What you'll do:

Papabubble is the only shop in Houston pulling candy by hand, and the only Papabubble location in North America. Your group starts with a front row seat while our candy makers stretch, twist, and cut a fresh batch right in front of you. Then you head behind the counter and make your own. Over 90 minutes, we'll teach you and your guests the magic of candy making, then let you make as many as you can. You do everything except pour the hot sugar. We provide the aprons, the gloves, and every color and flavor we've got. Whatever you make, you keep, packaged and ready to take with you. Can someone say wedding favors?!

It's BYOB, so bring whatever you're drinking. Just wear closed toe shoes. We're working with sugar at 315 degrees and we'd like everyone to leave with the same number of toes they came in with. Everyone walks out sticky-handed, a little sugar-high, and holding candy they made themselves.

Why we love it for your party:

• BYOB, so you can bring the champagne and let us handle the sugar

• Everyone's hands are busy at the same time. It's not one person performing while the rest watch

• No experience needed and nobody sits out. You walk in knowing nothing and walk out having made candy

• Everyone leaves with a real souvenir, not a receipt and a group photo

• The candy is bright, the process is genuinely fun to watch, and it photographs itself. No staging required

• Indoors and air conditioned with a clean start and end time, so it slots easily into a packed day between other stops

• We fit up to 15, so most groups come as they are

• You leave with a story. "We made our own candy" beats "we went to a candy store"

About this experience partner:

Papabubble started in Barcelona in 2004 with one idea: bring old school, hand-pulled candy making back to life and make it something people could actually watch, and try, for themselves. Houston is home to the only Papabubble location in North America, tucked into the Heights, where the shop runs part candy store and part live show. Our makers pull, twist, and cut fresh candy in front of customers several times a day, then invite groups behind the counter to make their own lollipops, taffy, rock candy, and image candy from scratch. We also bring the whole process to you. Our portable candy making table travels to private events, corporate offsites, and celebrations anywhere in Houston. However you find us, you're leaving with candy you made yourself and a story worth telling.