Halloween Candy Poppers
- Crafts knife; ruler
- Empty cardboard tubes from paper towels
- 3 to 4 sheets of tissue paper in a Halloween color
- Transparent tape
- Decorative Halloween stickers
- 4 chenille stems in assorted Halloween colors
- Candy
- Paint pen in a Halloween color
- Use a crafts knife to cut two 3-inch lengths from the paper-towel tube. With scissors, cut a 5-x-12-inch rectangle from a stack of three or four sheets of tissue paper.
- Center the two tube lengths on one long edge of the layered tissue paper, leaving a 1/4-inch-wide space between the tubes. Secure each section to the edge of the tissue paper with a piece of transparent tape. Roll the tissue paper around the paper-towel tubes and secure with Halloween stickers.
- Twist together two chenille stems. Gather the excess tissue paper at one tube end and secure with the twisted stems. Fill the tube with candy.
- Close the remaining end in the same way. Coil the ends of the chenille stems.
- Cut triangles into the tissue paper ends for a jagged look. Trim the popper with additional Halloween stickers. Use the paint pen to make triple-dot patterns around and between the stickers.
I made about 200 of these up for our annual Halloween camping trip to Addison Oaks County Park for their trick or treat Boo Bash. They were a HUGE hit. I had used different Halloween printed tissue paper to cover them and lots of different stickers on the outside. I used ribbons on the end rather than the pipe cleaners. I had friends helping me save the paper towel rolls for months ahead of time! I don't know who enjoyed them more, the kids or me while I was making them!
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