Candyland Party Ideas
To Create Sweet Success

Photo courtesy of: Robert S. Donovan

To help you get into the Candyland theme party frame of mind, we've put together links to the best party supplies:

Candyland Celebration Supplies
Candyland Pink Party Supplies


CANDYLAND PARTY INVITATIONS

CANDYLAND JAR INVITATION - Fill empty baby food jar or other small jar with colorful jelly beans or Jelly Bellys. Paint lid red, orange, blue, purple, green, or yellow. Cut 8 1/2" x 11" piece of coordinating scrapbook paper into 4 pieces using decorative scissors and put party details on paper. Hole-punch upper left corner, run ribbon through hole, and tie onto jar. Hand-deliver invitations.

SUCKER INVITATION #1 - Place a large, white address label containing party information on a large lollipop and hand-deliver to guests.

SUCKER INVITATION #2 - Cut 2 large circles out of white card stock and write party details on one side. Glue popsicle stick to bottom of circle. Cover circle with colored cellophane, tissue, or tulle netting and tie off with color-coordinated ribbon. Hand-deliver invitations.

CANDYLAND PARTY INVITATION - Cut 8 1/2" x 11" white card stock into 2 pieces and fold in half. Cut brightly colored card stock into small squares to match board game and paste squares on front of white card stock to create a winding road. Put candy stickers around path. On inside type or write party details.

Invitation Wording

Lollipop, lollipop,
Sweet as can be.
Come help me celebrate,
As I turn three.

Don't Miss A Lick!

Lollipop, lollipop,
Sweet as can be.
come help me celebrate
A party for me.

You're Not Going To Want To Miss A Lick!

Gumdrops and lollipops
And gingerbread too
Makes a Candyland Party
just for you.

We don't Want You To Miss A Lick!


CANDYLAND PARTY COSTUMES

You can either challenge everyone to create the various Candyland characters and come in costume, or have birthday child dress up, along with all the helpers.

If you don't require costumes, create candy crowns for everyone to wear. Cut yellow or gold card stock into thirds and use your child's head as a guide for creating the crown size. Glue hard candies, lollipops, gumdrops, jelly beans, etc. to crown.

If you're in the market for an actual Candyland Costume, here are a few options to consider.


CANDYLAND PARTY DECORATIONS

Create a sweet atmosphere for your Candyland Party using some of the following ideas:

• Use a painter's plastic drop cloth to create a Candyland path to your front door. Cover the drop cloth with various colored squares using colored plastic tablecloths or various colored felt squares. In the alternative, you could use these fun Candy Drops to create your walkway.

• Line the walkway with large lollipops made from Styrofoam discs and wood dowels as sticks. Cover with colorful cellophane, tissue, or tulle netting and tie off with color-coordinated ribbons.

• If you can find an after Christmas sale, line walkway with yard stake candy canes.

• Create the Rainbow Trail with a rainbow balloon arch. If you have a wire arch cover it in various colored balloons. If not, create your arch from cut-up wire hangers.

• If you really want to go out and create a magical Candyland spectacular environment, then check out this great Sugarplum Kit, which comes with a gingerbread house, lollipop standees, gingerbread men standees, and a Peppermind Drop Walkway. It would also serve as a great photo-op.

• Use twisted streamers, clusters of balloons, and curling ribbons in any combination of Candyland colors.

• Decorate archways or doorways with streamers in any combination of Candyland colors.

• Decorate wider walkways with sheets tied back with multi-colored ribbons or cords.

• Hang a fun Candyland Birthday Banner on one of your party room walls.

• Cover tables with brightly colored tablecloth. Tie corners with curling ribbons and scatter gumdrops, jelly bellys, peppermints, etc. on tabletop.

• Accent your tables with cute little Candyland centerpieces.

• Here's a great Candyland Party Deluxe Kit that contains theme partyware and decor all in one great party pack.

• Attach some fun Candyland balloons to the birthday child's chair and brightly colored helium balloons to guests' chairs.

