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Don’t throw that milk container away! Recycle it into a Halloween Treat Bucket, perfect to take along with you when you go trick-or-treating. Kids will have fun making this recycled Halloween container, and taking it along on night to collect their candy haul.
Recycled Halloween Treat Bucket Materials:
- 1 recycled milk container, washed well
- 2 sheets of orange paper (construction, card stock, or scrapbooking)
- 1 sheet of black felt or craft foam
- 2 green chenille stems (pipe cleaners)
- markers
- glue dots
- scissors
- hole-punch
- pencil
Instructions:
1. Fold a piece of paper in half and draw pumpkin stem in the top area of the paper. To draw it, make a round or oval shape, then draw a few lines going down from the side edges and the middle.
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2. Draw the round part of the pumpkin around the stem, and add a few wrinkle lines coming down from the stem. Draw 3 more pumpkins the same way on your remaining orange paper. Note: make two of the pumpkins shorter, to better fit on the handle sides of the jug.
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3. Cut out each pumpkin around the outline.
4. With a washable marker, draw a line around the lid area of the milk jug, and down around the front of the jug. Cut around this line with a pair of sharp-pointed scissors, leaving the handle intact. (See photo.)
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5. Attach the four pumpkins to the sides of the milk container with glue dots.
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6. Make a hole in one of the front pumpkins with the hole-punch.
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7. Thread a chenille stem through the hole. Twist the stem to secure it to the pumpkin, and then twist it around the pencil to make the curly pumpkin vine tendrils.
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8. Do the same with the other front pumpkin so it also has a chenille vine.
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9. With felt or craft foam, cut pumpkin eyes, noses, and mouths to decorate your pumpkins as jack-o’-lanterns. Attach the facial features with glue dots. Alternately, draw faces on the pumpkins before you attach them to the container.
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Additional Recycled Halloween Bucket Tips:
Different Decorations: Instead of jack-o’-lanterns, cut out different shapes to adorn your treat bucket. How about black cats or ghostly shapes?
For Younger Tots: Give your toddler or pre-schooler a half sheet of paper and let them draw or color. Cut scribbles into a pumpkin shape.
Personalize: Use foam letter stickers to put your child’s name on the container and keep everyone’s treat bucket straight!
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