Handprint Ghosts Inside Haunted Candy Bucket
EVERY trick-o-treater needs a candy bucket on Halloween night and we have the perfect craft idea for you to BREW up with your little one today!
Our Haunted Halloween Bucket craft is super easy to recreate and oh so fun! Using our TWO provided FREE printables below, you and your child can “brew up” an awesome and completely custom, Halloween pumpkin candy bucket with just a few steps! Perfect to serve up the spooky fun this holiday season AND it doubles as an adorable keepsake idea as well!
You can make this frightful ghost filled candy bucket super fast with just a creativity. It’s WOW-WORTHY for the season we are in and we sure hope it sparks something within you today! Find all the details below in our simple to follow tutorial!
Happy crafting, my ghoulish friends! Don’t forget to share pictures with us of your child’s Ghost Filled Candy Bucket with us! You can ALWAYS tag us on Facebook or Instagram for easy sharing. I can’t wait to see how you embellish the handprint in the craft! That’s probably my favorite part since every ghost will tell a different story!! #gluedtomycrafts
PAIR YOUR HALLOWEEN BUCKET CRAFT WITH —> Stained Glass Witch Cauldron
Craft Supplies:
- Mini Candy Corn Printable {on box.com}
- Halloween Bucket Printable {on box.com}
- White Cardstock Paper {two sheets per craft}
- Orange Cardstock Paper
- Color Printer
- Pencil or Pen
- Scissors
- Markers, Coloring Pencils or Crayons
- Pipe Cleaner {one per craft}
- Stapler
- Adhesive
- optional embellishments – Halloween stickers, glitter glue etc.
Directions:
- First things first – you are going to want to print the candy bucket file on ORANGE cardstock paper, while printing the candy corn on some white.
- Go ahead and color in the candy corn designs with your choice of coloring material.
- Now you are ready to trim things out! Trim out the candy bucket and the mini candy corn pieces.
- Next grab your second sheet of white cardstock paper, along with a pencil.
- Pick a hand – any hand and lay it flat on the paper. Trace your it with a pencil.
- Now trim out the handprint design with scissors.
- Use a black marker to draw on some eyes and mouths on EACH finger tip to turn them into ghosts.
- Finally – the assembling of your candy bucket! Staple/glue all of your cardstock pieces in place, along with the pipe cleaner “handle” to the bucket.
- Follow that up with any other embellishments you see fit.
- Then display it proudly for all to see!
- Don’t forget to snap a few pictures of your creation, to share with us on Facebook! #gluedtomycrafts
PAIR THIS CANDY CRAFT WITH OUR —> Pom Pom Painted Spider Craft
A little sparkle here, spooky there – it’s time to make your home more crafty this Halloween season!!! Stay on Glued To My Crafts for even more SPELL-BINDING tutorials from our blog archives!
Check out our Witch’s Magic Ball, Halloween Cauldron Keepsake and Ghost Keepsake craft posts!
All of which are perfect to pair with today’s haunted pumpkin candy bucket craft idea for kids – hint hint!
Haunted Halloween Candy Bucket Craft
Supplies:
- Cardstock Paper
- Free Printable{s}
- Pipe Cleaner
Instructions:
- First things first - you are going to want to print the candy bucket file on ORANGE cardstock paper, while printing the candy corn on some white.
- Go ahead and color in the candy corn designs with your choice of coloring material.
- Now you are ready to trim things out! Trim out the candy bucket and the mini candy corn pieces.
- Next grab your second sheet of white cardstock paper, along with a pencil.
- Pick a hand - any hand and lay it flat on the paper. Trace your it with a pencil.
- Now trim out the handprint design with scissors.
- Use a black marker to draw on some eyes and mouths on EACH finger tip to turn them into ghosts.
- Finally - the assembling of your candy bucket! Staple/glue all of your cardstock pieces in place, along with the pipe cleaner "handle" to the bucket.
- Follow that up with any other embellishments you see fit.
- Then display it proudly for all to see!
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