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
I love this idea! I’m going to use it for a Personal Progress mutual activity!
Love this idea. I plan to use these to give to my 5th grade students on the first day of school. I’ll add the saying…..”Always go for the GOLD!” to encourage putting forth their BEST effort in all they do & since it’s Olympic time it should have more meaning! Thanks for sharing.
This is a winner idea for favors for a birthday party for my six year old! I shared this on my blog, with a back link to your site, of course! Thanks for sharing!!!
Saw your idea on Pinterest. So darn cute! My kids and I made a Walmart run last Thursday night to put these together as a surprise for their classmates the next day. We added a cute tag too… that said, “I’m so LUCKY to have a friend like you!”. I linked back to you on my blog. Thanks for such an adorable idea and hoping the luck of the Irish is yours 🙂
I made these for our St. Patty’s Day party for kids favors and everyone loved them. I love your idea’s and love visiting to see what’s new.
Thank you
Great idea! Found my licorice at Winn-Dixie and using mini Twix bars instead of Rolos, because one of my little ones has spacers and chewy caramels will not work. I’m hoping the Twizzlers will not do too much damage, I’m going to tell him to use his front teeth lol. Thanks for the idea!
I’m in California and also having a heck of a time finding the licorice. But in case anyone out there is still looking, we have confirmed by phone that Rite-Aid has them (at least the one I called does!) We struck out at Target, Wal-mart, Winco, Smart and Final, CVS, and Save Mart. Grrrr ….
Hi, Kate! Mind if I link back to this in a post on teachmama.com? I used your rainbow as inspiration for my own. . . actually, I tried yours but didn’t have the bags and needed to adjust. But I tried! And I love yours!
Thanks so much!
🙂
amy
Hi there,
where would I find the individual wrapped rolo’s? I bought a 4 pack and they are all wrapped in one peace of tinfoil. If I cant find the rolos I will go with the peanut butter rolls, but I also like the “peanut free” idea Thank you !!
*Sarah
I worked on these last night and they are super fun to assemble. Don’t eat any otherwise you end up 1 band short of a full rainbow! You get 5 rainbows to a pack so plan accordingly. I tried to cut the Twizzlers in 1/2 to get more treats but they don’t bend as well when cut shorter and the treat bags seemed too large at that point. I added a piece of blue construction paper (sky) for a backing of sorts in the bag because the twizzlers are so floppy and that helped immensely and adds to the overall pretty factor. Have Fun!