• Put colorful balloons outside to alert guests of party location. Attach to mailbox, hang from tree, or tie to car antenna.

• Tie colorful tulle bows around chairs.

• Make a tulle tutu for punch bowl. Cut tulle to 6" x 24". Gather one side using upholstery needle and string the same color of tulle. Tie it off and shape around bottom of punch bowl as a centerpiece.

• Make a fun and fabulous Candyland background using this Sweet Cupcake Background to create a great Candyland atmosphere and perfect photo-op.

• Make signs that say "Molasses Swamp," "Gumdrop Mountain Pass," "Lollipop Woods," and "Candy Cane Forest" and hang on wall.

• Create Lollipop Woods by making large lollipops using two colored paper plates stapled or glued together. Attach to a wood dowel and cover them with coordinating cellophane and tie off with ribbons.

• Cover a wall with Ice Cream Mountains made from cardboard and painted white and then add white or iridescent white glitter on the tops..

• Make Gumdrop Mountains out of cardboard and then paint them and cover with coordinating glitter.

• Make Peanut Acres by creating cardboard trees and painting the bushy tree part dark green and the stumps brown. Then glue peanuts in the shell to the bushy tree part.

• Make Snowflake Lake using blue fabric or blue fabric with white snowflakes. Add some snowflake printed balloons. Make some snowflakes to hang from the ceiling. Cut them out of white posterboard and cover with white or irridescent glitter.

• Create Licorice Forest by spray painting large tree branches, minus the leaves, black. Place them in empty coffee cans filled with sand. Cover the coffee cans with black fabric. Attach pieces of licorice to the trees using Christmas ornament hangers or make hangers using paperclips.

• Hang these fun Giant Candyland Wall Decals on your party room walls and when the party is over, transfer them to your child's bedroom walls.

• Have a Bubble Machine going at front door so guests walk through a sea of bubbles as they enter.

• Make colorful squares from construction paper and hang on wall to create a backdrop. Use a projector, enlarge pictures of Princess Lolly, Queen Frostine, Gramma Nutt, Mr. Mint, the gingerbread men, and candies and hang on wall.

• Make placemats to look like game cards. On one half of a piece of cardboard put a picture of peanut brittle, an ice cream cone, a snowflake, a candy cane, etc. and on the other half glue colored paper. Cover with clear contact paper.

• Paint metal bucket with various colors and weight down with beans. Fill with brightly colored large spiral lollipops and balloons. Camouflauge beans with colored tissue paper.

• Create a Candyland house out of a gingerbread house kit or use graham crackers, frosting, and candy decorations. It's best to attach the graham crackers to a box to give it shape and hold it together.

MONEY-SAVING TIP

Before you purchase anything, be sure to check out the Candyland party ideas for party supplies that are being offered on eBay. Many times, you'll find great new items at a fraction of the retail price.




CANDYLAND PARTY GAME IDEAS AND ACTIVITIES

GINGERBREAD COOKIES - Have guests decorate cookies with frosting, edible glitter, sprinkles, sparkling sugar, nonpareils, raisins, and decorative candies.

LIVE CANDYLAND PARTY GAME - Using the game board as your guide, create the color path by painting large canvases to look like game board or gluing colored felt squares to cardboard. Attach pictures of a candy cane, snowflake, peanut brittle, ice cream cone, etc. to create those squares. Layout path. Either use cards from actual game or duplicate cards into a larger game-appropriate size.

BUILD KING CANDY CASTLE - Let kids build the castle out of graham crackers, frosting and candy decorations or mini gingerbread house kits.

MUSICAL CANDYLAND GAME - Glue colored felt squares to cardboard and put squares into a large circle. Cut 8 1/2" x 11" pieces of card stock into 4 pieces, color one square to coincide with each color of felt squares. Shuffle cards and place them face down. Play music while guests walk around on squares. Stop the music, draw a card, and whatever color it is, the children on squares of that color are eliminated. Game continues until only 1 child remains.

KING KANDY SAYS - Play this game like "Simon Says." Birthday child starts out being King Kandy. Play continues for 1-2 minutes. Give each guest a chance to be King Kandy.

