Artificial Gumdrop Trees

Friday, November 12, 2021

Artificial Gumdrop Trees

When recently working on a gingerbread themed holiday village house (post soon 😍) I thought it would be fun to add sweet treat themed 'trees' to the display. After toying with the idea for awhile I ended up making gumdrop trees and spheres as well.

Read on to see how easy it is to do yourself:

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To get started I needed a whole lot of faux gumdrops. Since I already had the right kind of silicone mold and plenty of air dry clay on hand, I decided to make my own.

(Both the mold and the clay can be found on Amazon)

Once I had a nice collection of gumdrops and they were all dry,

I used various candy colored acrylics to paint them.

For the large candy balls I used foam spheres as my base.

*My foam pieces came out of my stash, but you can find all kinds of sizes and shapes at various craft stores.

With a bit of hot glue I began in the center and started attaching the gumdrops keeping the colors as varied as I could. This can get a little tricky because depending upon the size of your sphere and the size of your candies, they don't always line up evenly. Just do your best and keep going. I promise that once it's all together it will look great!

Here you can see a sphere completely coated with the clay gumdrops. The colors aren't perfectly spaced, but it's all good! If you look closely you can see a bit of white Styrofoam peeking out from between the candies. Not to worry, I'll share a solution for that in a bit 😉

Using a cone shaped piece of foam I started my trees in a similar way. This larger one I began at the bottom.....

...and the smaller one I began at the top.

Neither method was easier than the other, so just go as you wish.

Looking pretty good, but let's talk about those gaps of foam peeking out.

Using white glue and Dollar Tree faux snow, I simply tucked bunched of snow in between each of the candies. This filled out the spheres/ cones nicely and softened the overall look.

I decided that glitter makes everything better and gave each candy form a once over. Just spray lightly with adhesive spray (also Dollar Tree) and then sprinkle the glitter. Give another coating of adhesive so everything stays put nicely and you are done!