Recycled Treat Bucket
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Don't throw that milk container away! Turn it into a Recycled Treat Bucket, perfect to take along with you when you go trick-or-treating. Kids will have fun making this craft out of a recycled container, and taking it along on Halloween night to collect delicious holiday treats.
What you'll need
- 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 pipe cleaner stems
- markers
- glue dots
- scissors
- hole-punch
- pencil
- 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!
How to make it
Gather together your materials.
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.
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.
Cut out each pumpkin around the outline.
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.)
Attach the four pumpkins to the sides of the milk container with glue dots.
Make a hole in one of the front pumpkins with the hole-punch.
Thread a pipe cleaner 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.
Do the same with the other front pumpkin so it also has a pipe cleaner vine.
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.
