Critters in the Hay

Ingredients

• sugar
  1½ cup
• light corn syrup
  1 cup
• butter
  2 tbsp
• pumpkin pie spice
  1½ tsp
• vanilla
  1 tsp
• salt
  ½ tsp
• green food color (optional)
  ½ tsp
• popped popcorn

  remove any unpopped kernels
  3½ quarts
• candy corn
  1 cup
• licorice ropes

  black wooden picks, small black gum drops or other small black candies
  1 unit
• red decorating icing
  1 unit
• tiny red jaw-breakers candy
  1 unit
• worm-shaped candies
  1 unit