Get carried away with these cute broomsticks and look at those bats!!

   Hello everyone, hope all is well. My family and I have been going through a lot lately. It has really brought us down. I just really have not been in the mood for projects and had no creative juices at all. But! Luckily my sister was told about a really cute idea for a Halloween party and pulled me in on the project. Please check out her post on this project here! Thanks for a fun afternoon! These brooms are very affordable and such a cute idea for a party treat. All you need is some brown paper lunch bags, scissors, bailing twine (or just thread), plastic baggies, candy (or snacks),  and some sticks you can have fun collecting with the kids outside.

 First you take two of your brown lunch bags and cut off about 2 inches off the top. If you want bigger brooms then just skip that part. Take one of the bags and from the bottom upward, cut strips as wide as you like till about an inch and 1/2 from the top. Take your other bag and place it inside the one you cut. Puff out the bag and straighten the strips how you would like. It should look like the photo above.

   Then you fill the little plastic baggies with candy or snacks..(we used gummy fish, sour patch, and pretzels). Place the baggies in the brown bags you have made. Grab one of your chosen sticks and stick it up in the bag. Gather the brown bag at the top and use the twine/thread to tie it tight. Wrap as much as you want for the look you are trying to achieve. That's it...for an added touch, we stuck some name tags on the brooms so the kids knew which one was theirs.  The kiddies loved them!

The second project my sister had ready to try were some pumpkin bats. For this project you will need: some very small pumpkins ( about the size of gourds), black spray paint , some craft foam, toothpicks, and some double sided tape.

                          First..take your pumpkins outside and spray paint them all black. Let dry.

 

Then, use your foam to cut eyes, ears, wings, fangs and whatever else you may want to accessorize your bats. Attach your wings and ears to the toothpicks with tape or glue. Then put the eyes and mouth on with the double sided tape. It's that easy.

     You can either let the kids put the pieces on or if it's too hard for the kids to push the picks in, then you can just make a bunch of different eyes/wings/mouths ahead of time to let them pick the look. Of course, you can always substitute the materials being used with just about anything.... you can use black thumb tacks to keep the white eyes on, white glue to adhere the pieces. You can also cut these bags from the top so you have a more uniformed bottom, but we like the unruly, windy look. Just have fun :)