**I received the below mentioned product in order to complete an honest review.  No other compensation has been received. Giveaway is sponsored by GLEE Gum. Any opinions expressed are my own**

The holidays are over, the weather is getting even colder and the days are short.  I know next week the forecast for my area of PA is calling for a high of 6 degrees.  Not really weather I like to let my kids out in to play for any extended period of time.  My boys are usually content to play video games, watch tv, or watch a movie but I try to limit that.  For me, January and February are a challenge in keeping cabin fever away from my kids without them being sedentary.

I love GLEE Gum Make Your Own Candy Kits.  There are lots of reasons for this:

1.  The kits use natural ingredients.

2.  Each one lets them know where the main ingredients of each candy kit come from.  It give them a little education on where those ingredients are from and how they are obtained.  Even gives some history on the candy. You can also find educational info on their site

3.  The kids come with all the ingredients you need (aside from maybe a cup of water)

4.  It’s a great hands on family activity that also allows room for creativity

I’ve had the opportunity to try all the GLEE Make Your Own Candy Kits thanks to several reviews in the past and now this one.  This time we got to try the Make Your Own Gummies kit.

 

I honestly thought this one would be more complicated for some reason.  I don’t know why.  It was was actually quite easy.  It has info about what make the gummies turn to gel, how families in the phillipines make a living through seaweed farming, and even has a small piece of seaweed in the kit.  There is a part where they need to place that seaweed in water and it explains to them what they are seeing when the use the seaweed and more.

There were steps that everyone in the family could complete.  My youngest son loves to mix so he’s usually assigned the dumping and mixing jobs, while the older ones get to do the measuring and set up.  They all get to do their own creative things though.

 

You can complete this kit with either a stove top or microwave.  We chose to use the microwave to save a few dirty dishes and so it was a little safer for my little guy.  The kit comes with a molding starch.  This is where the creativity comes in.  They could use objects around their house or even draw their own designs in the molding starch to make the shape of their gummies.  The kid suggests some things that can be used.  We use some of those plastic decorative pics from cupcakes (football helmest we had) letter magnets, some gingerbread men candy molds, and even tried drawing a few designs.  To be quite honest they didn’t turn out quite the way we had hoped but we did get some pretty cool designs.  As I told my kids, in the end no matter what shape they are they’ll all taste the same.

 

We spooned our mixture into the “mold”  You let it set in the refrigerator for 10 minutes to set and that’s really all it took.  We took them out of the mold wiped them a bit with a clean damp cloth to get the molding powder off of them  We them put them in a sandwich bag with the provided sour sugar coating and shook them up and they were ready to go.

These were really quite tasty.  A lot of flavor to them.  My youngest son was the first to taste test.  After eating one he asked me for more.  I tried a couple my self and so did my older boys.  They got a thumbs up from everyone.

 

If gummies aren’t your thing they also have a Make Your Own Chocolate Kit and a Make Your Own Gum kit.  With this review we have now tried all three.  Each one of them gave a different experience.  It’s hard to pick a favorite because they were all lots of fun and tasty.  GLEE actually has a candy combo kit on their site where you can get all 3 kits for $37.67 right now.  You could get the combo kit and pull one out when the kids are saying “i’m bored” over the winter.  They would also make really cool and unique birthday gifts.

Also they have lots of flavors of their natural, GLEE Gum available on their site with the newest flavor, watermelon available.  I will also be reviewing coming up this month.  You can use the GLEE store locator to see if there are any stores near you that sell the gum or candy kits.  You can also order them on their website http://gleegum.com/order.htm

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