Quick and easy candy making/candy craft for kids?? Winter or Christmas themed?

We are holding a large holiday event themed “Candy Land” and are looking for some simple, very quick and easy interactive candy activities. We will have LOTS of kids coming through very quickly so this needs to be something that we can keep moving to get everyone through without long waits. We initially thought of bringing in an interactive candy demonstration but couldn’t come up with anything close enough. So far we came up with the idea to make marshmallow taffy (marshmallow and kool-aid “pulled” into taffy) and marshmallow snowmen on a stick (pretzel stick, marshmallow, fruit roll-up scarf and food coloring pens for the face). Any other ideas that would be quick, inexpensive and good for a very large crowd??

melt white and milk chocolate in double boilers (go to the bulk section and get large chips) spread out some parchment paper or dump milk chocolate on a baking sheet. Drizzle white chocolate over the milk chocolate and swirl them together (with a chopstick or the like) to get a mix of the two colors and top with crushed candy cane sprinkles. fast, simple and surprisingly tasty.

premelt the chocolate and maybe cool the baking sheet on ice to firm up the chocolate faster so they can take what they made with them. should be able to get a good assembly line going with this one

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