Showing posts with label trick or treat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trick or treat. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Personalized Halloween Buckets and Bags

The last couple months, I haven't been working as much at my sister's preschool and daycare, and so I've actually been at home more, yet I feel like I have less time... to craft, to blog, to watch tv even. It's crazy! But I am enjoying being at home more. :) I've begun babysitting an 18 month old boy. Maybe him on top of a 22 month old is why I have less time... hmmm! No really I am enjoying that too! He and Caden are so much fun together!

So I "personalized" some Halloween buckets and bags last week and then kinda advertised on Facebook that I would be selling some, and I am so very excited to say that I have had several orders! Thanks to my sister and a friend of ours for helping get the word out!! I thought I would share my little project with my blogging friends.

I did these with little trick or treaters in mind, but I've thought of a few other ideas that I like:
  • Instead of a name, I could do "Happy Halloween" and use it as a candy dish or snack bowl to hold chips, pretzels, crackers, etc or even ice and drinks! It would be especially cute at a Halloween party!
  • Or instead of a child's name, I thought of using a family/last name and the year and filling with candy for trick or treaters that come to visit. Or just filling with candy and setting on a table to snack on.

This first bucket is one I made for Caden for trick or treating... buuut I found I like the ones at the end of this post (You'll see!) a lot too, so I may change my mind. This bucket has two other designs available too: an orange jack-o-lantern one and a white ghost one.


I'm using this bag already as a little tote for Caden, so really the bags don't have to be just for one night of trick or treating. Oh and I have two other designs in this bag (a purple one with a spiderweb and two cute spiders-if it's possible for spiders to be cute!-on it and an orange pumpkin/jack-o-lantern one.


And my little buckets that I've had the most orders for! Cute huh?!
I am picking up some pink and purple jack-o-lantern buckets tomorrow for some girly orders I got today.



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