Grandma's Candy Train Tradition

I wish I could find my star filter but this is pretty cool as is.

Grandma had the kids over the night I had surgery and they made these along with a few other kids from school. 

Just messing with the depth of field here.  

My daughter's:

My son's: 

My 4 year old son took this photo so I had to add it. Sometimes it just helps to have a great lens.

25 photos 'til Christmas - Day 23

Grandma S loves to  make candy trains with the grandkids for Family Home Evening.  This year my daughter made her own all by herself.  My son sat next to me and made a few decisions, ate a few m&m's, and then it was off to play.

This is my daughter's train:

I'm think she left the wrapper on a few pieces of candy so that she can consume them on Christmas day.

This is my son's candy train, the one he let me decorate for him.

To photograph these I set them on the table about 12 feet from the tree.  Then I used the 12-24mm lens set at 24mm and put the focus on the chocolate Santa. I used aperture priority and set the ISO at 400 because it was cloudy and dim even with the blinds open.

25 photos 'til Christmas - Day 15

I love the smell of gingerbread baking in the oven. Maybe you saw our Haunted Gingerbread Houses? And we also made ornaments for our tree - photos coming soon. It's also very time consuming and I'm allergic to it - wheat flour that is- so my husband purchased this kit for the kids.  It had just the right amount of candy.

And the icing was royal icing. It dries nicely but it was a little difficult for my children to apply it but it was fun watching them decorate the train with just a little help from me.

I helped my son by applying a thick layer of icing where he wanted it. Then he went to work with the candy.  He got brave near the end and went to town on his own.

We are displaying it proudly in our home.  All of our decorations will stay up until my birthday in January.