One of my favorite things about Halloween is dressing up ordinary candy and making it something “Spook-tacular”!

This a fun project to do with your family. Kids and adults alike both have a blast in making these creations.

To get started you’ll need the following:

• Assorted Halloween inspired paper from your scrap bin
• Scissors
• Double sided tape and tacky glue
• Cheese Cloth (found in the kitchen isle of your grocery store)
• Light colored thread
• Kleenex or white tissue
• Assorted sized treats- candy bars, small boxes of dried fruit, lollipops.

Start by sorting your paper scraps by color or themes. This will make it easier when you put together ideas fro the wrappers.

Begin by wrapping your candy bar with the patterned paper. It does not matter if you are short on the sides. You can use other paper to cover this up and make it fun!

For my decorative sides, I used a scallop border punch. If you have never used one of these- it’s very simple. You put your paper in the punch along the grid  lines and push down on the handle.

Then  line up your paper onto the left side of the punch evenly on the punch guides and continue punching (in threes) until you have a continuous decorative  strip.

I Covered the sides of the  wrapped candy bars with the scalloped strip.

Then I added some cut out images from the patterned paper scraps.

Wrap the boxes of dried fruit like a present and decorate as well.

If you have any “mini” candy bars, you can  dress these up too!

Don’t worry about making each one look too perfect…just have fun with them and decorate away. Once you have made a bunch, they will look even better on a plate or in a bowl!

For the ghosts, I layered kleenex onto the cheese cloth. For the large ghost (a tootsie pop) I used 7×7 and for the mini ghost 5×5 (a dum dum). Put the pop in the middle and gather around, tying at the neck with the thread. Cut two small ovals from the black paper and glue to each ghost pop.

Display ghost pops in a covered piece of Styrofoam or drill holes in a large pumpkin and use that as a party center piece with the ghost pops in inserted in each hole.

And that’s it for now. I hope you’ll visit me all month for more Halloween inspired crafts!

Tags: Halloween, Tutorials

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