that I am super keen on the finished look, but A+ for effort.

Rice Bubble Dessert Sushi Fail-ish

Rebekah and Haeata came over to make candy sushi as seen on her blog Tiny Thrills, which Rebekah actually sourced from Wandering Chopsticks. 

So we had a go at this little project.  We made the rice crispies as per Rebekah's recipe:

Rice CrispiesRecipe

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup honey
3 1/2 cups rice bubbles / crispies

Directions:

1. Boil butter sugar and honey together until caramel reacheds 'soft toffee stage'.  (can drop into water and roll into ball stage).
2. Take off heat and stir into bowl full of rice bubbles.
3. Press onto greased / lined tray and let cool.

Rebekah is a pro at that part.  So all perfect so far.  Now for the sushi stage.  We had dinosaur lollies and licorice strap.  We made a paste with icing sugar and a little water to glue on the lollies cut the licorice to be nice and thin, glued and...... no stick.  As you can see it did not stick.  Very sad.

However,  they were still delicious.  As you can see our taste testers thought so.

Afterwards, we thought that using jelly snakes to tie around the middle might work better.  Maybe cutting them at the end to reveal the sticky middle would make it work like sellotape?
A catering acquaintance of Rebekah's has reportedly since tried using snakes successfully - she just tied them! So simple and apparently very effective.