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
This is just a preview of ingredients and method, keep scrolling for full printable recipe.
- 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
Love these! Sometimes, easier is better! 😉 (I hate when I’m much more impressed with my culinary creativity than my children are… which is most of the time!)
What? No comment from Patti? How could she fail you two? Very cute idea and I love the ‘so easy’ factor!! Thanks for bringing it on even when you don’t want to so much!! 🙂
Yeah, Patti, what up with THAT?!
I adore your blog & I think our crafting skills are on the same level (Okay, yours might be slightly more advanced than mine … See? Doesn’t that make you feel good about yourself?). I just wanted to tell you that I don’t have any kids, but I am DYING to be able to send these (and many other) adorable, easy-to-pull-off, themed treats into a classrooms someday. Seriously.
What a great idea!!! I LOVE them!!!
You are so funny! I love that you linked to the rainbow song. Cute ideas, love your website, love your cookbook, too, and you gals were really great in Layton at TOFW.
You have such cute ideas! It is always fun to see what you got next! Happy St. Patty day 🙂
What an awesome idea! I love it!
Love these! i already bought my twizzlers – i have to get the rolos, now!
love how you made them in the shape of a rainbow!
( i pinned this too! 🙂
Weird question probably… what size cellophane bags did you use?
I’m not EXACTLY sure–kind of an average size because that was the biggest size they had at Walmart. If I’d had more time/energy/motivation, I would have run to Hobby Lobby and gotten the slightly larger size, just so there was more room to work with.
Totally making these for my son’s preschool class–so, SO cute!