These cute St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow bags make great little gifts for neighbors or classroom friends! Rainbow Twizzlers and shiny gold-wrapped Rolos make the perfect little rainbow and gold coins. You can add cotton candy for clouds if you’d like as well!
Ingredients and Supplies Needed
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- Twizzlers Twists Rainbow Candy – These fruit-flavored candy twists come with a rainbow of colors in one pack. They should be available on the candy aisle, or online.
- Rolos candies – Gold-wrapped chocolate coins would be cute, too.
- Cotton candy – Optional, but makes great clouds. I would only use cotton candy if you plan to gift these right away, especially if you live in a humid place, as the cotton candy can start to break down after being exposed to moist air.
- Cellophane bags – These are often available on the baking aisle of your grocery store, or at craft stores by the cake decorating and candy making supplies. Look for bags about 5 inches wide.
- Ribbon – A cute ribbon finishes these off.
How to Make St. Patrick’s Day Rainbows
- Grab a bag and add some cotton candy, if using. You can either lay a flat piece at the back for a backdrop or put a little puff in each corner to be at the end of the rainbow.
- Place a handful of Rolos in the bag.
- With the bag laying flat, bend your rainbow candy pieces and lay them in one at a time, in reverse rainbow order: purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red.
- Tie the bag with a piece of ribbon and you’re ready to spread a little rainbow cheer!
Storing and Other Tips
- If using cotton candy, these should be gifted pretty quickly.
- If not using cotton candy, feel free to assemble them ahead of time and hand them out within a week or two.
St. Patrick’s Day Rainbows
These sweet little rainbow treat bags are a perfect St. Patrick's day gift for neighbors or classmates.
Equipment
- cellophane treat bags 5"x10"
- ribbon green, or whatever color you like
Ingredients
- cotton candy optional
- Rolos
- Twizzlers Twists Rainbow Candy
Instructions
- Grab a bag and add some cotton candy, if using. You can either lay a flat piece at the back for a backdrop or put a little puff in each corner to be at the end of the rainbow.
- Place a handful of Rolos in the bag.
- With the bag laying flat, bend your rainbow candy pieces and lay them in one at a time, in reverse rainbow order: purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red.
- Tie the bag with a piece of ribbon and you’re ready to spread a little rainbow cheer!
Notes
- If using cotton candy, these should be gifted pretty quickly.
- If not using cotton candy, feel free to assemble them ahead of time and hand them out within a week or two.
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Questions & Reviews
Seriously, I can remember the shock (and denial) of finding out pink isn’t even an official color of the rainbow. (See look Daddy, there is pink in that rainbow up there, and no red. That’s why I know I’m right). ROYGBIV really was a devastating fact.
So cute!!
Can you tell me what size bags you used?
Did u ever find out?? I bought party favor bags but are too small 🙁
I’m looking for the size as well!! 🙂
Before I even got to the part where you mentioned the song, I was totally singing this inside my head! ha ha
Love it. Being an Irish dancer, I love St. Patrick’s Day.
Cute! Cute! Cute!
Thanks to you and Sara for all your efforts in sharing your amazing ideas!
What a great idea. I have two teenage boys, 13 and 16 and even now, they will love this! Thanks for sharing and happy spring!
Silly question…where did you find the twizzlers? I’ve looked all over for them for my daughters rainbow theme birthday!
I just found them at our grocery store, but you can buy them in bulk on Amazon.
Yep, I’m making these – I think for BOTH of my sons’ classes. These are adorable!
Oh, my cuteness. These little rainbows are adorable. I am positive that my littles would think that I am the coolest mom ever if I make these. 🙂 Happy Friday!
Oh my goodness! What a trip down memory lane with the sing a rainbow song. I learned that in first grade and colored every one of my rainbow pictures like that. It wasn’t until high school that I surrendered to the roygbiv rules. So great to see I wasn’t alone! 🙂 I still randomly sing that song…its one of those that easily gets stuck in your head!
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who colored my rainbows wrong up until high school. I remember being so disappointed when I found out pink wasn’t even a rainbow color! What a great song though; it’s fun to see that other people know it too!