QUEEN FROSTINE MAY I? - Play this game like "Mother May I?" Play continues for 1-2 minutes. Give each guest a chance to be Queen Frostine.

LICORICE, LICORICE, LOLLIPOP - Play this game like "Duck, Duck Goose." Give each guest a chance to be It.

PIN THE CROWN ON KING KANDY - Play this game like "Pin the Tail on the Donkey." Use a projector to enlarge a picture of King Kandy, create crowns out of yellow construction paper, and use double-stick tape.

CANDYLAND BOARD GAME - Purchase or borrow enough Candyland games so everyone can play. Continue play until everyone makes it to Candy Castle.

CANDYLAND CASTLE GAME - Here's a fun Candyland Castle Game that you might consider incorporating into your game time.

RAINBOW PINATA - A Rainbow-Shaped Pinata would be the perfect add-on to a Candyland Party. Blindfold guests. Wrap bat with colorful streamers and tie curling ribbons at bottom.
CANDYLAND PARTY FOOD IDEAS

GINGERBREAD SANDWICHES - Cut bread using gingerbread cookie cutter.

Filling Options - (1) Peanut butter and jelly, (2) chicken or tuna salad, or (3) cream cheese and chopped pecans.

MR. MINT'S MAC & CHEESE - Prepare your favorite Mac & Cheese recipe. Add red, blue, or green food coloring to create a fun color.

PRINCESS FROSTINE'S PIZZA - Pepperoni pizza.

JOLLY GOOD DOGS & BURGERS - Hotdogs and hamburgers.

GRAMMA NUTT NUGGETS - Chicken nuggets.

LOLLY'S FRUIT & CHEESE PLATTER - Cut various fruits and cheeses into bite-sized pieces. Soak apples in lemon juice so they don't turn brown. Use toothpicks with red, blue, green, or yellow tops.

CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN - Serve with cut-up banana, strawberries, and angel food cake.

MUNCHIES - Paint small metal buckets in different colors and fill with rainbow goldfish crackers, rainbow Pringles, and various candies, e.g., Skittles, Jelly Bellys, Jelly Beans, M&M's, gumdrops, etc.


CANDYLAND PARTY CAKES

CANDYLAND SHEET CAKE #1 - Make or buy sheet cake with white frosting. Create pathway with colored squares of multi-colored fondant. Place gumdrops, broken candy canes, jelly bellys, etc. on cake. Top with gingerbread game pieces.

RAINBOW-SHAPED CAKE - Make cake in a rainbow-shaped pan and frost white. Create rainbow of colors with Skittles.

CANDYLAND CASTLE CAKE - Bake 2 round cakes. Cool, stack, and frost with a pale pink, yellow, blue, or orchid.

Bake 3 smaller round cakes. Cool, stack the 3 cakes on top of the 2 round cakes, and frost them with a contrasting color of blue, green, or yellow.

Pipe white frosting around bottom of cake and decorate piping with candy, e.g., Skittles, M&M's, Starburst, etc.

Put candy canes around the top 3 cakes.

Pipe white frosting on top of 3 cakes in mountain-shape to make it look like a big cupcake and put colorful sprinkles on frosting.

Press Swedish fish, gummy bears, M&M's, etc. into frosting on the sides of the 2 stacked cakes.

Add gumdrops along the top edge of the 2 stacked cakes.

Insert 3 lollipops in top of big cupcake.


CANDYLAND PARTY FAVOR IDEAS

For an all-in-one favor box, here's a Candyland Favor Box that contains a Candyland blowout, stickers, heart mirror and brush, and more!

If you'd rather create your own favors, use multi-colored paper bags or cellophane bags decorated with candy stickers. Fill with any combination of bouncing balls, Candyland stickers, blowouts, bubbles, colorful candy necklaces, candies, chalk, crayons and a Candyland coloring book.


CANDYLAND PARTY IDEAS FOR PARTY SUPPLIES

Here's some great Candyland party supplies!

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