Making a candy cane Christmas wreath

These Christmas wreaths look good enough to eat! Fortunately, there are more than enough sweets to go around during the holidays.

Candy-Coated Christmas Wreath

You will have visions of sugarplums dancing in your head when you make this sparkling holiday wreath. Assorted miniature fruit, berries, and mint candy canes glisten with a "candy coating" of diamond dust. This evergreen wreath will bring out the child in all of us. 

Here's what you'll need:

• Small artist's paintbrush
• 54 pieces artificial fruit on wire picks
• White craft glue
• Diamond dust or opalescent glitter
• 2 stems red berries
• 2 dozen plastic candy canes
• Artificial pine wreath, 14 inches
• Hot glue gun, glue sticks

To construct a Candy-Coated Christmas wreath:

• Using small artist's paintbrush, coat each piece of fruit with glue. Sprinkle diamond dust over fruit pieces. Repeat process on berries and candy canes. Let dry overnight.

• Shape evergreen wreath by pulling out and fluffing branches.

• Twist 3 pieces of different fruit together into a cluster. Place fruit clusters into wreath. Twist stems of fruit into branches. Continue around wreath until it is full.

• Cut each berry stem into 5 or so pieces; each piece should have about 5 berries. Glue berry stems into wreath. Spread berries throughout wreath.

• Glue candy canes into wreath at an angle so that they stick out from fruits and berries.