How to Make a Trick-or-Treat Pail

Instead of going out and buying a ready-made Halloween pail, make trick-or-treat containers with your kids. Be as creative as you want using items you already have around the house. Recycle that old ice cream bucket or beach pail and turn it into a festive trick-or-treat carrier for use during Halloween.

Things You'll Need

• Bucket
• Pencil
• Construction paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• Foam Halloween designs
• Wiggle eyes
• Black satin cord
• Beads

Instructions

1. Find a bucket that is big enough to use as a trick or treat pail, but not too big to carry your candy around on Halloween night. Some good things to use are a beach pail or an empty ice cream bucket.

2. Measure out construction paper so that you have enough to cover the entire bucket. Use orange, black or white paper to use as a base color for the pail. Glue the construction paper onto the bucket to cover up any words or decorations on the container.

3. Draw Halloween pictures with a pencil onto the other colors of construction paper. Draw things such as ghosts, pumpkins, skulls, scarecrows, bats and so forth. Cut out these pictures and glue them onto the bucket.

4. Glue foam Halloween designs that you can purchase at any crafts store onto your pail. Glue wiggle eyes onto your designs if you like.

5. Cut two pieces of black satin cord about a foot long each. Tie one on each side of the base of the handle.

6. String black and orange beads onto the strings and knot them at the end. You can use alphabet beads to spell out your child's name or just use Halloween-colored beads.

7. Get ready to fill that pail up with Halloween candy and other goodies.

Tips & Warnings

• Add glitter to your Halloween pail if you desire.

• If you have an old pail that doesn't have a handle, make one with black yarn or ribbon.