October...One of our favorite months!!!

October is one of my favorite months. Last year at this same time, my husband and I found the house we wanted and eventually decided to build it. As we made it past Halloween last year we said we wanted to begin an annual Halloween party for our daughter and her daycare friends. So this month, my posts will be totally dedicated to Halloween crafts and the preparations for the party!

Last year two of my nephews celebrated their first Halloween. I made them both a pumpkin bag as shown in the picture below. Inside each bag was a bib that said "Too Cute To Spook" with a Ghost on it. Inside the Ghost was my nephew's name. I created the graphic in PowerPoint and then printed this on iron on transfer paper and ironed away. Each bag also had a foam picture frame to capture their little one's first Trick or Treat event. This was super easy and not costly at all!!! Enjoy!
Supplies:

• 1 brown paper lunch bag
• Acrylic paint: orange and leaf green
• Paintbrush
• ¼ sheet brown construction paper
• 6- 12” pieces of green raffia
• Scissors

Directions:

1. Paint the outside of the lunch bag with orange paint.
2. Paint the inside, top portion of the bag with leaf green paint.
3. Paint a second coat of orange paint on the bag, only this time, paint the top outside portion with the leaf green-colored paint.
4. When paint is completely dry, fringe the green section of the bag with your scissors, strips should be approximately ½” – 1” wide.
5. Fill bag with crumpled newspaper (if using as a decoration) or candy and treats.
6. Gather top of bag with your hand and tie a piece of raffia around it, just below the green section.
7. Continue tying pieces of green raffia around the neck of the bag until all of it has been used.
8. Cut a 1.5” wide strip of brown construction paper and roll up into a tube. Insert the tube of paper into the center of the green portion of the bag as the stem. If these bags are used as decoration, you can glue the stem in place.