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Party Tub

For party fun on Halloween night, stencil a face on a painted tub and use the container for cold beverages.

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Keep beverages cool in this
pumpkin look-a-like.
What You Need:
  • Pencil
  • Tracing paper
  • Scissors
  • Stencil paper
  • Crafts knife
  • Orange enamel spray paint
  • 20-inch-diameter galvanized metal tub
  • Adhesive tape
  • Acrylic paint (black)
  • Stencil brush
  • Toothbrush

1. Spray paint the outside of the tub orange.

2. Draw your own pumpkin face onto tracing paper, and then cut the face out. Transfer the features to stencil paper and cut them out with a crafts knife.

3. Tape the stencil to the tub, then stencil the face black. Use an old toothbrush to lightly spatter thinned black paint all over the tub.


More Ideas:
  • Use the tub for a rousing game of bobbing for apples.
  • Paint and stencil a smaller tin bucket to hold Halloween candy for trick-or-treaters.

 

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