Make this cool container out of a milk jug. Use it to store treats that you want to pass out to trick-or-treaters, or make it to use in place of a trick-or-treat bag. It’s easy!
You will need a one gallon plastic milk jug. Take off the labels, wash it, and rinse it thoroughly. Let it dry.
Have a grown up cut the jug for you, starting just above the handle. Remove the top of the jug, keeping the handle intact.
All you have to do now is decorate it and you’ll have a cool way to store or carry treats.
Here are some decorating ideas:
- Cut out some small, medium, and large bat shapes from black construction paper and glue them on randomly.
- Pick up some Halloween stickers and put them all over the jug.
- Go dimensional, and make shapes from craft foam.
- Glue on some extra large googly eyes and make a face on the front of the jug.
- Decoupage some orange tissue paper onto the jug and make a jack-o-lantern face.
- Use green tissue paper and make Frankenstein.
- Eat a few treats, smooth out the wrappers, and glue them onto the jug to create a decorative pattern or just go random (ask a grown up before you get into the treats!).
Variation:
To make a different type of basket for storing treats, try a cardboard milk or juice carton. You will need a large one. Clean it, let it dry, and paint it. Let the background color dry and then decorate it to look like a haunted house. Make spooky shutters from construction paper. Glue on some ghosts made of tissue. Just drop a cotton ball into the center of a tissue, gather up the ends, and tie at the “neck” with a piece of string or thread.