Create these friendship bracelet mini pies using DIY candy letter beads. Steal this idea for your next Thanksgiving or Friendsgiving. What says Friendsgiving more than pumpkin pies dressed up with a candy friendship bracelet? 

You can use these mini pies as unique Thanksgiving place cards by adding names with the edible letter beads. They would make a cute Friendsgiving favor or Friendsgiving dessert idea. You could also just make up a batch of the decorated mini pies and drop them off for each of your friends as a Friendsgiving gift. Make up a batch of the candy letter beads ahead of time and use this as a Thanksgiving day craft activity. Have your child help put these together and use them as the cutest Thanksgiving classroom treat idea. The options are endless.

Pick up some mini pumpkin pies from your local Walmart and decorate them friendship bracelet style.  

Supplies You’ll Need to Make These Friendship Bracelet Themed Pumpkin Pies

• Mini pumpkin pies – I bought mine at Walmart

• Candy eyeballs

• Black edible ink marker

• Sprinkle mix that includes colored sugar pearls and stars or other shapes of your choice. These are the sprinkles I used.

Supplies to Package the Mini Pies

If you want to package these pies up like we did as gifts or favors, here is what you’ll need:

• Mini pie boxes – pay attention to measurements. The Walmart mini pies fit perfectly in these pie boxes. If you use a different sized pie box, or different mini pies, just measure to make sure they’ll fit

• Jute string/cord

• Thankful for you gift tags (see below for a free printable)

• Cardstock or paper to print the tags on 

• Hole punch for tags

How to Make Friendship Bracelet Edible Letter Beads 

Unfortunately, I could not find candy letter beads. If I were in the business of candy/sprinkle making, this would be at the top of my list. Since we can’t buy candy letter beads, we will just have to make them! Here is what you need to do:

• Pick up a pack of candy eyeballs and a black edible ink marker.

• Next is the tricky part, you will need your candy eyeball to stay in place while you write letters on them. You could use a pair of sanitized tweezers, mini tongs. I taped two wooden bamboo skewers the distance of a bead apart to hold them in place while I added the letters. Then just flip the eyeball over so you have a clean white bead to write the letters on with your food safe marker.

• Write the letters – it may take a few tries to figure out how to get the candy to stay still while writing but you should get the hang of it

Warning: the writing may bleed if you refrigerate the beads. I used store bought pie that weren’t required to be refrigerated so it wasn’t a problem for me but if you need to refrigerate your pies, the letters may bleed.

How to Decorate Mini Pumpkin Pies With Candy Friendship Bracelet Letters and Beads

• Unbox your pumpkin pies

• You may want to lay out your letter design before adding them to the pie.

• Add the candy letter beads and then add the sugar pearls or other shaped candy decorations as the beads surrounding your letters. 

Just repeating this in case you missed it above: Warning: the writing may bleed if you refrigerate the beads. I used store bought pie that weren’t required to be refrigerated so it wasn’t a problem for me but if you need to refrigerate your pies, the letters may bleed.

Optional: Packaging The Mini Pies

• Assemble the mini pie boxes.

• Place mini pies inside

• Print tags using this free Thankful For You printable:

• Cut out the tags 

• Hole punch the tags

• Attach the tags to your mini pie boxes using jute string.

Your friendship bracelet mini pies are ready for Thanksgiving! Please send us a pic of yours or tag us on social media so we can see how your cute little pies turn out!! Happy Thanksgiving!