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
Too cute! I’m going to share your blog out with my peeps.
Wynn
What a super cute idea! 🙂
Love this idea! Super, super cute!!!
This is driving me nuts. Do rainbow twizzlers really only come in six colors?! It’s the first thing my 3 year old noticed while reading this with me.
I’m pretty sure they’re not going to make the distinction between purple, indigo, and blue and are striking for a happy medium somewhere. 🙂
I learned the rainbow song when I was little and I have never met anyone else who knew it!
Oh and for a less sugar-laden treat, we used food color to dye milk and “painted” a rainbow on toasted bread last St. Patrick’s Day.
Just had to laugh about your comment about thinking the colors of the rainbow were that… made me think of the song from Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. I had to add, though, that you are missing blue in your list – it’s ROY G. BIV – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
These are so cute! I am thinking of using them as favors for a Willy Wonka party, and maybe taking them to my son’s kindergarten class for St. Patty’s Day too! 🙂
Quote: “but because I live in a freaking unventilated shower stall, unspeakable things started happening to my cotton candy.”
Though I live nowhere near you, we must have had the same builder 😉
Great idea!!! Simple, adorable and my children love Twizzlers so that is just topping of the cake! Thanks for the idea!