All aboard the Polar Express!!
If you haven’t seen this Christmas classic, you really should- it’s got all the warm fuzzies of an awesome holiday movie, plus some great music (the song Josh Groban wrote for it? *swoon*). In honor of the Polar Express, which happens to be one of our favorite movies to play in the apartment this time of year, we thought we’d throw together some Christmas trains!
These trains are not your average shenanigan: we didn’t find them on Pinterest! Amelia’s family has been making these trains during Christmastime forever, and we thought it would be a nice tradition to carry on.
To make these trains, you need:
- packs of gum
- rolls of hard-candy Lifesavers
- mini Reese’s cups
- Hershey’s kisses
- mini Hershey’s candy bars
- York peppermint patties
- a hot glue gun
Warm up your hot glue; first you’re going to hot glue the Lifesavers on top of your gum pack.
Hold them together for a few seconds so the hot glue can set.
Next, you’re going to add the wheels. Hot glue the Reese’s to the four corners of the gum pack as shown below.
Usually, our trains have Reese’s as the front wheels and York peppermint patties as the back wheels. However, we realized that the peppermint patties we bought weren’t individually wrapped (whoops), so we just used Reese’s for all four wheels.
Now hot glue three of the mini candy bars in a stack.
This candy bar stack gets glued to one end of the Lifesavers.
Finally, glue the Hershey’s kiss on the other end of the Lifesavers, and you’re all done!
These Christmas trains are super easy, and they make great stocking stuffers or holiday party favors. Might we suggest you settle in with hot chocolate and The Polar Express as you make them?
Check out some of our other holiday shenanigans!
      
      
  Reindeer Cookies              Brownie Trees            Peppermint Brownies
These are so adorable, such a cute idea 🙂
Thanks! We brought them to a party, they were a hit!
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Cute christmas candy train
Thanks Anna, this is one of my favorite christmas crafts!
Concerning the train, what exactly are the york patties for?
We were planning to use the York peppermint patties as the back wheels. However, we realized that the peppermint patties we bought weren’t individually wrapped (whoops), so we just used Reese’s for all four wheels of our train!
Does the hot glue not melt the chocolate?
No I didn’t have any issue with the candy melting. I put a very small amount to glue it and it dries to quickly that it didn’t seem to affect it.
Where are the peppermint patties?
To Ginny & DC, use the York peppermint patties as the back wheels. As she indicated, “However, we realized that the peppermint patties we bought weren’t individually wrapped (whoops), so we just used Reese’s for all four wheels.”